Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 14 August 2020

Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 14 August 2020

Q1 International authorities proudly declared that India should “celebrate” the increase in tigers from about 2,000 in 1970 to about 3,000 now. This is an annual growth rate lower than 1% after 50 years of incredible, sometimes heroic, efforts. With respect to the global tiger forum (GTF),which of the following statements stands true ?

1)The Global Tiger Forum (GTF) is an inter-governmental and international body established with members from willing countries to embark on a worldwide campaign, common approach, promotion of appropriate programmes and controls to save the remaining five sub-species of tigers in the wild distributed over 14 tiger range countries of the world.
2) Formed in 1994 with its secretariat at New Delhi, GTF is the only inter-governmental & international body campaigning to save the TIGER worldwide.
3) One of the primary objectives of the forum include to promote eco-development programmes with the participation of the communities living in and around protected areas.
Options :
a) 1 & 2 only 
b) 2 & 3 only
c) 1 & 3 only 
d) all the above

Q2 The atmosphere exerts a pressure of 1034 gm per square cm at sea level. This amount of pressure is exerted by the atmosphere at sea level on all animals, plants, rocks, etc.There are distinctly identifiable zones of homogeneous horizontal pressure regimes or ‘pressure belts’. On the earth’s surface, there are in all seven pressure belts.

Which one of the following factors affects the formation of pressure belts ?
1) Temperature variations
2) Salinity of the region 
3) Coriolis force
4) Pressure gradient forces
5) Lunar gravitational pull
Options :
a) 1,2 & 3 only
b) 2,3 & 5 only
c) 1,3 & 4 only
d) 2,4 & 5 only 

Q3 A study based on satellite data has flagged a high rate of deforestation in a major hornbill habitat in Arunachal Pradesh. Which of the following statements regarding the same stands true ?

1) Papum RF is a nesting habitat of three species of the large, colourful fruit-eating hornbills: Great, Wreathed and Oriental Pied. The 862 sq.km.Pakke reserve houses a fourth species, the Rufous-Necked.
2) Hornbills used to be hunted for their casques , upper beak  and feathers for headgear despite being cultural symbols of some ethnic communities in the northeast, specifically the Nyishi of Nagaland.
3) But a 20-year-old conservation programme entailing the use of fibre-glass beaks reduced the threat to the birds to a large extent.
Options :
a) 1 & 2 only 
b) 2 & 3 only 
c) 1 & 3 only 
d) all the above

Q4 Addressing the Indo-Australian Chamber of Commerce and Womennovator on Trade Investment and collaborations in Road infrastructure, the MSME minister said, India and Australia are already co-operating in the road safety sector. Which of the following statements regarding the India Road Assessment Programme (IndiaRAP) stands true ?

1) India Road Assessment Programme (IndiaRAP) was unveiled by Global Charity to rate highways’ safety levels and to eliminate the most unsafe roads. It aims to make Indian roads safer and curb fatalities.
2) Under the Indian Road Safety Assessment Programme, 21 thousand km of roads have been assessed and about 3000 km of road length is under technological upgradation and the target year and the objective is to set out to achieve zero road fatalities by 2030.
3) The IndiaRAP ratings will range from five-star roads (safest) to one-star roads (least safe). The ratings are assigned on the basis of level of safety which is ‘built-in’ to a road for vehicle occupants, motorcyclists, bicyclists and pedestrians.
Options :
a) 1 & 2 only 
b) 2 & 3 only 
c) 1 & 3 only 
d) all the above

Q5 Which of the following Indian states recently launched the ‘Smart Connect Scheme’, pegged at ₹92 crore, to distribute smartphones to students of Class XII in government schools across the State ?

Options :
a) Odisha
b) Chattisgarh
c) Punjab
d) Kerala
 

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