29-Dec-23: UPSC Current Affairs Daily Quiz

Consider the following statements regarding ‘National Legal Services Authority (NALSA)’

1. NALSA has been constituted under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987.
2. The Chief Justice of India is the patron-in-chief of NALSA, while Secretary of Ministry of Law and Justice is the Executive Chairman.
3. It is housed at the Supreme Court of India, New Delhi.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding ‘Eurasian Otter’

1. It is a semi-aquatic carnivorous mammal native to Eurasia.
2. It is not found in the Indian Subcontinent
3. As per IUCN’s Red Book, the Eurasian Otter has an endangered status.

How many of the statements given above are correct?

Recently, Japan’s ‘SLIM’ mission was in the news. It is related to which one of the following fields?

In the context of ‘Aardvark’, consider the following statements

1. It gets its name from a South African word meaning “earth pig” because of its body and snout.
2. Its diet consists of grasses and fallen fruits from trees.
3. IUCN gives it Critically Endangered species status.

How many of the given statements are correct?

Recently, ‘Lantana Camara (Lantana)’ was in the news. It is a species of

Consider the following statements:

1. Pegasus is spyware that can be installed on mobile devices.
2. Once Pegasus is installed, the attacker has complete access to the target user’s phone.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. A genome refers to all of the genetic material in an organism.
2. Each genome contains all of the information needed to build and maintain that organism.
3. Genome sequencing is a laboratory procedure that determines the order of bases in the genome of an organism in one process.

How many of the statements given above is/are correct?

With reference to the Ayushman Bharat scheme, consider the following statements:

1. It is National Health Protection Scheme, which will cover over 10 crore poor and vulnerable families providing coverage up to 50 lakh rupees per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization.
2. It will be an entitlement-based scheme with entitlement decided on the basis of deprivation criteria in the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) database.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. A lower fiscal deficit is seen as a positive sign of fiscal discipline and a healthy economy.
2. Fiscal deficit is an indicator of the extent to which the government must borrow in order to finance its operations and is expressed as a percentage of the country's GDP.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Regarding the S-400 Triumf Missiles System, consider the following statements:

1. It is a mobile, surface-to-air missile (SAM) system developed by France.
2. It has a range of up to 4000 km, at an altitude of up to 300 km.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?