Insights Revision Through MCQs – 29 October 2019

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Absentee voter: An absentee voter is someone who is employed in “essential services”. The EC will notify which jobs and professions are covered under “essential services” after consulting the government.
  • The Essential Services Maintenance (ESMA) is an act of Parliament of India which was established to ensure the delivery of certain services, which if obstructed would affect the normal life of the people. This include services like public transport (bus services), health services (doctors and hospitals).
• The right to vote and right to contest at an election to a PANCHAYAT are constitutional rights subsequent to the introduction 26 of Part IX of the Constitution of India( refer: SC Judgement on Rajbala Case for Haryana PRI elections (2015)
• UPSC-Prelims 2017- there was a debate on right to vote is legal or constitutional right, but UPSC Official Answer key mentioned “C” is the answer

1. Right to vote and to be elected in India is a
   • Fundamental Right
   • Natural Right
   • Constitutional Right
   • Legal Right

• Prisoner’s voting rights
  • 62(5) RPA 1951 says “No person shall vote at any election if he is confined in a prison, whether under a sentence of imprisonment or transportation or is in the lawful custody of the police”
  • Only those under preventive detention can cast their vote through postal ballots.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/10/29/postal-ballot-facilities-expanded/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• ASIC group was formed as the result of an agreement signed by the four countries on November 28, 2009.
• They are a bloc of four large newly industrialized countries – Brazil, South Africa, India and China.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/10/29/basic-countries-2/

Ans: (d)

Explanation: There are currently 15 specialized agencies:

• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
• International Labour Organization (ILO)
• International Maritime Organization (IMO)
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
• Universal Postal Union (UPU)
• World Bank
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
• World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/10/29/universal-postal-union-upu/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Convention on International Civil Aviation (also known as Chicago Convention), was signed on 7 December 1944 by 52 States.
• Universal Postal Union (UPU): Established in 1874 and India joined the UPU on July 1, 1876

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/10/29/international-civil-aviation-organization-icao-2/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• Copernicus is the European Union’s Earth observation programme coordinated and managed by the European Commission in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), the EU Member States and EU Agencies

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/10/29/copernicus-programme/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• Yudh Abyas- Indian Special Forces and United States Special Forces

Refer: Facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/10/29/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-29-october-2019/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• INS Rajali is an Indian naval air station located near Arakkonam, Vellore, Tamil Nadu in southern India. It operates under the Eastern Naval Command of the Indian Navy, and has the longest military runway in Asia.

Refer: Facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/10/29/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-29-october-2019/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• It is an ancient sandstone monolith in Central Australia.

Refer: Facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/10/29/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-29-october-2019/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• Ntangki National Park is a national park located in Peren district of Nagaland, India. Among the species that inhabit the park are the rare hoolock gibbon, golden langur, hornbill, Asian palm civet, black stork, tiger, white-breasted kingfisher, monitor lizard, python and sloth bear

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Balpakram National Park is a national park in the south of Garo Hills in Meghalaya, India, located close to the international border with Bangladesh. It was inaugurated in December 1987 and provides habitat for barking deer, Asian golden cat, Bengal tiger, marbled cat, wild water buffalo, red panda and Indian elephant. Balpakram means ‘land of the eternal wind’ according to the myth of the Garo people.
• It has been listed in UNESCO World Heritage tentative list
• Balpakram has many mysterious and unnatural phenomena that cannot be satisfactorily explained by modern science and logic. A Schima wallichii tree has a depression on its trunk. Local people believe that it was caused by spirits that take rest here on their way to their abode of the dead and tether animals killed on their funeral. Surprisingly a few years ago, when one tree fell due to strong winds, another tree close to it started getting the same symptoms