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Current Affairs Quiz , 03 Jul 2019
- July 5, 2019
- Posted by: DOTS ACADEMY
- Category: Quizes
1) Which of the following convention of ILO is not ratified by India?
a) Convention 138
b) Convention 182
c) Both of the above
d) None of the above
Answer: d
• The Minimum Age Convention (138): requires the party States to pursue a national policy for abolition of child labour
• Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (No 182): concerned with the prohibition and immediate action for elimination of the worst forms of Child Labour.
2) 38th parallel, recently seen in news is concerned with?
a) demarcation line between North Korea and South Korea
b) demarcation line between North Korea and China
c) line between Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands
d) None of the above
Answer: a
• The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a region 4 km wide and 240 km long, dividing the Korean Peninsula into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on the north and Republic of Korea on the south.
3) Who has the power to edit the scheduled caste list?
a) President
b) Governor of the concerned state government
c) Parliament
d) National Commission of SCs
Answer: c
• President notifies a caste as a Scheduled Caste after consultating with the governor of a state.
• Under Article 341, Parliament may by law include in or exclude from the list of Scheduled Castes in the Presidential notification.
4) PUNCH mission is related to
a) Study of solar mass ejection by ESA
b) Landing on moon by Israel Space Agency
c) Sending of astronauts to space by ISRO
d) None of the above
Answer: d
• NASA’s PUNCH mission will image regions beyond the Sun’s outer corona.
• India is planning to send up its own satellite Aditya-L1, a mission to study the Sun’s corona
5) Which among the following state doesn’t have Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) enforced?
a) Nagaland
b) Assam
c) Arunachal Pradesh
d) Tripura
Answer: a
• Governor issues the notification of classifying the region as ‘disturbed area’ after which centre sends the armed force.
• In 2015, the Tripura government had lifted AFSPA from the state after 18 years.