INSIGHTS CURRENT AFFAIRS (21 January 2020) REVISION THROUGH MCQS

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious viral disease, which mainly affects young children.
• The virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or, less frequently, by a common vehicle (e.g. contaminated water or food) and multiplies in the intestine, from where it can invade the nervous system and can cause paralysis.
• Initial symptoms of polio include fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, stiffness in the neck, and pain in the limbs. In a small proportion of cases, the disease causes paralysis, which is often permanent.
• There is no cure for polio, it can only be prevented by immunization.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/01/21/pulse-polio-programme/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• Apart from UAE, the other countries declared to be “reciprocating territories” are: United Kingdom, Singapore, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Trinidad & Tobago, New Zealand, the Cook Islands (including Niue) and the Trust Territories of Western Samoa, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Aden.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/01/21/uae-has-been-declared-reciprocating-territory-by-india/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• All of the given reports/index’s published by WEF(including Global social mobility report)
• Future of Work initiative by ILO

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/01/21/global-social-mobility-report/

Ans: (d)

Explanation: Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

• The NPT is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.
• The Treaty represents the only binding commitment in a multilateral treaty to the goal of disarmament by the nuclear-weapon States. Opened for signature in 1968, the Treaty entered into force in 1970.
• On 11 May 1995, the Treaty was extended indefinitely.
• A total of 191 States have joined the Treaty, including the five nuclear-weapon States. More countries have ratified the NPT than any other arms limitation and disarmament agreement, a testament to the Treaty’s significance.
• Currently only five countries have not signed NPT which are, India, Pakistan, Israel, South Sudan and North Korea.

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test–Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a multilateral treaty that bans all nuclear explosions, for both civilian and military purposes, in all environments.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/01/21/non-proliferation-treaty-npt/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• • National Agriculture Market (eNAM) is a pan-India electronic trading portal which networks the existing APMC mandis to create a unified national market for agricultural commodities.
  • Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) is the lead agency for implementing eNAM under the aegis of Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India.
  • NAM is a “virtual”market but it has a physical market (mandi) at the back end.
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• Ans: (b)

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• Ans: (d)

  Explanation:

  • Taiwan Strait, also called Formosa Strait, lies between the coast of China’s Fukien province and the island of Taiwan (also known as Formosa). The strait extends from southwest to northeast between the South and East China Sea.
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Ans: (b)

Explanation:

A north-eastern projection of Central America, lying between the Gulf of Mexico to the west and north and the Caribbean Sea to the east.

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• Technical Textiles are defined as Textile material and products manufactured primarily for their Technical performance and functional properties rather than aesthetic and decorative characteristics.
• Technical textiles include textiles for automotive applications, medical textiles (e.g., implants), geotextiles (reinforcement of embankments), agrotextiles (textiles for crop protection), and protective clothing (e.g., heat and radiation protection for fire fighter clothing, molten metal protection for welders, stab protection and bulletproof vests, and spacesuits).
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Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/04/30/technical-textiles/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:  Dry ice, carbon dioxide in its solid form.

• Dry Ice Applications: most common use of dry ice is to preserve food, using non-cyclic refrigeration, apart from this
  • Maintaining produce at chilled temperatures
  • Maintaining produce at frozen temperatures
  • Airline Shipping
  • Dry ice is sometimes used in the presentation of food in restaurants