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Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 08 September 2020

Q1. The government plans to review crop planting across the country to align agricultural planning with changes in climate and rainfall patterns.Which of the following statements regarding the same stands true ?

1) In last few years, there has been significant changes in monsoon pattern. Arid states like Rajasthan are receiving more than normal rains and retreat of monsoon too has been delayed.
2) The government plans to compress the 35 agro-ecological regions of the country formed as part of UNFCCC Paris summit into 10 zones for better coordination and implementation of central schemes.
3) The plan for each zone broadly will deal with the necessary diversification of crops with relation to climate change, farm mechanisation, adoption of agro-forestry systems including medicinal plants with integration of animal husbandry in arid region, export promotion and maximising farmers’ income of that region through scientific interventions.

Options :

a) 1 & 2 only
b) 2 & 3 only
c) 1 & 3 only
d) all the above

Q2. The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands is an international treaty for “the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands”.At the time of joining the Convention, each Contracting Party undertakes to designate at least one wetland site for inclusion in the List of Wetlands of International Importance.

Arrange the following Indian states in the increasing order of the number of Ramsar wetlands in their territories :

A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Himachal Pradesh
C) Haryana
D) Punjab

Options :

a) BCDA
b) CBDA
c) BADC
d) CADB

Q3. The hypersonic air-breathing scramjet technology was successfully demonstrated by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) recently. Which of the following statements regarding the same stands true ?

1) A Hypersonic cruise missile is the fastest running missile at the present time. These missiles run at a speed which is at least five times the speed of sound which is huge in terms of speed.
2) Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV) is designed to voyage at Mach 6 speed with scramjet engine up to an altitude of 32.5 km in 20 seconds.
3) Other than India only United States and Russia have successfully test fires HSTDV (Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle).

Options :

a) 1 & 2 only
b) 2 & 3 only
c) 1 & 3 only
d) all the above

Q4. There have been reports that a Special Frontier Force (SFF) unit, referred to as Vikas Battalion, has been instrumental in occupying some key heights on the LAC. Which of the following statements regarding the force stands true ?

1) SFF was raised in the immediate aftermath of the 1962 Sino-India war and was a covert outfit which recruited Tibetans (now it has a mixture of Tibetans and Gorkhas) and initially went by the name of Establishment 22.
2) SFF now falls under the purview of the Home Secretariat where it is headed by an Inspector General who is an Army officer of the rank of Major General.
3) They have taken part in operations in the 1971 war, Operation Blue Star in Golden Temple Amritsar, Kargil conflict and in counter-insurgency operations in the country.

Options :

a) 1 & 2 only
b) 2 & 3 only
c) 1 & 3 only
d) all the above

Q5. Recently 13,000 chairs werebeing set up in front of the Reichstag building as part of the “Chair Protest “meant to symbolize the inhabitants of the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. The protest took place in which of the following countries?

a) Turkey
b) Germany
c) Serbia
d) Italy

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