[Mission 2022] Insta– QUED ( Questions from Editorials ) 11 June 2022

Solution: c)

Live-attenuated Vaccines:

• Live vaccines use a weakened (or attenuated) form of the germ that causes a disease.
• Because these vaccines are so similar to the natural infection that they help prevent, they create a strong and long-lasting immune response.
• The limitation of this approach is that these vaccines usually cannot be given to people with weakened immune systems.
• Live vaccines are used against: Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR combined vaccine), Rotavirus, Smallpox among others. 

Solution: b)

The Nordic countries are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic. It includes the sovereign states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden; the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland; and the autonomous region of Åland.

Solution: d)

The University Education Commission or Radhakrishanan Commission (1948) comprehended the objectives of higher education.

Solution: c)

Bay of Bengal Initiative for MultiSectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC):

• BIMSTEC is a regional multilateral organization.
• Its members lie in the littoral and adjacent areas of the Bay of Bengal constituting a contiguous regional unity.

Out of the 7 members:

• Five are from South Asia:
                 Bangladesh
  Bhutan
  India
  Nepal
  Sri Lanka
• Two are from Southeast Asia:
  Myanmar
  Thailand

Genesis of BIMSTEC:

• It came into being in 1997 through the Bangkok Declaration.
• Initially, it was formed with four Member States with the acronym ‘BIST-EC’ (Bangladesh, India, Sri-Lanka and Thailand Economic Cooperation).
• It was renamed ‘BIMST-EC’ in 1997, following the inclusion of Myanmar.
• With the admission of Nepal and Bhutan in 2004, the name of the grouping was changed to ‘Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation’ (BIMSTEC).

• Unlike the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), BIMSTEC has continued to hold its summits and meetings of Foreign Ministers.
• Unlike the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) which held only one summit since its establishment in 1997, BIMSTEC has succeeded in holding five summits so far; it has now resolved to hold regular summits once in two years.

Solution: a)

Dark energy, the mysterious form of energy that makes up about 68% of the universe, has intrigued physicists and astronomers for decades. Dark energy has been noted as “the most profound mystery in all of science”. With advanced technologies and newer experiments, scientists have found certain clues about it and, recently an international team of researchers made the first putative direct detection of dark energy.

Everything we see – the planets, moons, massive galaxies, you, me, this website – makes up less than 5% of the universe. About 27% is dark matter and 68% is dark energy. While dark matter attracts and holds galaxies together, dark energy repels and causes the expansion of our universe.