Current Affairs Question - April 2022

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, the 5^th Summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) was held.
2. No agreements were signed during the Summit.
3. The 5^th BIMSTEC Summit’s theme is “Towards a Resilient Region, Prosperous Economies, Healthy People”.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. The Colombo Security Conclave (CSC) was formed in 2015 as a trilateral maritime security grouping of India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
   
2. Recently, the fifth meeting of National Security Advisers of the Colombo Security Conclave was held in the Maldives.
3. Maritime Safety and Security is one of the five pillars of cooperation agreed to by the Member States.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, at its fifth session held in Nairobi, Kenya, the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) adopted a resolution to formulate an international legally-binding instrument to end plastic pollution.
2. The resolution establishes an intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC) which is expected to submit its draft agreement by 2026.
3. The resolution identifies the threat that plastic pollution poses to human health and all environments, and focuses on the need to undertake measures throughout the lifecycle of plastics in order to efficiently reduce their negative impact.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, the Disaster Management Plan of Ministry of Panchayati Raj (DMP-MoPR) was released.
2. It has been prepared with a larger perspective of community-based planning starting from Village to District Panchayat level.
3. It incorporates many innovations in addition to being in compliance with Disaster Management Act 2005, National Disaster Management Policy 2009, and guidelines issued by NDMA.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. On 11^th March, 2022, India and Canada held the fifth Ministerial Dialogue on Trade & Investment (MDTI) in New Delhi.
2. Bilateral trade in goods between the two countries reached US$ 6.29 billion, registering a growth rate of 12% as compared to the previous year.
3. During the dialogue, India and Canada agreed to formally re-launch the India-Canada Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) negotiations.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, India and Oman signed a Programme of Cooperation (POC) in the fields of science and technology for the period 2022-2025.
2. The POC was signed in pursuance of the Agreement for Cooperation in Science and Technology concluded on 5^th October, 1996, between the Government of Oman and the Government of India.
3. There is no provision of exchange programmes in the Programme of Cooperation.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Narasingapettai Nagaswaram - a classical wind musical instrument - belongs to which South Indian state that was recently granted the Geographical Indication (GI) tag?

Recently, which of the following states became the first State in the country to introduce carbon-neutral farming methods in selected locations?

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, Indian scientists from the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS) designed an electrocatalyst system for energy-efficient hydrogen production with the help of electrolysis of urea.
2. The low-cost, earth-abundant Platinum-based catalysts are widely applied for this process.
3. The energy requirement for production of hydrogen through water electrolysis can be reduced by 70% through urea electrolysis.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, Indian Army’s Military Engineering Services (MES) constructed two houses using 3D Rapid Construction Technology.
2. 3D printing or additive manufacturing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital file. The creation of a 3D printed object is achieved using additive processes.
3. In an additive process an object is created by laying down successive layers of material until the object is created. Each of these layers can be seen as a thinly sliced cross-section of the object.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Commissioned in May 2020, National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) is jointly led by Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
2. Recently, the NSM deployed “PARAM Ganga”, a supercomputer at IIT Roorkee, with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops.
3. The system is designed and commissioned by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Which of the following states recently marked 100 years of the Pal-Dadhvav killings, calling it a massacre “bigger than the Jallianwala Bagh”?

Women from which tribal community practice ‘Sohrai’ - an indigenous art form?

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, the Chandra's Atmospheric Composition Explorer-2 (CHACE-2) onboard Chandrayaan-2 mission made the first-of-its-kind observations of the global distribution of Argon-40 in the tenuous lunar exosphere.
2. The observations reveal that the distribution in Ar-40 has significant spatial heterogeneity.
3. Ar-40 originates from the radioactive disintegration of Potassium-38 present below the lunar surface.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that the count of confirmed exoplanets crossed 5000.
2. The recently launched James Webb Space Telescope will capture light from the atmospheres of exoplanets.
3. NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite in 2020.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Recently, the government launched the Sujalam 2.0 campaign, for the management of which of the following?

Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of India signed an agreement to establish the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in which of the following states?

Consider the following statements with reference to the minorities in India:

1. The expression “minorities” appears in some Articles of the Constitution, but is not defined anywhere.
2. Currently, only those communities notified under section 2(c) of the National Minorities Commission Act (NCM), 1992, by the central government are regarded as minority.
3. In the exercise of its powers under the Section 2(c) of the NCM Act, the Centre on October 23, 1993, notified five groups — Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis — as ‘minority’ communities.
4. Jains were added to the list in January 2013.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

Which of the following skilling projects has been launched by the government to upgrade the skill base of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) beneficiaries?

Consider the following statements:

1. Amidst the ongoing conflict between the Russia and Ukraine, France suggested that the only way for peace talks to prevail between Russia and Ukraine was through the Minsk agreement.
2. Seeking an end to the war, the first Minsk Agreement was signed in Belarus in September 2018.
3. Its provisions included prisoner exchanges, deliveries of humanitarian aid and the withdrawal of heavy weapons.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), founded in 1973, is a global member-owned cooperative that is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
2. It enables financial entities to send and receive information about financial transactions in a secure, standardized and reliable environment.
3. In order to use its messaging services, customers do not need to connect to the SWIFT environment.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, India and Australia announced that they are set to conclude an interim trade agreement in March 2022 and a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) 12-18 months thereafter.
2. The agreement will cover “most areas of interest for both countries” including goods, services, rules of origin, sanitary and phytosanitary measures and customs procedures.
3. Dairy, beef and wheat were sensitive sectors for India. Australia would likely seek market access for products in these categories.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, the United States announced its long-awaited Indo-Pacific strategy. The document highlights the need to build collective capacity to deal with challenges in the region.
2. The US seeks to build resilience in the regional rules-based order.
3. “Integrated deterrence” will form the “cornerstone” of the US’ security plan for the region.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?