UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Hasina to hold press conference to ‘outline vision for Bangladesh’
Q1. In July 2024, Bangladesh's Supreme Court scaled back the government-jobs reservation structure whose restoration had triggered the student agitation. In the restructured scheme so ordered, which one of the following was the single largest component?
- A. Thirty per cent of posts reserved for descendants of freedom fighters
- B. Five per cent of posts reserved for descendants of freedom fighters
- C. Ninety-three per cent of posts to be filled purely on merit
- D. Two per cent of posts reserved for ethnic minorities, transgender and disabled persons
Q2. During the escalation of the Bangladesh agitation in July 2024, the term 'Bangla Bandh' referred to which one of the following?
- A. A curfew accompanied by shoot-at-sight instructions imposed by the government across the country
- B. A countrywide general shutdown of transport, offices and businesses called by the protesting students
- C. An indefinite closure of all public and private universities announced by the government
- D. A nationwide suspension of mobile internet and broadband services ordered by the authorities
Q3. The Grameen Bank, the institution with which Muhammad Yunus shared the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, ceased to be a project and was constituted as an independent bank by act of the Bangladesh government in which year?
- A. 1983
- B. 1976
- C. 1986
- D. 1991
Q4. In the International Crimes Tribunal verdict of November 17, 2025 arising from the 2024 crackdown in Bangladesh, apart from Sheikh Hasina, who else received the maximum sentence of death in absentia?
- A. Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former Home Minister
- B. Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, former Inspector General of Police
- C. Sajeeb Wazed Joy, former adviser on information technology
- D. Obaidul Quader, former General Secretary of the Awami League
Q5. The widely cited finding that as many as 1,400 people may have been killed during the July-August 2024 crackdown in Bangladesh emerged from an investigation carried out under the authority of which one of the following?
- A. The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
- B. The National Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh
- C. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- D. The International Committee of the Red Cross
Q6. The clause permitting a request to be declined on the ground that the offence alleged is of a political nature is contained in which Article of the India-Bangladesh Extradition Treaty?
- A. Article 8
- B. Article 10
- C. Article 4
- D. Article 6
Q7. Consider the following countries:
1. Bhutan
2. Myanmar
3. Indonesia
4. Afghanistan
Which of the above are correctly identified as countries named by the Ministry of External Affairs within the ambit of India's 'Neighbourhood First' policy?
- Bhutan
- Myanmar
- Indonesia
- Afghanistan
- A. 1 and 3 only
- B. 2 and 3
- C. 1, 2 and 4
- D. 1 and 4 only
Q8. India holds the Chairship of BRICS for 2026, with the Summit scheduled in New Delhi. In the sequence of Chairships that India has held of this grouping, the 2026 tenure is its
- A. second Chairship of the grouping
- B. fourth Chairship of the grouping
- C. third Chairship of the grouping
- D. fifth Chairship of the grouping
Q9. Consider the following statements about the two principal political formations of Bangladesh:
1. Awami League — formed in 1949
2. Bangladesh Nationalist Party — founded in 1978 by Ziaur Rahman
3. Tarique Rahman — eldest son of Ziaur Rahman and Khaleda Zia
4. Khaleda Zia — became Prime Minister for the first time after her party's victory in the general election of 1979
Which of the above is/are correctly identified?
- Awami League — formed in 1949
- Bangladesh Nationalist Party — founded in 1978 by Ziaur Rahman
- Tarique Rahman — eldest son of Ziaur Rahman and Khaleda Zia
- Khaleda Zia — became Prime Minister for the first time after her party's victory in the general election of 1979
- A. 1 and 2 only
- B. 1, 2 and 3
- C. 2, 3 and 4
- D. 1 and 4 only