QUIZ – 2020: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 2 October 2020

Solution: b)

The state enforced certification marks presently in India are:

• Agmark for all agricultural products.
• BIS hallmark: certifies the purity of gold jewellery.
• Ecomark is a certification mark issued by the Bureau of Indian Standards to products conforming to a set of standards aimed at the least impact on the ecosystem.
• FPO mark. A mandatory mark for all processed fruit products in India. 
• India Organic certification mark for organically farmed food products.
• ISI mark. For industrial product.
• FSSAI for all food products.

Solution: c)

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Solution: a)

India became the world’s largest sugar producer in 2018/2019, beating out Brazil for the first time in 16 years.

The government protect farmers by deciding the price of sugarcane, called the fair and remunerative price (FRP). But on the other hand, sugar prices are determined by market sentiments and market forces, and the government can’t have much direct control over it.

Solution: b)

The PCA was established by the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, concluded at The Hague in 1899.

The PCA was the first permanent intergovernmental organization to provide a forum for the resolution of international disputes through arbitration and other peaceful means.

India is not party to, nor has it acceded to, the 1951 UN Refugee Convention on Refugees, nor the 1967 Protocol to that Convention.

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Solution: c)

Phage therapy is a treatment for people suffering from chronic or antibiotic-resistant infections.

Phage therapy or viral phage therapy is the therapeutic use of bacteriophages to treat pathogenic bacterial infections. Bacteriophages, known as phages, are a form of viruses. Phages attach to bacterial cells, and inject a viral genome into the cell. The viral genome effectively replaces the bacterial genome, halting the bacterial infection.