Current Affairs Question - 12 September 2019
International Intergovernmental Organizations, International Institutions, Agencies & Fora
Eurasian Economic Forum
Recently, India did not attend Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s (SCO) Eurasian Economic Forum held in China. Consider the following statements about theEurasian Economic Forum:
- The Eurasian Economic Union is an international organization for regional economic integration that came into existence on 1st January, 2014.
- The Member-States of the Eurasian Economic Union are the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation.
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National Important Geophysical Phenomena & Geographical Features
Equatorial Indian Ocean Oscillation
Recently, the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), Bengluru and National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Hyderabad jointly released a study paper about Equatorial Indian Ocean Oscillation (EQUINOO) and its effects over Indian Summer Monsoon. Consider the following statements regarding the EQUINOO.
- EQUINOO is as an oscillation or a seesaw between enhanced cloud formation and rainfall over the western equatorial Indian Ocean (WEIO) and suppressed clouding over the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean (EEIO) in west of Sumatra.
- A positive EQUINOO phase is when the surface sea temperature in WEIO is above 27.5 degree Celsius leading to enhanced clouding, which is then suppressed in the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean.
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:
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Only 1
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Only 2
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Both 1 and 2
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Neither 1 nor 2
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