QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 29 July 2017

Solution: a.

• Among the qualifications laid down by the Constitution for  a  person  to  be  chosen  a  member  of  the Parliament, one is that “he must possess other qualifications prescribed by the Parliament.”
• Accordingly, The Representation of People Act lays down the following additional qualification:
  • He must be registered as an elector for a parliamentary constituency. This is same in the case of both,  the  Rajya  Sabha  and  the  Lok    The  requirement  that  a  candidate  contesting  an election to the Rajya Sabha from a particular state should be an elector in that particular state was dispensed with in 2003. In 2006, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of this change.

Improvisation: TH: Shah, Smriti in the fray;

Solution: c.

One area of concentration of earthquakes coincides with the Alpine-Himalayan system and the rim of the Pacific Ocean. In general, the foci of the earthquake along the Alpine-Himalayan belt as well as the rim of the Pacific are deep-seated ones, whereas in the areas of mid-oceanic ridges the foci are at shallow depths.

Improvisation: TH: Scientists set sail to unlock secrets of lost continent;CH-3, Goh Cheng Leong’s Certificate Physical and Human Geography; Pg32, CH-4, Fundamentals of Physical Geography;

Solution: c.

The Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India has constituted a National Steering Committee to initiate a National Programme on “Scientific Validation and Research on Panchgavya” (SVAROP). This multi-disciplinary programme will cover the following five thematic areas: Scientific validation of

• Uniqueness of Indian cows
• Panchagavya for medicine and health
• Panchagavya and its products for agriculture applications
• Panchagavya for food nutrition
• Panchagavya based utility products.

SVAROP Programme;

PIB;

Solution: c.

Kourou is located in French Guiana, South America.

Improvisation: Vikaspedia: Current Affairs June 2017;

Solution: a.

• The IEA was founded in 1950 as a Non Governmental Organization, at the instigation of the Social Sciences Department of UNESCO. It has since its creation maintained information and consultative relations with UNESCO.
• Its aim from the beginning has been to promote personal contacts and mutual understanding among economists in different parts of the world through the organization of scientific meetings, through common research programs and by means of publications of an international character on problems of current importance.
• Kaushik Basu was recently appointed as President of the IEA.

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