General Awareness Questions

Qatar to withdraw from OPEC as of Jan 2019. OPEC, The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is an intergovernmental organisation of 14 nations, founded in 1960 in Baghdad, Iraq.

Its members are Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Indonesia, Venezuela, Nigeria, Libya, United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Kuwait, Ecuador, Angola, Gabon.

The Parliament cannot amend those provisions which form the ‘basic structure’ of the Constitution. This was ruled by the Supreme Court in the Kesavan and a Bharati Case. (1973)

Basic Structure of the Indian Constitution is not defined. But according to SC, the basic structure can be evolved but cannot be destroyed. Hence it falls within the constituent powers of the Parliament. Hence both 1 and 3 are correct.

Punch-card ballots voting method was discontinued as a result of the Help America Vote Act because of some issues in the counting process by the tabulating machines.

Hina Jaiswal from Chandigarh has become the IAF’s first woman flight engineer.

The 12th five year plan period was from 2012 to 2017. But from 2015, Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India replaced this planning commission of India by NITI Aayog. 

The main theme of the 12th five year plan was "faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth".