Read the passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the given four alternatives. By practicing mindfulness and other principles, we become more aware of and present to our fears and others? fears, bearing witness as a way of healing and empowering. We see the spiritual path as intertwined with the path of social action, with contemplation and action parts of the same whole, each nourishing and guiding the other. Acknowledging that our well-being depends on others makes caring for others? well-being a moral responsibility. Through a ?mindful citizen? exercise, we create a story articulating who we are as individuals who are also part of communities. This exercise helps us move beyond cynicism, complacency, and despair, instead infusing us with a sense of purpose. We embrace our gifts, resolving to do our part to promote a sense of common humanity as a means toward social justice. With this exercise, I believe we can help students bridge their divides and replace anger and distrust with compassionate connections ? just as I witnessed between Shirley and Tiffany. Shirley returned to class after a brief hiatus, keeping a cool distance from Tiffany. But over the weeks spent together they gradually came to know each other. They practiced seeing and listening, sharing stories so different that they felt bewildered as to how they could overcome the gap. But they found that acknowledging their differences led them to discover a place of deep connection in commonalities, such as being raised by grandmothers, and even wounds, including childhood trauma, that they never imagined existed. In assessments of these classes, students say that these small groups become ?healing communities,? where we overcome victimization and claim agency. Healing occurs as we transcend an ?us vs. them? mentality, crossing borders and forging connections. These communities show a way of reducing intergroup prejudice and fostering inclusion based in psychology research and pedagogical practice. How students can replace their anger and distrust?

Correct Answer: BN Sharma

Explanation:

Senior IAS officer BN Sharma has been appointed as New Chairman of National Anti-Profiteering Authority (NAAP) under Goods & Services Tax (GST). The post of NAAP Chairman is equivalent to the rank of Secretary to Union Government.

Correct Answer: 1, 2 and 3

Explanation:

The 44th Constitutional Amendment Act, replaced the phrase ?internal disturbance? with the ?armed rebellion? to avoid its misuse by the government in power.

 

Correct Answer: enthusiast

Correct Answer: India

Explanation:

India has the Highest Income Inequality according to the ?World Inequality Report 2018?, released by World Inequality Lab based at Paris School of Economics. India?s Top 1% of earners grabbed 22% share of national income, while bottom 50% managed to get only 15% share.

Correct Answer: Relief may be sought only against the husband or a male live-in partner with whom the woman has lived in a domestic relationship.

Explanation:

The Supreme Court has struck down the words ?adult male? from the pertinent provision in the DV Act to lay down that a woman can also file a complaint against another woman, accusing her of domestic violence.

Correct Answer: Spoken

Correct Answer: Both B & C

Explanation:

The Wassenaar Arrangement is a multilateral export control regime and plays a significant role in promoting transparency and greater responsibility in transfers of conventional arms and dual-use goods and technologies. It has decided to admit India as its new member which would enhance its credentials in the field of non-proliferation despite not being signatory to Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Correct Answer: NIIF and NIF (National Investment Fund) are the names of the same organization.

Explanation:

The cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on 27th January, 2005 had approved the constitution of a National Investment Fund (NIF). The Purpose of the fund was to receive disinvestment proceeds of central public sector enterprises and to invest the same to generate earnings without depleting the corpus.

National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) is a fund created by the Government of India for enhancing infrastructure financing in the country.

This is different from the National Investment Fund.Its creation was announced in the Union Budget 2015-16. The operational framework was approved on 20 August 2015.NIIF got registered with SEBI as Category II Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) on December 28, 2015

 

Correct Answer: To Bewilder

Correct Answer: Only a and b

Explanation:

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) is the regulator for overseeing insolvency proceedings and entities like Insolvency Professional Agencies (IPA), Insolvency Professionals (IP) and Information Utilities (IU) in India. It handles the casesusing two tribunals like NCLT (National company law tribunal) and Debt recovery tribunal.Current chairman of IBBI is M. S. Sahoo