Daily Current Affairs Quiz Prelims Practice 2027
- Establishment of formal India–Seychelles diplomatic relations
- First visit of an Indian Prime Minister to Seychelles
- Arrival of the first Indians in Seychelles as plantation workers
- Conferment of the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award on a Seychelles-based recipient for the first time
The correct sequence is: 1770 — five plantation workers became the first Indians to land in Seychelles (3); 1976 — formal diplomatic relations were established at the time of Seychelles' independence on 29 June 1976 (1); 1981 — Indira Gandhi became the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Seychelles, a date commonly but wrongly merged with 1976 (2); 2006 — entrepreneur V. Ramadoss became the first Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award recipient from Seychelles, with Justice D. Karunakaran following in 2015 as the second (4). Options B and D invert events 1 and 3 by conflating the independence/diplomatic-ties year with the PM visit year.
- The Court held that the right to walk on a demarcated footpath flows from Article 21 alone.
- The Bench directed that the case be re-numbered as a writ petition under Article 32 for continued monitoring.
- The Court held that the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 is by itself sufficient to secure pedestrians' constitutional rights.
- The judgment was delivered by a two-judge Bench comprising Justices P.S. Narasimha and A.S. Chandurkar.
Statements 2 and 4 are correct — the case was re-titled and re-numbered as an Article 32 writ petition for ongoing judicial monitoring, and the judgment was indeed delivered by a two-judge Bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and A.S. Chandurkar. Statement 1 is incorrect: the Court grounded the right to walk in Article 19(1)(d) read together with Articles 19(1)(a)–(c) and 21, not Article 21 in isolation. Statement 3 is also incorrect: the Court held the opposite — that the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 is a vehicle-centric law that cannot by itself secure pedestrians' public rights, which is why it called for dedicated legislation.
Under the pre-amendment NFSA, 2013, AAY households receive a flat 35 kg per household per month regardless of household size — a structural flaw that the 2026 draft amendment seeks to correct by shifting to 7 kg per person capped at 35 kg. PHH beneficiaries, by contrast, already receive 5 kg per person per month with no household cap, making it a genuinely per-capita design. Option A inverts the two schemes' structures; Option C falsely claims both are flat-household entitlements, ignoring PHH's per-capita design; Option D introduces a fabricated state-wise variation dimension that has no basis in the Act.
- List-I — A. Original design storage capacity of Tungabhadra Dam | List-II — 1. 230 TMC
- List-I — B. Total utilisation allocated by KWDT-I (Bachawat Tribunal) | List-II — 2. 134 TMC
- List-I — C. Chairman of the Board of Engineers during dam construction | List-II — 3. Sir M. Visvesvaraya
- List-I — D. Point where Tungabhadra joins the Krishna River | List-II — 4. Sangamaleshwaram
The dam's original design storage capacity was 134 TMC (current effective live storage has fallen to ~105 TMC due to siltation — a figure frequently swapped with the original), while the Bachawat Tribunal (KWDT-I) allocated 230 TMC for utilisation, including ~18 TMC for evaporation losses, since the reservoir fills more than once a year. Sir M. Visvesvaraya chaired the Board of Engineers overseeing construction, and the Tungabhadra joins the Krishna at Sangamaleshwaram in Andhra Pradesh. Options C and D swap the List-II entries for C and D, testing whether candidates confuse the construction engineer's name with the river confluence location.
- As per the State of Global Air assessment, air pollution contributed to nearly 8 million deaths globally in 2023.
- India accounts for roughly 18% of global freshwater resources despite holding only about 4% of the world's population.
- Globally, more than 400 million tonnes of plastic are produced annually, of which less than 10% is recycled.
- The Centre cancelled Jackson Laboratories' manufacturing licences in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh following maternal deaths linked to spurious oxytocin injections in Rajasthan.
Statements 1, 3, and 4 are correct — the State of Global Air report attributes ~8 million deaths globally in 2023 to air pollution; global plastic production exceeds 400 million tonnes/year with less than 10% recycled; and the Centre cancelled Jackson Laboratories' licences in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh after spurious oxytocin was linked to maternal deaths in Kota and Bikaner, Rajasthan. Statement 2 is incorrect — the figures are inverted: India holds ~18% of the world's population but only ~4% of global freshwater resources, not the reverse. This numerical-inversion trap (swapping which percentage belongs to population versus freshwater) is one of UPSC's most reliable question structures.
