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Consider the following statements with respect to ‘Bhashini Mission’
Select the correct statement(s)
Solution(b)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 |
| Incorrect | Correct |
| It is a local language translation mission that aims to break the barrier between various Indian tongues by using available technology. The mission aims to enable citizens to speak in their own language while talking to speakers of other Indian languages! | This online platform also has a separate ‘Bhasadaan’ section which allows individuals to contribute to multiple crowdsourcing initiatives and it is also accessible via respective Android and iOS apps. The contribution can be done in four ways — Suno India, Likho India, Bolo India and Dekho India where users have to type what they hear or have to validate texts transcribed by others |
Context – The Minister for Electronics & Information Technology informed that Mission Bhashini – National Language Translation Mission and Digital Payments have come together to make UPI 123 Pay available in local language. This will enable a common person to make payments in her local language interface through voice.
Solution(b)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 |
| Incorrect | Correct |
| It is a local language translation mission that aims to break the barrier between various Indian tongues by using available technology. The mission aims to enable citizens to speak in their own language while talking to speakers of other Indian languages! | This online platform also has a separate ‘Bhasadaan’ section which allows individuals to contribute to multiple crowdsourcing initiatives and it is also accessible via respective Android and iOS apps. The contribution can be done in four ways — Suno India, Likho India, Bolo India and Dekho India where users have to type what they hear or have to validate texts transcribed by others |
Context – The Minister for Electronics & Information Technology informed that Mission Bhashini – National Language Translation Mission and Digital Payments have come together to make UPI 123 Pay available in local language. This will enable a common person to make payments in her local language interface through voice.
‘AMRITPEX 2023’ which was launched recently is a
Solution(c)
AMRITPEX 2023 is a National Philatelic Exhibition organised by the Department of Posts under the Ministry of Communications. AMRITPEX 2023 has a number of workshops, panel discussions and cultural programs highlighting the culture and heritage of India. Interested citizens can be part of these events and explore the story of India through stamps. The exhibition for the first time in India has a number of technology artifacts like Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.
Context – The Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology and Railways inaugurated AMRITPEX 2023
Solution(c)
AMRITPEX 2023 is a National Philatelic Exhibition organised by the Department of Posts under the Ministry of Communications. AMRITPEX 2023 has a number of workshops, panel discussions and cultural programs highlighting the culture and heritage of India. Interested citizens can be part of these events and explore the story of India through stamps. The exhibition for the first time in India has a number of technology artifacts like Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.
Context – The Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology and Railways inaugurated AMRITPEX 2023
Consider the following statements with respect to ‘Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati’
Choose the correct answer using the code given below
Solution(c)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 | Statement 3 | Statement 4 |
| Correct | Correct | Incorrect | Correct |
| Dayanand Saraswati also known as Maharshi Dayanand, was an Indian philosopher, social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, a reform movement of the Vedic dharma. He was the first to give the call for Swaraj as “India for Indians” in 1876, a call later taken up by Lokmanya Tilak. | Satyarth Prakash, which has remained a highly influential text on the philosophy of the Vedas and clarifications of various ideas and duties of human beings was written by him. | Denouncing the idolatry and ritualistic worship, he worked towards reviving Vedic ideologies. Dayananda Saraswati’s creation, the Arya Samaj, condemned practices of several different religions and communities, including such practices as idol worship, animal sacrifice, pilgrimages, priest craft, offerings made in temples, the castes, child marriages, meat eating and discrimination against women. He argued that all of these practices ran contrary to good sense and the wisdom of the Vedas. | Among Dayananda’s contributions were his promoting of the equal rights for women, such as the right to education and reading of Indian scriptures, and his commentary on the Vedas from Vedic Sanskrit in Sanskrit as well as in Hindi. |
Context – PM inaugurated the year long celebrations commemorating 200th birth anniversary of Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati
Solution(c)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 | Statement 3 | Statement 4 |
| Correct | Correct | Incorrect | Correct |
| Dayanand Saraswati also known as Maharshi Dayanand, was an Indian philosopher, social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, a reform movement of the Vedic dharma. He was the first to give the call for Swaraj as “India for Indians” in 1876, a call later taken up by Lokmanya Tilak. | Satyarth Prakash, which has remained a highly influential text on the philosophy of the Vedas and clarifications of various ideas and duties of human beings was written by him. | Denouncing the idolatry and ritualistic worship, he worked towards reviving Vedic ideologies. Dayananda Saraswati’s creation, the Arya Samaj, condemned practices of several different religions and communities, including such practices as idol worship, animal sacrifice, pilgrimages, priest craft, offerings made in temples, the castes, child marriages, meat eating and discrimination against women. He argued that all of these practices ran contrary to good sense and the wisdom of the Vedas. | Among Dayananda’s contributions were his promoting of the equal rights for women, such as the right to education and reading of Indian scriptures, and his commentary on the Vedas from Vedic Sanskrit in Sanskrit as well as in Hindi. |
Context – PM inaugurated the year long celebrations commemorating 200th birth anniversary of Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati
With reference to ‘Geological Survey of India’, consider the following statements
Choose the correct answer using the code given below
Solution(d)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 | Statement 3 |
| Incorrect | Incorrect | Correct |
| GSI is one of the oldest of such organisations in the world and the second oldest survey in India after Survey of India (founded in 1767), for conducting geological surveys and studies of India, and also as the prime provider of basic earth science information to government, industry and general public, as well as the official participant in steel, coal, metals, cement, power industries and international geoscientific forums. | GSI is an attached office to the Ministry of Mines. | The main functions of GSI relate to creation and updation of national geoscientific information and mineral resource assessment. These objectives are achieved through ground surveys, air-borne and marine surveys, mineral prospecting and investigations, multi-disciplinary geoscientific, geo-technical, geo-environmental and natural hazards studies, glaciology, seismotectonic study, and carrying out fundamental research. |
Context – Geological Survey of India has for the first time established Lithium inferred resources (G3) of 5.9 million tonnes in Salal-Haimana area of Reasi District of Jammu & Kashmir (UT)
Solution(d)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 | Statement 3 |
| Incorrect | Incorrect | Correct |
| GSI is one of the oldest of such organisations in the world and the second oldest survey in India after Survey of India (founded in 1767), for conducting geological surveys and studies of India, and also as the prime provider of basic earth science information to government, industry and general public, as well as the official participant in steel, coal, metals, cement, power industries and international geoscientific forums. | GSI is an attached office to the Ministry of Mines. | The main functions of GSI relate to creation and updation of national geoscientific information and mineral resource assessment. These objectives are achieved through ground surveys, air-borne and marine surveys, mineral prospecting and investigations, multi-disciplinary geoscientific, geo-technical, geo-environmental and natural hazards studies, glaciology, seismotectonic study, and carrying out fundamental research. |
Context – Geological Survey of India has for the first time established Lithium inferred resources (G3) of 5.9 million tonnes in Salal-Haimana area of Reasi District of Jammu & Kashmir (UT)
Consider the following statements with respect to ‘Solar Prominence’
Select the correct statement(s)
Solution(a)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 |
| Correct | Incorrect |
| Solar prominences are large, loop-like structures on the edge of the solar disk sometimes stand out brightly against the dark background of space. | They are much cooler and denser than the surrounding plasma in the Sun’s corona. Prominences are anchored to the Sun’s surface in the photosphere, and extend outwards into the Sun’s hot outer atmosphere, called the corona. A prominence forms over timescales of about a day, and stable prominences may persist in the corona for several months, looping hundreds of thousands of miles into space. |
Context – Recently, the sun puzzled many scientists with a large prominence near its north pole.
Solution(a)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 |
| Correct | Incorrect |
| Solar prominences are large, loop-like structures on the edge of the solar disk sometimes stand out brightly against the dark background of space. | They are much cooler and denser than the surrounding plasma in the Sun’s corona. Prominences are anchored to the Sun’s surface in the photosphere, and extend outwards into the Sun’s hot outer atmosphere, called the corona. A prominence forms over timescales of about a day, and stable prominences may persist in the corona for several months, looping hundreds of thousands of miles into space. |
Context – Recently, the sun puzzled many scientists with a large prominence near its north pole.
