Q1. Consider the following statements and choose the correct options
- The Anti-Defection Law was passed in through the 52 amendment to the Constitution.
- A member of a House belonging to any political party becomes disqualified for being a member of the House if He voluntarily gives up his membership of such political party
- A member gets disqualified if he votes or abstains from voting in contrary to any direction issued by his political party
- If a member goes out of his party as a result of a merger of the party with another party he gets disqualified.
- Any question regarding disqualification arising out of defection is to be decided by Election commission
- 1, 2, 4 only
- 1, 2, 5 only
- 1, 2, 3 only
- 1, 3, 4 and 5 only
answer: c
explanation:
Disqualification under the Tenth Schedule
The Anti-Defection Law was passed in 1985 through the 52 amendment to the Constitution. It added the Tenth Schedule to the Indian Constitution. The main intent of the law was to combat “the evil of political defections”. According to it, a member of a House belonging to any political party becomes disqualified for being a member of the House, if:
- He voluntarily gives up his membership of such political party
- He votes or abstains from voting in such House contrary to any direction issued by his political party without obtaining prior permission of such party and such act has not been condoned by the party within 15 days.
Exceptions to the Disqualification on the Ground of Defection
- If a member goes out of his party as a result of a merger of the party with another party.
- A merger takes place when two-thirds of the members of the party have agreed to such a merger.
- If a member, after being elected as the presiding officer of the House, voluntarily gives up the membership of his party or rejoins it after he ceases to hold that
Powers of Speaker with regard to Anti-Defection Law
- Any question regarding disqualification arising out of defection is to be decided by the presiding officer of the House.
Q2: Consider the following statements with respect to Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque and choose the correct options :
- It is an example of Byzantine architecture.
- It was built as the Christian cathedral of Constantinople.
- It was converted into a mosque by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey.
- 1 only
- 1 and 3 only
- 1 and 2 only
- 1, 2 and 3
Answer: c
Explanation:
Hagia Sophia is the former Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal cathedral, later an Ottoman imperial mosque and then a museum located in Istanbul, Turkey. It was built in 537 AD during the reign of Justinian I, the Eastern Roman emperor.
The Byzantine architecture monument is famous for its large dome. In 1453, when Constantinople fell to Ottoman forces, it was turned into a mosque. In 1934, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, converted the mosque into a museum in an attempt to make the country more secular.
The Council of State, the highest administrative court in Turkey, unanimously cancelled the 1934 decision by modern Turkey’s founder to turn it into a museum, saying it was registered as a mosque in its property deeds. Mr. Erdogan, Turkey’s President, then swiftly ordered the building to reopen for Muslim worship.
Q3: consider the following statements and choose the incorrect options
- Exim Bank is the premier export finance institution of India.
- Currency Swaps are used to obtain foreign currency loans at a higher interest rate than could be obtained by borrowing directly in a foreign market.
- Central banks and Governments engage in currency swaps with foreign counterparts to meet short term foreign exchange liquidity requirements or to ensure adequate foreign currency to avoid Balance of Payments (BOP) crisis till longer arrangements can be made.
- A nontariff barrier is a way to restrict trade by using barriers other than a tariff. These include quotas, embargoes, sanctions, and levies.
- 1 only
- 2 only
- 1 and 2
- none of the above
answer: b
explanation:
Currency Swaps are used to obtain foreign currency loans at a better interest rate than could be obtained by borrowing directly in a foreign market.
Q4: consider the following statements and choose the correct options
- The the migratory routes of the pied cuckoo aims to gather data and information on climate change and the monsoon.
- Farmers have traditionally relied on the arrival of the pied cuckoo as a signal of arrival of monsoon and seed sowing.
- the Indian Bioresource Information Network (IBIN) funded by the Government of India’s Department of Biotechnology (DBT), which aims to put relevant Indian bio-resources information online.
- Gathering information about the migratory route can be invaluable for research on climatic variations taking place in the world.
- The extent of the effect of ecologies changing can be seen in the movement of species from a less favourable region to a more favourable region.
- 1, 2 and 3 only
- 2 and 3 only
- 1, 3 and 4 only
- all of the above
answer: d
Recently, the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), has decided to study the migration of the Pied Cuckoo Bird (by tagging the bird with satellite transmitters. The study will be conducted along with the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) and the Government of India’s Department of Biotechnology. It is part of a larger project called the Indian Bio resource Information Network (IBIN) funded by the Government of India’s Department of Biotechnology (DBT), which aims to put relevant Indian bio resources information online.
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