Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 07 October 2022

Q.1) With reference to ‘Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets Promotion’, which of the following statements is/are correct? 

1. This initiative aims to demonstrate the improved production and post-harvest technologies, and to demonstrate value addition techniques, in an integrated manner, with a cluster approach.
2. Poor, small, marginal and tribal farmers have a larger stake in this scheme.
3. An important objective of the scheme is to encourage farmers of commercial crops to shift to millet cultivation by offering them free kits of critical inputs of nutrients and micro irrigation equipment.

Code: 
(a) 1 and 3 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 2 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3

Q.2) India’s 2nd largest crude oil supplier is 

(a) Iraq
(b) Saudi Arabia 
(c) Iran 
(d) Russia 

Q.3) With reference to GSAT 7 satellites, consider the following statements: 

1. GSAT 7 satellites are advanced satellites developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation.
2. It has a footprint of nearly 2,000 nautical miles in the Indian Ocean region.
3. This satellite is mainly used by the Indian Navy for its communication needs.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 and 3 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1, 2 and 3 
(d) 2 only

Q.4) On which of the following days the World Tuberculosis Day celebrated?

(a) 24th March 
(b) 20th March 
(c) 15th March 
(d) 29th April 

Q.5) With reference to Nixtamalisation, consider the following statements: 

1.It has beenfortified maize with the chemical process known as ‘nixtamalisation’.
2. It also eliminates certain mycotoxins present in maize.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) Neither 1 nor 2
(b) Both 1 and 2 
(c) 1 only
(d) 2 only

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