Current Affairs Question - 28 October 2019

National Bilateral, Regional And Global Groupings Affecting India

Non-Aligned Movement


Recently, the Vice President of India attended the 18th Non-Alignment Movement (NAM) Summit which was held in Baku, Azerbaijan. Consider the following statements about the NAM:

  1. The basic concept for the group originated in 1955 during discussions that took place at the Asia-Africa Bandung Conference held in Indonesia.
  2. The first NAM Summit Conference took place in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in September 1962.
Choose the correct answers from the codes given below:
A
Only 1
B
Only 2
C
Both 1 and 2
D
Neither 1 nor 2

Science & Technology

IndiGen Initiative


Consider the given statements about the IndiGen Initiative:

  1. The IndiGen initiative was undertaken by CSIR in April 2019, which was implemented by the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi and CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad.
  2. The outcomes of the IndiGen will be utilized towards understanding the genetic diversity on a population scale.
Choose the correct answers from the codes given below:
A
Only 1
B
Only 2
C
Both 1 and 2
D
Neither 1 nor 2
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