Ans: d

Exp:

March 24 marks World TB Day, commemorating the discovery of the bacteria causing the disease.

Statement 1 is incorrect: Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection caused by a bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis spread through inhaling tiny droplets from the coughs or sneezes of an infected person.

• TB is an infectious disease that most often affects the lungs.
• Currently, BCG vaccinations are provided for the treatment of TB.

Statement 2 is incorrect:  India aims to eradicate TB by 2025, five years ahead of the global sustainable development goal targets.

Statement 3 is incorrect:  BCG, or bacille Calmette-Guerin, is a vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) disease. The BCG vaccine is an attenuated variant of the bovine TB pathogen. 

• It has a very limited effect on pulmonary tuberculosis, which is responsible for the transmission of the disease.

Ans: b

Exp:

Recently, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) filed a complaint against the Prime Minister for appealing to religious sentiments during his campaign.

The Representation of the People Act, 1951 contains provisions relating to the following electoral matters:

1. Qualifications and disqualifications for membership of Parliament and State Legislatures
2. Notification of general elections
3. Administrative machinery for the conduct of elections
4. Registration of political parties
5. Conduct of elections
6. Free supply of certain material to candidates of recognised

political parties

The Representation of the People Act, 1950 contains provisions related to the:

1. Allocation of seats in the House of the People, the State Legislative Assemblies and the State Legislative Councils.
2. Delimitation of Parliamentary, Assembly and Council Constituencies.

Ans: a

Exp:

Explanation: The International Astronomical Union (IAU) working group for Planetary System Nomenclature has approved the name ‘Statio Shiv Shakti’ for the landing site of Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander. 

• According to the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, planetary nomenclature, like terrestrial nomenclature, is used to uniquely identify a feature on the surface of a planet or satellite so that it can be easily located, described, and discussed.

Pair 1 is incorrect:  The Prime Minister announced that the point where the moon lander of Chandrayaan-3 touched down will be called ‘Shiv Shakti’.

Pair 2 is incorrect:  The point where the lander of the Chandrayaan-2 mission had crashed in September 2019 was named as  “Tiranga point”.

Pair 3 is correct:  Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam suggested the name “Jawahar Point” for where the Chandrayaan-1 moon impact probe landed in November 2008.

Ans: b

Exp:

Amid a downturn in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market, marked by declining sales and delayed purchases, innovation-led differentiation has emerged as a key challenge for most SaaS firms, globally, including in India.

Statement 1 is correct: SaaS is a software distribution model in which a cloud provider hosts applications and makes them available to end users over the internet. 

Statement 2 is incorrect:  

• The SaaS application are accessible to any device with a network connection. SaaS applications are typically accessed via web browsers.
• Organizations can integrate SaaS applications with other software using application programming interfaces (APIs). For example, a business can write its software tools and use the SaaS provider’s APIs to integrate those tools with the SaaS offering. Hence, SaaS buyers can customise the user interface and can change data fields.

Statement 3 is correct:  Email services like Yahoo, Outlook, Hotmail are example of SAAS. 

Ans: d

Exp:

The Kerala government has approached the Supreme Court against Governor referring seven Bills passed by the state legislature to the President.

• The President withheld assent to four of them “without giving any reason”, terming their actions “manifestly arbitrary”.

• When a bill is sent to the governor after it is passed by state legislature, he/she can: 

1. Give his/ her assent to the bill, or 
2. Withhold his/ her assent to the bill, or 
3. Return the bill (if it is not a money bill) for reconsideration of the state legislature. 

• However, if the bill is passed again by the state legislature with or without amendments, the governor has to give his/ her assent to the bill, or Reserve the bill for the consideration of the President. 
• The governor can also reserve the bill if it is of the following nature:

1. Ultra-vires, that is, against the provisions of the Constitution. 
2. Opposed to the Directive Principles of State Policy. 
3. Against the larger interest of the country. 
4. Of grave national importance. 
5. Dealing with compulsory acquisition of property under Article 31A of the Constitution.