Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 10 July 2020

Q1. The Ministry of Culture has recently taken up the project of reprinting of 108 volumes of Mongolian Kanjur under the National Mission for Manus. Which of the following statements regarding the same stands true ?

1) Mongolian Kanjur, is considered to be the most important religious text in Mongolia. In the Mongolian language ‘Kanjur’ means ‘Concise Orders’- the words of Lord Buddha.
2) The National Mission for Manus was launched in 2019 by the Government of India with the mandate of documenting, conserving and disseminating the knowledge preserved in the manus.
3) One of the objectives of the mission is to publish rare and unpublished manus so that the knowledge enshrined in them is spread to researchers, scholars and general public at large.

Options :

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

Q2. Consider the following pairs of thermal power plants and their location states :

1) Thumbli : Rajasthan
2) Kudatini : Karnataka
3) Kayamkulam :Tamilnadu
4) Vindhyanchal :Odisha
5) Tiroda : Maharashtra

Which of the above pairs are incorrectlymatched ?

Options :

a) 1,2 & 3 only
b) 3,4 & 5 only
c) 1,2 & 5 only
d) 3 & 4 only

Q3. Recently the government of India had banned many Chinese apps citing the provisions of Section 69A of the information technology act,2000. Which of the following statement regarding the act stands true ?

1) Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 empowers the central government to block the online content and arrest the culprit. This is the primary law that deals with cyber-crime and electronic commerce in India.
2) The concerned authorities failing to comply with the direction issued might be punished with imprisonment for a term up to to seven years and shall also be liable to fine.
3) The Supreme Court had given a verdict in 1996 and said that the government can tap phones only in case of a "public emergency" which also applies in case of Section 69 of the IT Act.

Options :

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

Q4. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has in principle approved a special programme for conservation of Gangetic Dolphin, on the lines of Project Tiger and Project Elephant recently. Which of the following statements regarding the species stands true ?

1) The Gangetic river dolphins can only live in freshwater, are blind and catch their prey in a unique manner, using ultrasonic sound waves.
2) It is placed under the “critically endangered” category by the IUCN.
3) They once lived in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna and Karnaphuli-Sangu river systems of Nepal, India, and Bangladesh, but are now mostly extinct from many of its early distribution ranges, as per WWF.

Options :

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

Q5. The 750 MW Rewa Solar Project was recently commissioned at which of the following states of India recently ?

a) Odisha
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) Telangana
d) Rajasthan

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