[Mission 2022] Insta– QUED ( Questions from Editorials ) 3 March 2022

Solution: b)

The SWIFT system stands for the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication and is a secure platform for financial institutions to exchange information about global monetary transactions such as money transfers.

While SWIFT does not actually move money, it operates as a middleman to verify information of transactions by providing secure financial messaging services to more than 11,000 banks in over 200 countries. 

Cutting off a country from SWIFT in the financial world is equivalent to restricting Internet access of a nation.

Prior to this, only one country had been cut off from SWIFT — Iran.

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Solution: a)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the international consortium of scientists analysing and reviewing the evidence on the present and future man-made impacts of climate change.

‘wet bulb’ temperature — an index of the impact of heat and humidity combined — and its effect on health. 

Measured on a different scale compared with normal temperatures, where 35 degrees Celsius is the maximum or threshold limit, wet-bulb temperature of 32 degrees can mean that even fit, acclimatised people will not be able to work easily.

A humid heatwave was a lot more dangerous compared with a dry heatwave.

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Solution: c)

Zeolite is used in oxygen production plants that are based on pressure swing adsorption (PSA) technology.

• Zeolitesare microporous, aluminosilicate minerals commonly used as commercial adsorbents and catalysts.
• Zeolites occur naturally but are also produced industrially on a large scale.
• Natural zeolites form where volcanic rocks and ash layers react with alkaline groundwater.
• Naturally occurring zeolites are rarely pure and are contaminated to varying degrees by other minerals, metals, quartz, or other zeolites. For this reason, naturally occurring zeolites are excluded from many important commercial applications where uniformity and purity are essential.

Solution: d)

India’s ‘One Health’ vision derives its blueprint from the agreement between the tripartite-plus alliance comprising the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) — a global initiative supported by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank under the overarching goal of contributing to ‘One World, One Health’.

Solution: b)

Competition Commission of India is the competition regulator in India. It is a statutory body of the Government of India responsible for enforcing the Competition Act, 2002 and promoting competition throughout India and to prevent activities that have an appreciable adverse effect on competition in India.

In January 2020, it launched an investigation into Amazon and Flipkart for abusing their dominant positions and carrying out acquisitions with the aim to stifle competition and for using predatory pricing tactics.