[MISSION 2022] INSIGHTS CURRENT AFFAIRS ( 2 December 2021) REVISION THROUGH MCQS

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• The citizenship act, 1955prescribes three ways of losing citizenship:
  • By renunciation:
  • Any citizen of India of full age and capacity can make a declaration renouncing Indian citizenship
  • Such a declaration may not be accepted during war.
  • Even the minor children of the person who renounces citizenship stands to lose their Indian citizenship. However, when their children attain the age of eighteen, he may resume Indian citizenship.
• By termination:
  • If a citizen of India voluntarily acquires the citizenship of another country, then he loses the citizenship of India However, this provision does not apply during times of war.
• By deprivation:
  • Compulsory termination of Indian citizenship by the Central government, in the following conditions:
  • Obtained the citizenship by fraud.
  • Citizen has shown disloyalty to the Constitution of India.
  • Citizen has unlawfully traded or communicated during the times of war.
  • Within 5 years of naturalization, the said citizen is imprisoned for a term of two years.
  • Citizen has been ordinarily resident out of India for a period of 7 years.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/02/renunciation-of-indian-citizenship/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• NEIA Trustwas established in 2006 to promote project exports from India that are of strategic and national importance.
• NEIA provides additional support to the insurance cover provided by ECGCfor project exports making Indian project exporters more competitive and gain a stronger foothold in various jurisdictions, highlighting India’s capabilities to execute large projects abroad. Export Credit & Guarantee Corporation of India (ECGC).
• What does it do?
  • The NEIA Trust promotes Medium and Long Term (MLT) /project exportsby extending (partial/full) support to covers issued by ECGC to MLT/project export.
  • It also supports to Exim Bank for Buyer’s Credit (BC-NEIA) tied to project exports from India.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/02/national-export-insurance-account-neia/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• Mission Indradhanush is a health mission of the Government of India. It was launched in 2014.
• It aims to immunise all children under the age of 2 years, as well as all pregnant women, against seven vaccine preventable diseases (like 7 colors of a rainbow/indradhanush).

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/02/mission-indradhanush-imi-3-0/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• The SEZ Act 2005allows setting up an IFSC in an SEZ or as an SEZ after approval from the central government.
• IFSCs in India:
  • The first IFSC in India has been set up at the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City)in Gandhinagar.
• An IFSC caters to customers outside the jurisdiction of the domestic economy.
• Such centres deal with flows of finance, financial products and services across borders.
• London, New York and Singapore can be counted as global financial centres.
• Services an IFSC can provide:
  • Fund-raising services for individuals, corporations and governments.
  • Asset management and global portfolio diversification undertaken by pension funds, insurance companies and mutual funds.
  • Wealth management.
  • Global tax management and cross-border tax liability optimization, which provides a business opportunity for financial intermediaries, accountants and law firms.
  • Global and regional corporate treasury management operations that involve fund-raising, liquidity investment and management and asset-liability matching.
  • Risk management operations such as insurance and reinsurance.
  • Merger and acquisition activities among trans-national corporations.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/02/what-are-international-financial-services-centresifsc/

Ans: (b)

Explanation: What are the potential health risks from 5G?

• To date, and after much research performed, no adverse health effect has been causally linked with exposure to wireless technologies.
• Tissue heatingis the main mechanism of interaction between radiofrequency fields and the human body. Radiofrequency exposure levels from current technologies result in negligible temperature rise in the human body.
• As the frequency increases,there is less penetration into the body tissues and absorption of the energy becomes more confined to the surface of the body (skin and eye).
• Provided that the overall exposure remains below international guidelines, no consequences for public health are anticipated.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/02/5g-technology-3/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• The Parker Solar Probe is a NASA space probe launched in 2018 with the mission of making observations of the outer corona of the Sun.
• Parker Solar Probe has three detailed science objectives:
  • Trace the flow of energy that heats and accelerates the solar corona and solar wind.
  • Determine the structure and dynamics of the plasma and magnetic fields at the sources of the solar wind.
  • Explore mechanisms that accelerate and transport energetic particles.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/02/parker-solar-probe-5/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• Barbados has officially removed Queen Elizabeth IIas its head of state and become the world’s newest republic nearly 400 years after the country became a British colony.
• Barbados, however, will continue to be one of the 54 Commonwealth nations.
• About Barbados:
  • Barbados is a small island country in the south-eastern Caribbean Sea.

Refer: Facts for Prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/02/amission-2022-insights-daily-currentffairs-pib-summary-02-december-2021/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• S1: Tillage is the agricultural preparation of soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring, and overturning.
  • No-till farming (also called zero tillage or direct drilling) is a way of growing crops or pasture from year to year without disturbing the soil through tillage. Zero tillage helps in soil moisture conservation.
• S2: An infiltration problem often occurs in farms if the irrigation water does not enter the soil rapidly enough during a normal irrigation cycle.
  • Gypsum helps in dissolution of the salt clay pan found in soils that hinder the percolation of water. This increases the efficiency of irrigation as less water is needed to irrigate the same soil.
  • Adding gypsum to irrigation water further increases its infiltration rate.
• S3: This reduces evaporation of farm soil water.

Refer: UPSC CSE 2017

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Statement 3: Soil Health card (SHC) is a printed report card issued to farmers in once in three years indicating the status of his soil in terms of 12 parameters. It is also accompanied by an advice on the various fertilizers and other soil amendments he is supposed to make. So, only 3 is correct.
• Statement 2: This can be an outcome of the scheme and complement it, but it is not an aim or a central feature of the scheme.

Refer: UPSC CSE 2017

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• Statement 1 and 2:  A major advantage of OLED over LCD is that it is lightweight and has flexible plastic substrates.
• OLED displays can be fabricated on flexible plastic substrates, leading to the possible fabrication of flexible organic light-emitting diodes for other new applications, such as roll-up displays embedded in fabrics or clothing.
• If a substrate like polyethylene terephthalate (PET) can be used, the displays may be produced inexpensively.
• Furthermore, plastic substrates are shatter-resistant, unlike the glass displays used in LCD devices.
• Statement 3: At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2010, Samsung demonstrated a laptop computer with a large, transparent OLED display featuring up to 40% transparency.

Refer: UPSC CSE 2017