Current Affairs MCQs for UPSC & State PSC Exams (11 April 2023)

Current Affairs MCQs Quiz for UPSC, IAS, UPPSC/UPPCS, MPPSC. BPSC, RPSC & All State PSC Exams

Date: 11 April 2023

Q1. Consider the following statements regarding PLI scheme for Millet-Based Products (PLISMBP)

1. The PLI scheme for Millet-Based Products (PLISMBP) is a scheme aimed at promoting the production and sale of millet-based products.
2. The scheme is being implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture.
3. Millet-based products having more than 15% millet content by weight/volume are eligible to avail sales-based incentives under the PLISMBP scheme.

Which of the statement/s given above is/are correct?

a) 1 and 3 only
b) 2 and 3 only
c) 1 and 2 only
d) 1, 2, and 3

Answer: (A)

Explanation:

About PLI scheme for Millet-Based Products (PLISMBP):

  • The PLI scheme for Millet-Based Products (PLISMBP) is a scheme aimed at promoting the production and sale of millet-based products. (Hence option 1 is correct)
  • The Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) is implementing the PLISMBP scheme. The PLISMBP scheme will be implemented during the period of 2022-2023 to 2026-2027. (Hence option 2 is incorrect).
  • Millet-based products having more than 15% millet content by weight/volume are eligible to avail sales-based incentives under the PLISMBP scheme. (Hence option 3 is correct)
    Solution: Only the first and third statements are correct, the correct option is (a).

Q2. With the present state of development, Artificial Intelligence can effectively do which of the following? (UPSC 2020)

1. Bring down electricity consumption in industrial units.
2. Create meaningful short stories and songs.
3. Disease diagnosis.
4. Text-to-speech conversion.
5. Wireless transmission of electrical energy.

Choose the correct code:

a) 1,2 and 4 Only
b) 2,3 and 4 Only
c) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
d) 2,3 and 5 Only

Answer: (C)

Explanation:

  • Artificial Intelligence has various applications in today’s society in multiple industries, such as Healthcare, entertainment, finance, education, etc.
  • Artificial Intelligence has also found use in the power industry, e.g. Machine -learning assisted power transfer (based on AI) using magnetic resonance and AI used for energy efficiency. Hence all the options are correct.

Q3. Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana is aimed at: [UPSC PRELIMS 2016]

a) bringing the small entrepreneurs into formal financial system.
b) providing loans to poor farmers for cultivating particular crops.
c) providing pensions to old and destitute persons.
d) funding the voluntary organizations involved in the promotion of skill development and employment generation.

Answer: (A)

Explanation:

  • The MUDRA Scheme aims to bring small entrepreneurs into the formal financial system.
  • MUDRA provides refinance support to Banks / MFIs / NBFCs for lending to micro units having loan requirement upto 10 lakh.

Q4. Which of the following statements is true about ‘Yellow Journalism’?

a) Yellow Journalism refers to a reporting style that uses factual reporting and objective coverage.
b) Yellow Journalism refers to a reporting style that uses sensationalism, exaggeration, and manipulation of facts to create a sensational story.
c) Yellow Journalism refers to a type of newspaper that covers sensational stories.
d) Yellow Journalism refers to a type of investigative journalism that uncovers corrupt practices.

Answer: (B)

Explanation:

  • Fake news is any piece of misleading maliciously false information circulating through print media, electronic media, or social media. ‘Yellow Journalism’ and ‘Tabloid Journalism’ are the terms used for fake news.
  • Yellow Journalism is a style of reporting that is characterized by sensationalism, exaggeration, and manipulation of facts to create a sensational story that will grab the reader's attention. Thus, option (b) is the correct answer.

Q5. Consider the following statements with respect to Aditya L1 Mission.

1. Aditya L1 is the world’s first space mission to observe the Sun.
2. It will be launched by ISRO to the L1 orbit (which is the first Lagrangian point of the Sun-Earth system) using PSLV XL.
3. In total Aditya-L1 has seven payloads, of which the primary and largest payload is the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC).

Select the correct option-

a) 1 and 2 only
b) 2 and 3 only
c) 3 only
d) 1, 2 and 3

Answer: (B)

Explanation:

  • Aditya-L1 mission is India’s first space mission (Not globally) to observe the Sun and the solar corona.
  • Helios 2 solar probe (a joint venture between NASA and the space agency of erstwhile West Germany), NASA’s Parker Solar Probe etc are the other space missions to study the Sun.
  • Therefore, statement 1 is NOT correct.
  • It will be launched by ISRO to the L1 orbit (which is the first Lagrangian point of the Sun-Earth system) using PSLV XL.
  • So statement 2 is correct.
  • In total Aditya-L1 has seven payloads, of which the primary and largest payload is the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC).
  • Thus statement 3 is also correct.