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Insights Mock tests – 2015: Test 27 Solutions 1. Solution: c) http://www.fssai.gov.in/AboutFSSAI/introduction.aspx http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/nestle-approaches-bombay-high-court-against- fssai-maharashtra-fda-order-770688 It has been established under Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 which consolidates various acts & orders that have hitherto handled food related issues in various Ministries and Departments. FSSAI has been created for laying down science based standards for articles of food and to regulate their manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import to ensure availability of safe and wholesome food for human consumption. Various central Acts like Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 , Fruit Products Order , 1955, Meat Food Products Order , 1973, Vegetable Oil Products (Control) Order, 1947,Edible Oils Packaging (Regulation)Order 1988, Solvent Extracted Oil, De- Oiled Meal and Edible Flour (Control) Order, 1967, Milk and Milk Products Order, 1992 etc were repealed after commencement of FSS Act, 2006. 2. Solution: a) Anti-dumping duty is imposed by government on imported products which have prices less than their normal values or domestic price. Usually countries initiate anti-dumping probes to check if domestic industry has been hurt because of a surge in below-cost imports. Anti-Dumping Duty is imposed under the multilateral WTO regime and varies from product to product and from country to country. In India, anti-dumping duty is recommended by the Union Ministry of Commerce, while the Union Finance Ministry imposes it. 3. Solution: c) The Constitution (119th Amendment) Bill has been passed by the Parliament of India on 7th May 2015.While India will gain 510 acres of land, ten thousand acres of land will notionally go to Bangladesh. However, these are remote enclaves which India cannot access. This legislation will redraw India‘s boundary with Bangladesh by exchanging enclaves in Assam, West Bengal, Tripura and Meghalaya. Implications of the agreement are: http://www.insightsonindia.com INSIGHTS Page 1 Insights Mock tests – 2015: Test 27 Solutions It will secure the long stranded boundary and enable to curb the illegal migration, smuggling and criminal acts cross the border. It would help those stateless citizens by granting the citizenship from their respective countries. It would help settle the boundary dispute at several points in Meghalaya, Tripura, Assam, and west Bengal. It would improve the access to the underdeveloped north-eastern state and would further enhance the developmental works in the region. It would help to increase the connectivity with the south-east Asia as part of India‘s North-eastern policy. 4. Solution: a) Recently Union Home Ministry has appointed Senior IPS Officer RC Tayal as the new Director General (DG) of India‘s elite counter-terror force National Security Guard (NSG). It also nodal agency for counter-terror and counter-hijack operations and later was tasked to protect high-risk VVIPs. It operates under the oversight of the Ministry of Home Affairs and is headed by the Director General of the Indian Police Service (IPS). The NSG members are also known as Black Cats because of the black drill cotton coveralls and balaclavas or helmets they wear. 5. Solution: a) http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/us-doctors-perform-worlds-first- skullscalp-transplant/article7285933.ece Organ transplantation is the moving of an organ from one body to another or from a donor site to another location on the person's own body, to replace the recipient's damaged or absent organ. Organs that can be transplanted are the heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, pancreas, intestine, and thymus. Tissues include bones, tendons (both referred to as musculoskeletal grafts),cornea, skin, heart valves, nerves and veins. Organ donors may be living, brain dead, or dead via circulatory death. 6. Solution: b) http://www.insightsonindia.com INSIGHTS Page 2 Insights Mock tests – 2015: Test 27 Solutions Under the nationwide campaign a village with acute water scarcity on a pilot project will be selected as Jal Gram. In this identified village a comprehensive integrated development plan will be framed and several water conservation activities will be launched. Activities proposed under the campaign include rain water harvesting, recycling of waste water, micro irrigation for using water efficiently and mass awareness program. Along with it, a cadre of local water professional Jal Mitra will be created and they will be given training to create mass awareness. As pilot project, activities under this nation campaign will be run in one water stressed village in each 672 districts in the country. 7. Solution: b) Al-Biruni‘s Kitab-ul-Hind, written in Arabic, is simple and lucid. It is a voluminous text, divided into 80 chapters on subjects such as religion and philosophy, festivals, astronomy, alchemy, manners and customs, social life, weights and measures, iconography, laws and metrology. Generally (though not always), Al-Biruni adopted a distinctive structure in each chapter, beginning with a question, following this up with a description based on Sanskritic traditions, and concluding with a comparison with other cultures. Some present-day scholars have argued that this almost geometric structure, remarkable for its precision and predictability, owed much to his mathematical orientation. Al-Biruni, who wrote in Arabic, probably intended his work for peoples living along the frontiers of the subcontinent. He was familiar with translations and adaptations of Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit texts into Arabic – these ranged from fables to works on astronomy and medicine. However, he was also critical about the ways in which these texts were written, and clearly wanted to improve on them. 8. Solution: c) Recently, India has lost a poultry case against United States at World Trade Organization (WTO) after WTO‘s Dispute Settlement Board (DSB) ruled that India‘s ban on import of poultry meat, eggs and live pigs from US is inconsistent with the international norms. India had banned imports of various agriculture products including poultry meat and eggs from the US in 2007. http://www.insightsonindia.com INSIGHTS Page 3 Insights Mock tests – 2015: Test 27 Solutions These poultry products were banned as a precautionary measure to prevent outbreaks of Avian Influenza and bird flu fears. In March 2012, US had dragged India to the WTO for banning these products and had contended India‘s import prohibition saying that it was not based on the relevant international standard or on a scientific risk assessment. Earlier in October 2014 WTO Appellate Body had ruled in favour of US and clearly mentioned that India‘s ban measures are arbitrarily and unjustifiably discrimination on international trade and constitutes a disguised restriction on it. Protectionism (saving domestic industries) is a clear violation of WTO rules. 9. Solution: b) Refer to this article. It has been explained beautifully http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/082113/understanding-interest- rates-nominal-real-and-effective.asp You should also know that the higher is the difference between the real and nominal rates; the less profitable is the lending business to the bank. 10. Solution: a) Corporate farming is a term used to describe companies that own or influence farms and agricultural practices on a large scale. This includes not only corporate ownership of farms and selling of agricultural products, but also the roles of these companies in influencing agricultural education, research, and public policy through funding initiatives and lobbying efforts. Contract farming- In contrast, Farming contracts are agreements between a farmer and a buyer that stipulates what the farmer will grow and how much they will grow usually in return for guaranteed purchase of the product or financial support in purchase of inputs (e.g. feed for livestock growers). 11. Solution: c) François Bernier (25 September 1620 – 22 September 1688) was a French physician and traveller. He was born at Joué-Etiau in Anjou. He was briefly personal physician to Prince Dara Shikoh, the elder son of Shah Jahan, and after Dara Shikoh's fall was attached to the court of the Emperor Aurangzeb for around 12 years during his stay in India. http://www.insightsonindia.com INSIGHTS Page 4 Insights Mock tests – 2015: Test 27 Solutions His 1684 publication Nouvelle division de la terre par les différentes espèces ou races qui l'habitent is considered the first published post-Classical classification of humans into distinct races. He also wrote Travels in the Mughal Empire, which is mainly about the reigns of Dara Shikoh and Aurangzeb. It is based on his own extensive journeys and observations, and on information from eminent Mughal courtiers who had witnessed the events at first hand. 12. Solution: a) African countries have signed a historic The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) that facilitates creation of Africa‘s largest free-trade zone. http://www.insightsonindia.com INSIGHTS Page 5 Insights Mock tests – 2015: Test 27 Solutions 13. Solution: d) The following are denied to foreign citizens, also called aliens: Right against discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth (Article 15). Right to equality of opportunity in the matter of public employment (Article 16). Right to freedom of speech and expression, assembly, association, movement, residence and profession (Article 19). Cultural and educational rights (Articles 29 and 30). Right to vote in elections to the Lok Sabha and state legislative assembly. Right to contest for the membership of the Parliament and the state legislature. Eligibility to hold certain public offices, that is, President of India, Vice- President of India, judges of the Supreme Court and the high courts, governor of states, attorney general of India and advocate general of states. 14. Solution: d) Climate refers to the sum total of weather conditions and variations over a large area for a long period of time (more than thirty years).