[CA] Oscar Awards 2017

Award Category	Winner	Movie
Best Picture		Moonlight
Best Actress	Emma Stone	La La Land
Best Actor	Casey Affleck	Manchester By The Sea
Best Director	Damien Chazelle	La La Land
Best Supporting Actress	Viola Davis	Fences
Best Supporting Actor	Mahershala Ali	Moonlight
Best Original Screenplay	Kenneth Lonergan	Manchester By The Sea
Best Adapted Screenplay	Barry Jenkins Tarell Alvin McCraney	Moonlight
Best Cinematography	Linus Sandgren	La La Land
Best Original Score	Justin Hurwitz	La La Land
Best Original Song	Justin Hurwitz Benj Pasek Justin Paul	La La Land
Best Sound Editing	Sylvain Bellemare	Arrival
Best Foreign Language Film	Asghar Farhadi	The Salesman (Persian)
Best Film Editing	John Gilbert	Hacksaw Ridge
Best Visual Effects	Robert Legato Adam Valdez Andrew R. Jones  Dan Lemmon	The Jungle Book
Best Production Design	David Wasco  Sandy Reynolds Wasco	La La Land
Best Sound Mixing	Kevin O’Connell Andy Wright Robert Mackenzie Peter Grace	Hacksaw Ridge
Best Documentary-Feature	Ezra Edelman Caroline Waterlow	O.J.: Made in America
Best Animated Feature Film	Byron Howard Rich Moore Clark Spencer	Zootopia
Best Animated Short Film	Alan Barillaro Marc Sondheimer	Piper
Best Documentary-Short Subject	Orlando von Einsiedel   Joanna Natasegara	The White Helmets
Best Live Action Short Film	Kristof Deak Anna Udvardy	Sing
Best Make-Up and Hairstyling	Alessandro Bertolazzi Giorgio Gregorini Christopher Nelson	Suicide Squad
Best Costume Design	Colleen Atwood	Fantastic Beast and Where To Find Them

[CA] National Transit Oriented Development Policy

The Union urban development ministry has formulated a policy framework for transit oriented development, which promotes living in proximity to mass urban transit corridors such as metros, monorail and bus rapid transit corridors. The Centre is also holding a workshop on February 28 to brief the states and Union Territories on the 'National Transit Oriented Development Policy'.

This new urban design & planning in the form of TOD is being incentivised by the ministry under two more initiatives -Metro Policy and Green Urban Mobility Scheme -which will be discussed with states and UTs for taking them on board.

TOD has been mandatory under the new Metro Policy, while it has been made an essential reform under the Green Urban Mobility Scheme, and is put on priority for receiving central assistance. Though the Centre had notified the TOD policy in early 2015, there was no clarity on the process for various sanctions management of open spaces, parking space, water requirement, etc.

States and UTs are required to incorporate TOD in the master & development plans of cities besides identifying `influence zones' from transit corridors for tapping revenue streams. Though all states are drafting their own TOD policy, the new policy framework by the urban development ministry is expected to provide basic guidelines for finalising it. Development, or redevelopment, in a TOD zone will be incentivised by providing significantly higher floor area ratio, which will enable vertical construction that is required to address shortage of land availability. TOD also promotes integration of land use planning with transportation and infrastructure development to avoid long distance travel in cities through compact development.

The policy will be financed by channelising a part of rise in property values resulting from investments in transit corridors through betterment levies & financing tools.

[CA] Barren Island

BARREN ISLAND
Located in	India (Andaman & Nicobar Is)
Specialty	India's only active volcano
Why in News?	Volcano erupted again
Points to Remember
- The Barren Island, about 140 km from Port Blair, is a tourist destination and surrounded by waters ideal for scuba diving and is home to a wide variety of aquatic life. - The island is open to visitors, with prior permission, and as the name suggests is uninhabited and devoid of any significant vegetation. - It’s the only active volcano along a chain of volcanoes from Sumatra to Myanmar. - The 354-metre-high island is the emergent summit of a volcano that rises from a depth of 2,250 m. - In 1991, it spewed so massively that smoke billowed out for about six months. - Ever since, there have been eruptions every two-three years, the last in February 2016. - In 1991, the volcano’s eruption was catastrophic for several animal species. - The eruption reduced the number of bird species and their population. Of the 16 previously reported species, only six were observed, of which the Pied Imperial Pigeon (Ducula bicolor) was the most abundant. A night survey encountered only one rat species (Rattus rattus) and 51 species of insects from eight orders.

Airtel and Telenor

Hotter Summer

[QAnal] "Economy Questions" TNPSC Group I Preliminary [Feb 19, 2017]

QUESTIONS ON ECONOMY

(01)

The main functions of NITI Aayog does not include

[A] Monitoring and evaluation of programmed and initiatives

[B] Developing mechanisms to formulate credible plans at village level

[C] Disbursal of funds to central ministries and state governments

[D] Fostering co-operative federalism and designing strategic policy

Ans: [C]

(02)

The term demographic dividend refers to

[A] decline in population

[B] increase in working class

[C] decline in birth rate

[D] decline in fertility rate

Ans: [B]

(03)

The largest share of energy is consumed by

[A] Agriculture

[B] Rural power supply

[C] Urban power supply

[D] Industry

Ans: [D]

(04)

The planning commission of India was changed as NITI AAYOG in ______.

[A] March, 2015

[B] January, 2015

[C] December, 2015

[D] April, 2015

Ans: [B]

(05)

The LPG model of development was introduced in _______ by the Finance Minister ________.

[A] 1991, Dr. Manmohan Singh

[B] 1995, Shri. Pranab Muharji

[C] 2000, Shri. P. Chidambaram

[D] 2010, Shri. Yaswant Singa

Ans: [A]

(06)

The Lorenz curve is a measure of

[A] poverty

[B] income inequalities

[C] inflation rate

[D] tax structure

Ans: [B]

(07)

In an open economy, GDP is the sum of

[A] Consumption, gross investment, government spending and net exports

[B] Consumption, net investment, government spending and net export

[C] Consumption, gross investment, government spending and gross exports

[D] Wages, rent, interest, profit and depreciation

Ans: [A]

(08)

The minimum support prices are a means of supporting the

[A] farmers

[B] consumers

[C] industries

[D] retailers

Ans: [A]

(09)

Which one of the following is an indirect tax?

[A] Income tax

[B] Service tax

[C] Corporation tax

[D] Interest tax

Ans: [B]

(10)

India's Human Development Index HDI in 2011 was better than that of

I. China

II. Srilanka

III. Bangladesh

IV. South Africa

[A] I, II, III, IV

[B] III, IV

[C] III

[D] II, III, IV

Ans: [C]

(11)

The Indian Government gets _________ percent of India's total energy needs are met through imports.

[A] 30 percent

[B] 40 percent

[C] 20 percent

[D] 35 percent

Ans: [B]

Explanation: - 11th Five Year Plan report of Ministry of Petroleum says it as 30%. NITI Aayog Report (2015) says it as 38% {Lady Luck lies between [A] or [B]}

(12)

The GATT was biased in favour of the developed countries and was called informally

[A] Rich men's club

[B] League of nation

[C] WTO

[D] Axis nation

Ans: [A]

TNPSC Group I Preliminary Exam 2017: Overall analysis 

Questions on “Current Affairs” on TNPSC Group I Preliminary Exam 2017 

Questions on “Indian Polity” on TNPSC Group I Preliminary Exam 2017  

[QAnal] "Indian Polity Questions" TNPSC Group I Preliminary [Feb 19, 2017]

QUESTIONS ON INDIAN POLITY

(01)

The Right to Education Act 2009,is not related to

[A] primary education

[B] quality of education

[C] free education

[D] higher education

Ans: [D]

Explanation:-  In pursuance of Article 21 , the means that every child has a right to full time elementary education of satisfactory and equitable quality in a formal school which satisfies certain essential norms and standards. Some important provisions of RTE are:

·        Right of children to free and compulsory education till completion of elementary education in a neighbourhood school

·        It provides for appointment of appropriately trained teachers, i.e. teachers with the requisite entry and academic qualifications (quality of education)

[Ref: More Detail]

(02)

The chairman of the fourteenth Finance Commission in India

[A] Dr. C. Rengarajan

[B] Shri. Vijay Kelkar

[C] Dr. A. M. Kushro

[D] Dr. Y. V. Reddy

Ans: [B]

Explanation: - Article 280 deals with Finance Commission; Fist Chairman of Finance Commission: K. C. Neogy (1952 – 57); 14th Commission Chairman is Mr. Y. V. Reddy covering the period of 2015 – 2020

The Commission submits it report to Parliament President, President lays it before both the Houses of Parliament along with an explanatory memorandum as to the action taken on its recommendations.

(03)

Indian Constitution established the parliamentary form of Government on the model of

[A] Swiss model

[B] Canadian model

[C] American model

[D] British (Westminister) model

Ans: [D]

Explanation: - Borrowed featured from British:

     i.            Parliamentary government

  ii.            Rule of Law

iii.            Legislative procedure

iv.            Single citizenship

    v.            Cabinet system

vi.            Prerogative writs

vii.            Parliamentary privileges and

viii.            Bicameralism

(04)

In which schedule of the Constitution the recognised 22 languages has been included?

[A] 6^th Schedule

[B] 7^th Schedule

[C] 8^th Schedule

[D] 9^th Schedule

Ans: [C]

(05)

Which of the following is not included in the State list in the Constitution of India?

[A] Police

[B] Public order

[C] Prisons

[D] Criminal procedure code

Ans: [D]

Explanation: - Criminal Procedure code is in the Union List Concurrent List. Union List: 100 items; State List: 61 items (initially, there were 66 items) and  Concurrent List: 47 items

(06)

The idea that Indians should have a constituent Assembly to frame a Constitution of India was initiated by

[A] Rajendra Prasad

[B] M. N. Roy

[C] Jawaharlal Nehru

[D] B. R. Ambedkar

Ans: [B]

Explanation: - It was in 1934 that the idea of a Constituent Assembly for India was pt forward for the first time by M. N. Roy (a pioneer of communist movement in India).

In 1935, the Indian National Congress (INC), for the first time, officially demanded a Constituent Assembly to frame the Constituent Assembly of India.

In 1938, Jawaharlal Nehru, on behalf of the INC declared that, “the Constitution of free India must be framed, without outside interference, by a Constituent Assembly elected on the basis of adult franchise”. This demand was accepted in principle by the British Government in what is known as the “August Offer” of 1940.

(07)

Which one of the following statement relating to Executive Magistrate is not correct?

[A] Executive Magistrates are appointed by the State in consultation with High Court

[B] Executive Magistrates are subordinate to the District Magistrate

[C] Order made by an Executive Magistrate is not subject to revisional jurisdiction of High Court

[D] Executive Magistrates are quasi -  judicial

Ans: [A] {But cannot find reliable source}

(08)

Chairman of the First National Backward Class Commission w as

[A] Kalka Kalekar

[B] Ygandhar

[C] John Mathai

[D] Madhu Dandavate

Ans: [A]

Explanation: - First Backward Classes Commission was set up by a presidential order on Jan 29, 1953 under the chairmanship of Kaka Kalelkar. It is also known as the First Backward Classes Commission, 1955 or the Kaka Kalelkar Commission.

National Commission for Backward Classes is an Indian statutory body under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment established on Aug 14, 1993. Present Chairman is Just Vangala Eshwaraiah.

(09)

The salary and allowances of the public prosecutors are given by

[A] High court or Supreme court

[B] Central Government or State Governments

[C] District courts

[D] Magistrate courts

Ans: [B] {But cant find reliable source}

(10)

According to the 74^th Constitution Amendment Act, “Metropolitan Area” means

[A] An area having a population of 10 lakhs or more

[B] An area having a population of 5 lakhs

[C] An area having a population of below 5 lakhs

[D] An area having a population of below 3 lakhs

Ans: [A]

Explanation: - "Metropolitan area" means an area having a population of ten lakhs or  more, comprised in one or more districts and consisting of two  or more Municipalities or Panchayats or other contiguous areas, specified by  the Governor by public notification to be a Metropolitan area  for the purposes of this Part

(11)

The institution of Lokayukta was established first in

[A] Orissa

[B] Rajasthan

[C] Andhra Pradesh

[D] Maharashtra

Ans: [D]

Explanation: - It must be noted that the institution of Lokaykta was established first in Maharashtra in 1971. Although Odisha had passed the ct in this regard in 1970, it came into force only in 1983.

(12)

Match the following:

Committee		Purpose
(a)	Balwant Rai Mehta Committee	1.	Revitalisation of Panchayat Raj Institutions
(b)	Ashok Mehta Committee	2.	Rural Development and Poverty  Alleviation
(c)	GVK Rao Committee	3.	Examine the working of community Development programme
(d)	LM Singhvi Committee	4.	Strengthening the panchayat Raj Institutions

	(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)
[A]	2	1	4	3
[B]	1	2	3	4
[C]	3	4	2	1
[D]	4	3	1	2

Ans: [C]

(13)

The Chairman and the members of UPSC can hold office for six years or till the age of ____ whichever is earlier

[A] 65 years

[B] 62 years

[C] 60 years

[D] 58 years

Ans: [A]

Explanation: - The Chairman and the members of UPSC can hold office for six years or till the age of 65 years whichever is earlier. However, they can relinquish their offices at any time by addressing their resignation to the President; Articles 315 to 323 in Part XIV of the Constitution deals with UPSC (And also the State Service Commissions)

Note: The Chairman and the members of State Service Commission can hold office for six years or till the age of 62 years whichever is earlier. However, they can relinquish their offices at any time by addressing their resignation to the Governor. Constitution makes a provision for the establishment of a Joint State Public Service Commission (JSPSC) for two or more States. While the UPSC and SPSC are created directly by the Constitution, a JSPSC can be created b an act of Parliament on the request of the state legislatures concerned. [The chairman and members of a JSPSC are appointed by the President]

(14)

The State Reorganisation Act was passed in

[A] October 1956

[B] June 1956

[C] November 1956

[D] July 1956

Ans: [C]

Explanation: - States Reorganisation Act was enacted on Aug 31, 1956; came into effect on Nov 01, 1956

(15)

Setting up of Village Panchayats is associated with which part of the Indian Constitution?

[A] Preamble

[B] Fundamental Rights

[C] Directive principles of State Policy

[D] Fundamental Duties

Ans: [C]

Explanation: - Article 40 (to organize villa endow them with necessary powers and panchayats and authority to enable them to function as units of self – government) 

(16)

Which one of the following cases is not directly related to Article 21 and provision of right to life in the Indian Constitution?

[A] A. K. Gopalan Vs. State of Madras

[B] Menaka Gandhi Vs. Union of India

[C] Express News Papers Vs. Union of India

[D] Pavement Dwellers Case

Ans: [C]

(17)

In India the fist proclamation of national emergency under Article  352 was declared in the year

[A] 1961

[B] 1962

[C] 1965

[D] 1975

Ans: [B]

Explanation: -The first proclamation of National Emergency was issued in Oct 1962 on account of Chinese aggression in the NEFA (North East Frontier Agency – now Arunachal Pradesh) and was in force till Jan 1968. Hence, a fresh proclamation was not needed at the time of war against Pakistan in 1965. Next time, it was declared in Dec 1971 (India –Pak war) and the third emergency was declared in June 1975 when the second emergency was in operation.  Both the proclamations revoked in March 1977.

(18)

According to Article 170 of the Indian Constitution, the maximum limit of members in a Legislative Assembly is

[A] Not more than 500 and not less than 60 members

[B] Not more than 400 and not less than 50 members

[C] Not more than 300 and not less than 40 members

[D] Not more than 280 and not less than 30 members

Ans: [A]

Explanation: - Maximum strength fixed at 500 and minimum strength fixed at 60. However, in the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Goa the minimum number is fixed at 30 and in case of Mizoram it is 40 and in case of Nagaland it is 46. [Also in the States of Sikkim and Nagaland, some members are indirectly elected to Legislative Assemblies too]

(19)

The administrative vigilance division was created in 1955 by the

[A] Ministry of trade

[B] Ministry of Home Affairs

[C] Ministry of External Affairs

[D] Ministry of Defence

Ans: [B]

(20)

Sarkaria Commission on centre – state relations was appointed by the Government of India during

[A] 1973

[B] 1975

[C] 1983

[D] 1985

Ans: [C]

(21)

Which one of the following statement is not correct about public interest litigation?

[A] Public interest litigation may be transferred to appropriate High court.

[B] A petition in public interest litigation filed before the Supreme court may not be transferred to an appropriate High court

[C] The letter in public interest litigation should be addressed to the court and not to an individual Judge

[D] Public interest litigation is under the preview of High court

Ans: [B]

(22)

Who was the ruler of Jammu and Kashmir in 1940?

[A] Karan Singh

[B] Maharaj Hari Singh

[C] Ram Ratan Singh

[D] Saran Singh

Ans: [B]

(23)

"An article without which the Indian Constitution would be nullity. I would not refer to any other article except Article 32. It is the very soul of the Constitution and the very heart of if. Who said it?

[A] Gandhiji

[B] B.R. Ambedkhar

[C] Jawaharlal Nehru

[D] M.N. Roy

Ans: [B]

(24)

The Maternity Benefits Act was enacted in the year

[A] 1961

[B] 1976

[C] 1978

[D] 1984

Ans: [A]

(25)

In our constitution, the provision relating to the suspension of fundamental rights during the emergency provisions has been taken from which country?

[A] England

[B] France         

[C] USA

[D] Germany

Ans: [D]

(26)

Article 132 of the Indian Constitution deals with

[A] The appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in constitutional cases

[B] The appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court from High Court in civil cases

[C] Criminal appeals from High Courts to Supreme Court

[D] Special leave to appeal by Supreme Court

Ans: [B]

(27)

Which Amendment Act enabled Delhi and Pondicherry to vote in the Presidential Elections?

[A] 70th Amendment Act

[B] 69th Amendment Act

[C] 64th Amendment Act

[D] 74th Amendment Act

Ans: [A]

Group I Preliminary (Feb 19, 2017) 200 Questions: Topic wise break - up

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