QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 28 November 2018

Solution: c.

Oslo Centre: The Oslo Center is an independent, non-partisan democracy center that assists the strengthening of democratic political institutions and processes. Their main approach is democracy assistance implemented through dialogue.

TH: The Art of Living (AOL) Foundation mediated a meeting of former Prime Minister of Norway Kjell Magne Bondevik with hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani in Srinagar recently. The meeting was sought by former Norwegian PM Bondevik’s Oslo Center.

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Solution: b.

The mechanism of Special Representatives on the Boundary Question was established in 2003. The 21^st round of talks was held recently in Chengdu, China.

India-China Brief;

In the news: Th1;

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Solution: b.

Vikaspedia:  A child care institution as defined under the JJ Act,2015, means Children Home, Open Shelter, Observation Home, Special Home, Place of Safety, Specialised Adoption Agency and a Fit Facility recognized under the Act for providing care and protection to children (who are in conflict with the law), who are in need of such services.

PIB;

Solution: a.

BBC: A group of up to 145 pilot whales have died after becoming stranded on a beach on Stewart Island in New Zealand… It’s not fully known why whales or dolphins strand. Possible reasons might be sickness, navigational errors, falling tides or being chased by a predator.

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Solution: b.

BBC: The US space agency Nasa has landed a new robot on Mars after a dramatic seven-minute plunge to the surface of the Red Planet. The InSight probe aims to study the world’s deep interior, and make it the only planet – apart from Earth – that has been examined in this way. InSight is now sitting on a vast, flat plain known as Elysium Planitia, close to the Red Planet’s equator. Before landing, Nasa had dubbed it the “biggest parking lot on Mars”.

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