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Current Affairs MCQs for Practice - 28 Feb 2022

Question-1

What is the operation to evacuate Indians stranded in Ukraine being called?

a)     Operation Maitri

b)     Operation Ganga

c)      Operation Devi

d)     Operation Shakti

Ans-b

Explanation-

India on February 26 evacuated its stranded citizens from Ukraine through Romania and Hungary in what is being called “Operation Ganga”.

Question-2

The Cabinet approved changes to India’s FDI policy to allow global investors to participate in the IPO of LIC shares expected to be launched soon. Foreign investors will now be able to invest up to how much in LIC shares under the automatic approval route?

a)     10%

b)     15%

c)      20%

d)     25%

Ans- c

Explanation-

The Cabinet on Saturday approved changes to India’s foreign direct investment (FDI) policy to allow global investors to participate in the initial public offering of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) shares expected to be launched soon. Foreign investors will now be able to invest up to 20% in LIC shares under the automatic approval route, government sources said.

Question-3

Irom Sharmila, a rights activist, fasted for almost 16 years. What was her protest about?

a)    Kashmiri Pandits

b)    Narmada Andolan

c)    Repeal of AFSPA

d)    Land grab

Ans –c

Explanation-

Irom Sharmila began a hunger strike in favour of abolishing the AFSPA. Making a political statement with silence does not translate into electoral success for women in Manipur. Rights activist Irom Sharmila, who fasted for almost 16 years against the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, found it out the hard way in 2017.

Question-4

Which is the only big cat that went extinct in Independent India?

a)     Snow Leopard

b)     Lion

c)      Cheetah

d)     Tiger

Ans- c

Explanation-

It could be many months before cheetahs from Namibia make it to India. An action plan states that a cohort of 10-12 young cheetahs that are ideal for reintroduction would be imported from Namibia or South Africa as a founder stock during the first year.

Question-5

Sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov were announced on February 26, in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Which government imposed these sanctions?

a)     China

b)     Australia

c)      The U.S.

d)     The U.K.

Ans- c

Explanation-

The United States announced sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday, a day after President Joe Biden stepped up sanctions on Russia, including the freezing of funds. The news came as the Russian invasion of Ukraine deepened and, on a day when the U.S. introduced a resolution at the UN Security Council condemning the invasion and calling for it to end.

Question-6

How many stock exchanges are listed in SEBI?

a)     2

b)     7

c)      10

d)     5

Ans- b

Explanation-

Among stock exchanges, the SEBI lists seven, including the BSE, the NSE, the Multi Commodity Exchange of India and the Metropolitan Stock Exchange of India. The regulator also lists seven clearing houses including the Multi Commodity Exchange Clearing Corporation.

Question-7

The fall of communist states in the Eastern Bloc and the economic stagnation within the country had a debilitating impact on Moscow’s hold over the Union. In March 1990, which became the first republic to declare independence from the USSR?

a)     Latvia

b)     Ukraine

c)      Lithuania

d)     Estonia

Ans-  c

Explanation-

In 1988, Estonia, a tiny republic on the Baltic coast, became the first Soviet administrative unit to declare state sovereignty inside the Union. On March 11, 1990, Lithuania, another Baltic republic, became the first to declare independence from the USSR. The old regime was falling under its own weight. The Eastern Bloc had collapsed.

Question-8

This platform began in 1962 as an annual conference to discuss international politics and security. This is often remembered as the venue where President Putin made his famous 2007 speech when he elaborated on the post-Cold War Russian security concerns. Which is the platform being referred to here?

a)     Munich Security Conference

b)     Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

c)      NATO

d)     Stockholm Security Conference

Ans- a

Explanation-

Ewald Heinrich von Kleist, an anti-Nazi who plotted but failed in assassinating Hitler during the Second World War, is the founder of the Munich Security Conference. MSC began as an annual meeting between West Germany and western European partner nations and the U.S. and Canada in 1962. The primary objective of the MSC was to make sense of international affairs in an age when weapons of mass destruction had become part of the game.

Question-9

Potato farmers won a legal battle over patent rights against an MNC in 2021. Which is the MNC that lost rights in the case?

a)     Parley Agro

b)     Kellogg's

c)      Coca-Cola

d)     PepsiCo

Ans- d

Explanation-

Potato farmers won a legal case over the patent of a variety against PepsiCo in December 2021. Potato cultivation started on riverbeds in Gujarat a century ago and moved to the fields after 50 years as people realised it was a sustainable and suitable crop with the geography and climate aiding its growth.

Question-10

The Porubne-Siret border connects which two countries?

a)     Ukraine and Romania

b)     Ukraine and Belarus

c)      Ukraine and Hungary

d)     Ukraine and Poland

Ans- a

Explanation-

more than 470 students will exit Ukraine and enter Romania through the Porubne-Siret border,” the Embassy of India in Ukraine said in a social media message.

Source- The Hindu Newspaper