Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 10 September 2020

Q1. Which of the followings statements regarding the recently released UN report on ‘Trends in child mortality’ stands true ?

1) The report says that the regions of Oceania, Central and Southern Asia saw a faster decline between 2010-19 as compared to that of 2000-2009.
2) India witnessed decrease in neonatal mortality rate from 57 in 1990 to 22 in 2019. India saw around 22 million neonatal deaths in 1990 and in 2019, the deaths were reduced to 522,000.
3) Bangladesh was one among the five countries of the world that contributed to half of the under-five deaths in the world. The other four countries are Pakistan, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia.

Options :

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

Q2. Which of the following cities were given garbage-free five star rating by the union housing and urban affairs ministry for the cleanest cities?The star rating protocol was launched by the central government in January 2018 to institutionalize a mechanism for cities to achieve garbage free status leading to a higher degrees of cleanliness.

1) Indore
2) Panaji
3) Ambikapur
4) Surat
5) New Delhi

Options :

a) 1,2& 3 only
b) 2,3 & 4 only
c) 1,3 & 4 only
d) all the above

Q3. Finance Minister recently inaugurated Doorstep Banking Services by Public Sector Banks and participated in the awards ceremony to felicitate best performing banks on EASE Banking Reforms Index. Which of the following statements regarding the same stands true ?

1) EASE Agenda is aimed at institutionalizing clean and smart banking. It was launched in January 2018. PSBs have shown a healthy trajectory in their performance over four quarters since the launch of EASE 2.0 Reforms Agenda.
2) As part of the EASE Reforms, Doorstep Banking Services is envisaged to provide convenience of banking services to the customers at their doorstep through the universal touch points of Call Centre, Web Portal or Mobile App.  
3) Customers can also track their service request through these channels. The services shall be rendered by the Doorstep Banking Agents deployed by the selected Service Providers at 1000 centres across the country.

Options :

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

Q4. Exactly 47 years ago, the Supreme Court passed its landmark judgment in KesavanandaBharativs State of Kerala, considered among the most significant constitutional cases in India’s judicial history. Which of the following statements regarding the judgement and its implications stands true ?

1) Through the KeshavanandaBharati judgement, the supreme court said that fundamental principles – federalism, secularism, democracy, supremacy of the Constitution, separation of power – are part of the basic structure of the Constitution and any amendment affecting the fundamental rights as mentioned in Part-III of the Constitution will be subjected to judicial review.
2) The power of Parliament to amend the Constitution came under scrutiny for the first time in the Sajjan Singh case in 1951.In its verdict, the Supreme Court held that Parliament has absolute power to bring any amendment to the Constitution.
3) The doctrine of basic structure remains open-ended and the Supreme Court on several occasions has added more features to this principle while striking down laws which it found to be violative of this principle.

Options :

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

Q5. The “AsolChini” campaign to curb the menace of rumours and fake news information was recently launched by which of the following countries ?

a) Iran
b) Bangladesh
c) India
d) Srilanka

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