Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 21 July 2019

Q1. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued an order prohibiting the manufacture, sale and distribution of colistin in animal food industry.Which of the following statements regarding the same stands true ?

1) Colistin, also known as polymyxin E, is an antibiotic produced by certain strains of the bacteria Paenibacilluspolymyxa.
2) There is high resistance of human pathogens towards colistin.
3) No clinically useful absorption of colistin occurs in the gastrointestinal tract. For systemic infection, colistin must, therefore, be given by injection.

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

Q2. Which of the following states of India is supposed to receive rainfall of more than 250cm/year ?

1) Kerala
2) Tamilnadu
3) Punjab
4) Arunachal pradesh
5) Tripura

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

Q3. Consider the following statements :

1) India’s 63 million firms in the micro, small and medium firm sector are responsible for more than a quarter of the country’s manufacturing and services output, and therefore must be re-energised for the government to kick-start the economy.
2) But credit availability for SMEs, which also account for about 45% of the country’s exports, has worsened due to a liquidity crisis in the non-banking financial companies (NBFC) sector.
3) State-owned banks have been able to drive increased lending despite burdened with more than $145 billion in bad loans.

Which of the above statements are true ?

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

Q4. Which of the following statements regarding the ECI Flagship IT Program - Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System (ETPBS) stands true ?

1) Through this system the service voters cast their vote on an electronically received postal ballot, from anywhere outside their constituency, thus reducing the chances of losing the voting opportunity.
2) The purpose of the online system was to create convenient and easy-to-use online system for Defense Personnel to become Service Voters as Service Voter turnout in 2014 was only 4%.
3) With the motto of “no voter to be left behind”, Election Commission of India’s ETPBS has empowered and ensured all eligible service electors with their constitutional power to vote while performing their duty for the nation.

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

Q5. The “Dragon fly mission” recently seen in news which has the objective to explore Saturn’s moon Titan is carried out by which of the following space agencies ?

a) ISRO
b) CERN
c) NASA
d) JAXA

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Answer:

1. (c) 2. (c) 3. (a) 4. (d) 5. (c)