DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 4 February 2025

Answer: c) Gifts

Explanation: Non-factor income includes money receipts that do not involve any sacrifice on the part of the recipients, such as gifts, donations, taxes, fines, etc.

Answer: d) Labor

Explanation: Labor is the factor of production that includes all efforts of human beings used for the production of goods and services, both physical and mental. The income earned by labor resources is called wages.

Answer d

Explanation:

The Parliament (under Article 32) can empower any other court to issue writs. Since no such provision has been made so far, only the Supreme Court and the high courts can issue the writs and not any other court. Before 1950, only the High Courts of Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras had the power to issue the writs. Article 226 now empowers all the high courts to issue the writs. Hence statement 1 is correct.

• The Supreme Court can issue writs only for the enforcement of fundamental rights whereas a high court can issue writs not only for the enforcement of Fundamental Rights but also for any other purpose. The expression for any other purpose refers to the enforcement of an ordinary legal right. Thus, the writ jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, in this respect, is narrower than that of the high court. Hence statement 2 is correct.
• A remedy under Article 32 is in itself a Fundamental Right and hence, the Supreme Court may not refuse to exercise its writ jurisdiction. On the other hand, a remedy under Article 226 is discretionary and hence, a high court may refuse to exercise its writ jurisdiction. Hence statement 3 is correct.

Answer: b) An anti-caste activist and practitioner of Siddha medicine.

Explanation: Iyothee Thass Pandithar was a prominent anti-caste activist and practitioner of Siddha medicine.

Answer: b) Amazon’s project to build a network of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit for high-speed internet access.

Explanation: Project Kuiper is Amazon’s initiative to deploy a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) to provide high-speed internet access globally. The project aims to bring fast and affordable broadband to underserved and unserved communities. It consists of ground infrastructure, global networking, satellites in LEO, and customer terminals.