QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 24 July 2017

Solution: a.

• The Maharashtra Prohibition of People from Social Boycott (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2016, received Presidential assent last week, paving the way for its implementation. The new law disallows social boycott in the name of caste, community, religion, rituals or customs.
• The decision to have such a law was a reaction to pressures from growing incidents of atrocities on individuals by jati panchayats or gavkis wielding extra-judicial powers.
• The highest number of incidents were reported from the districts of Raigad, Ratnagiri and Nashik; and the largest number of cases of social boycott were provoked by inter-caste marriages.

IE: MH’s new social boycott law;

TH: The boycott ban;

Solution: a.

• The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and its guidelines provide the foundation for countries to implement and manage tobacco control. To help make this a reality, WHO introduced the MPOWER measures.
• These measures are intended to assist in the country-level implementation of effective interventions to reduce the demand for tobacco, contained in the WHO FCTC.

WHO: MPower;

IE: Tobacco control WHO assessment;

Solution: c.

Both statements are correct.

• The head of the Indian State is the President, whereas the head of the Indian Government is the Prime Minister.
• The President has no constitutional discretion, but s/he has some situational discretion (that is, s/he can act on his/her discretion in certain situations).

Chapter ‘President’ -> ‘Constitutional position of the President’ and ‘Legislative Powers’ -> Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth;

IE: President in the Constitution;

Solution: d.

The Huvadhu atoll is a relatively isolated atoll with the 97 km wide Huvadhu Kandu (One and a Half Degree Channel) to its north.

Abdulla Yameen has allowed Beijing to build a port at Gaadhoo island in Laamu atoll, which sits at the entrance to the so-called One and a Half Degree Channel, a major international shipping passage.

Map of the maldives;

IE: Indian Ocean churning;

Solution: d.

To begin with, where exactly is the standoff happening?

• The location of the standoff is Dolam plateau.
• The Dolam plateau is in the Doklam area (as referred to in the statements of the Ministry of External Affairs and the Embassy of Bhutan in New Delhi).
• The Dolam plateau is different from Doklam plateau (which is a disputed area between Bhutan and China, but has no contiguity with India).
• The Doklam plateau lies around 30 km to the north east of Dolam plateau.
• Doklam is called Donglang in Mandarin.

Is this region also a part of the Line of Actual Control?

• The border between China and India in the Sikkim section is seen as ‘settled’, as the basis for alignment has been agreed between the two countries.
• Although work on delineating the boundary on the map and demarcating it on the ground has not even started, it is not included in the three sectors — eastern, middle and western — which are acknowledged by the two countries as disputed.
• The 220-km boundary in Sikkim is not the Line of Actual Control (LAC) as is the case with the rest of the 3,488 km India-China border.

IE: Where things stand on the Dolam Plateau;