QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 07 September 2018

Solution: b.

Factly: In 2001, Naz Foundation (India) Trust, a non-governmental organization challenged Section 377 in the Delhi High Court by filing a lawsuit to allow homosexual relations between consenting adults.

TH: The seeds of Telangana struggle were sown in 1955 when the recommendation of the States Reorganisation Commission to retain Hyderabad as a separate State went unheeded. Telangana leaders accused the people of Andhra of “colonising the region” by grabbing their jobs and land, and the government of not investing in the region’s infrastructure.. The State witnessed a violent ‘separate Telangana’ agitation in 1969 and a ‘separate Andhra’ agitation in 1972.

ToI: Prior to the 2016 demonetisation, there were two similar instances in India. The first instance was in 1946 and the second in 1978 when an ordinance was promulgated to phase out notes with denomination of Rs 1,000, Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000.

Livemint: The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is the list of Indian citizens of Assam. It was first prepared in 1951, following the census of 1951.

In the news: TH; TH; TH;

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Solution: a.

Statement 2 is incorrect.

TH: India and the United States recently began a new generation of military and security cooperation by signing the Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA). An announcement on the significant agreement came at the end of the inaugural 2+2 ministerial dialogue.

Additional information:

• India and the U.S. would also hold a first-ever tri-service exercise on the east coast of India in 2019, Ms. Sitharaman announced.
• An important element of Thursday’s discussion was starting the process of closer private defence industry collaboration that would allow Indian defence manufacturers to join the U.S. military supply chain.
• The two defence ministers also announced their readiness to begin negotiations on an Industrial Security Annex (ISA) that would support closer defence industry cooperation and collaboration. An ISA is required to enable private Indian participation in defence production and is particularly important as India opens up defence manufacturing to the private sector in a big way.

TH;

Solution: d.

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Improvisation: TH; Articles by members affiliated to Carnegie often in the news;

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Solution: c.

This  Act  of  Parliament  is  not  to  be  deemed  as  an  amendment  of  the Constitution for the purposes of Article 368 and is passed like an ordinary piece of legislation (ie, by simple majority).

Special  majority: A  majority  of the total membership of the assembly and a majority of not less than two-thirds of the members of the assembly  present  and  voting.

IE; Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth;

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Solution:  a.

IE; Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth;

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