Daily Current Affairs MCQ / UPSC / IAS / 06-09-19

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MCQ 1

Air is not a conductor to the electricity
Earth has a negative charge on it and thatswhy lightening strikes

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(A) Only 1

(B) Only 2

(D)None

MCQ 2

The centre is planning to set up a Centralised Technology Vertical (CTV) for

(A) RBI

(B) CBI

(D) GSTN

The centre is planning to set up a Centralised Technology Vertical (CTV) under the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

What is CTV? What is it’s role?

It facilitates real-time information sharing with investigators across the country.
Need for CTV:
India has the second largest users of Internet in the world.
And there is rise in “cyber manipulators” across the country. They are posing risk to the country by circulating fake videos on social media. This needs to be addressed.

CBI:

Operates under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.

MCQ 3

Firoz Shah Tughlaq was the founder of Tughlaq Dynasty
He abolished Jaziya

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(A)Only 1

(B)Only 2

(C)Both

(D)None

Delhi’s Feroz Shah Kotla stadium is set to be renamed Arun Jaitley Stadium after the former Finance Minister.
The stadium took its name from a 14th century fortress Firoz Shah Tughlaq.

About Firoz Shah Tughlaq:

Born in 1309 and ascended the throne of Delhi after the demise of his cousin Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq.
He was the third ruler of Tughlaq dynasty that ruled over Delhi from 1320 to 1412 AD. Tughlaq was in power from 1351 to 1388 AD.
He was the one who started the imposition of Jaziya.
He provided the principle of inheritance to the armed forces where the officers were permitted to rest and send their children in army in their place. However, they were not paid in real money but by land.
The British called him the ‘father of the irrigation department’ because of the many gardens and canals that he built.
Contributions:
established the Diwan-i-Khairat — office for charity.
established the Diwan-i-Bundagan — department of slave
established Sarais (rest house) for the benefits of merchants and other travellers
adopted the Iqtadari framework.
Established four new towns, Firozabad, Fatehabad, Jaunpur and Hissar.
established hospitals known as Darul-Shifa, Bimaristan or Shifa Khana.
He constructed canals from:
Yamuna to the city of Hissar.
Sutlej to the Ghaggar.
Ghaggar to Firozabad.
Mandvi and Sirmour Hills to Hansi in Haryana.

Taxes imposed under Firoz Shah Tughlaq:

Kharaj: land tax which was equal to one-tenth of the produce of the land.
Zakat: two and a half per cent tax on property realized from the Muslims.
Kham: one-fifth of the booty captured (four-fifth was left for the soldiers).
Jaziya: levied on the non-Muslim subjects, particularly the Hindus. Women and children were, however, exempted from the taxes.
Also levied other taxes like the irrigation tax, garden tax, octroi tax and the sales tax.

MCQ 4

Munich Agreement was signed among Germany, great Britain & Czechoslovakia
World war I stopped after it in europe

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(B) Only 2

(D)None

Munich Agreement?
The Agreement was signed among Germany, France, Italy, and Great Britain on September 29- 30, 1938. Czechoslovakia, the country whose region was about to be annexed, was not officially party to the Agreement. It was forced to agree to the deal under pressure from Great Britain and France, which had a military alliance with the country.
The Agreement allowed for the cessation to Germany of Sudetenland. The German occupation was to be done in four stages from October 1-10, 1938.
The cessation in some places was subject to a plebiscite.
The Czechoslovak government was supposed to release from their military and police forces within four weeks of the signing of the Agreement, any Sudeten Germans who wished to be released, and all Sudeten German prisoners.

Outcome:

Six months after the Munich Agreement was signed, Hitler went back on his commitments and invaded the whole of Czechoslovakia. War was on its way.
The agreement has been seen as a disastrous act of appeasement of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime, and historical evidence that expansionist totalitarianism cannot be dealt with through placation.
The Munich Agreement was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Third Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy. It provided “cession to Germany of the Sudeten German territory” of Czechoslovakia. Most of Europe celebrated the agreement, because it prevented the war threatened by Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi Germany’s annexation of the Sudetenland, a region of western Czechoslovakia inhabited by more than 3 million people, mainly German speakers. Hitler announced it was his last territorial claim in Europe, and the choice seemed to be between war and appeasement.
An emergency meeting of the main European powers – not including Czechoslovakia or the Soviet Union, an ally to both France and Czechoslovakia – took place in Munich, Germany, on 29–30 September 1938. An agreement was quickly reached on Hitler’s terms. It was signed by the top leaders of Germany, France, Britain, and Italy. Militarily, the Sudetenland was of strategic importance to Czechoslovakia as most of its border defenses were situated there to protect against a German attack. The agreement between the four powers was signed on the backdrop of a low-intensity undeclared German-Czechoslovak war that had started on 17 September 1938. Meanwhile Poland moved its army units towards its common border with Czechoslovakia after 23 September 1938. Czechoslovakia yielded to French and British diplomatic pressure and agreed on 30 September to give up territory to Germany on Munich terms. Fearing the possible loss of Zaolzie to Germany, Poland issued an ultimatum for the return of Zaolzie, which Czechoslovakia accepted on 1 October.
The Munich Agreement was soon followed by the First Vienna Award on 2 November 1938, separating largely Hungarian inhabited territories in southern Slovakia and southern Subcarpathian Rus’ from Czechoslovakia, while Poland also annexed territories from Czechoslovakia in the North. In March 1939, the First Slovak Republic was proclaimed, and shortly by the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Germany took full control of the remaining Czech parts. As a result, Czechoslovakia had disappeared.
Today, the Munich Agreement is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement, and the term has become “a byword for the futility of appeasing expansionist totalitarian states“

MCQ 5

A Governor has a term of 5 years
It can be removed before the expiry of the term through impeachment for violating the Constitution of India(the only ground)

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(B) Only 2

(D) None

By exercising his authority under Article 156 of the constitution, President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed new Governors for five states.

Governors of States in India:

The nominal head of a state, unlike the Chief Minister who is the real head of a state in India.
According to 7th Constitutional Amendment Act 1956, the same person can be the Governor of two or more states.
Appointment: The governors and lieutenant-governors are appointed by the president.
Removal: The term of governor’s office is normally 5 years but it can be terminated earlier by: Dismissal by the president on the advice of the prime minister of the country, at whose pleasure the governor holds office or Resignation by the governor. Thus, the term is subject to pleasure of the president.
There is no provision of impeachment, as it happens for the president.

Some discretionary powers are as follows:

Can dissolve the legislative assembly if the chief minister advices him to do following a vote of no confidence. Following which, it is up to the Governor what he/ she would like to do.
Can recommend the president about the failure of the constitutional machinery in the state.
Can reserve a bill passed by the state legislature for president’s assent.
Can appoint anybody as chief minister If there is no political party with a clear-cut majority in the assembly.
Determines the amount payable by the Government of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram to an autonomous Tribal District Council as royalty accruing from licenses for mineral exploration.
Can seek information from the chief minister with regard to the administrative and legislative matters of the state.
Can refuse to sign to an ordinary bill passed by the state legislature.

Problem with constitutional design:

The governor is merely appointed by the president on the advice of the Central government.
Unlike the president, a governor does not have a fixed term. He/she holds office at the pleasure of the ruling party in the centre.
Both the manner of the appointment and the uncertainty of tenure conspire to make the incumbent an object of the Central government in politically charged circumstances.

MCQ 6

Samudrayaan’ project is for the security of Indian interest in Indian ocean
It is taken up by Indian coast guard

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(A) Only 1

(B) Only 2

(D) None

It is a pilot project of the Ministry of Earth Sciences for deep ocean mining for rare minerals.
It proposes to send men into the deep sea in a submersible vehicle for ocean studies.
The project is expected to become a reality by 2021-22.
The project has been undertaken by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT).
Significance:
If the ‘Samudrayaan’ project is successful, India will join the league of developed nations in the exploration of minerals from oceans.
India could be the first developing country to undertake such a project.
What are PMN?
Polymetallic nodules (also known as manganese nodules) are potato-shaped, largely porous nodules found in abundance carpeting the sea floor of world oceans in deep sea.
Composition: Besides manganese and iron, they contain nickel, copper, cobalt, lead, molybdenum, cadmium, vanadium, titanium, of which nickel, cobalt and copper are considered to be of economic and strategic importance.
Potential: It is envisaged that 10% of recovery of that large reserve can meet the energy requirement of India for the next 100 years. It has been estimated that 380 million metric tonnes of polymetallic nodules are available at the bottom of the seas in the Central Indian Ocean.

MCQ 7

Interpol was established after world war II
Headquarters are in London, UK 3. India is not a member

Choose correct

(A) 1 & 2

(B) 2 & 3

(D) None

India has proposed to Interpol that the General Assembly of the organization be held in New Delhi in 2022 as part of the nation’s 75th Independence Day celebrations.
INTERPOL provides investigative support, expertise, and training to law enforcement worldwide in battling three major areas of transnational crime: terrorism, cybercrime, and organized crime. Its broad mandate covers virtually every kind of crime, including crimes against humanity, child pornography, drug trafficking and production, political corruption, copyright infringement, and white-collar crime. The agency also helps coordinate cooperation among the world’s law enforcement institutions through criminal databases and communications networks.
What is Interpol?
The International Criminal Police Organisation, or Interpol, is a 194- member intergovernmental organisation.
headquartered in Lyon, France.
formed in 1923 as the International Criminal Police Commission, and started calling itself Interpol in 1956.
India joined the organisation in 1949, and is one of its oldest members.
Interpol’s declared global policing goals include countering terrorism, promoting border integrity worldwide, protection of vulnerable communities, providing a secure cyberspace for people and businesses, curbing illicit markets, supporting environment security, and promoting global integrity.

Interpol General Assembly

It is Interpol’s supreme governing body, and comprises representatives from all its member countries.
It meets annually for a session lasting approximately four days, to vote on activities and policy.
Each country is represented by one or more delegates at the Assembly, who are typically chiefs of law enforcement agencies.
The Assembly also elects the members of the Interpol Executive Committee, the governing body which “provides guidance and direction in between sessions of the Assembly”.
The General Assembly’s decisions take the form of Resolutions.
Each member country has one vote. Decisions are made either by a simple or a two-thirds majority, depending on the subject matter.