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Q1) Look at the map and locate the sea
A)Sea of Japan
B)Yellow Sea
C)Red Sea
D)White Sea
Q2) Consider the following caves :
A)Bagh Caves
B)Nasik Caves
C)Junagadh Caves
D)Mandapeshwar Caves
Which of the above caves is a group of 9 Buddhist Caves & 24 Buddhist Caves respectively.
1) A & B
2) A & C
3) B & D
4) A & D
Q3) Look at the red point and name the port, which was recently given to
India for docking military?
A)DUQM
B)Assumption
Island
C)Sabang
D)Chagos
Q4) Choose the correct statements as per the Bertelsmann Foundation’s Transformation Index 2018 (BTI):
A) Lebanon, Mozambique, Nicaragua and Uganda are the
“new” autocracies, according to Germany’s Bertelsmann
Foundation.
B) Bangladesh has been removed from the autocracy list
and has been classified as the fifth largest democracy.
Options:
1) Both are correct
2) None is correct
3) Only B is correct
4) Only A is correct
Since the restoration of democracy after the fall of the H.M. Ershad-led military junta in 1990, Bangladesh has witnessed a change of government every five years. The polls were held under a neutral caretaker administration until the Awami League came to power in December 2008 and scrapped the system using its decisive majority in Parliament.
This was necessary because the military-backed caretaker administration put in place earlier had overshot its brief and instead of holding an immediate poll, ruled Bangladesh for two years without any mandate. It was a murder of democracy. The military-backed caretaker also tried to finish the political career of Bangladesh’s two top politicians, Sheikh Hasina (picture) and Khaleda Zia, with a ‘minus two agenda’, as if the conflict in Bangladesh was about a personal ego clash between the two women. Not only did the Western media and civil society underplay the element of ideological conflict between two warring visions of Bangladesh (a
secular, democratic vision driven by the mantra of economic growth versus a replica of Pakistan’s religion driven politics) but it also pandered to a military-driven propaganda that Bangladesh had better prospects if led by a cabal of technocrats, micro- and macro-bankers, military generals and intelligence chiefs.
Awami rule
The last eight years of Awami League rule have proved these self-proclaimed pundits wrong. Bangladesh has achieved phenomenal economic growth and inclusive social and human development in areas such as gender empowerment and public health care. But the West, especially the U.S., has sought to punish Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for not allowing a free run to the ambitions of Nobel laureate Mohammed Yunus. The BNP leader, Khaleda Zia, had boycotted the 2014 election to protest the absence of a caretaker administration; in
any case the campaign of violence unleashed during the BNP’s reign in the early 2000s cannot be forgotten. It is odd that this systematic lethal campaign directed against the Awami League, a party that had led the country to freedom, did not amount to a murder of democracy for the West, but when BNP-Jamaat leaders are jailed for leading and instigating violence, the West has cried ‘murder of democracy’
Q5) Consider the following statements
A) SIMBEX is an annual bilateral exercise conducted by the Indian army and the
Republic of Singapore army.
B)Strait of Malacca connects Andaman Sea to the South China Sea
Options:
1) Only A is correct
2) Only B is correct
3) Both are correct
4) None is correct
Q6) Consider the following statements :
A)The President enjoys absolute veto over state bills.
B)India has adopted the Canadian System in terms of appointment of Governor
Options :
1) Only B is correct
2) Both are correct
3) None is correct
4) Only A is correct
Q7) Consider the following statements :
A)The President has no veto power in respect of a constitutional amendment bill.
B)The President does not possess suspension veto in the case of money bills
Options :
1) Only B is correct
2) Both are correct
3) None is correct
4) Only A is correct
Absolute Veto
It refers to the power of the President to withhold his assent to a bill passed by the Parliament. The bill then ends and does not become an act. Usually, this veto is exercised in the following two cases:
(a) With respect to private members’ bills (ie, bills introduced by any member of Parliament who is not a minister); and
(b) With respect to the government bills when the cabinet resigns
Suspensive VetoThe President exercises this veto when he returns a bill for reconsideration of the Parliament. However, if the bill is passed again by the Parliament with or without amendments and again presented to the President, it is obligatory for the President to give his assent to the bill.
The President does not possess this veto in the case of money bills. The President can either give his assent to a money bill or withhold his assent to a money bill but cannot return it for the reconsideration of the Parliament.
Pocket Veto
In this case, the President neither ratifies nor rejects nor returns the bill, but simply keeps the bill pending for an indefinite period. This power of the President not to take any action (either positive or negative) on the bill is known as the pocket veto.
In USA, on the other hand, the President has to return the bill for reconsideration within 10 days. Hence, it is remarked that the pocket of the Indian President is bigger than that of the American President.
Q8) Consider the following statements :
A)Directorate of Enforcement works under the aegis of Home ministry.
B)Any appeal against any order passed by PMLA(Prevention of Money Laundering Act ) court can directly be filed in the Supreme Court.
Options:
1) Both are correct
2) Only A is correct
3) Only B is correct
4) None is correct
Q9) Consider the following statements :
A)World Environment Day (WED) was established on the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment
B)WED 2018 will be hosted by Canada on a theme “Beat Plastic
Pollution”
Options:
1) Only A is correct
2) Both are correct
3) None is correct
4) Only B is correct
Q10) Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar has launched ‘Samagra Shiksha’ programme. It has subsumed which of the following schemes?
A) Rashtriya Madhyamik Shikskha Abhiyan (RMSA)
B) Teacher Education (TE)
C) Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)
Options:
1) Only A
2) Only B
3) Only B & C
4) All
• This has been done to treat school education holistically, from pre-school to Class XII.
• It would help improve the quality of education by focusing on teachers and technology.
• An annual grant of Rs 5000- 20,000 will be provided for strengthening of libraries in the schools.
• The upgradation of Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) has been extended from class VI-VIII to class VI-XII.
• CWSN (Children With Special Needs) girls from Class I to XII would be given a stipend of ₹200 per month.
Q11) Which of the following statement is correct regarding Hollyhock Gibbons
A) Hoolock Gibbons are the only apes to be found in India
B) They are classified as “endangered” as per the red list of IUCN.
Options:
1) Both are correct
2) Only A is correct
3) Only B is correct
4) None is correct
Q12) Which of the following statement is correct
A) High-intensity rainfall contributes more to groundwater recharge in north India
B) Rainfall is classified as low-intensity if the amount is between 1-35 mm per day.
Options:
1) Both are correct
2) Only A is correct
3) Only B is correct
4) None is correct
• Though specific yield of alluvial soil is higher than hard-rock aquifers, alluvial aquifers take longer time to get recharged in response to rainfall. “Low-intensity rainfall provides
maximum time for water to percolate and recharge the aquifer and so is favorable for groundwater in north India.
• High-intensity rainfall mostly leads to surface run-off and doesn’t contribute much to groundwater recharge in north India.”
• “In contrast, hard-rock and basaltic aquifers are seen in south India. Here, high-intensity rainfall contributes more to groundwater recharge than low-intensity rainfall in
south India.
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