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Q1) Consider the following statements :
A) National Commission for Minorities (NCM) was set up under the National
Commission for Minorities Act, 1992.
B) Five religious communities Sikhs, Buddhists, Parsis, Christians and Muslims have
been notified in Gazette of India as minority communities.
C) National Commission for Scheduled Castes and the National Commission for
Scheduled Tribes enjoy constitutional status.
Options:
1) All are correct
2) A & B are correct
3) A & C are correct
4) B & C are correct
If granted such a status, the NCM will be able to act against errant officials who do not attend hearings, follow its order or are found guilty of dereliction of duty Chairman Syed Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (2017-18), in its 53rd report noted that the NCM is “almost ineffective” in its current state to deal with cases of
atrocities against minorities. The committee recommended constitutional status to the body “without any delay”.
Q2) Consider the following statements which hold true as per the Criminal Law
(Amendment) Ordinance:
A) It provides jail term of minimum 20 years or life imprisonment or death for rape of a
girl under 12 years.
B) As per the ordinance, for the crime of rape of a girl under 16 years, minimum
punishment has been increased from 10 years to 15 years, which can be extended to
imprisonment for the rest of life.
C) There will be no provision for anticipatory bail for a person accused of rape or gang rape
of a girl under 12 years.
Options:
A) Only A is correct
B) B & C are correct
C) All are correct
D) A & B are correct
Q3) Consider the following statements :
A) The tooth enamel in our mouth has a value of 5 on a scale of hardness and is the
hardest mineralized tissue in our body.
B) The chicken egg can withstand a vertical load of up to 4 kg, when pressed along its
minor axis and that the shell stiffness is most important in offering it protection
against crushing.
C) It takes about 21 days for the laid Chicken egg to hatch Options:
1) A & C are correct
2) Only A is correct
3) All are correct
4) B & C are correct
Each hen’s egg is about 60 grams in weight and has about 6 grams of mineral in the shell which
provides hardness. But then how does the fertilized newborn baby chick with its tiny beak manage to break the egg and come out into the world?
Q4) Consider the following statements :
A) Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee has achieved a measure
of success by finding a small molecule that has good antiviral
activity against chikungunya virus
B) The molecule has been called PEP 1
C) Currently the drug to treat chikungunya is manufactured by US.
Options:
1) All are correct
2) A & B are correct
3) B & C are correct
4) A & C are correct
Q5) Consider the following statements :
A) Dibenzothiophene is an organic sulphur compound which is a major
contaminant of fossil fuel.
B) The scientists from CSIR-IMMT in Bhubaneswar used bacterial strains
to successfully removed sulphur from fossil fuels such as petroleum
and coal.
Options:
1) Only A is correct
2) Both are correct
3) Only B is correct
4) None is correct
Scientists from CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (CSIR-IMMT) in Bhubaneswar used four bacterial strains that use dibenzothiophene (an organic
sulphur compound which is a major contaminant of fossil fuel) as an energy source thereby getting rid of the sulphur.
The four strains are Rhodococcus rhodochrous, Arthrobacter sulfureou, Gordonia rubropertinita and Rhodococcus erythropolis.
Q6) Consider the following statements , as per the research by the National Centre
for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru, hold to be true :
A) The Eastern Ghats is home to 336 butterfly species.
B) It show that 81 butterfly species depend on plants belonging to the pea or
legume family (Fabaceae).
C) Larval host plants — plants that butterfly larvae or caterpillars feed on.
Options:
1) All are correct
2) A & C are correct
3) B & C are correct
4) A & B are correct
Q7) Consider the following statements :
A) Malaria in humans, which spreads through the female Anopheles mosquito, is
caused by one of the four different species (or types) of the Plasmodium
parasite.
B) Of these four species , infection with P. falciparum causes a fatal form of
malaria while that with P. vivax results in mild infection.
C) India is planning for malaria elimination by 2030.
Options:
1) B & C are correct
2) A &C are correct
3) A & B are correct
4) All are correct
Q8) Consider the following statements :
A) The 12th edition of South Asian Climate Outlook Forum (SASCOF)
took place in Pune.
B) Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar ,
Maldives and China comes under SASCOF
C)This was the fifth SASCOF meeting hosted by India.
Options:
1) A & C are correct
2) Only A is correct
3) All are correct
4) A & B are correct
Countries under SASCOF —
Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar
and Maldives — share weather services with each other.
Q9) Consider the following statements :
A) According to a 2017 Forest Survey of India report – The Indian Sunderbans,
comprise almost 43% of the mangrove cover in the country.
B) There are currently 26 sites in India recognised as Ramsar wetland sites of
international importance.
C) The Sunderbans was made the UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987.
Options:
1) A & B are correct
2) All are correct
3) B & C are correct
4) A & C are correct
Q10) Consider the following statements :
A) The Group of Seven or G7 is a group consisting of Canada, France, Spain, Italy, Japan,
the United Kingdom, and the United States.
B) The 44th G-7 Summit will be held in Italy
Options:
1) Both are correct
2) Only A is correct
3) Only B is correct
4) None is correct
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