Daily Current Affairs (MCQ's) | 06-03-2023

Q1. Which of the following states recently elected its first women to state assembly in its history?

a. Punjab

b. Nagaland

c. Odisha

d. Meghalaya

Answer (b)

Explanation:

Breaking The Glass Ceiling

Breaking a barrier to gender equality, Hekani Jakhalu and Salhoutuonuo Kruse became the first women to be elected to the 60-member Nagaland Assembly since the State came into being in 1963. Soon after her victory from the Dimapur III seat on Thursday, albeit by a slim margin, Ms. Jakhalu spoke to the local media, breaking into Nagamese, often the preferred lingua franca in a region which speaks different languages across tribes and villages.

Q2. Which of the following rivers fall in Black sea?

1. Danube

2. Dnieper

3. Dniester

Select the correct answer from codes given below

a. 1 and 2 only

b. 1 and 3 only

c. 3 only

d. 1, 2 and 3

Answer (d)

Explanation:

Q3. Which of the following countries border with Turkey?

1. Syria

2. Iran

3. Greece

Select the correct answer from codes given below

a. 1 and 2 only

b. 1 and 3 only

c. 3 only

d. 1, 2 and 3

Answer (d)

Explanation:

Q4. Consider the following statements with respect to Bru community

1. Bru or Reang is a community indigenous to Northeast India

2. They have been peacefully rehabilitated in the state of Assam by centre government

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

a. 1 only

b. 2 only

c. Both 1 and 2

d. Neither 1 nor 2

Answer (a)

Explanation:

Bru or Reang is a community indigenous to Northeast India, living mostly in Tripura, Mizoram and Assam. In Tripura, they are recognised as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group.

In 1997, following ethnic tension, around 5,000 families comprising around 30,000 Bru-Reang tribals were forced to flee Mizoram and seek shelter in Tripura. These people were housed in temporary camps at Kanchanpur, in North Tripura.

Since 2010, the Government of India has been making sustained efforts to permanently rehabilitate these refugees. The Union government has been assisting the two State governments in taking care of the refugees. In 2014, 1622 Bru-Reang families returned to Mizoram in different batches.

On 3rd July, 2018, an agreement was signed between the Union government, the two State governments and representatives of Bru- Reang refugees, as a result of which the aid given to these families was increased substantially. Subsequently, 328 families of 1369 individuals returned to Mizoram under the agreement. There had been a sustained demand of most Bru-Reang families that they may be allowed to settle down in Tripura, considering their apprehensions about their security.

The Centre, the governments of Mizoram and Tripura and leaders of Bru organisations signed a quadripartite agreement in January (2020). Under the pact, the Home Ministry has committed to incur the whole expenditure of settlement in Tripura.

Q5. Recently, India nominated the pyramid-like structures known as moidams or maidams for recognition as UNESCO World Heritage Site. Maidams are situated in the state of

a. Sikkim

b. West Bengal

c. Assam

d. Nagaland

Answer (c)

Explanation:

Assam’s moidams fit UNESCO requirements for heritage site

• Assam’s pyramid-like structures known as moidams or maidams have met all the technical requirements of UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre.

• Charaideo in eastern Assam has more than 90 moidams, the mound- burial system of the Ahoms who ruled large swathes of the present- day State and beyond for some 600 years until the advent of the British in the 1820s.