Current Affairs Quiz 08 August 2024
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Current Affairs Quiz 08 August 2024 for UPSC Prelims
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1. Question
Among the following Tiger Reserves, which one has the largest area under “Critical Tiger Habitat”?
CorrectAns: (c)
IncorrectAns: (c)
- Question 2 of 5
2. Question
SIMBEX is the bilateral exercise between,
CorrectAnswer: C
About SIMBEX:
• Initiated in 1994, SIMBEX is the Indian Navy’s longest uninterrupted bilateral maritime exercise with any foreign navy.
• Sustaining the continuity of this significant engagement despite the challenges of the ongoing pandemic further underscores the strength of bilateral defence ties between both countries.
• Despite these constraints during the planning stages, both navies could achieve seamless and safe execution of several challenging evolutions including live weapon firing and advanced naval warfare serials, including anti-submarine, anti-air and anti-surface warfare drills.
• The scale and complexity of the drills is ample testimony to the interoperability achieved between both Navies.
• This year’s edition of SIMBEX is also a special occasion as it takes place during the ongoing celebrations of the 75th year of India’s independence.
• The success of SIMBEX-2021 is yet another demonstration of the mutual resolve on both sides to strengthen the bilateral partnership further in the years ahead.
• India-Singapore Defence relations remain a very significant aspect of the overall bilateral relationship and cover a very wide spectrum of collaboration from conventional military-to-military exchanges to HADR and cyber security.
• Both navies have a representation in each other’s Maritime Information Fusion Centres and have also recently signed an agreement on mutual submarine rescue support and coordinationIncorrectAnswer: C
About SIMBEX:
• Initiated in 1994, SIMBEX is the Indian Navy’s longest uninterrupted bilateral maritime exercise with any foreign navy.
• Sustaining the continuity of this significant engagement despite the challenges of the ongoing pandemic further underscores the strength of bilateral defence ties between both countries.
• Despite these constraints during the planning stages, both navies could achieve seamless and safe execution of several challenging evolutions including live weapon firing and advanced naval warfare serials, including anti-submarine, anti-air and anti-surface warfare drills.
• The scale and complexity of the drills is ample testimony to the interoperability achieved between both Navies.
• This year’s edition of SIMBEX is also a special occasion as it takes place during the ongoing celebrations of the 75th year of India’s independence.
• The success of SIMBEX-2021 is yet another demonstration of the mutual resolve on both sides to strengthen the bilateral partnership further in the years ahead.
• India-Singapore Defence relations remain a very significant aspect of the overall bilateral relationship and cover a very wide spectrum of collaboration from conventional military-to-military exchanges to HADR and cyber security.
• Both navies have a representation in each other’s Maritime Information Fusion Centres and have also recently signed an agreement on mutual submarine rescue support and coordination - Question 3 of 5
3. Question
From the ecological point of view, which one of the following assumes importance in being a good link between the Eastern Ghats and the Western Ghats?
CorrectAns: (a)
IncorrectAns: (a)
- Question 4 of 5
4. Question
Consider the following statements about Financial Stability and Development Council
1. It is a Statutory body
2. The idea to create such a super regulatory body was first mooted by the Raghuram Rajan Committee in 2008.Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?
CorrectAnswer: B
About Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC)
• Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) is an apex-level body constituted by the government of India in 2010, by the then Finance Minister of India (not a Statutory body).
• The idea to create such a super regulatory body was first mooted by the Raghuram Rajan Committee in 2008.
• The idea behind FSDC was to set up an autonomous body dealing with macro prudential and financial regularities in the entire financial sector of India.
• The recent global economic meltdown has put pressure on governments and institutions across the globe to regulate their economic assets. This council is seen as India’s initiative to be better conditioned to prevent such incidents in future.
• The body envisages to strengthen and institutionalise the mechanism of maintaining financial stability, financial sector development, inter-regulatory coordination along with monitoring macro-prudential regulation’ of economy.IncorrectAnswer: B
About Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC)
• Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) is an apex-level body constituted by the government of India in 2010, by the then Finance Minister of India (not a Statutory body).
• The idea to create such a super regulatory body was first mooted by the Raghuram Rajan Committee in 2008.
• The idea behind FSDC was to set up an autonomous body dealing with macro prudential and financial regularities in the entire financial sector of India.
• The recent global economic meltdown has put pressure on governments and institutions across the globe to regulate their economic assets. This council is seen as India’s initiative to be better conditioned to prevent such incidents in future.
• The body envisages to strengthen and institutionalise the mechanism of maintaining financial stability, financial sector development, inter-regulatory coordination along with monitoring macro-prudential regulation’ of economy. - Question 5 of 5
5. Question
Consider the following protected areas:
1. Bandipur
2. Bhitarkanika
3. Manas
4. Sunderbans
Which of the above are declared Tiger Reserves?CorrectAns: (b)
IncorrectAns: (b)
