UPSC QUIZ 24.07.2023

Q1. Consider the following statements related to non-basmati white rice:

1. The central government has banned the export of non-basmati white rice before festivals.

2. This variety of rice accounts for 45% of the total rice exports from the country.

Which of the above statement/statements are correct?

Q2. Consider the following statements related to Honour of Dead Body Bill:

1. Rajasthan Assembly passed The Rajasthan Honour of Dead Body Bill, 2023, which penalises protests with a dead body.

2. Between 2014 and 2019, there were 82 such cases where the family sat down with the dead body and started demanding compensation. 30 police cases were registered for protesting with the dead body.

3. There have been 306 such cases between the years 2019 and 2023, in which 91 police cases have been registered.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Q3. Consider the following statements:

1. Rajya Sabha Chairman nominated four women parliamentarians to the panel of vice-chairpersons, giving women equal representation in the panel, for the first time in the history of the Rajya Sabha, even as the women’s reservation Bill, that was first introduced in 1996, remains pending.

2. Smt. S. Phangnon Konyak is the first ever woman from Nagaland to be elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha.In another notable development, the Rajya Sabha Chair has become fully digital.

Which of the above statement/statements are correct?

Q4. Consider the following statements:

1. Jharkhand's capital Ranchi, in a program organized by SEED under the joint aegis of Forest Department and Jharkhand State Pollution Control Council, the state's Chief Secretary Sukhdev Singh released the vision document 'Towards Nav-Nirman Ki Agarsar' related to the framework of Sustainable Just Transition.

2. In the program, to prevent the growing crisis of climate change in the country, it has been said to achieve the net-zero goal of Vision 2070, in which the role of the task force will be important.

3. It is known that since November 2022, Jharkhand is the first state in the country to constitute a 'Task Force' in this direction.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?