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Question 6 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
Cross-border data sharing | |
Defence partnerships | |
Intellectual Property Rights | |
Work Visas |
Two weeks ago, U.S. President Donald Trump signed the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act), which will enable the U.S. government to enter into agreements with like-minded states for cross-border data sharing. This will allow law enforcement agencies from these states to directly obtain electronic data, held by communication service providers headquartered in the U.S., to combat crime. New Delhi, on the back of this development, will soon push for an India-U.S. data sharing agreement to serve the interests of its law enforcement and, more importantly, to make headway in the global cyber norms conversation.
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/sharing-data-across-borders/article23417587.ece ;
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Question 8 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
External commercial borrowings | |
Income earned from external sources | |
Positive or negative consequence of an economic activity | |
Paying interest to the loans taken from International financial institutions |
Externalities occur when producing or consuming a good cause an impact on third parties not directly related to the transaction.
Externalities can either be positive or negative.
Positive Externality
A farmer grows apple trees. An external benefit is that he provides nectar for a nearby beekeeper who gains increased honey as a result of the farmers' orchard. The beekeeper provides an external benefit to the apple grower because his bees help to fertilise the apple tree.
Negative Externality
Making furniture by cutting down rainforests in the Amazon leads to negative externalities to other people. Firstly it harms the indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest. It also leads to higher global warming as there are fewer trees to absorb carbon dioxide.
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Question 9 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
1. All rhabdops are endemic to north asia.
2. They are nocturnal snake hunts for prey underwater.
Which of the above statement is correct?
Only 1 | |
Only 2 | |
Both 1 and 2 | |
Neither 1 nor 2 |
The three-foot-long nocturnal snake hunts for prey underwater,
scientist named the new species after its aquatic nature since the adults are mostly associated with freshwater forest streams and juveniles are seen in water-logged areas, mostly on rocky plateaus,
Rhabdops aquaticus, was till now considered a variant of the Olive Forest Snake, first described in 1863. However, the new study confirms that the Aquatic Rhabdops is a different one: they sport not only different colours and patterns, but also vary in other features of size, shape and structure, and also genetic make-up.
Endemicity
all Rhabdops snakes are endemic to India.
The Olive Forest Snake Rhabdops olivaceus is found only in the Western Ghats
the bi-coloured Forest Snake Rhabdops bicolor lives in a few localities in the northeast.
The Aquatic Rhabdops too is found only in the laterite plateaus of the northern Western Ghats in Goa, southern Maharashtra and northern Karnataka, in areas facing severe human pressures.
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List I List II
- Antigua Caribbean Sea
- Gili Islands Indonesia
- Dzongu Valley Jammu and Kashmir
Which of the pairs given above is/are correct?
1 only | |
1 and 2 only | |
3 only | |
None |
Dzongu Valley is located in Sikkim. "