Current Affairs Question - April 2023

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, India and Australia have taken significant steps towards developing critical minerals supply chains between the two countries under the India-Australia Critical Minerals Investment Partnership.
2. The partnership aims to invest in three lithium projects in Australia to help meet India's growing demand for electric vehicles and lower carbon emissions.
3. The partnership also plans to invest in three cobalt projects in Australia to secure the critical mineral supply for India's manufacturing industry.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. On 18^th March, 2023, the Prime Ministers of India and Bangladesh inaugurated the India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline.
2. It is a cross-border pipeline that has the capacity to supply one million metric tonnes of diesel per year from Assam's Numaligarh refinery to northern parts of Bangladesh.
3. The 131.57 km. pipeline runs from Siliguri in India to Parbatipur in Bangladesh, facilitating the transportation of petroleum products from India to Bangladesh.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, India's Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways launched the Green Tug Transition Programme (GTTP).
2. The program will start with ‘Green Hybrid Tugs’, which will be powered by Green Hybrid Propulsion systems and will subsequently adopt non-fossil fuel solutions such as methanol, ammonia, and hydrogen.
3. 3.Target has been set for the initial Green Tugs to start working in all major ports by 2030.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. A recent study conducted at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), has revealed that the use of antibiotics on livestock is affecting soil carbon storage and climate.
2. Livestock grazing has been found to lead to higher carbon storage in soil compared to grazing by wild herbivores due to the use of veterinary antibiotics such as tetracycline.
3. Antibiotics such as tetracycline are long-lived and can linger in the soil for decades, thereby exacerbating the problem.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, informed that DNA profiling of 500 of the 2,675 captive elephants in the country has been completed.
2. DNA profiling is the process by which a specific DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) pattern, called a profile, is obtained from a person or sample of bodily tissue of organisms.
3. Project Elephant was launched in 1992 as a Centrally-sponsored scheme with an aim to protect elephants and improve their habitat and corridors, reduce human-elephant conflict and ensure their welfare.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. On 11^th March, 2023, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) released the Landslide Atlas of India, providing a detailed guide identifying landslide hotspots in the country.
2. It provides the details regarding landslides in India including damage assessment of specific landslide locations.
3. The Atlas is based on an all-India database created by the Hyderabad-based National Remote Sensing Centre that includes three types of landslide inventory: seasonal, event-based, and route-wise, covering the period from 2015 to 2022.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. The Indian Institute of Astrophysics, headquartered in Chennai, is a premier institute devoted to research in astronomy, astrophysics and related physics.
2. It traces its origin back to the Madras Observatory set up in 1786.
3. It is funded by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) conducted a successful controlled re-entry of its decommissioned satellite, Megha-Tropiques-1 (MT1).
2. Megha-Tropiques-1 (MT1) satellite, launched jointly by ISRO and the French space agency CNES in 2011, was designed for facilitating communication.
3. This was the first time that the space agency attempted such a manoeuvre to clear out space debris despite the satellite not being built to do so.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. A biocomputer is a computer system that uses biological components, such as brain organoids, to process information.
2. In the context of brain organoids, bio-computers involve growing brain tissue in the lab and coupling it with input/output devices to mimic sensory stimuli.
3. The activity of the neurons in the brain organoids is recorded and analyzed using machine learning techniques to understand the biological basis of human cognition, learning, and neurological disorders.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Which of the following state launched the country's first "Resham Keet Bima" program to safeguard its sericulturists?

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched 36 OneWeb satellites on its second commercial launch of the Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM-3) rocket.
2. The launch completed the OneWeb Constellation wherein OneWeb will use 588 active satellites for global connectivity.
3. In the OneWeb Constellation, satellites are arranged in 10 rings (Orbital planes) with 49 satellites in each plane.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Which of the statement(s) is/are correct regarding the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) 2016?

1. It sets out three classes of persons who can trigger the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) – financial creditors, operational creditors and corporate debtors.
2. It covers all individuals, companies, Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) and partnership firms.
3. Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has been appointed as a regulator and it can oversee these proceedings.
4. National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) for companies and LLPs and Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) for individuals and partnership firms.

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Recently, under which of the following scheme, Ministry of Rural Development initiated ‘Captive Employment’ initiative?

With reference to the Tibetan Buddhism, consider the following statements:

1. It combines the essential teachings of Mahayana Buddhism with Tantric and Shamanic, and material from an ancient Tibetan religion called Bon.
2. Since 1640, the Gelugpa School has been the predominant school of Tibetan Buddhism.
3. The Dalai Lama belongs to Gelugpa School (‘Dalai’ means ‘ocean’ in Mongol).

Choose the correct statement(s) from the option given below:

Recently, the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) achieved new milestone by producing country's first indigenous calf clone of a cattle breed? What is the name of the indigenous cattle breed?

Consider the following statements with reference to the constitutional provisions related to the reservation in India:

1. Reservation is mentioned in Article 46 of Part IV of the Constitution of India, which contains Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSPs).
2. Constitution (103rd Amendment) Act 2019 provides for 20% reservation in government jobs and educational institutions for the economically weaker section in the unreserved category.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are incorrect?

‘Kudumbashree’ - one of the largest women’s self-help networks in the world, belongs to which of the following State in India?

Consider the following sections of theRepresentation of the People Act (RPA), 1951:

1. Section 8 of the RPA deals with disqualification for conviction of offences.
2. Section 9 deals with disqualification for dismissal for corruption or disloyalty, and for entering into government contracts while being a lawmaker.
3. Section 10 deals with disqualification for failure to lodge an account of election expenses.
4. Section 11 deals with disqualification for corrupt practices.

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Consider the following statements with reference to the constitutional provisions for Inter-State Water Disputes in India:

1. Article 263 provides for the adjudication of inter-state water disputes.
2. Entry 56 of Union List empowers the Union Government for the regulation and development of inter-state rivers and river valleys to the extent declared by Parliament to be expedient in the public interest.
3. Entry 17 of State List deals with water i.e. water supply, irrigation, canal, drainage, embankments, water storage and water power.

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