[Mission 2022] Insta– QUED ( Questions from Editorials ) 01 March 2022

Solution: c)

• Human immunodeficiency virus or HIV is an infection that attacks the immune system by destroying the body’s immune cells called CD4,which help it respond to infection.
• Once HIV attacks the CD4 cells, it starts replicating and destroying the cells, weakening the body’s immune system and making it more prone to certain “opportunistic infections” that take advantage of the weak immune system.
• Bodily fluids such as blood, semen, vaginal fluids, rectal fluids and breastmilk can be carriers for HIV.
• It can be transmitted through unprotected sex, transfusion of contaminated blood, sharing needles and syringes, and from a mother with HIV to her infant during pregnancy.
• Typically, the time between HIV transmission and AIDS diagnosis is 10-15 years, although it may occur sooner.

Solution: b)

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) increased the cap on e-Rupi vouchers issued by the government to ₹1 lakh per voucher from ₹10,000 and allowed one voucher to be used multiple times until fully redeemed.

Launched in August 2021 as a cashless payment product, e-Rupi vouchers allow users to redeem them without a card, digital payments app or internet banking access at select merchants.

It will ensure better digital delivery of benefits of the central and state government schemes to the beneficiaries. Hence, it is likely to play a major role in strengthening direct benefit transfer (DBT) to citizens at the last mile, making it more transparent.

Unlike other digital payment formats, e-Rupi does not require beneficiaries to have a bank account.

Another advantage is that it works on basic phones and can be used by people who do not own smartphones or are in places that don’t have an internet connection, thereby promoting offline payments.

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Solution: a)

Primary activities are directly dependent on environment as these refer to utilisation of earth’s resources such as land, water, vegetation, building materials and minerals. It, thus includes, hunting and gathering, pastoral activities, fishing, forestry, agriculture, and mining and quarrying.

Secondary activities add value to natural resources by transforming raw materials into valuable products. Secondary activities, therefore, are concerned with manufacturing, processing and construction (infrastructure) industries.

Therefore, Iron and steel industry belongs to secondary activity.

Solution: b)

The treaty recognizes five states as nuclear-weapon states: the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China (also the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council). China and France acceded to the treaty in 1992.

Solution: d)

The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. Its seat is at the Peace Palace in the Hague (Netherlands). It is the only one of the six principal organs of the United Nations not located in New York (United States of America). The Court’s role is to settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by States and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by authorized United Nations organs and specialized agencies. The International Court of Justice functions in accordance with its Statute.

The Court is composed of 15 judges, who are elected for terms of office of nine years by the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council.

In order to ensure a measure of continuity, one third of the Court is elected every three years.