Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 20 July 2018

Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 20 July 2018

Q1. Which of the following statements regarding recently passed fugitive offenders bill true ?

1) The Bill empowers special courts to direct the Central government to confiscate all the assets belonging to a fugitive economic offender, including those assets that are proceeds of the crime and that do not belong to the offender.
2) There is a limit of 500cr. only above which the law becomes applicable.

a) 1 only
b)2 only
c) both 1 & 2
d) None

Q2

1) The Capacity Utilization Factor (CUF) of solar power projects is more than thermal, hydro, nuclear, wind and bio-mass power projects.
2) The central govt. has allowed 100% FDI under automatic route for the development of solar power.

Which of the above statements are true regarding solar power generation ?

a) 1 only
b)2 only
c) both 1 & 2
d) None

Q3. The Government in June, 2017 accorded administrative approval and financial sanction for setting up ten indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) of 700 MW each in fleet mode.
Consider the following pairs of nuclear reactors with their location .

Which of the following are correctly matched ?

1) Chutka 1 &2 –Madhya Pradesh
2) Kaiga 5& 6 – Karnataka
3) GHVAP 3 & 4 – Haryana

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

Q4. Which of the following statements regarding Indian wild dog (Dhole) is correct ?

1) Even though it’s called a “dog,” it doesn’t have many typical canine traits.
2) Humans are exposing the animal to domestic dog disease
3) They are categorised as critically endangered species by IUCN

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

Q5. Exercise “Pitch Black” is a biennial warfare exercise hosted by which of the following countries ?

a) India
b) U.S
c) Russia
d) Australia

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Answer:

1 (A), 2 (B), 3 (D), 4 (B), 5 (D)