UPSC Quiz – 2024 : IASbaba’s Daily Current Affairs Quiz 1st March 2024

·       Freedom of conscience: Inner freedom of an individual to mould his relation with God or Creatures in whatever way he desires.

·       Right to profess: Declaration of one’s religious beliefs and faith openly and freely.

·       Right to practice: Performance of religious worship, rituals, ceremonies, and exhibition of beliefs and ideas.

·       Right to propagate: Transmission and dissemination of one’s religious beliefs to others or exposition of the tenets of one’s religion.

·       Thus, Article 25 covers not only religious beliefs (doctrines) but also religious practices (rituals).

·       Further, nothing in this article shall affect the operation of any existing law or prevent the State from making any law to

·       regulate or restrict any economic, financial, political, or other secular activity associated with religious practice;

·       provide for social welfare and reform, or throw open Hindu religious institutions of a public character to all classes and sections of Hindus;

·       Article 25 also contains two explanations: one, the wearing and carrying of kirpans is to be included in the profession of the Sikh religion; and two, the Hindus, in this context, include Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists.

·       It is a rare disorder in which the blood doesn’t clot in the typical way because it doesn’t have enough blood-clotting proteins.

·       Symptoms: Signs and symptoms of hemophilia vary, depending on the level of clotting factors.

·       Males are much more likely to have hemophilia than are females.

·       Causes: It is caused by a mutation or change, in one of the genes, that provides instructions for making the clotting factor proteins needed to form a blood clot. This type is caused by a lack or decrease of clotting factor VIII.

·       Treatment:

·       It involves replacement therapy, which involves infusing clotting factor concentrates into the bloodstream to help the blood clot.

·       Other treatments may include medications to promote clotting or surgery to repair damage caused by bleeding.

·       The term Neolithic is most frequently used in connection with agriculture, which is the time when cereal cultivation and animal domestication were introduced.

·       It is characterized by the beginning of a settled human lifestyle.

·       The Neolithic stage of development was attained during the Holocene Epoch (the last 11,700 years of Earth’s history).

·       It was characterized by stone tools shaped by polishing or grinding, dependence on domesticated plants or animals, settlement in permanent villages, and the appearance of such crafts as pottery and weaving.

·       Alcohol was first produced during this period, and architecture, as well as its interior and exterior decoration, first appeared.

·       Status objects like elaborate pottery and carved jades were placed in tombs during the Neolithic period. This practice suggests two things: Neolithic people’s belief in the afterlife and the emergence of social classes. Only important and wealthy individuals had the privilege of being buried with these precious objects

·       Mars Express of European space agency (ESA) has been orbiting the Red Planet since 2003.

·       It is imaging Mars’s surface, mapping its minerals, identifying the composition and circulation of its tenuous atmosphere, probing beneath its crust.

·       In Martian winter, the layers are topped by a thin cap of dry ice (carbon dioxide ice) a couple of meters thick.

·       This cap completely disappears into the atmosphere each Martian summer.

·       It is a mushroom of the Termitomyces species.

·       It grows on termite hills and is locally known as ‘roen olmi’ in Goa.

·       It is an edible wild mushroom popular among Goans and consumed during the monsoons.

·       These mushrooms have no independent existence. They grow only in association with termites.

·       Habitat: It is endemic to the Western Ghats, where the thick forest cover and high humidity provides an ideal breeding ground.

·       Ecological significance: It plays a very important role as a powerful biodegrading fungus in forest and grassland ecosystems converting 50% dead plant material on the ground into rich soil.

·       In fact, all Termitomyces species are edible and have unique food value attributed to their texture, flavour, nutrient content, and beneficial mediational properties.

·       Additionally, Termito-myces have been recognized for their ethno-medicinal importance in various indigenous communities throughout Asia and Africa.

·       Termitomyces species possess various beneficial antioxidant and antimicrobial properties