BrightCareerMaker

DAILY

CURRENT AFFAIRS

PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Current Affairs MCQs for Practice – 25 Feb 2022

Question-1

Name the largest multilateral naval exercise hosted by the Indian Navy that will see participation of around 42 countries with ships from over 15 countries?

a) Indra

b) Milan

c) Sampriti

d) Samudra Shakti

Ans- b

Explanation-

Amid escalating tensions between Ukraine and Russia, warships of Quad countries, France, Myanmar, South Korea and Vietnam and several others will come together at Visakhapatnam later this week for the largest multilateral exercise MILAN, hosted by the Indian Navy.

Question-2

The office of the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Ltd., located in Jawahar Bhavan at Janpath in central Delhi, has been declared a what place?

a) Prohibited

b) Dangerous

c) Public

d) Protected

Ans- a

Explanation-

The office of the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Ltd., located on the 16th floor of Jawahar Bhavan at Janpath in central Delhi, has been declared a prohibited place “to prevent the entry of unauthorised persons”, said a Ministry notification published in the Gazette of India on February 15.

Question-3

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on February 21 released a policy proposal titled as, “Draft India Data Accessibility & Use Policy, 2022”. Its operationalisation will be achieved through the establishment of ___________________ under MEITY for overall management.

a) India Data Office

b) India Data Prevention Centre

c) India Data & Policy Office

d) India Data Accessibility Centre

Ans- a

Explanation-

The policy will be applicable to all data and information created and collected by the Central Government. It would also allow State governments to adopt its provisions. Its operationalisation will be achieved through the establishment of a India Data Office (IDO) for overall management.

Question-4

The International Space Station, launched in 1998 as part of joint efforts by the U.S., Russia, Japan, Canada and Europe, was originally built to operate for 15 years. When does NASA plan to retire and decommission the ISS?

a) By 2032

b) By 2031

c) By 2033

d) By 2034

Ans- b

Explanation-

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced plans to retire and decommission the International Space Station by 2031. The U.S. space agency has detailed its goals for the next decade in the International Space Transition Report as it aims to hand over operations to commercial organisations.

Question-5

How many princely States were there in India before independence?

a) Over 700

b) Over 600

c) Over 550

d) Over 650

Ans- c

Explanation-

Before independence, India comprised over 550 princely States, suffered from the problems created by Partition and faced a looming economic crisis. Thus, the Constituent Assembly’s members tilted towards a strong Centre with a blend of cooperative federalism.

Question-6

A team of archaeologists has found a roughly 9,000-year-old shrine at a remote Neolithic site in which country?

a) Jordan

b) Egypt

c) Israel

d) Qatar

Ans- a

Explanation-

A team of Jordanian and French archaeologists said on Tuesday that it had found a roughly 9,000-year-old shrine at a remote Neolithic site in Jordan’s eastern desert. Within the shrine were two carved standing stones bearing anthropomorphic figures.

Question-7

1) Consider the following statements regarding the ‘Draft India Data Accessibility & Use Policy’:

1. The policy will be applicable to all data and information created, generated, collected and/or archived by the Central government.

2. The policy permits private players to access the public data collected, without any prior permission.

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

a) 1 only

b) 2 only

c) Both 1 and 2

d) Neither 1 nor 2

Ans: a

Explanation-

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) on February 21, 2022 released a policy proposal titled as, Draft India Data Accessibility & Use Policy, 2022.

Draft India Data Accessibility & Use Policy, 2022

The policy aims to, radically transform India’s ability to harness public sector data.
The proposals of the Draft Data Accessibility Policy have been in the spotlight for permitting the licensing and sale of public data by the Government to the private sector.

Why such a policy?

The generation of citizen data is slated to increase exponentially in the next decade and become a cornerstone of India’s 5 trillion-dollar digital economy.
The policy objectives and purpose drawn from this understanding are primarily commercial in nature following the rationale of the National Economic Survey, 2019.
The private sector may be granted access to select databases for commercial use.
Given that the private sector has the potential to reap massive dividends from this data, it is only fair to charge them for its use.
It aims to harness the economic value of the generated data.

How the policy works?

The policy will be applicable to all data and information created, generated, collected and/or archived by the Central Government.
It would also allow State governments to adopt its provisions. Its operationalization will be achieved through the establishment of an India Data Office (IDO) under MEITY for overall management, with each government entity designating a Chief Data Officer.
In addition to it, an India Data Council will be formed as a consultative body for tasks that include finalization of standards.
It is not indicated whether the India Data Council will have non-governmental participation from industry, civil society or technologists.

Question-8

With reference to the Sustainable Cities India program’, consider the following statements:

1. The World Economic Forum and the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on a jointly designed ‘Sustainable Cities India program’.

2. The City Sprint process is a series of multi-sectoral, multi-stakeholder workshops involving business, government, and civil society leaders to enable decarbonization, especially through clean electrification and circularity.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

a) 1 only

b) 2 only

c) Both 1 and 2

d) Neither 1 nor 2

Ans- c

Explanation -

The World Economic Forum and the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on a jointly designed ‘Sustainable Cities India program’.

The ‘Sustainable Cities India program’ intends to enable cities to decarbonize in a systematic and sustainable way that will reduce emissions and deliver resilient and equitable urban ecosystems.
The Forum and NIUA will adapt the Forum’s City Sprint process and Toolbox of Solutions for decarbonization in the context of five to seven Indian cities across two years.
The City Sprint process is a series of multi-sectoral, multi-stakeholder workshops involving business, government, and civil society leaders to enable decarbonization, especially through clean electrification and circularity.
As per the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2022, densely populated countries that are highly dependent on agriculture, such as India, are especially vulnerable to climate insecurity. Decarbonization in cities is a real opportunity to keep global warming well below 2°C and cities in India can make an enormous contribution in reaching this goal.
The World Economic Forum’s Net Zero Carbon Cities’ mission is to create an enabling environment for clean electrification and circularity, resulting in urban decarbonization and resilience.
Established in 1976, the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) is India’s leading national think tank on urban planning and development.
Hence both statements are correct.

Question-9

Ombudsperson App for Mahatma Gandhi NREGA, recently seen in news, is an initiative of:

a) Union Ministry of Rural Development

b) Union Ministry of Finance

c) Union Ministry of Home Affairs

d) None of the above

Ans- a

Explanation-

Union Minister for Rural Development Giriraj Singh launched Ombudsperson App for Mahatma Gandhi NREGA.

Ministry of Rural Development has developed an Ombudsperson App for smooth reporting and categorization of grievances by Ombudsperson based on complaints he received from various sources viz. physical, digital and mass media, related to the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi NREG Scheme in the States/UTs.
At present, the reporting of complaints, passing awards and disposal of complaints are in physical form. For the smooth reporting of complaints, passing awards and quick disposal of complaints Ombudsperson App is developed.
This will strengthen Ombudsperson in the discharge of her/his duty in a hassle-free manner.
Hence, option (a) is the correct answer.

Question-10

With reference to the Human immunodeficiency virus, consider the following statements:

1. A US patient has become the third person in the world, and the first woman, to be cured of HIV, the deadly virus that causes AIDS.

2. It is an infection that attacks the immune system by destroying the body’s immune cells called CD4, which help it respond to infection.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

a) 1 only

b) 2 only

c) Both 1 and 2

d) Neither 1 nor 2

Ans- c

Explanation-

A US patient has become the third person in the world, and the first woman, to be cured of HIV, the deadly virus that causes AIDS.

The woman, who was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2017, recovered after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to HIV.
Human immunodeficiency virus or HIV is an infection that attacks the immune system by destroying the body’s immune cells called CD4, which help it respond to infection.
The umbilical cord (also called the navel string, birth cord or funiculus umbilicalis) is a conduit between the developing embryo or fetus and the placenta. The umbilical vein supplies the fetus with oxygenated, nutrient-rich blood from the placenta.
First, this was the first time an umbilical cord blood transplant was successfully carried out on an HIV patient.
Second, the patient was a middle-aged mixed-race woman. This is significant since the majority of donors in the US are of Caucasian descent. Since this breakthrough treatment only requires partial matches and not exact matches, it opens up treatment options for people from diverse racial backgrounds.
Hence both statements are correct.