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Q1. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an inter-governmental watchdog established to combat global money laundering and terrorist financing, was originally formed in 1989 on the initiative of which of the following international groupings?
- The FATF was established in 1989 during the G7 Summit held in Paris to develop coordinated global policies against money laundering. Its mandate was later expanded in 2001 to include combating the financing of terrorism.
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Q2. Consider the following statements regarding Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee in the context of post-independence India:
i) He served as the Minister for Industry and Supply in independent India's first Union Cabinet under Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
ii) He was a staunch supporter of Article 370 and heavily advocated for its permanent inclusion in the Indian Constitution to grant special autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- Statement 1 is correct; he was invited by Nehru to join the first interim government as the Minister for Industry and Supply. Statement 2 is entirely incorrect; Dr. Mookerjee was fiercely opposed to Article 370, famously coining the slogan "Ek desh mein do Vidhan, do Pradhan aur Do Nishan nahi chalenge" (One country cannot have two constitutions, two prime ministers, and two flags).
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Q3. In the context of the constitutional election to the office of the President of India, which of the following groups of elected representatives do not participate in the Electoral College?
- According to Article 54 of the Constitution, the President is elected by an Electoral College consisting only of the elected members of both Houses of Parliament and the elected members of the Legislative Assemblies of the States (including Delhi and Puducherry). Members of State Legislative Councils are strictly excluded from this process
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Q4. The foundational philosophy behind large-scale state employment generation aligns with the constitutional directive to secure the "right to work." Under which Article of the Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSP) is the State explicitly directed to make effective provisions for securing this right?
- Article 41 of the Constitution mandates that the State shall, within the limits of its economic capacity and development, make effective provisions for securing the right to work, to education, and to public assistance in cases of unemployment, old age, sickness, and disablement.
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Q5. Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, a prominent democratic protest site, is actually one of five historical astronomical observatories built in the 18th century by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur. Which of the following cities does not house one of these original five observatories?
- Maharaja Jai Singh II built five magnificent Jantar Mantar observatories to compile astronomical tables and predict the movements of celestial bodies. They were constructed in New Delhi, Jaipur, Ujjain, Mathura, and Varanasi. Agra does not have a Jantar Mantar.