QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 08 September 2018

Solution: b.

A similar question was posted here earlier.

Artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, designed the first rainbow flag in 1978. Baker saw the rainbow as a natural flag from the sky, so he adopted eight colors for the stripes, each color with its own meaning (hot pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit).

The first versions of the rainbow flag were flown on June 25, 1978, for the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade. Baker and a team of volunteers had made them by hand, and now he wanted to mass-produce the flag for consumption by all. However, because of production issues, the pink and turquoise stripes were removed and indigo was replaced by basic blue, which resulted in the contemporary six-striped flag (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet). Today this is the most common variant of the rainbow flag, with the red stripe on top, as in a natural rainbow. The various colors came to reflect both the immense diversity and the unity of the LGBT community.

Britannica;

In the news: Section 377 IPC;

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Solution: d.

From 2016 (TH): “India and the U.S on Monday signed the bilateral Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) that will give the militaries of both countries access to each other’s facilities for supplies and repairs…”

COMCASA is one of the four ‘foundational agreements’ that the U.S. has enteredinto with India. So India has signed three of the four, the other two being GSOMIA (back in 2002) and LEMOA (2016).

TH;

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Solution: d.

All statements are correct.

In the news: Dissolution of Telangana assembly.

Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth;

Solution: c.

If  any  question  arises whether a matter falls within the governor’s discretion or not, the decision of the governor is final and the validity of anything done by him cannot be called in question on the ground that he ought or ought not to have acted in his discretion. Further, the nature of advice tendered by ministers to the governor cannot be enquired by any court. This provision emphasises  the  intimate  and  the  confidential relationship between the governor and the ministers. In 1971, the Supreme Court ruled that a council of ministers must always exist to advise the governor, even  after  the  dissolution  of  the  state  legislative  assembly  or  resignation  of  a  council  of  ministers. Hence,  the  existing  ministry  may  continue  in  the  office  until  its  successor  assumes  charge. Again  in 1974,  the  Court  clarified  that  except  in  spheres  where  the  governor  is  to  act  in  his  discretion,  the governor has to act on the aid and advice of the council of ministers in the exercise of his powers and functions. He is not required to act personally without the aid and advice of the council of ministers or  against  the  aid  and  advice  of  the  council  of  ministers.  Wherever  the  Constitution  requires  the satisfaction  of  the  governor,  the  satisfaction  is  not  the  personal  satisfaction  of  the  governor  but  it  is the satisfaction of the council of ministers.

Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth;

In the news/improvisation: Governor ESL Narasimhan asks KCR to head a caretaker government.

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Solution: c.

SLINEX series of bilateral maritime exercises between India and SL that were initiated in 2005. Since then, five successful engagements have been conducted.

PIB;

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