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1. Which among the following are true about Central Information Commission ?

1. Central Information Commission (CIC) set up under the Right to Information Act

2. Basant Seth is the current Chief Information Commissioner

3. CIC is a quasi-judicial body

4. Apart from the Chief Information Commissioner, the body has 7 Information Commissioners.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

(a) 1, 3 and 4 Only

(b) 2 and 4 Only

(c) 1 and 3 Only

(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4

A is the right answer.
Satyananda Mishra is the current Chief Information Commissioner. In the wake of the order of the CIC’s full bench on June 3rd, the parties will be answerable to citizens about their source of funding, how they spend money and their choice of candidates for elections, among other issues

2. Recently Adivasi rights activist Dayamani Barla received the first-ever Ellen L. Lutz Indigenous Rights Award by Cultural Survival, an indigenous peoples’ rights organisation. She has been described as the Iron Lady of which state?

a) Bihar

b) Andra Pradesh

c) UP

d) Jharkhand

D is the right answer.
Alongside her colleagues, Ms. Barla in 2008, succeeded in preventing global steel and mining industry behemoth ArcelorMittal, from proceeding with the establishment of a $8.79 billion steel plant based on the proposed seizure of 12,000 acres of land and the displacement of 40 villages, not to mention the likely ecosystem and indigenous livelihoods damage.

3. Earth Day is observed on?

a) April 20

b) April 21

c) April 22

d) April 23

C is the right answer.
Earth Day is celebrated on April 22, on which events are held across the world to demonstrate support for environmental protection. In 2013 the day is 43 years old. It is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network,and is celebrated in more than 192 countries every year.

4. MCOCA is in news recently. What is the full form of MCOCA?

a) Manipal Control of Organised Crime Act

b) Meghalaya Control of Organised Crime Act

c) Maharashtra Control of Organised Cricket Act

d) Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act

D is the right answer.
Delhi Police stated that Sreesanth and two players were acting at the “command” of underworld dons Dawood Ibrahim and Chota Shakeel, among India’s most wanted, and invoked the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against 23 accused in the case. The accused face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment along with fine of Rs. 5 lakh under section 3 of MCOCA while the jail term can be a maximum of ten years along with fine of Rs. 1 lakh and properties of the accused can also be attached under section 4. Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (MCOC) is law enacted by Maharashtra state in India in 1999 to combat organised crime and terrorism.

5. 5. Name the mathematician who come up with a solution towards solving the twin prime conjecture, a longstanding problem in mathematics

a) Srinivasa Ramanujan

b) R. Balasubramaniam

c) D. Surya Ramana

d) Yitang Zhang

D is the right answer.
Dr. Zhang has come up with proof that there is an infinite number of consecutive prime numbers that are separated by a gap bounded by 70 million. Thus, he has shown that there is a number N smaller than 70 million such that there are infinitely many prime numbers that differ by N. It is a long way off from 2 to 70 million, but the important thing is that the gap is not infinite but a known number — 70 million. This is a major step towards solving, or as a mathematician would put it, “weakening,” the twin prime conjecture.

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