Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 30 January 2020
Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 30 January 2020
Q1. The Cabinet approved Medical Termination of Pregnancy Amendment Bill recently. Which of the following statements regarding the same stands true ?
1) The Bill is for expanding access of women to safe and legal abortion
services on therapeutic, eugenic, humanitarian or social grounds.
2) The Bill proposes for requirement for opinion of one provider for termination
of pregnancy up to 20 weeks of gestation and introducing the requirement of
opinion of two providers for termination of pregnancy of 20-24 weeks of
gestation.
3) Recently several petitions were received by the Courts seeking permission for
aborting pregnancies at a gestational age beyond the present permissible limit
on grounds of foetal abnormalities or pregnancies due to sexual violence faced
by women.
a) 1 & 2 only
b) 2 & 3 only
c) 1 & 3 only
d) all of the above
Q2. Consider the following pairs of nuclear reactors in India with their locations :
1) Kalpakkam : Andhra Pradesh
2) Bhimpur : Haryana
3) Kaiga : Karnataka
4) Chutka : Madhya Pradesh
Which of the above pairs are correctly matched ?
a) 1 & 2 only
b) 3 & 4 only
c) 2 & 4 only
d) all of the above
Q3. Which of the following statements regarding the status of drinking water availability in India and the Jal Se Nal scheme stands true ?
1) The Jal Se Nal scheme aims to provide piped drinking water to every rural
home by 2024 and is a component of JalJeevan Mission.
2) By 2030, the country’s water demand is projected to be twice the available
supply, implying severe water scarcity for hundreds of millions of people and an
eventual ~6% loss in the country’s GDP.
3) Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers welfare is the nodal agency for the
scheme .
a) 1 & 2 only
b) 2 & 3 only
c) 1 & 3 only
d) all of the above
Q4. The ISRO recently launched BhuvanPanchayat 3.0 version.Which of the following statements regarding the same stands true ?
1) Under the project, the ISRO will collaborate with Gram panchayat members
to understand their data requirements.
2) Using Bhuvan satellite imagery, hi-resolution database at 1:100 scale is
applied to identify land use land cover, settlements, road and rail network etc.
3) The space-based information support for decentralised planning programme was
taken up in 2011 to empower panchayati raj institutions and its stake-holders to
enable participatory and decentralised planning in the country.
a) 1 & 2 only
b) 2 & 3 only
c) 1 & 3 only
d) all of the above
Q5. Indian Navy has launched “Operation Vanilla” to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in which of the following countries ?
a) Malaysia
b) Madagascar
c) Palestine
d) Syria