[MISSION 2022] INSIGHTS CURRENT AFFAIRS (8 June 2022 ) REVISION THROUGH MCQS

Ans: (c)

Explanation: Special powers enjoyed by Rajya Sabha:

• If it passes a resolution by a majority of not less than two-thirds of members present and voting, Parliament becomes empowered to make a law on a subject.
• When it passes a resolution recommending creation of one or more All India Servicescommon to the Union and the states. Parliament becomes empowered to create such services.
• Emergency proclamationhas to be approved by both Houses of Parliament within a stipulated period.
• If a proclamation is issued at a time when Lok Sabha has been dissolved or the dissolution of Lok Sabha takes place within the period allowed for its approval, then the proclamation remains effective, if the resolution approving it is passed by Rajya Sabha within the period specified under Articles 352, 356 and 360 of the Constitution.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/08/how-are-rajya-sabha-mps-elected/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• S1 and S2: The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is a group of nuclear supplier countries that seeks to contribute to the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons through the implementation of two sets of Guidelines for nuclear exports and nuclear-related exports. But becoming the member of the ‘Nuclear Suppliers Group’ will NOT automatically make a country a member of “The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
• The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is a multilateral export control regime and a group of nuclear supplier countries that seek to prevent nuclear proliferation by controlling the export of materials, equipment and technology that can be used to manufacture nuclear weapons.
• Membership of the NSG enables access to technology for a range of uses from medicine to building nuclear power plants for India from the NSG which is essentially a traders’ cartel.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/08/nuclear-suppliers-group-nsg/

Ans: (b)

Explanation: About NSG:

• The 48-member NSGis an elite club of countries that deals with the trade-in nuclear technology and fissile materials besides contributing to the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
• Brought in 1974– in response to the Indian nuclear test (smiling Buddha).
• It is a Group of nuclear supplier countries that seek to prevent nuclear proliferationby controlling the export of materials, equipment and technology that can be used to manufacture nuclear weapons.
• The NSG first met in November 1975 in London,and is thus popularly referred to as the “London Club”.
• Its guidelines are not binding.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/08/nuclear-suppliers-group-nsg/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• The festival is the largest gathering of Hindus in Kashmir after the annual Amarnath Yatra.
• Kashmiri Hindus, locally known as Pandits,will celebrate this festival at the Mata Kheerbhawani temple in Kashmir.
• The temple is dedicated to the goddess Ragnya Devi.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/08/mission-2022-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-08-june-2022/

Ans: (c)

Explanation: About the Yankti Kuti valley:

• Located in Uttarakhand.
• It is the last valley before the border with Tibet.
• It runs along a NW to SE axis, formed by the river Kuti Yankti,which is one of the headwaters of the Kali River that forms the boundary between India and Nepal in this region.
• This valley is mainly dominated by Byansis,one of the four Bhotiya communities of Kumaon, with the others being Johar, Darmiya and Chaudansi.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/08/mission-2022-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-08-june-2022/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• The African savanna ecosystem is a tropical grassland with warm temperatures year-round and with its highest seasonal rainfall in the summer. The savanna is characterized by grasses and small or dispersed trees that do not form a closed canopy, allowing sunlight to reach the ground. The African savanna contains a diverse community of organisms that interact to form a complex food web.

Refer: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/african-savanna-illustration/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• Stat2: Source: The Delhi High Court has been told by the AAP government that under the penal law, food adulteration is a cognisable offence against which the police can take action, including registration of FIRs.

Stat1: The chemical widely used for artificially ripening fruits is calcium carbide (CaC2) which contains arsenic and phosphorus, both of which can prove fatal for human beings. CaC2 is a known carcinogen – an agent having the ability to alter human cells into cancerous cells.

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• “Called the green gold, the bamboo has been in focus for the wrong reasons in the northeast. A rat famine triggered by flowering of this grass in 1959 led to the creation of the Mizo National Front that metamorphosed into a political party. The flowering of bamboo every 50-55 years leads to dramatic increase in the population of rats that destroy crops triggering famine, also called Mautam.”

Refer: https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-miscellaneous/tp-others/the-grass-is-greener-for-bamboo/article22626870.ece

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• In what could catapult Visakhapatnam into a top scuba diving destination in the world, a second shipwreck with a critically endangered species of Goliath grouper (considered to be the keystone species of an ecosystem) was discovered by a team of experienced divers and diving instructors recently in the sea off Bheemunipatnam, 45 km from the city of Vishakhapatnam. This comes a month after a century-old shipwreck was unearthed in the region.

Refer: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/second-shipwreck-goliath-grouper-fish-found-near-vizag/article22683229.ece

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• Mangrove trees grow in areas with low-oxygen soil, where slow-moving waters allow fine sediments to accumulate.
• Mangrove forests only grow at tropical and subtropical latitudes near the equator because they cannot withstand freezing temperatures.
• The Sundarbans lies south of the Tropic of Cancer

Refer: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/mangroves.html