Insights Revision Through MCQs – 21 October 2019

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• On 21st October 1943, Subhash Chandra Bose announced the formation of the Provisional Government of Azad Hind (Free India) in Singapore, with himself as the Head of State, Prime Minister and Minister of War.
• The Provisional Government not only enabled Bose to negotiate with the Japanese on an equal footing but also facilitated the mobilisation of Indians in East Asia to join and support the Indian National Army (INA).
• Rash Behari Bose was one of the key organisers of the Ghadar Mutiny and later the Indian National Army. Rash Behari Bose handed over Indian National Army to Subhas Chandra Bose.
  • Indian prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Malaya and Burma fronts were encouraged to join the Indian Independence League and become the soldiers of the Indian National Army (INA), formed on 1 September 1942 as the military wing of Bose’s Indian National League. He selected the flag for the Azad Hind movement and handed over the flag to Subhas Chandra Bose. But although he handed over the power, his organizational structure remained, and it was on the organizational spadework of Rash Behari Bose. Rash Behari Bose built the Indian National Army (also called ‘Azad Hind Fauj’). Prior to his death caused by tuberculosis, the Japanese Government honoured him with the Order of the Rising Sun (2nd grade).

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/10/21/azad-hind-government/

Ans: (c)

Explanation: Here, Directive word is INCORRECT!!

• Indian Penal Code (IPC) is the official criminal code of India. It is a comprehensive code intended to cover all substantive aspects of criminal law.
• Code was drafted in 1860 on the recommendations of first law commission of India established in 1834 under the Charter Act of 1833 under the Chairmanship of Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay.
• The IPC replaced Mohammedan Criminal Law, which had a very close relationship with Islam. Thus, the IPC laid the foundation of secularism.
• It was widely appreciated as a state-of-the-art code and was, indeed, the first codification of criminal law in the British Empire.
• It came into force in British India during the early British Raj period in 1862. However, it did not apply automatically in the Princely states, which had their own courts and legal systems until the 1940s. The Code has since been amended several times and is now supplemented by other criminal provisions.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/10/21/indian-penal-code/

Ans: (d)

Explanation: Here, Directive word is INCORRECT!!

• Right to Information Act, 2005(Not RTE Act) provides for the creation of State Information Commission at the State level.
• State Information Commission will be constituted by the State Government (Not Governor) through a Gazette notification. It will have one State Chief Information Commissioner (SCIC) and not more than 10 State Information Commissioners (SIC) to be appointed by the Governor.
• Commission consists of a State Chief Information commissioner and ten State Information Commissioners. They are appointed by the Governor on the recommendation of the committee consisting of the Chief Minister as Chairperson, the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly and a state Cabinet Minister(Not Speaker) nominated by the Chief Minister. They should be person of eminence in public life and should not hold any other office of profit or connected with any political party or carrying on any business or pursuing any profession

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/10/21/removal-of-state-chief-information-commissioner/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/10/21/anthrax-2/

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Ans: (a)

• There are forests that are notified either with the forest department or revenue department.
  • Reserved Forest, Protected Forest, Village Forest, District Forest
• Defining what is ‘forest’ under the law
  • Forest Conservation Act requires clearances and charges levy for using forest lands
  • But, forests not defined. Supreme Court asked that law apply to all patches that have forests as in dictionary meaning
  • Lack of definition and identification leading to legal disputes
  • Forests now to be defined as those identified already in state land records by different regional names
  • Identified geographical features too to get notified as forests, if they have green patches
  • In states with low forest cover, such as Haryana, patches that have above 10% forest density will get FCA cover
  • In states with high forest cover, patches that have more than 40% forest density to get FCA protection
  • Plantations to be kept out of purview of forest definition. Only natural forests to be protected
• Then there are those areas that are like forests but are neither recorded, nor notified. Supreme Court in a December 12, 1996 called the Godavarman judgment had ordered that the states identify and classify these as deemed forests.
• Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) then decided to let states come up with a criterion to identify deemed forests, because there are a lot of regional variations between states.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/10/21/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-21-october-2019/

Ans: (c)

Explanation: Here, Directive word is INCORRECT!!

Refer: Facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/10/21/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-21-october-2019/

Ans: (d)

Explanation: Here, Directive word is Not CORRECT!!

• Meteorite is a large particle from outer space that lands on Earth. They range in size from a grain of sand on up.
• A meteor is an object from outer space that enters Earth’s atmosphere, but does not land on Earth.
• Most meteorites are stony meteorites, classed as chondrites and achondrites. Only about 6% of meteorites are iron meteorites or a blend of rock and metal, the stony-iron meteorites. Modern classification of meteorites is complex.

Refer: Facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/10/21/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-21-october-2019/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Blackbuck (Least Concern), also known as the Indian antelope, is an antelope found in India, Nepal, and Pakistan
• chinkara (Least Concern), also known as the Indian gazelle, is a gazelle species native to Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India
• Kashmir stag (Critically endangered), also called hangul, is a subspecies of elk native to India. It is found in dense riverine forests in the high valleys and mountains of the Kashmir Valley and northern Chamba district in Himachal Pradesh. In Kashmir, it’s found in the Dachigam National Park where it receives protection but elsewhere it is more at risk.

Facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/10/21/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-21-october-2019/

Ans: (a)

Explanation: Here, Directive word is INCORRECT!!

• Bhashan char Island – Bangladesh
• Timor-Island
  • Timor is an island at the southern end of Maritime Southeast Asia, north of the Timor Sea. The island is divided between the sovereign states of East Timor on the eastern part and Indonesia on the western part. The Indonesian part, also known as West Timor,
• Bora Bora Island- French Polynesia
• Long Island – It is part of the mainland of New York(USA)

Facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/10/21/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-21-october-2019/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra in Morigaon district in Assam, India.

Facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/10/21/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-21-october-2019/