Q1) Consider the following statements :
A) Iraq is a country in western Asia
B) Iraq shares its boundary with Turkey, Jordan. UAE & Kuwait
C) Iraq is a land locked country
Options :
1) A & C are true
2) Only B is true
3) Only A is true
4) B & C are true
39 Indians, abducted by IS in Iraq, are dead: Sushma
their bodies had been recovered from a mound in Badush, around 30 km from
Mosul. The identities of the deceased were established after the bodies were
exhumed from a mass grave and matched with DNA samples collected from family
members in September 2017
The group of 40 Indian workers, mostly from Punjab, and some Bangladeshis
were taken hostage by fighters of the Islamic State (IS) when the outfit captured
Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, in 2014. A member of the group, Harjit Masih
from Gurdaspur, managed to escape to Erbil and contacted Indian authorities. He
later claimed that the other hostages were taken to a jungle, lined up and shot
dead. The government had then rejected his claims.
Q2) Which of the following statements is / are true
A) The rate of conviction of the cases under the Prevention of Atrocities Act is
just 15 %.
B) As per the new guidelines of SC , Under Prevention of Atrocities Act, the
accused public servants can only be arrested with the written permission of
their appointing authority.
C) Supreme Court removed anticipatory bail clause in SC/ST Act
Options :
1) A & B are correct
2) Only B is correct
3) Only A is correct
4) None is wrong
Q3) Consider the following statements :
A) India has joined US’s mega global arrangement of sharing data from earth
observation satellites, called Copernicus.
B) Under the Copernicus programme, the participating countries will provide each
other free, full and open access to the data.
Options:
1)Both A & B are correct
2) Only A is correct
3) Neither A nor B
4) Only B is correct
The space-based information will be used for forecasting disasters, providing emergency response and rescue of people during disasters; to glean land, ocean data; and for issues of security, agriculture, climate change and atmosphere, according to a statement issued by the European Commission here.
Reciprocally the Department of Space will provide the Copernicus programme and its participating states with a free, full and open access to the data from ISRO’s land, ocean
and atmospheric series of civilian satellites (Oceansat-2, Megha-Tropiques, Scatsat-1, SARAL, INSAT-3D, INSAT-3DR)
Q4) Consider the following statements :
A) The theme of World Water Day 2018 was Nature for Water
B) The world’s population is expected to increase to 10.2 billion people by 2050
C) UN estimates are that more than half of this anticipated growth will be in
Africa (1.3 billion) and Asia (0.75 billion)
Options:
A) Only B is correct
B) A & B are correct
C) All are correct
D) B & C are correct
A Central Pollution Control Board report indicates that almost half of India’s inter-State
rivers are polluted. Sewage from 650 cities and towns along 302 polluted river stretches in
the country increased from 38,000 million litres per day (MLD) in 2009 to 62,000 MLD in
2015. It found that the untreated sewage and industrial waste was a major cause of
pollution in 16 of 40 inter-State rivers in the country.
Chennai in Tamil Nadu is a textbook example of how nature is being ignored in urban
development-posed challenges. Unplanned urban development and unwieldy growth withno hydrological plan are causing many problems. Earlier, when there was heavy rain incatchment areas in the Chennai region, lakes, ponds, tanks, rivers and inter-linked drainage systems helped replenish groundwater, hold back some water and release the excess to theocean. With development, a number of tanks and lakes in and around Chennai have been
encroached upon by various stakeholders. Major rivers and canals such as the Cooum,
Adyar and Buckingham Canal which are meant to carry excess rainwater to the Bay of
Bengal now serve as the city’s drainage outlets. The Pallikaranai marsh which acted as a
sponge to soak up excess rainwater is now an over-run.
Q5) MIT researchers recently conducted a study on false news, which of the following
statements is / are true :
A) False news diffused to between 100 and 100,000 people routinely, whereas truth
only reached up to 1,000 people
B) True news took six times as long as falsehood to reach just 1,500 people.
C) The diffusion of false news was due to bots and automatons
Options :
A) All are correct
B) A & C are correct
C) A & B are correct
D) B & C are correct
The MIT research on Fake news
It studied 126,000 stories tweeted by approximately three million people more than
4.5 million times between 2006 and 2017, might leave cynics unsurprised, found that
false news spreads “farther, faster, deeper, and more widely” than true news.
Yet what might surprise even cynics is that this difference was not due to bots and
automatons, but to the efforts of human tweeters. The persons tweeting false stories
typically have fewer followers, follow fewer people, and have been on Twitter for a
relatively short time.
The study also found that false news diffused to between 100 and 100,000 people
routinely, whereas truth only reached up to 1,000 people.
Many more people retweeted false news than truth. True news took six times as long
as falsehood to reach just 1,500 people. They also found that falsehood was 70% more
likely to be retweeted.
The key reasons behind this, according to the authors, are the emotions inspired by
the two types of news. While they found that false news inspired surprise and disgust,
truth caused sadness, anticipation, joy and trust. Evidently, the former set is more
powerful
Q6) Consider the following statements :
A) Ayushman Bharat — National Health Protection Mission has the
benefit cover of Rs. 5 lakh per family per year.
B) AB-NHPM will subsume the on-going –Rashtriya SwasthyaBima
Yojana (RSBY) and the Senior Citizen Health Insurance Scheme
(SCHIS)
Options :
1) All are correct
2) A is correct
3) B is correct
4) None is correct
Q7) Consider the following statements :
A) Parivara’ and Talawara’ are the two communities of State
of Kerala.
B) These two communities are granted Scheduled Tribes status
and are included in the “Nayaka “ Scheduled Tribes list.
Options:
1) Both A & B are correct
2) Only A is correct
3) None is correct
4) Only B is correct
Q8) Consider the following statements :
A) The Union Cabinet has approved the opening of 18 new Indian Missions in Africa
over a four year period from 2018-2021
B) The African continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north
the Indian Ocean to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.
C) Mawenzi is the tallest peak of the mountain is Kilimanjaro.
Options :
1) All are correct
2) A & B are correct
3) B & C are correct
4) A & C are correct
The 18 new Indian Missions in Africa will be opened in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, Rwanda, Sao Tome& Principe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Swaziland and Togo over a four year period from 2018-2021 thereby increasing the number of Resident Indian Missions in Africa from 29 to 47 The highest African mountain is Kilimanjaro, which has three
peaks, named Kibo, Mawenzi and Shira, of which Kibo is the tallest
Q9) Consider the following statements :
A) Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) seeks to increase the Gross Enrolment Ratio
of the country to 30% by 2020.
B) The project cost in the public funded institutions for all sub-components is shared between
the Central Government and State Governments in the ratio of 90:10 for North-Eastern States,
J&K, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, 60:40 for other States and UTs with Legislature and
100:0 for UTs without Legislature
C) Tamil Nadu has the highest GER in the country at 46.9%.
Options :
1) A & C are correct
2) All are correct
3) B & C are correct
4) A & B are correct
Gross enrolment ratio (GER) in Higher Education. Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in Higher education in India is calculated for 18-23 years of age group. Totalenrolment in higher education, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage to the eligible official population (18-23 years) in a given school year.
Q10) Consider the following statements :
A) Integrated Scheme for Development of Silk Industry has been approved for a period of
three years.
B) The scheme proposed to increase 4A grade silk from the current level of 15% to 25 %
of mulberry silk production by 2020.
C) The scheme aims to achieve self-sufficiency in silk production by 2030
Options :
1) All are correct
2) A & C are correct
3) B & C are correct
4) A & B are correct
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