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Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 14 July 2020

Q1. Indian Railways has stepped up its efforts to become a Green Railway within a span of 10 years and has set the target to achieve net zero carbon emission by the year 2030. With respect to the project proposals introduced by the railways which of the following statements stands true ?

1) Railways has fixed a electrification target of seven thousand route kilometres for this financial year. All routes on the broad gauge network have been planned to be electrified by the end of year 2023.
2) Railways has taken a number of initiatives for mitigation of global warming and combating climate change to achieve the Green Railway status.
3) In the wind energy sector, 103 megawatt wind-based power plants have already been commissioned in the north eastern sector.

Options :

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

Q2. A blockchain, as the name implies, is a chain of digital “blocks” that contain records of transactions. Each block is connected to all the blocks before and after it. This makes it difficult to tamper with a single record because a hacker would need to change the block containing that record as well as those linked to it to avoid detection. Which of the following are the possible examples/uses of blockchaintechnology ?

1) Use in Cryptocurrency
2) Nuclear enrichment process
3) Healthcare Uses
4) Space exploration
5) Property Records Use

Options :

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

Q3. Recently, the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) to access the centralised online database on FIRs and stolen vehicles. Which of the following statements regarding the same stands true ?

1) The MoU will give NATGRID access to the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) database, a platform that links around 14,000 police stations.
2) It will become a secure centralised database to stream sensitive information from sets of data sources such as banks, credit cards, visa, immigration and train and air travel details, as well as from various intelligence agencies.
3) The NCRB under the Union government is only a repository and the data pertaining to FIRs of a particular police station are concurrent list subjects.

Options :

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

Q4. Three countries - the United States, China and the United Arab Emirates - are sending unmanned spacecraft to the red planet in quick succession beginning this week, in the most sweeping effort yet to seek signs of ancient microscopic life while scouting out the place for future astronauts. Which of the following statements regarding the same stands true ?

1) Only the U.S. has successfully put a spacecraft on Mars, doing it eight times, beginning with the twin Vikings in 1976. Two NASA landers are now operating there, InSight and Curiosity.
2) It takes six to seven months, at the minimum, for a spacecraft to loop out beyond Earth's orbit and sync up with Mars' more distant orbit around the sun.
3) To reach the surface, spacecrafts will have to plunge through Mars' hazy red skies in what has been dubbed "seven minutes of terror" - the most difficult and riskiest part of putting spacecraft on the planet.

Options :

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

Q5. On July 11, 25 years on, commemoration services were held at the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial and Cemetery in remembrance of the victims of the massacre. The above mentioned town is located in which of the following peninsulars of the world ?

a) Syrian peninsula
b) Balkan peninsula
c) Musandam peninsula
d) Alaskan peninsula

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