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UPSC PRELIMINARY MOCK TEST 110
Question 21 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
- It is an individual who has committed some specified offence(s) involving an amount of one hundred crore rupees or more and has absconded from India.
- He is declared so by a 'Special Court' set up under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
- The property of a fugitive economic offender, resulting from the proceeds of crime, including benami property, can be confiscated once he is declared so by the Court.
- Properties abroad are not liable for confiscation.
1 and 3 only | |
2 and 3 only | |
2 and 4 only | |
1, 2, 3 and 4 |
Question 22 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
- August Offer
- Poona Pact
- Third Round Table Conference
- Quit India Movement
2-3-1-4 | |
1-2-3-4 | |
4-3-2-1 | |
3-2-4-1 |
Question 23 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
Consider the following statements with respect to Government Marketplace 3.0(GEM 3.0): 1) Government e Marketplace (GeM), has been envisaged by Government of India as the National Procurement Portal of India. 2) GEM 3.0 allows for standardisation of specifications of both products and services enabling empirical price comparability. Which of the above given statements is/are correct?
1 only | |
2 only | |
Both 1 and 2 | |
Neither 1 nor 2 |
Statement 1 is correct: Government e Marketplace (GeM), has been envisaged by Government of India as the National Procurement Portal of India. GeM strives to keep pace with ever-evolving technological challenges and stakeholder aspirations and in line with this endeavour, GeM has come up with a scaled up third version- GeM 3.0.. Statement 2 is correct: Some of the notable enhancements in the 3.0 version: i)Market Based generic requirements across all government agencies
Question 24 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
- The purpose is to increase solar generation capacity through establishment of large-scale parks.
- The GoI has signed $98million loan agreement with International Monetary Fund (IMF), for the project.
1 only | |
2 only | |
Both 1 and 2 | |
Neither 1 or 2 |
Statement2 is incorrect as the Government of India (GoI) has signed a $98 million loan agreement and $2 million grant agreement with World Bank (WB) for "Shared Infrastructure for Solar Parks Project (SISPP)". The project will finance the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA), to provide sub-loans to select states to invest in various solar parks, mostly under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy's (MNRE) Solar Park Scheme.
Question 25 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
Kessler Syndrome | |
Cold War | |
Junk collectors | |
Use of animals for space tests |
- The Outer Space Treaty, which laid the foundation for an international space law, came into force in October 1967, following a feverish, decade-long space race between the Cold War rivals, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
- Formulated to bar its signatory countries from placing weapons of mass destruction in orbit of the Earth, on the Moon or any other celestial body or the outer space, the treaty aimed to get the countries to use space exploration for peaceful purposes.
- The space race itself is an important segment in the history of mankind, one that intensified the Cold War rivalry as a fight for supremacy in space became a matter of pride for both the countries.