UPSC Current Affairs Quiz : 16 February 2024

Solution: d)

“In the UN’s Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

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Solution: d)

Key Budget documents include:

• Annual Financial Statement (Article 112)
• Demands for Grants (Article 113)
• Finance Bill (Article 110)
• Fiscal Policy Statements mandated under the FRBM Act, 2003, including
• The Macro-Economic Framework Statement and
• The Medium-Term Fiscal Policy cum Fiscal Policy Strategy Statement.

Solution: a)

Only Statement 1 is correct.

A payments bank is a new type of bank that can perform most banking operations but cannot issue credit cards or loans. Payments banks are registered as public limited companies and licensed under the Banking Regulation Act of 1949.

Payments banks can accept deposits up to ₹200,000 per customer, but this limit may increase.

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Solution: d)

Zodiacal light is a faint, diffuse glow of sunlight scattered by dust particles that orbit the sun. It appears in the night sky as a roughly triangular white glow that extends from the sun’s direction and along the zodiac.

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Solution: c)

Option 4 is incorrect.

Jordan is a country in West Asia, located at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe in the Levant region. Bordered by Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, and the Palestinian West Bank and Israel, Jordan has a coastline on the Gulf of Aqaba’s Red Sea.