QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 04 April 2018

Solution: b.

Gulf of Aqaba is also known as Gulf of Eilat.

Improvisation: http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-cancels-plan-to-deport-migrants/article23416764.ece;

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Solution: a.

Two weeks ago, U.S. President Donald Trump signed the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act), which will enable the U.S. government to enter into agreements with like-minded states for cross-border data sharing. This will allow law enforcement agencies from these states to directly obtain electronic data, held by communication service providers headquartered in the U.S., to combat crime. New Delhi, on the back of this development, will soon push for an India-U.S. data sharing agreement to serve the interests of its law enforcement and, more importantly, to make headway in the global cyber norms conversation.

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/sharing-data-across-borders/article23417587.ece;

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Solution: c.

Chattopadhyay’s contributions to India were numerous. Though widely known for persuading Mahatma Gandhi to call upon women to march with him in the Indian Independence Movement in the early 20th century, she is also credited for reinvigorating the culture of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre, and for using cooperative grassroots movements to pave the way for a higher socioeconomic standard for Indian women around the country.

Chattopadhyay had a career of ‘firsts’ – from being the first woman to run for Legislative office to setting up some of the first national institutions to archive, protect, and promote Indian dance, drama, art, puppetry, music, and handicrafts. She was also one of the few women of her time to propose that women’s rights, religious freedoms, environmental justice, political independence, and civil rights are all interrelated movements.

https://www.google.com/doodles/kamaladevi-chattopadhyays-115th-birthday;

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Solution: c.

On November 4, 1948, while moving the Draft Constitution in the Constituent Assembly, B.R. Ambedkar responded to the question as to why India is a “Union” and not a “Federation of States”: “The Drafting Committee wanted to make it clear that though India was to be a federation, the federation was not the result of an agreement by the States to join in a federation and that the federation not being the result of an agreement no State has the right to secede from it. The Federation is a Union because it is indestructible.” Hence, political scientist Alfred Stepan classified India as a “holding together” as opposed to a “coming together” federation. Unlike the federal form of government in the United States, which is described as an indestructible union composed of indestructible States, India is an indestructible union of destructible States.

The Constitution authorises the Parliament  to  form  new  states  or  alter  the  areas, boundaries  or  names  of  the  existing  states  without  their  consent.  In  other  words,  the  Parliament  can redraw  the  political  map  of  India  according  to  its  will.  Hence,  the  territorial  integrity  or  continued existence  of  any  state  is  not  guaranteed  by  the  Constitution.

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/federalism-and-fairness/article23417843.ece;

Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth;

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Solution: c.

• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the proposal of Department of School Education and Literacy to formulate a Integrated Scheme on School Education by subsuming Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education (TE) from 1st April, 2018 to 31st March, 2020.
• The scheme comes in the backdrop of PM’s vision of Sabko Shiksha, Achhi Shiksha and aims to support the States in universalising access to school education from classes pre-nursery to XII across the country.
• The vision of the Scheme is to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education from nursery to senior secondary stage in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goal for Education. The main emphasis of the Integrated Scheme is on improving quality of school education by focussing on the two T’s – Teacher and Technology.

For details regarding the scheme (features, impact, benefits), click HERE;

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