INSIGHTS CURRENT AFFAIRS ( 24 June 2020) REVISION THROUGH MCQS

Ans: (c)

Explanation: About Sukapha:

• He was a 13th-century ruler who founded the Ahom kingdom that ruled Assam for six centuries. Contemporary scholars trace his roots to Burma.
• He is widely referred to as the architect of “Bor Asom” or “greater Assam”.
• Sukapha is said to have left a place called Maulung in AD 1215 with eight nobles and 9,000 men, women and children — mostly men.
• It was in Charaideo that Sukapha established his first small principality, sowing the seeds of further expansion of the Ahom kingdom.
• The founders of the Ahom kingdom had their own language and followed their own religion. Over the centuries, the Ahoms accepted the Hindu religion and the Assamese language.
• To commemorate Sukapha and his rule, Assam celebrates “Asom Divas” on December 2 every year.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/06/24/who-was-chaolung-sukapha/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• The Malabar rebellion was an armed uprising in 1921 against British authority and Hindus in the Malabar region of Southern India by Mappilas and the culmination of Mappila riots that recurred throughout the 19th century and early 20th century.
• The 1921 rebellion began as a reaction against a heavy-handed crackdown on the Khilafat Movement, a campaign in defense of the Ottoman Caliphate, by the British authorities in the Eranad and Valluvanad taluks of Malabar.
• There was large-scale violence which saw systematic persecution of Hindus and British officials. Many homes and temples were destroyed.
• The prominent leaders of the rebellion were Ali Musaliyar and Variyankunnath Kunjahammed Haji.
• From August 1921 till about the end of the year, the rebels had under their control large parts of Malabar.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/06/24/variyamkunnath-kunjahammed-haji/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• The Axis powers, also known as “Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis” were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allies.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/06/24/what-is-victory-day/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• India has the highest suicide rate in the South-East Asian region, according to the World Health Organization report released last year.
  • India’s suicide rate is at 5 suicides per 100,000 people.
  • India also had the third-highest female suicide rate (14.7) in the world.
• Suicide was decriminalised in India in 2017, but Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code still stays.
• Who can be booked under Section 309 IPC? What punishment does it carry?
• Anyone who survives an attempted suicide can be booked under Section 309 IPC, which deals with “Attempt to commit suicide”.
• The law, brought in by the British in the 19th century, reflected the thinking of the time, when killing or attempting to kill oneself was considered a crime against the state, as well as against religion.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/06/24/sec-309-ipc/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• Ramdev has claimed that ‘Coronil tablet’, ‘Swasari Vati’ and ‘Anu Taila’ had shown “100 per cent favourable results” during clinical trials on Covid-19 patients.
• What next?
  • The AYUSH Ministry has sought details about the medicine and has directed Patanjali and Ramdev to stop advertising such claims.
  • The concerned Ayurvedic drug manufacturing company has been informed that such advertisements of drugs including Ayurvedic medicines are regulated under the provisions of Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954 and Rules there under and the directives issued by the Central Government in the wake of COVID outbreak.
• Overview of the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954:
  • It prohibits advertisements of drugs and remedies that claim to have magical properties, and makes doing so a cognizable offence.
  • The penalty carries a maximum sentence of 6 months imprisonment with or without fine on first conviction. In case of any subsequent conviction, the term may be up to a year.
  • If the convicted party is a company, all members of the company will be deemed guilty.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/06/24/patanjali-coronavirus-covid-19-medicine/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• Stat1: PPP is a theory which states that exchange rates between currencies are in equilibrium when their purchasing power is the same in each of the two countries. This means that the exchange rate between two countries should equal the ratio of the two countries’ price level of a fixed basket of goods and services.
• S2: On the PPP basis, China is the world’s largest economy in 2018, followed by United States at 2nd and India at 3rd position.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/06/24/international-comparison-program/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• International Comparison Program (ICP) is the largest worldwide data-collection initiative, under the guidance of UN Statistical Commission (UNSC).
• The goal is of producing Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs) which are vital for converting measures of economic activities to be comparable across economies.
• Along with the PPPs, the ICP also produces Price Level Indices (PLI) and other regionally comparable aggregates of GDP expenditure.
• The next ICP comparison will be conducted for reference year 2021.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/06/24/international-comparison-program/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• GeM is a short form of one stop Government e-Market Place hosted by DGS&D where common user goods and services can be procured.
• GeM is dynamic, self-sustaining and user friendly portal for making procurement by Government officers.
• Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals (DGS&D) is the central purchase organization of the Indian government, functioning under the Ministry of Commerce & Industry. Its role is to finalize the rate contracts to be used by Government departments to procure items of general use.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/06/24/country-of-origin-in-gem-platform/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• It is an initiative to help systematically assimilate technologies having commercial potential and information related to incubated startups in our higher education institutions.
• YUKTI stands for Young India combating COVID with Knowledge, Technology and Innovation.
• Ministry of HRD prepared the portal in view of Coronavirus.
• Through this portal, the Ministry of Human Resource Development will endeavor to ensure that students, teachers and researchers in higher educational institutions are getting appropriate support to meet the requirements needed to advance their technologies and innovations.

Refer: Facts for Prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/06/24/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-24-june-2020/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Gaia hypothesis put forth by James Lovelock is an ecological theory proposing that living creatures and the physical world are in a complex interacting system that maintains equilibrium.

Refer: Facts for Prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/06/24/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-24-june-2020/