26 August 2021 Current Affairs Quiz

Ans. A
The Malabar Rebellion
Broke out in the southern taluks of Kerala in August 1921.
· It largely took the shape of guerrilla-type attacks on janmis (feudal landlords, who were mostly upper caste Hindus) and the police and troops.
· The movement took violent turn – the cause of the controversy
o Mappilas had been among the victims of oppressive agrarian relations protected by the British.
o There were several rebellious outbreaks in the region during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
o The Khilafat movement launched in 1919 and Gandhi’s non-cooperation struggle provided a fresh stimulus to the grievances of Mappilas. Now their sense of local injustice was sought to be linked with the pan-Islamic sentiments created in the aftermath of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire that rendered the Ottoman caliphate irrelevant.
o The rebellion was inspired by religious ideology and a conception of an alternative system of administration a Khilafat government.
o It also gave an opportunity to extremist section to invoke a religious idiom to express their suffering, while working for a change in the oppressive system of administration.
o There were excesses on both sides rebels and government troops. Incidents of murder, looting and forced conversion led many to discredit the uprising as a manifestation of religious bigotry.
o During the rebellion many attacks on individuals, including Muslims, who had been loyal to the British were carried out. Some contemporary accounts, however, deny that Haji and other leaders of the movement favoured conversion of Hindus.
o Moderate Khilafat leaders lamented that the rebellion had alienated the Hindu sympathy.
o However the fanaticism of rebels fostered communal rift and enmity towards the Congress.

Answer : a
○ The Union Cabinet decided to bring all Co-Operative Banks under the Reserve Bank of India supervision through an ordinance.
○ In India, Co-Operative Banks are registered under the States Cooperative Societies Act.
○ They also come under the regulatory ambit of the RBI under two laws, namely, the Banking Regulations Act, 1949, and the Banking Laws (Co-operative Societies) Act, 1955.
○ Not all sections of banking regulation act are applicable to cooperative banks.
○ All scheduled commercial banks, Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks and State and Central Co-operative Banks are required to maintain stipulated level of Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) and Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR)

Answer: A

Aerial seeding is suitable for the following conditions;
o Remote and inaccessible areas.
o Ragged areas.
o Region where labour scarcity or sparse population is available.
o Deep ravines where afforestation is not possible through manual mode.
o Area denuded by clear-cutting or shifting cultivation.
o Areas devastated by pest and diseases, volcanoes, earthquakes and landslides. Hence, statement 2 is not correct.

Answer: B

Answer: C

India ranks 3rd worldwide for pharmaceutical production by volume and 14th by value. Since India
mostly produces Generic medicines which are comparatively cheaper i.e. low by value. Indian drugs
comprised 20 percent of the global generic drug exports, out of which North America had the largest
share.