17 July 2022: Daily Current Affairs & GK Update (In Hindi & English)

17 July 2022: Daily Current Affairs & GK Update (In Hindi & English)

1. Which of the following organizations published ‘World Population Prospects?

a) United Nations

b) World Economic Forum

c) Amnesty International

d) World Bank

Answer: a

Explanation:

·         The Population Division of the UN has been publishing the WPP in a biennial cycle since 1951.

·         Each revision of the WPP provides a historical time series of population indicators starting in 1950.

·         It does so by considering newly released national data to revise estimates of past trends in fertility, mortality or international migration.

 

2. 'Golan Heights’, recently in the news, is in which of the following countries?

a) UAE

b) Turkey

c) Israel

d) Morocco

Answer: c

Explanation:

·       Golan Heights refers to the border region captured from Syria by Israel during the Six-Day Middle-East War of 1967. This region includes the western two-thirds of the geological Golan Heights and the Israeli-occupied part of Mount Hermon.

3. Consider the following statements about ‘Project 75I’:

1. Under this project, the Indian Navy intends to acquire five conventional, diesel-electric attack submarines.
2. The Project 75I-class submarine is a follow-on of the Project 75 Kalvari-class submarine for the Indian Navy.
3. The Navy has planned to install Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) modules on all submarines.

Which of the above statements are correct?

a) 1 and 2 only

b) 2 and 3 only

c) 1 and 3 only

d) 1, 2 and 3

 

Answer: b

Explanation:

·         Statement 2 is correct: The Project 75 (India)-class submarines, or P-75I, for short, are a planned class of diesel-electric submarines, which are to be built for the Indian Navy. The P-75I class is a follow-on of the P-75 class submarines of the Indian Navy.

·         Statement 1 is incorrect: Under this project, the Indian Navy intends to acquire six conventional, diesel-electric attack submarines.

·         Statement 3 is correct: The submarines will also feature advanced capabilities including air-independent propulsion (AIP), special operations forces (SOF), anti-ship warfare (AShW), and anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-surface warfare (ASuW), land-attack capabilities and other features.

 

4. ‘Lake Baikal’, world’s largest freshwater lake by volume and the world’s deepest lake, is situated in which of the following countries?

a) Kazakhstan

b) Southern Siberia

c) South America

d) Africa

 

Answer: b

Explanation:  Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in the world (by volume) and the world’s deepest lake. Somewhat crescent-shaped, it is in the southern Siberia area of Russia.

 

5. With reference to the Indian Constitution, consider the following statements:

1. The Constitution has specified the process and the role of the Governor in electing the speaker of the State legislative assembly.
2. In the State legislative assembly, Speaker decides the date for the election of the Deputy Speaker.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

a) 1 only

b) 2 only

c) Both 1 and 2

d) Neither 1 nor 2

 

Answer: a

Explanation:

·         Statement 1 is incorrect: The Constitution has not assigned any role to the Governor in the election of the Speaker under Article 178, which is exclusively the job of the House. It is only the House rule which says that the Governor shall fix the date.

·         Statement 2 is correct: It is the Speaker who decides the date for the election of the Deputy Speaker.