Answer:(C)

Explanation:

The controlled descent of the Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-3 made it one of the closest approaches of a lunar mission to the moon’s South Pole. However like most of the lunar-landing missions before, Vikram too landed on the near side, making the Chinese Chang’e 4 mission the only one to have landed on the far side.

What are the moon’s ‘near’ and ‘far sides’ and is there a ‘dark’ side?

The near side refers to the portion of the moon — about 60% — that is visible to us. It is always the same side that is visible from Earth because the moon takes the same time to rotate about its axis as it does to circle around the Earth. However, this doesn’t imply that the half the moon is in perpetual darkness.

The ‘new moon’ or when the moon is invisible from Earth is the time when the other ‘far side’ of the moon is bathed in sunlight and continues to receive light for nearly a fortnight. The ‘dark side’ is thus dark only in the sense that it was mysterious and its various topographical features were hidden until the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 in 1959 photographed it and the Soviet Academy of Sciences released an atlas of these images. Astronauts aboard the Apollo 8 mission of 1968 were the first humans to see the far side of the moon.

Answer:(C) 

Explanation:

The fourth extension for mandatory payments under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) through the Aadhaar-based Payments System (ABPS) ends on August 31. As the numbers stand, out of the total 26 crore job card holders, 41.1% are still not eligible for this mode of payment.

The ABPS uses the worker’s unique 12-digit Aadhaar number as his or her financial address. The worker’s Aadhaar details must be seeded with the job card and bank account. Aadhaar details should be mapped with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) database. The bank’s institutional identification number (IIN) must itself be mapped with the NPCI database.

Answer: (C) 

Explanation:

• Indian earth science scientists have deduced that tsunamis can hit the Indian coast only when a big earthquake occurs on the sea bed in the 4,000 km Java-Sumatra region of the Indian Ocean on the east coast and the Makran region in the north Arabian Sea on the west coast.
• “Unlike the Pacific Ocean, where there are regular earthquakes on the sea bed with a magnitude of 7 or more on the Richter Scale, big earthquakes are likely to occur in these two regions of the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea, on either side of the Indian sea coasts, which could cause tsunamis,”.

Answer:(C)

Explanation:

Article 371 of the Constitution (Special Provision) guarantees protection of cultural and economic interests, as well as ensures the rule of law, for the people of 12 States, including Sikkim, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, and Manipur.