UPSC Current Affairs Practice Questions – 02 August 2024

1. Consider the following statements regarding Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak 2024:

1. It aims to replace Aircraft Act, 1934 that provide guidelines for the control of the manufacture, possession, use, operation, sale, import and export of aircraft
2. It empowers the Central Government to issue orders (like detaining aircraft) in emergency in the interest of public safety.

Which of the statements is/are correct?

2. TREAD, a government scheme recently in news, is associated with

3. Kalasa Banduri Nala project, often in news, is associated with the river

4. Consider the following statements regarding Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI):

1. It is calculated separately for the manufacturing and services sectors and then a composite index is also constructed.
2. If the PMI of the previous month is higher than the PMI of the current month, it represents that the economy is contracting.

Which of the statements is/are correct?

5. Consider the following statements about Endogenous Retroviruses (ERVs):

1. They are a group of viruses within the human genome
2. They have influenced human evolution

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?