QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 05 June 2019
QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz
The following quiz will have 5-10 MCQs. The questions are mainly framed from The Hindu and PIB news articles.
This quiz is intended to introduce you to concepts and certain important facts relevant to UPSC IAS civil services preliminary exam 2018. It is not a test of your knowledge. If you score less, please do not mind. Read again sources provided and try to remember better.
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INSIGHTS CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ 2019
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Question 1 of 5
1. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements
- The Intellectual Property Appellate Board is a quasi-judicial body.
- The jurisdiction of the Copyright Board of India extends beyond India also
- Indian government approved its first Intellectual Property Rights Policy in May 2016
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Solution: C
The Intellectual Property Appellate Board, a quasi-judicial body, was constituted in September 1958. The jurisdiction of the Copyright Board extends to the whole of India. The Board is entrusted with the task of adjudication of disputes pertaining to copyright registration, assignment of copyright, grant of Licenses in respect of works withheld from public, unpublished Indian works, production and publication of translations and works for certain specified purposes. It also hears cases in other miscellaneous matters instituted before it under the Copyright Act, 1957.
The Copyright (Amendment)Act, 2012 which came into force w.e.f. June 21,2015 provides for a full time IPAB Under Section 11 with Chairman and two other members, with its headquarters in Delhi. The new full time IPAB is expected to be reconstituted shortly.
http://copyright.gov.in/frmIPAB.aspx
In News: Ilaiyaraaja wins copyright battle.
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Solution: C
The Intellectual Property Appellate Board, a quasi-judicial body, was constituted in September 1958. The jurisdiction of the Copyright Board extends to the whole of India. The Board is entrusted with the task of adjudication of disputes pertaining to copyright registration, assignment of copyright, grant of Licenses in respect of works withheld from public, unpublished Indian works, production and publication of translations and works for certain specified purposes. It also hears cases in other miscellaneous matters instituted before it under the Copyright Act, 1957.
The Copyright (Amendment)Act, 2012 which came into force w.e.f. June 21,2015 provides for a full time IPAB Under Section 11 with Chairman and two other members, with its headquarters in Delhi. The new full time IPAB is expected to be reconstituted shortly.
http://copyright.gov.in/frmIPAB.aspx
In News: Ilaiyaraaja wins copyright battle.
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements
- Operation Blue Star was the codename of an Indian military action carried out in 1984 to remove militant religious leaders in Punjab.
- Operation Cactus is the code name of intervention of Indian armed forces to trounce the attempted coup of Maldivian group led by Abdullah Luthufi.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Solution: C
Both the statements are correct.
In News: Operation Blue Star: Sikh body demands apology
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Solution: C
Both the statements are correct.
In News: Operation Blue Star: Sikh body demands apology
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements regarding The University Grants Commission of India (UGC India)
- It is a statutory body set up by the Indian Union government in accordance to the UGC Act 1956.
- It provides recognition to universities in India, and disbursements of funds to such recognised universities and colleges.
- Higher Education Commission of India is about to replace UGC.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Solution: D
All the statements given above are correct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Grants_Commission_(India)
In News: UGC gives 6 months to fill all faculty vacancies.
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Solution: D
All the statements given above are correct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Grants_Commission_(India)
In News: UGC gives 6 months to fill all faculty vacancies.
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
1 pointsDecolonising the Chagos archipelago, an issue sometime seen in the news is conflict between
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Solution: D
The United Nations General ssembly (UNGA) voted last onth by a huge majority (116 out of 193 members) to demand that the U.K. “withdraw its colonial administration” within six months over the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean in favour of Mauritius.
The archipelago is better known for hosting the U.S. military base at Diego Garcia. The nonbinding vote was a rebuke to the U.K.Coercive measures.For several decades the Chagos archipelago has been the cause of a dispute between Mauritius and the U.K., over the decision in 1965 to separate Diego Garcia from the rest of the archipelago for setting up the military base, in collaboration with the U.S. Mauritius, a British colony, achieved independence in 1968 but the U.K. refused to return the Chagos archipelago, claiming sovereignty over the islands.
In News: Decolonising the Chagos archipelago
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Solution: D
The United Nations General ssembly (UNGA) voted last onth by a huge majority (116 out of 193 members) to demand that the U.K. “withdraw its colonial administration” within six months over the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean in favour of Mauritius.
The archipelago is better known for hosting the U.S. military base at Diego Garcia. The nonbinding vote was a rebuke to the U.K.Coercive measures.For several decades the Chagos archipelago has been the cause of a dispute between Mauritius and the U.K., over the decision in 1965 to separate Diego Garcia from the rest of the archipelago for setting up the military base, in collaboration with the U.S. Mauritius, a British colony, achieved independence in 1968 but the U.K. refused to return the Chagos archipelago, claiming sovereignty over the islands.
In News: Decolonising the Chagos archipelago
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements regarding Human Embryonic Stem Cells
- Stem cells are cells that have the potential to develop into some or many different cell types in the body, depending on whether they are multipotent or pluripotent.
- Once a stem cell line is established from a cell in the body, it is essentially immortal, no matter how it was derived.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Solution: C
https://stemcells.nih.gov/info/Regenerative_Medicine/2006Chapter1.htm
In News: Patients turn litigants as new rules stall therapy
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Solution: C
https://stemcells.nih.gov/info/Regenerative_Medicine/2006Chapter1.htm
In News: Patients turn litigants as new rules stall therapy
