UPSC Quiz – 2020: IAS Daily Current Affairs Quiz Day 146

Solution (a)

UPSC Quiz – 2020: IAS Daily Current Affairs Quiz Day 146

Solution (c)

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is the premier central police force of the Union of India for internal security. Originally constituted as the Crown Representative Police in 1939, it is one of the oldest Central para military forces (now termed as Central Armed Police Force). CRPF was raised as a sequel to the political unrest and the agitations in the then princely States of India following the Madras Resolution of the All-India Congress Committee in 1936 and the ever-growing desire of the Crown Representative to help the vast majority of the native States to preserve law and order as a part of the imperial policy.

The Parliament Duty Group is an elite CRPF unit tasked with providing armed protection to Parliament House. It comprises 1,540 personnel drawn from various units of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). PDG members are trained in combating nuclear and bio-chemical attacks, rescue operations and behavioural management.

Solution (d)

Members Apart from Asian and African countries.

• Europe – Albania
• South America – Guyana, Suriname

A few countries with significant Muslim populations, such as Russia and Thailand, sit as Observer States.

Solution (a)

The Drake Passage or Mar de Hoces—Sea of Hoces—is the body of water between South America’s Cape Horn, Chile and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It connects the southwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean (Scotia Sea) with the southeastern part of the Pacific Ocean and extends into the Southern Ocean.

UPSC Quiz – 2020: IAS Daily Current Affairs Quiz Day 146

Solution (b)

Russia’s military deployed a new intercontinental weapon, the Avangard hypersonic missile system that can fly 27 times the speed of sound. This will be the Russian military’s first Avangard hypersonic intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).