[MISSION 2023] INSIGHTS CURRENT AFFAIRS (28 July 2022 ) REVISION THROUGH MCQS

Ans: (a)

Explanation; Foreign Contribution Regulation (Amendment), Act 2020:

• Under the Act, foreign contribution cannot be transferred to any other person unless such person is also registered for that purpose.
• The amendment also forbids sub-granting by NGOs to smaller NGOs who work at the grassroots.
• The act states that foreign contributions must be received only in an FCRA account opened in the State Bank of India, New Delhi Branch. No funds other than the foreign contribution should be received or deposited in this account.
• Aadhar usage: The act makes it compulsory for all trustees to register their Aadhaar card with the FCRA account.
• The Act also makes Aadhaar a mandatory identification document. It is for all the office bearers, directors, and other key functionaries of an NGO.
• Restriction in utilisation of foreign contribution: The act gives government powers to stop utilization of foreign funds by an organization through a “summary enquiry”.
• Reduction in use of foreign contribution for administrative purposes: The act decreases administrative expenses through foreign funds by an organization to 20% from 50% earlier.
• Surrender of certificate: The act allows the central government to permit a person to surrender their registration certificate.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/07/28/seeking-to-destroy-indias-civil-society/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• It was constituted in 2010 under the Warehousing (Development and Regulation) Act, 2007, under the Department of Food and Public Distribution to ensure scientific storage by prescribing infrastructural and procedural standards.
• Negotiable Warehouse Receipt System
• Launched in 2011, through it farmers can seek loans from banks against the warehouse receipts issued to them against their storage. The Electronic Negotiable Warehouse Receipt (e-NWR) System was launched in 2017.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/07/28/centre-to-amend-warehousing-act/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/07/28/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-28-july-2022/

Ans: (b)

Explanation: United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)

• Established in 1949with the mandate to provide assistance and protection to about 6 mn Palestinian refugees (in West Bank, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan)
• Funding: funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions and financial support
• India: As a part of the Link West Policy, India has de-hyphenatedits relationship with Israel and Palestine in 2018 to treat both the countries as mutually independent and exclusive.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/07/28/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-28-july-2022/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is the apex body in India for the formulation, coordination and promotion of biomedical research.
• S1: The ICMR is funded by the Government of India through the Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. In 2007 the organization established the Clinical Trials Registry – India, which is India’s national registry for clinical trials.
• ICMR’s EOI document states that it reserves all the Intellectual Property Rights and Commercialisation Rights on the Monkeypox virus isolatesand its method/protocols for purification, propagation and characterisation.
• ICMR is lawfully entitled to enter into any form of non-exclusive agreements with experienced Drug/Pharma/Vaccine/IVD manufacturers through defined agreement for undertaking R&D as well as manufacturing activities.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/07/28/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-28-july-2022/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Context: It is a seabird native to Antarctic seas, but has been sighted for the first time in Asia (Rameswaram and adjoining islets of the Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park on the Adam’s Bridge (Ram Setu)
• Indication: It shows the pattern of bird migration away from the well-known and established routes and sites. Changes in the wind patterntriggered by global warming are bringing non-native birds to other areas.
• IUCN: Near Threatened

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/07/28/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-28-july-2022/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Statement 1:  These are sects of Buddhism.
• Statement 2:  While, like all Buddhists, the Sarvastivadins consider everything empirical to be impermanent, they maintain that the dharma factors are eternally existing realities.
• The dharmas are thought to function momentarily, producing the empirical phenomena of the world, which is illusory, but to exist outside the empirical world.
• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sarvastivada

Refer: UPSC CSE 2017

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

Refer: UPSC CSE 2017

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Statement 1: Himalayas are spread over almost all the Northern and north-eastern Indian states. Statement 1 is wrong.
• Statement 2: Western Ghats traverse the States of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra and Gujarat (6 states).
• Statement 3: Pulicat Lake (second largest brackish water lake in India) straddles the border of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu states (2 states).

Refer: UPSC CSE 2017

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Statement 1:  The IOD, also known as the Indian Niño, is an irregular oscillation of sea-surface temperatures in which the western Indian Ocean becomes alternately warmer and then colder than the eastern part of the Indian ocean (not tropical eastern pacific ocean.
• Statement 2:   IOD has a much more significant effect on the rainfall patterns in south-east Australia than the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the Pacific Ocean as shown in several recent studies.

Refer: UPSC CSE 2017