Daily Current Affairs UPSC: News Based MCQs Quiz | 20th September 2025

Answer: (A) 1 only

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• The Gulf of Finland has a humid continental climate with long, cold winters and short, relatively warm summers, characterized by marked seasonality.
• The gulf experiences a continental influence that can bring severe cold and dry warm weather, but also maritime weather from the Atlantic that moderates temperatures.
• Winters see the gulf freeze over, with temperatures averaging around -10 °C (14 °F) in midwinter, while summers are warm, with temperatures reaching 17 °C (63 °F) in mid summer.
• Gulf of Finland, easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea, between Finland (north) and Russia and Estonia (east and south, respectively).

Answer: (B) Under GST 2.0, the nil slab will comprise 29.9% of the total items.

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Answer: (A) One only

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• Paradwip Port is situated in the Mahanadi delta, about 100 km from Cuttack. It has the deepest harbour specially suited to handle very large vessels. It has been developed mainly to handle large-scale export of iron-ore. Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand are the parts of its hinterland.
• Marmagao Port, situated at the entrance of the Zuari estuary, is a natural harbour in Goa. It gained significance after its remodelling in 1961 to handle iron-ore exports to Japan. Construction of Konkan railway has considerably extended the hinterland of this port. Karnataka, Goa, Southern Maharashtra constitute its hinterland.
• Kolkata Port is located on the Hugli river, 128 km inland from the Bay of Bengal. Like the Mumbai port, this port was also developed by the British. Kolkata had the initial advantage of being the capital of British India.
  • The port has lost its significance considerably on account of the diversion of exports to the other ports such as Vishakhapatnam, Paradwip and its satellite port, Haldia.
  • Kolkata port is also confronted with the problem of silt accumulation in the Hugli river which provides a link to the sea. Its hinterland covers U. P. , Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Sikkim and the north-eastern states.
  • Apart from this, it also extends ports facilities to our neighbouring land-locked countries such as Nepal and Bhutan.

Answer: (C) 4,1,5,2,3

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• Preamble of Indian Constitution:
• WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:
• JUSTICE, social, economic and political;
• LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;
• EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;
• and to promote among them all
• FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation;
• IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.

Answer: (C) Congo

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• Sudan borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, and South Sudan to the south.
• Sudan also has a coastline along the Red Sea to its east
• Congo Borders South Sudan.