UPSC Daily Current Affairs Quiz : 12 August 2025

Question 1: Regarding Pakistan’s nuclear posture, consider the following statements:

1. Pakistan officially maintains a declared "no first use" nuclear policy similar to India’s.
2. Concerns about Pakistan’s nuclear command integrity stem partly from the military’s historical association with non-state actors.
3. Statements threatening the destruction of civilian infrastructure during peacetime can constitute a violation of international humanitarian law.
   

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Question 2: About the Income Tax (No. 2) Bill, 2025, consider the following statements:

1. The Bill reduces the number of chapters in the Income Tax law to less than half of what existed in the Income Tax Act, 1961.
2. It empowers authorised officers to override access codes to computer systems if not provided during search operations.
3. The Select Committee reviewing the Bill was chaired by the Union Finance Minister.
4. The Bill increases both the number of tables and the number of formulae compared to the 1961 Act.
   

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 3: Concerning the Orbiting Carbon Observatories (OCO) missions, consider the following statements:

1. OCO-2 operates from the International Space Station (ISS).
2. OCO-3 can observe the same location at different times of the day.
3. Both OCO-2 and OCO-3 primarily measure atmospheric CO₂ concentration.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 4: Regarding the recent U.S. designation of the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), consider the following statements:

1. The Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) designation under U.S. law makes it a criminal offence to provide material support to the group.
2. Before being labelled as an FTO, the BLA was already listed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) entity.
3. The SDGT designation focuses primarily on military sanctions rather than financial restrictions.
   

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Question 5: In the context of the Israel–Palestine conflict, the “two-state solution” refers to: