QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz,24 July 2018

Solution: c.

The Maluti village – itself a blend of Santhali and Bengali culture – is situated in the Dumka district of the state of Jharkhand. A total of 108 temples, it is said, were built during 17th-19th century. The sixty-odd surviving temples are exquisite examples of Bengal-style terracotta art in sculpture and decorative detail.

The Indian Trust for Rural Heritage and Development (ITRHD) is an NGO devoted to preservation of Indian Heritage and Culture in Rural India and working in about 7 states of India.

Improvisation: PIB;

Page 4: ITRHD Brochure;

ITRHD;

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Solution: c.

Everyone is familiar with changes in the weather on Earth. But “weather” also occurs in space. Just as it drives weather on Earth, the Sun is responsible for disturbances in our space environment. Besides emitting a continuous stream of plasma called the solar wind, the Sun periodically releases billions of tons of matter in what are called coronal mass ejections. These immense clouds of material, when directed towards Earth, can cause large magnetic storms in the magnetosphere and the upper atmosphere.

The term space weather generally refers to conditions on the Sun and in the solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere, and thermosphere that can influence the performance and reliability of space-borne and ground-based technological systems and can endanger human life or health.

Living With a Star (LWS) emphasizes the science necessary to understand those aspects of the Sun and space environment that most directly affect life and society. LWS missions target the linkages across the interconnected system with an ultimate goal of enabling a predictive understanding. The first LWS mission is the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which was launched early in 2010.

NASA: Living With a Star Programme;

Improvisation: TH;

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Solution: c.

From 2016 (BBC): “Two years after India launched Nirbheek, a handgun pitched as the country’s “first gun for women”, the Ordnance Factory Board has launched a similar gun which it says is India’s lightest gun. The new .22-calibre revolver is named Nidar, it weighs a mere 250g – that’s half of .32-calibre Nirbheek’s 500g; and it costs 35,000 rupees – Nirbheek came with a steep price tag of 122,360 rupees.

In the news (th1; TH2): Dhanush is an upgraded version of the Swedish Bofors gun procured by India in the mid-1980s. In April 2017, the Indian engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and Hanwa Techwin of South Korea signed a contract to manufacture the K9 Vajra-T guns, customised from the original K9 Thunder gun. M777 ultra-light howitzers are being procured by India from the U.S.

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Solution: b.

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Solution: a.

State subjects:

• Public order (but not including 3[the use of any naval, military or air force or any other armed force of the Union or of any other force subject to the control of the Union or of any contingent or unit thereof] in aid of the civil power).
• Land, that is to say, rights in or over land, land tenures including the relation of landlord and tenant, and the collection of rents;
• Public health and sanitation; hospitals and dispensaries;

Adoption and Succession is on the concurrent list.

Seventh Schedule;

Source/improvisation: PIB;

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