[MISSION 2022] INSIGHTS CURRENT AFFAIRS ( 19 March 2022 ) REVISION THROUGH MCQS

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• S1: Gandhi’s influence: Initially, he supported Mahatma Gandhi and the Non-Cooperation Movement. However, when Gandhi withdrew the movement in the wake of the Chauri Chaura incident, Bhagat Singh turned to revolutionary nationalism.
• S2: slogan was coined by the Urdu poet, Indian freedom fighter and a Leader of Indian National Congress Maulana Hasrat Mohani in 1921. It was popularized by Bhagat Singh (1907–1931) during the late 1920s through his speeches and writings.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/03/19/controversy-over-bhagat-singh-photograph-at-punjab-cm-bhagwant-manns-office/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Bhagat Singh was re-arrested for the Lahore Conspiracy case, murder of Assistant Superintendent Saunders and bomb manufacturing. Trial started against 28 accused in a special session court presided over by Judge Rai Sahib Pandit Sri Kishen, on July 10, 1929.
• In 1926, Bhagat Singh founded the ‘Naujavan Bharat Sabha (Youth Society of India) and joined the Hindustan Republican Association (later known as Hindustan Socialist Republican Association).

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/03/19/controversy-over-bhagat-singh-photograph-at-punjab-cm-bhagwant-manns-office/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• The Vishaka guidelines (legally binding) were laid down by the Supreme Court in a judgment in 1997. This was in a case filed by women’s rights groups, one of which was Vishaka.
• The guidelines defined sexual harassment and imposed three key obligations on institutions — prohibition, prevention, redress.
• The Supreme Court directed that they should establish a Complaints Committee, which would look into matters of sexual harassment of women at the workplace.
• The 2013 Act broadened these guidelines.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/03/19/prevention-of-sexual-harassment-or-posh-act/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• S1: The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act was passed in 2013. It defines sexual harassment, lays down the procedures for a complaint and inquiry, and the action to be taken. It broadens the Vishaka guidelines, which were already in place.
• S2: It mandates that every employer constitute an Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) at each office or branch with 10 or more employees.
• S3: It lays down procedures and defines various aspects of sexual harassment, including aggrieved victim — a woman “of any age whether employed or not”, who “alleges to have been subjected to any act of sexual harassment”, which means the rights of all women working or visiting any workplace, in any capacity, are protected under the Act.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/03/19/prevention-of-sexual-harassment-or-posh-act/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• ‘Meri Policy Mere Haath’ campaign is part of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana. It is aimed at motivating all farmers in the country to insure their crops.
• Under this program, every farmer who has taken insurance under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) will get the policy documents at their doorstep.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/03/19/meri-policy-mere-haath-campaign/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• A cyclone is a general term for a weather system in which winds rotate inwardly to an area of low atmospheric pressure.
• For large weather systems, the circulation pattern is in a counterclockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and a clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere.

• Types of cyclones include tropical cyclones, extratropical cyclones and tornadoes.
• A tropical cyclone is a rotating low-pressure weather system that has organized thunderstorms but no fronts. They form over warm ocean waters.

Refer: Facts for Prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/03/19/mission-2022-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-19-march-2022/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• • S1: Man Booker International Prize is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom.
    • The introduction of the International Prize to complement the Man Booker Prize was announced in June 2004.
  • S2: Whereas the Man Booker Prize was open only to writers from the Commonwealth, Ireland, and Zimbabwe, the International Prize was open to all nationalities who had work available in English including translations.
  • S3: Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, who is of Indian descent, won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 “for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.” He was born in Trinidad and later became a British citizen.
    • The 2005 inaugural winner of the prize was Albanian writer Ismail Kadare.

Refer: Facts for Prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/03/19/mission-2022-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-19-march-2022/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• • Almost all snakes are covered in scales and as reptiles, they’re cold blooded and must regulate their body temperature externally.
  • ‘Big four’ Indian snakes: the spectacled cobra (Naja naja), common krait (Bungarus caeruleus), Russell’s viper (Daboia russelii) and saw-scaled viper (Echis carinatus).
  • Wht in news: Snakebites are classified as a ‘neglected tropical disease’ by the World Health Organization

Refer: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/wildlife-biodiversity/snakebite-researchers-purify-commercial-indian-antivenoms-find-them-more-potent-81828

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• S1: The Indian subspecies, Panthera pardus fusca, is found in all habitats of India, absent only in the arid Thar desert and Sundarban mangroves. They serve as major predators in most of the forested landscapes in India and are sympatric with tigers, lions and dhole.
• S2: “These threats have resulted in IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) changing the species status from ‘Near Threatened’ to ‘Vulnerable’. Often parts and products of leopards are illegally traded as tiger parts and the impact of poaching on leopards is significant.
• Why in News: International Tiger Day 2021, commemorated on July 29, was unique for India. For this is the day when Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav chose to shine a light on a smaller but equally charismatic cat, by releasing the Status of Leopards, Co-predators and Megaherbivores-2018 report.

Refer: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/wildlife-biodiversity/leopards-how-india-can-learn-to-live-with-them-81796

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• The Cheetah Conservation Fund is a research and lobby institution in Namibia concerned with the study and sustenance of the country’s cheetah population, the largest and healthiest in the world. 
• Its Research and Education Centre is located 44 kilometres (27 mi) east of Otjiwarongo. The CCF was founded in 1990 by conservation biologist Laurie Marker who won the 2010 Tyler Prize for her efforts in Namibia.
• S2: Cheetah Conservation Fund’s holistic conservation strategy is the key to success in saving the cheetah and its ecosystem. CCF works to develop best practices that benefit the entire ecosystem upon which the cheetah depends. CCF’s programs address the concerns for wildlife populations and the human communities that share the landscape.
• Why in news:  A team of five experts will leave for Namibia February 17, 2022, to finalise details on translocating African cheetahs to India. 

Refer: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/wildlife-biodiversity/finally-five-experts-to-leave-for-namibia-february-17-to-finalise-cheetah-translocation-81569