IAS GS Test Questions (July - 15) Set - 5

ANSWER: 1,4,5,2,3

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: All of the above

Explanation:
Ashgabat Agreement which is a transit pact between Uzbekistan, Iran, Turkmenistan and Oman established in 2011.

ANSWER: Lord Canning

Explanation:
The Archaeological Survey of India was eventually formed in 1861 by a statute passed into law by Lord Canning with Cunningham as the first Archaeological Surveyor.

ANSWER: Both 1 and 2

Explanation:
Achievements of different rulers of the Gupta lineage are also mentioned in the Allahabad Pillar Inscription. Harishena, who composed the Allahabad Prasasti, was the court poet and minister of Samudragupta. Parts of Allahabad Prasasti were composed in verse and other parts, in prose.

ANSWER: 1,2,3

Explanation:
The Union Council of Ministers exercises executive authority in the Republic of India. It consists of senior ministers, called "Cabinet Ministers", and junior ministers, called "Ministers of State". It is led by the Prime Minister. A smaller executive body, called the Union Cabinet is the supreme decision-making body in India. Only the Prime Minister and ministers of the rank of "Cabinet Minister" are members of the Cabinet. The most senior civil servant in India, called the Cabinet Secretary, leads the Cabinet Secretariat, and provides administrative assistance to the Council of Ministers. Ministers of State are tasked with assisting Cabinet Ministers in their work.

ANSWER: Inertia of Rest

Explanation:
The inability of a body to change by itself its state of rest is known as Inertia of Rest. It happens to inertia of rest of upper part of the body of the rider.

ANSWER: 1,2,3,5

Explanation:
Following are Millennium Development Goals by 2015:

1. To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. To achieve universal primary education
3. To promote gender equality
4. To reduce child mortality
5. To improve maternal health
6. To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
7. To ensure environmental sustainability
8. To develop a global partnership for development

ANSWER: Both 1 and 2

Explanation:
The state of Telangana was officially formed on 2 June 2014. Most of it was part of the princely state of Hyderabad, ruled by the Nizam of Hyderabad during the British Raj, joining the Union of India in 1948. In 1956, the Hyderabad state was dissolved as part of the linguistic reorganization of states, and the Telugu speaking part of Hyderabad state, known as Telangana, was merged with former Andhra State to form Andhra Pradesh.

ANSWER: Both 1 and 2

Explanation:
eMudhra Limited is a statutory licensed Certifying Authority of India to issue digital signature certificates.It was established in 2008 under the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000. eMudhra offers variety of other services including Tax filing Services, Digital Signing Solutions, PAN Card Online applications. Digital Certificate Authentication System and Trusted Time Stamping etc.

ANSWER: 2,3

Explanation:
Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor is being developed at Kalpakkam will be commissioned in September. The Kalpakkam PFBR is using uranium-238 not thorium, to breed new fissile material, in a sodium-cooled fast reactor design.

ANSWER: Kalpakkam

Explanation:
The Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) is one of India's premier nuclear research centre. The centre is engaged in a broad-based multidisciplinary programme of scientific research and advanced engineering directed towards the development of Fast Breeder Reactor technology. The Reactor Research Centre set up at Kalpakkam in 1971 under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) was renamed Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research (IGCAR) in 1985.

ANSWER: 1-ii, 2-i, 3-iii

Explanation:
India's three-stage nuclear power programme was formulated by Dr. Homi Bhabha in the 1950s to secure the country’s long term energy independence, through the use of uranium and thorium reserves found in the monazite sands of coastal regions of South India.

ANSWER: Only 1

Explanation:
The Assam Agricultural University is fighting for a geographical indications (GI) tag for a local variety of rice joha. The GI office is under the Union ministry of commerce. Assam already has four products with the GI tag - Karbi Anglong ginger, Tezpur litchi, Muga silk and Assam orthodox tea.

ANSWER: Only 2

Explanation:
In Gold bond scheme, investors buying gold don't get the metal in physical form. Instead, they get a paper or certificate issued by the government saying they bought a certain amount of gold.
Under the gold monetization scheme It is a scheme that facilitates the depositors of gold to earn interest on their metal accounts. Once the gold is deposited in metal account, it will start earning interest on the same.
Both principal and interest to be paid to the depositors of gold, will be ‘valued’ in gold.

ANSWER: None of the above

Explanation:
It aims to immunize all children against seven vaccine preventable diseases namely diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, measles and hepatitis B by 2020.

ANSWER: All the above

Explanation:
A political party becomes eligible to be recognized as a national party if it fulfils any of the three conditions. Currently there are six national parties include BJP, Congress, CPM, CPI, BSP and NCP.

ANSWER: Bishan Narayan Dar

Explanation:
' Jana Gana mana ' was first sung on the second day of the annual conference of the Indian National Congress in Calcutta on December 27, 1911. Sarala Devi Chowdhurani, Tagore's niece intoned the song, along with a few schoolstudents, in front of the gathering of the INC president Bishan Narayan Dar and other leaders such as Bupendra Nath Bose and Ambika Charan Mazumder. Soon after the Congress conference, in January 1912, the song first appeared before the public under the title Bharata-vidhata in Tottvobodhini Patrika.

ANSWER: 1,2

Explanation:
No new dams based on large scale storage be permitted in Ecologically Sensitive Zone 1.

ANSWER: Only 2

Explanation:
Krishnapatnam Port is a privately built and owned all weather, deep water port on the east coast of India, located in the Nellore District of Andhra Pradesh. The port has its history back to Vijayanagar Emperor, when Sri Krishnadevaraya used to operate it. So, the name was given to it as Krishnapatnam Port. The Krishnapatnam Port is India's largest private sector port.

ANSWER: Only 1

Explanation:
It is applicable to all companies except those engaged in infrastructure and power sectors. Normally, a company is liable to pay tax on the income computed in accordance with the provisions of the Income-Tax Act, but the profit and loss account of the company is prepared as per provisions of the Companies Act.

In the past, a large number of companies showed book profits on their profit and loss account and at the same time distributed huge dividends. However, these companies didn’t pay any tax to the government as they reported either nil or negative income under provisions of the Income-Tax Act. These companies were showing book profits and declaring dividends to their shareholders but were not paying any tax. These companies are popularly known as ‘zero tax’ companies.

The Indian Income-Tax Act allows a large number of exemptions from total income. Besides exemptions, there are several deductions permitted from the gross total income. Further, depreciation allowable under the Income-Tax Act, is not the same as required under the Companies Act. The latter provides a lower rate viz-a-viz the I-T Act which computes a higher rate of depreciation.
The result of such exemptions, deductions, and other incentives under the Income-Tax Act in the form of liberal rates of depreciation is the emergence of zero tax companies, which in spite of having high book profit are able to reduce their taxable income to nil.In order to bring such companies under the I-T net, Section 115JA was introduced from assessment year 1997-98. Now, all companies having book profits under the Companies Act shall have to pay a minimum alternate tax at 18.5%.

ANSWER: Changpa

Explanation:
The Changpa or Champa are a semi-nomadic Tibetan people found mainly in the Changtang in Ladakh and in Jammu and Kashmir. A smaller number resided in the western regions of the Tibet Autonomous Region until they suffered forced relocation by China.

ANSWER: Both 1 and 2

Explanation:
Carbon sequestration is the process of capture and long-term storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Carbon sequestration describes long-term storage of carbon dioxide or other forms of carbon to either mitigate or defer global warming and avoid dangerous climate change. It has been proposed as a way to slow the atmospheric and marine accumulation of greenhouse gases, which are released by burning fossil fuels.Carbon dioxide is naturally captured from the atmosphere through biological, chemical, or physical processes. Artificial processes have been devised to produce similar effects, including large-scale, artificial capture and sequestration of industrially produced CO using subsurface saline aquifers, reservoirs, ocean water, aging oil fields, or other carbon sinks.

ANSWER: Only 2

Explanation:
National Housing Bank is subsidiary of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), was set up on July 9, 1988 under the National Housing Bank Act, 1987. NHB is an apex financial institution for housing. NHB has been established with an objective to operate as a principal agency to promote housing finance institutions both at local and regional levels and to provide financial and other support incidental to such institutions and for matters connected therewith.

ANSWER: Foreign currency assets held by the RBI

Explanation:
As on on June 26, 2015 Foreign currency assets held by the RBI are $330500.8 Million, Gold holdings of the RBI is of $19340.2 million , SDRs are $ 4063.7 million and Reserve Position in the IMF is $ 1317.1 million.

ANSWER: Only 2

Explanation:
CRA will be a $100 billion pool, with maximum $41 billion coming from China. India’s contribution of $18 billion to the Pool will be same as that of Brazil and Russia. South Africa would chip in $5 billion.

ANSWER: Only 2

Explanation:
The inaugural chairman of the Board of Directors will come from Brazil
The inaugural chairman of the Board of Governors will be Russian.

ANSWER: Only 2

Explanation:
Center or state can declare particular area as disturbed area under AFSPA.

ANSWER: All of the above

Explanation:
The World Conference has been convened since 1994, and in 2005 the second at Kobe, Japan adopted the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015.This is the third conference of World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

ANSWER: Only 2

Explanation:
Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS ) works under Ministry of Earth Sciences.

ANSWER: Both 1 and 2

Explanation:
Warning of earthquakes are based on the detection of P and S waves generated during an earthquake. The P wave, which is harmless and travels faster than the S wave, is detected by the sensors for advance warning. The first system has been installed in Dehradun, and the second will be established at Pithoragarh in the Kumaon region.