Daily Current Affairs Quiz Prelims Practice 2027
- Orders to block public access to information under Section 69A are issued following the procedure laid down in the IT (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking Access to Information by the Public) Rules, 2009.
- Section 79 grants intermediaries safe harbour from liability for third-party content, subject to due diligence and compliance with the IT Rules, 2021.
- In Shreya Singhal v. Union of India, the Supreme Court laid down the proportionality test that blocking orders restricting internet access must satisfy.
- Blocking orders issued under the 2009 Rules are required to be made public to ensure transparency and judicial scrutiny.
Statements 1 and 2 are correct — Section 69A blocking orders follow the designated-officer and review-committee process under the 2009 Rules, and Section 79 gives intermediaries safe harbour conditional on compliance with the IT Rules, 2021. Statement 3 is incorrect: it was Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020), not Shreya Singhal (2015, which struck down Section 66A), that laid down the proportionality test for restricting internet access. Statement 4 is also incorrect — blocking orders under the 2009 Rules are statutorily confidential, not public, which is the very transparency concern flagged in the source.
The ECF was formulated by the Bimal Jalan Committee, constituted in December 2018, and adopted by the RBI in August 2019. The Malegam Committee (2013) is the deliberate trap — it preceded Jalan and dealt with a related RBI-surplus question, tempting candidates who recall "a committee on RBI dividends" without tying the correct committee to the correct framework.
- Nipah virus was first identified in Malaysia in 1999, where pigs served as an intermediate host between bats and humans.
- In Kerala, the Indian flying fox (Pteropus medius) is the confirmed natural reservoir, and bat-to-human transmission tends to be direct, without a confirmed intermediate host.
- The 2018 Kerala outbreak recorded a case fatality rate exceeding 90%, with nosocomial spread across hospitals as the principal transmission pathway.
- Kerala has recorded at least one Nipah spillover every year since the 2018 outbreak.
Statements 1, 2 and 3 are correct, including the roughly 91% case fatality rate in the 2018 Kerala outbreak with hospital-based nosocomial spread as the main pathway. Statement 4 is incorrect — recorded spillovers occurred in 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, with no case in 2020 or 2022, so the occurrence is not unbroken annually despite the "recurrent spillover" framing.
- India adopts the Gandhinagar Implementation Roadmap under the G20 Global Land Initiative.
- The watershed development component is merged into the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY).
- The current project period of WDC–PMKSY 2.0 begins.
- The Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) is launched.
The correct sequence is 4-2-3-1: IWMP launched in 2009-10 (4), merged into PMKSY in 2015-16 (2), the WDC-PMKSY 2.0 project period begins in 2021 (3), and the Gandhinagar Roadmap was adopted in 2023 (1). Option (b) is the trap, anchoring the Roadmap to the G20 Global Land Initiative's own 2020 launch rather than India's actual 2023 adoption, which falls after WDC-PMKSY 2.0 had already begun.
- A. Dokra Craft 1. Food
- B. Kesaria Kalakand 2. Craft
- C. Baroni Paintings 3. Painting
- D. Tussar Silk & Sarees 4. Textile/Handloom
The correct match is A-2, B-1, C-3, D-4: Dokra Craft is a Craft, Kesaria Kalakand is the sole Food item among the eleven, Baroni Paintings is a Painting, and Tussar Silk & Sarees is Textile/Handloom. UPSC often re-tests the same category with a different exemplar, so note the other items — Bamboo Craft and Munda Jewellery (Craft), Jadopatia Painting (Painting), and Bhoya/Kuchai/Tumka/Pancho (Textile).
