[MISSION 2022] INSIGHTS CURRENT AFFAIRS ( 07 April 2022 ) REVISION THROUGH MCQS

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• Jagjivan Ram, popularly known as Babuji was a national leader, a freedom fighter, a crusader of social justice, a champion of depressed classes, an outstanding Parliamentarian, a true democrat, a distinguished Union Minister, an able administrator and an exceptionally gifted orator.
• Jagjivan Ram had organized a number of Ravidas Sammelans and had celebrated Guru Ravidas Jayanti in different areas of Calcutta (Kolkata).
• In 1934, he founded the Akhil Bhartiya Ravidas Mahasabha in Calcutta.
• He was instrumental in the foundation of the All India Depressed Classes League.
• In October 1935, Babuji appeared before the Hammond Commission at Ranchi and demanded, for the first time, voting rights for the Dalits.
• Babu Jagjivan Ram played a very active and crucial role in the freedom struggle. Inspired by Gandhiji, Babuji courted arrest on 10 December 1940. After his release, he entrenched himself deeply into the Civil Disobedience Movement and Satyagraha.
• Babuji was arrested again on 19 August 1942 for his active participation in the Quit India Movement launched by the Indian National Congress.
• He has also served as the deputy prime minister of India.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/04/07/babu-jagjivan-ram/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Govind Ballabh Pant was the first chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
• Dr B.R. Ambedkar, who organised the dalits into the Depressed Classes Association in 1930.
• Babu Jagjivan Ram was instrumental in the foundation of the All India Depressed Classes League.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/04/07/babu-jagjivan-ram/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• It is a zoonotic virus (it is transmitted from animals to humans).
• It first broke out in Malaysia and Singapore in 1998 and 1999.
• Currently, there are no vaccines for both humans and animals. Intensive supportive care is given to humans infected by Nipah virus.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/04/07/nipah-virus-3/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

Key points:

• • Under UAPA, both Indian and foreign nationals can be charged.
  • It will be applicable to the offenders in the same manner, even if crime is committed on a foreign land, outside India.
  • Under the UAPA, the investigating agency can file a charge sheet in maximum 180 days after the arrests and the duration can be extended further after intimating the court.

As per amendments of 2019:

• • The Act empowers the Director General of National Investigation Agency (NIA) to grant approval of seizure or attachment of property when the case is investigated by the said agency.
  • The Act empowers the officers of the NIA, of the rank of Inspector or above, to investigate cases of terrorism in addition to those conducted by the DSP or ACP or above rank officer in the state.
  • It also included the provision of designating an individual as a terrorist.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/04/07/unlawful-activities-prevention-act-16/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is the national Standards Body of India working under the aegis of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, and Government of India.
  • BIS is the National Standard Body of India established under the BIS Act 2016 for the harmonious development of the activities of standardization, marking and quality certification of goods and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto
• S2: The Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) operates gold and silver hallmarking scheme in India.

Refer: https://www.bis.gov.in/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• The white-bellied heron is categorised as ‘critically endangered’ in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red Data Book and is listed in Schedule IV in the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
• It is one of the rarest birds in the world and is at present found only in Bhutan, Myanmar and the Namdapha Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh.
• It had also been recorded in the adjacent Kamlang Tiger Reserve in Lohit district in camera trap images.

Refer: https://science.thewire.in/environment/rare-white-bellied-heron-spotted-in-arunachal-pradesh/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Kamlang Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in the South-Eastern part of Lohit District of Arunachal Pradesh. The name comes from the River Kamlang, which flows through the Sanctuary and joins Brahmaputra.

Refer: http://arunachalforests.gov.in/kamlang_wildlife_sanctuary.html

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• Western hoolock gibbon: Endangered under the IUCN Redlist.
• Eastern hoolock gibbon: Vulnerable under the IUCN Redlist.

Refer: https://india.mongabay.com/2021/04/not-two-only-one-species-of-hoolock-gibbon-in-india-study/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• The new report, titled Children and Digital Dumpsites, was released by the WHO.
• Key findings: 
  • More than 18 million children and adolescents working at e-waste dumpsites in low- and middle-income countries are potentially at the risk of severe health hazards.
  • They face risk due to discarded electronic devices or e-waste being dumped from high-income countries.

Refer: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/06/1094052

Ans: (a)

Explanation: here the directive word is not correct!!

• A Returning Officer is responsible for overseeing the election in a constituency, or sometimes in two constituencies, as directed by the Election Commission (EC). 
• The EC appoints the Returning Officer and Assistant Returning Officer for a constituency in consultation with the governments of the State or Union Territory as the case may be.
• The Returning Officer’s duties include accepting and scrutinising nomination forms, publishing the affidavits of candidates, allotting symbols to the contesting candidates, preparing the list of contesting candidates, preparing the EVMs and VVPATs, training polling personnel, designating counting centres, and counting the votes and declaring the result.

Refer: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/returning-officer/article27050005.ece