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

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Answer :

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