DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 25-02-2022

1. With regards to Contempt of Court, consider the following statements:

    1. 1. Civil contempt is a contempt is the publication whether by words, spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation.
    2. 2. Criminal contempt is a ‘willful disobedience to any judgment, decree, direction, order, writ or other processes of a Court or willful breach of an undertaking given to the court’.
    3. 3. The Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, very clearly states that fair criticism of any case which has been heard and decided is not contempt.

Which of the statements given above are not correct?

 
 
 
 

2. Consider the following statements:

Statement 1: The nod of the Attorney General or the Solicitor General is a condition precedent to set the criminal contempt proceedings in motion before the apex court.

Statement 2: The consent of the Attorney General before taking cognizance of a complaint is to save the time of the court.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?

 
 
 
 

3. Justice J. S. Verma Committee, sometimes seen in news is related to

 
 
 
 

4. With respect to Marital Rape, consider the following statements:

    1. 1. Currently marital rape is not a ground for a divorce in Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Muslim Personal Law [Shariat] Application Act, 1937 and Special Marriage Act, 1954.
    2. 2. Section 375 of the IPC holds that sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under 18 years of age, is not Rape.

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

 
 
 
 

5. Consider the following, with regard to K-shaped recovery:

    1. 1. The economic recovery occurs when, following a recession, different parts of the economy recover at different rates, times, or magnitudes.
    2. 2. It leads to changes in the structure of the economy.
    3. 3. The economic recovery path of different parts of the economy, when charted together, may diverge.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

 
 
 
 

6. Consider the following:

    1. 1. International Counter Terrorism Conference 2022 was organised by the Global Counter Terrorism Council (GCTC).
    2. 2. Global Counter Terrorism Council is an arm of United Nations Security Council against Terrorism.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

 
 
 
 

7. Consider the following:

    1. 1. The concept of restitution of conjugal rights in India has Colonial Origins.
    2. 2. The law recognises the conjugal rights both in personal laws and in Criminal Law.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

 
 
 
 

8. Which of the following statements is/are correct?

    1. 1. The National Tiger count takes place every four years to estimate the total number of Tigers in India.
    2. 2. Karnataka had the highest number of tigers in the 2018 tiger census.

Options:

 
 
 
 

9. Basal stem rot (Thanjavur Wilt) is a disease which affects

 
 
 
 

10. Consider the following statements with respect to Chakmas:

    1. 1. Chakmas are predominantly Buddhists
    2. 2. They are found in Northeast India, Bangladesh, and Nepal
    3. 3. Chakma language is part of the Indo-Aryan language family

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

 
 
 
 

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