[MISSION 2022] INSIGHTS CURRENT AFFAIRS (6 June 2022 ) REVISION THROUGH MCQS

Ans: (b)

Explanation: Veer Savarkar:

• Formed a youth organization- Mitra Mela,this organization was put into place to bring in national and revolutionary ideas.
• He was against foreign goods and propagated the idea of Swadeshi.
• He championed atheism and rationalityand also disapproved orthodox Hindu belief. In fact, he even dismissed cow worship as superstitious.
• He also Worked on abolishment of untouchabilityin Ratnagiri. Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar also compared his work to Lord Buddha.
• Vinayak Savarkar was a president of Hindu Mahasabha from 1937 to 1943.
• When congress ministries offered resignation on 22nd oct 1939, Hindu mahaasabha under his leadership cooperated with Muslim league to form government in provinces like Sindh, Bengal and NWFP.
• In Pune, Savarkar founded the “Abhinav Bharat Society”.
• He joined Tilak’s Swaraj Party.
• He founded the Free India Society.The Society celebrated important dates on the Indian calendar including festivals, freedom movement landmarks, and was dedicated to furthering discussion about Indian freedom.
• He believed and advocated the use of arms to free India from the British and created a network of Indians in England, equipped with weapons.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/04/veer-savarkar-7/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• S1: The first edition of NAS was carried out in 2001.
• S2: It is undertaken by theMinistry of Education.
• S3: It is a periodic exercise carried out broadly in alternate years to monitor the health of the country’s school education system.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/04/national-achievement-survey-nas/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• RFID uses radio waves to communicate that do not require line of sight in order to obtain the data;barcodes use light to read the black-and-white pattern printed on the sticky tag.
• An RFID tag can communicate with a powered reader even when the tag is not powered.
• When printed on paper or sticky labels, barcodes are more susceptible to wear and breakage, which can affect their readability. RFID tags are more durable than barcodes.
• In contrast to barcode scanners, RFID scanners can process dozens of tags in a single second.
• Barcodes are simple and easy to copy or counterfeit, whereas RFID is more complicated and difficult to replicate or counterfeit.
• RFID tags are expensive compared to barcodes.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/04/barcodes-vs-radio-frequency-identification-tags/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Eco-Sensitive Zones (ESZs) or Ecologically Fragile Areas (EFAs) are areas notified by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India around Protected Areas, National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries. The purpose of declaring ESZs is to create some kind of “shock absorbers” to the protected areas by regulating and managing the activities around such areas. They also act as a transition zone from areas of high protection to areas involving lesser protection.
• The Environment Protection Act, 1986 does not mention the word “Eco-sensitive Zones”.
• The section 3(2)(v) of the Act,says that Central Government can restrict areas in which any industries, operations or processes shall not be carried out or shall be carried out subject to certain safeguards
• Besides the section 5 (1)of this act says that central government can prohibit or restrict the location of industries and carrying on certain operations or processes on the basis of considerations like the biological diversity of an area, maximum allowable limits of concentration of pollutants for an area, environmentally compatible land use, and proximity to protected areas.
• The above two clauses have been effectively used by the government to declare Eco-Sensitive Zones or Ecologically Fragile Areas (EFA). The same criteria have been used by the government to declare No Development Zones.
• National Board for Wildlife (which replaced the Indian Board for Wildlife in 2002) decided that the “delineation of ESZs would have to be site specific and relate to regulation, rather than prohibition of specific activities”.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/04/what-are-the-eco-sensitive-zones-eszs/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Turkey, officially known as the Republic of Turkey, is both a European and an Asian country. It’s neighbour to the northwest is Bulgaria; Greece to the west; Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran to the east; Georgia to the northeast; Syria to the south; and Iraq to the southeast.

Refer: Facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/04/mission-2022-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-04-june-2022-2/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• It is awarded
• Given bythe Martin Ennals Foundation, based in Geneva, Switzerland.
• It is regarded as the Nobel Prize for human rights defenders.
• This year it was awarded posthumously to pay homage to Father Stan Swamy, a Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist from Jharkhandwho had been arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/04/mission-2022-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-04-june-2022-2/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• The Organization of Turkic States, formerly called the Turkic Council or the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States, is an international organization comprising prominent independent Turkic countries: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey and Uzbekistan. It is an intergovernmental organization whose overarching aim is promoting comprehensive cooperation among Turkic-speaking states. First proposed by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in 2006, it was founded on October 3, 2009, in Nakhchivan.

Refer: Facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/04/mission-2022-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-04-june-2022-2/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Scientific Name:Posidonia australis.
• It is the world’s largest plant.It is a seagrass 180 km in length.
• It has recently been discovered off the West Coast of Australia in Shark Bay.
• The plant is 4,500 years old and has double the number of chromosomes than other similar plants.
• It can usually grow to around 35cm per year.
• It covers an area of 20,000 hectares.
• The next on the podium, the second largest plant, is the clonal colony of a quaking Aspen tree in Utah,which covers 43.6 hectares.
• The largest tree in India, the Great Banyan in Howrah’s Botanical Garden,covers 1.41 hectares.

Refer: Facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/04/mission-2022-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-04-june-2022-2/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• World Bicycle Day is observed on the 3rd of June every year.
• The day is marked to spread awareness about the benefits of using a bicycle. As per the United Nations,the day highlights the uniqueness, longevity and versatility of the bicycle.
• The day has been observed since 2018 after a resolution was passed by the United Nations, during its 72nd Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/04/mission-2022-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-04-june-2022-2/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Ministry of social Justice and empowerment has launched the Scheme “SHRESHTA”-Scheme for residential education for students in High school in Targeted Areas.
• The Scheme will be beneficial for SC students who could not reach for higher quality education.
• It provides for high quality education for meritorious but poor SC students in CBSE-affiliated reputed residential schools across the country.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/04/mission-2022-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-04-june-2022-2/