[Mission 2024] Current Affairs Quiz , 21 November 2023

Solution: c)

• Gandhi established Tolstoy Farm in 1910 while supervising the satyagraha by South African Indians. The farm aimed to be a self-supporting agricultural commune that provided for basic needs and emphasized personal growth and spiritual understanding through hard labour.
• Tolstoy Farm as Gandhi’s Laboratory: Tolstoy Farm served as a laboratory for Gandhi to experiment with various principles and ideals, including diet, nature cure, harmonious living with nature, brahmacharya, and more.
• This reflected a shared philosophy with Count Leo Tolstoy and Henry David Thoreau
• Revival Efforts: Tolstoy Farm fell into disrepair during the Apartheid era. Post-1994, part of the farm has been developed into a ‘Peace Garden,’ and there are plans to involve the local community and teach Gandhian ideals.

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Solution: d)

The Jabalia refugee camp is in the North Gaza Governorate, Gaza Strip. 

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Solution: d)

Founded in 1974 by the initiative of nineteen Nations, the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) mission is to lead, advocate and facilitate the development of sustainable and innovative solutions for increased, optimised, safe and equitable use of Underground Space, enabling the tunnelling industry and its stakeholders to excel in delivering:

• Technical knowledge in the field of tunnelling and underground space through publication of guidelines, training, and creating platforms for exchanging information and ideas;
• Best practices in health-and-safety, planning, engineering, contracting, construction, operation, and maintenance;
• The tools to empower decision makers and allied professionals to make informed choices about the underground;
• Reliable and economical underground solutions to urbanisation and environmental challenges;
• Efficient and resilient underground infrastructure for current and future generations.
• Since then, ITA has considerably developed. Presently, ITA gathers 79 Member Nations and 219 Corporate or individual Affiliate Members.

India is a member nation of ITA.

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Solution: b)

• A vostro account is an essential part of correspondent banking in which a foreign bank acts as an agent providing financial services on behalf of a domestic bank.
• Vostro accounts enable domestic banks to provide international banking services to their clients who have global banking needs.

Vostro account services include executing wire transfers, performing foreign exchange transactions, enabling deposits and withdrawals, and expediting international trade.

Solution: c)

Leopard (Panthera Pardus):

The most adaptable of all big cats, they occupy diverse habitats at all altitudes across Africa and Asia. Like black jaguars, melanistic leopards are called black panthers.

Snow leopard (Panthera Uncia):

The ghost of the mountains, this smokey-grey cat lives above the snow line in Central and South Asia. The most elusive of all big cats, it cannot roar, and has the longest tail of them all — which comes in handy for balance while hunting along the cliffs, and also gives warmth when wrapped around the body. The snow leopard is the state animal of Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh.