UPSC Ecology Enviornment – http://www.mediafire.com/file/ebqpg4scgncy24c/ene_april_and_may_2018.mp4/file
Q1) Consider the following statements :
A) A candidate will lose his/her security deposits if he/she gets less than
one sixth of all valid votes even if he wins
B) By elections are also called mid term elections
Options :
1) Only A is correct
2) Only B is correct
3) None Is correct
4) Both are Correct
Q2) Consider the following statements :
A) The term “No needle policy” is related to HIV AIDS transmission
B) India’s target to eliminate HIV AIDS is 2025
C) HIV Virus is a RNA Virus
Options:
1) All are correct
2) B & C are correct
3) A & B are correct
4) Only C is correct
President Ram Nath Kovind has rejected the mercy plea of Jagat Rai who, along with complices, was convicted of killing a woman and five children by setting their house on fire while they were asleep in 2006, at Rampur Shyamchand village in Bihar.
His death sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2013. There have been precedents that show judicial options remain for a death-row convict even after rejection by the President.
Q3) Consider the following statements :
A) The President can exercise his power of pardon independent of the
government.
B) The pardoning power of a president is not subject to Judicial Review
C) Article 161 empowers the president pardoning powers
Options:
1) None is correct
2) B & C are correct
3) A & B are correct
4) Only C is correct
Power of pardon
Under Article 72 of the Constitution, “the President shall have the power to grant pardons, reprieves, respites or remissions of punishment or to suspend, remit or commute the sentence of any person convicted of any offence where the sentence is a sentence of death”. Under Article 161, the Governor too has pardoning powers but these do not extend to death sentences.
The President cannot exercise his power of pardon independent of the government. Rashtrapati Bhawan forwards the mercy plea to the Ministry of Home Affairs, seeking the Cabinet’s advice. The Ministry in turn forwards this to the concerned state government; based on the reply, it formulates its advice on behalf of the Council of Ministers.
In several cases, the SC has ruled that the President has to act on the advice of the Council of Ministers while deciding mercy pleas. These include Maru Ram vs Union of India in 1980, and Dhananjoy Chatterjee vs State of West Bengal in 1994.
Although the President is bound by the Cabinet’s advice, Article 74(1) empowers him to return it for reconsideration once. If the Council of Ministers decides against any change, the President has no option but to accept it.
After President decides In October 2006, in Epuru Sudhakar & Another vs Andhra Pradesh and Others, the SC held that the powers of the President or Governor under Articles 72 and 161 are subject to judicial review. Their decision can be challenged on the ground that (a) it was passed without application of mind; (b) it is mala fide; (c) it was passed on extraneous or wholly
irrelevant considerations; (d) relevant materials were kept out of consideration; (e) it suffers from arbitrariness.
Q4) Consider the following statements :
A) Gilgit-Baltistan Order, will effectively grant the citizens of the GilgitBaltistan
region all the rights that are enjoyed by Pakistani citizens of the
other provinces.
B) Balochistan has the largest population and largest area of all the 4
provinces of Pakistan
Options :
1) Only A is correct
2) Only B is correct
3) None Is correct
4) Both are Correct
Five ‘decade judges’ appointed by The Booker Prize Foundation announced over the weekend a shortlist of the ‘Golden Five’ winners of the Prize since it was instituted in 1969, which will now be voted on by the public to choose the Golden Man Booker, the best work of Booker winning fiction from the last five decades.
The Booker Prize has been awarded annually for the best novel in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or Ireland until 2014, when it was opened to any work published in the UK in English. The winner of the Golden Man Booker, being awarded to mark the 50th anniversary of the Prize, will be announced on July 8.
The five decade judges — writer-editor Robert McCrum, poet Lemn Sissay, novelist Kamila Shamsie, broadcaster and novelist Simon Mayo, and poet Hollie McNish — read the winning novels from the 70s (12 novels), 80s (10), 90s (11), 2000s (10) and 2010s (8) respectively, to pick the best of each decade that make up the Golden Five. Here they are — and you have until June 25 to read or re-read them.
Q5) Consider the following statements :
A) For Man booker prize, women are not eligible
B) The Booker Prize is awarded annually for the best novel in English by a
citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or Ireland
Options :
1) Only A is correct
2) Only B is correct
3) None Is correct
4) Both are Correct
Q6) Which disease are we talking about:
A) The officially day for this disease is marked on the last Wednesday of May every year.
B) It is an inflammatory desalinating condition. This means it is caused by damage to myelin –
a fatty material that insulates nerves
C) Symptoms include blurred vision, weak limbs, tingling sensations, unsteadiness and fatigue.
Options:
1) Multiple Sclerosis
2) Multiple Myeloma
3) Meningitis
4) Migraine
Q7) Consider the following statements, as per the WHO’s second edition of global report on trends in prevalence of tobacco smoking 2000-2025
A) The Report projected the prevalence of Smoking Tobacco will drop to 9.8% by 2020 and 8.5% by 2025.
B) The prevalence of tobacco use has decreased more slowly in low and middle-income countries than in high-income countries
C) China to be the only south-east Asian country to achieve smoking reduction target by 2025
Options:
1) A & C are correct
2) B & C are correct
3) Only A is correct
4) Only C is incorrect
Q8) Consider the following statements, which holds true for Press Council :
A) The Press Council of India is a statutory body with a mandate to act as a watchdog to
oversee the conduct of the print media
B) According to the Press Council Act, the council shall consist of a chairman and 28 other
members
C) A retiring member is eligible for re-nomination for not more than one term.
Options:
1) B & C are correct
2) A & C are correct
3) All are correct
4) None is correct
Q9) Consider the following statements, which holds true for Press Council :
A) The first Press Council of the world was constituted in Sweden in 1916.
B) Press Council Act 1979 Provides for selection of the Chairman by a Committee consisting of
the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, the Speaker of Lok Sabha and a person elected by the
members of the Council from among themselves
C) Out of the 28 members In Press Council of India – 2 are selected from Lok Sabha, and 3
from Rajya Sabha.
Options:
1) A & B are correct
2) A & C are correct
3) All are correct
4) B & C are correct
Q10) Consider the following ancient texts :
A. Rasaratnakara
B. Uttaratantra
C. Rasarnava
D. Yukti Kalpa taru
Which of the above is / are related to Shipbuilding?
1) A & B
2) D
3) B & D
4) C & D
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