30-Sep-23: UPSC Current Affairs Daily Quiz

Consider the following statements regarding African Union (AU).

1. Less than half of the countries in Africa are part of African Union (AU).
2. Sirte Declaration called for the establishment of the African Union.
3. Recently African Union was admitted as a member to the G20.

How many of the above statements is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding the provisions of E-Waste (Management) Rules 2022.

1. Producers of electronic goods have to ensure that some percentage of their electronic waste is collected and recycled.
2. The Central Pollution Control Board shall conduct testing of all electronic to verify the compliance of reduction of hazardous substances provisions.

How many of the above statements is/are incorrect?

Consider the following pairs regarding the Tribal art and the States of their origin.

1. Pithora Art: Gujarat
2. Gond Painting: Madhya Pradesh
3. Saura Painting: Odisha
4. Maheshwari Silk Sarees: Madhya Pradesh
5. Dhokra Jewellery: West Bengal

How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements regarding World food price index.

1. It is released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
2. It is a measure of the monthly change in international prices of a basket of food commodities.
3. It consists of the average of ten major food commodity group price indices weighted with the average export shares of each of the groups.

How many of the above statements is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding Hallmarking.

1. At present only gold and silver have been brought under the purview of Hallmarking.
2. In Gold, Mandatory hallmarking is applicable only to 22 and 24 carats of gold jewellery/artefacts.
3. Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) assigns a Hallmarking Unique ID number to all hallmarked items.

How many of the above statements is/are correct?

Recently, Pink bollworms is in news for the damaging of which crop

Consider the following statement, with respect to Census of India

1. First synchronous Census in India was carried out in 1881.

2.  Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India has responsibility to conduct the census of India.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements, with respect to OSIRIS-REx mission 

1. It is NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission.

2. It collected the sample from near-Earth asteroid Bennu.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Gwadar port which is often in news, is located in

Consider the following statements, with respect to Law Commission of India

1. It is a non-statutory body which is  constituted by a notification of the Government of India

2. Recently, Government has constituted the 22^nd Law Commission of India for a period of three year

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?