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Daily UPSC Prelims Current Affairs – April 20, 2023 [Mock Test]
Daily UPSC Prelims Current Affairs – April 20, 2023 [Mock Test]
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1. Willow Project was often seen in news, it is related to which of the following?
[A] To explore comet ATLAS
[B] To reduce forest fires in Australia
[C] To explore oil in Alaska
[D] To sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
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Correct Answer: C [To explore oil in Alaska]
Notes:
- Willow Project is a massive and decades-long oil drilling venture on Alaska’s North Slope in the National Petroleum Reserve.
- The National Petroleum Reserve is owned by the federal government.
- It is located about 320 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle.
- The area where the project is planned holds up to 600 million barrels of oil.
- The project is yet to be constructed and the oil would take years to reach the market.
2. Doha Programme of Action (DPoA) for the Decade (2022-2031) was adopted recently, it aims to:
[A] To achieve major reform in the international trading system through the introduction of lower trade barriers and revised trade rules.
[B] To introduce a new global pact on climate change by 2025.
[C] To help Least Developed Countries to achieve sustainable development goals.
[D] To support developing nations to achieve water-related global goals and objective as enumerated in SDGs.
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Correct Answer: C [To help Least Developed Countries to achieve sustainable development goals.]
Notes:
- The Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) concluded with adoption of the ‘Doha Political Declaration’.
- The Sustainable Development Report 2022 flagged that the LDCs are the worst performers on the progress made towards achieving SDGs.
- To know about UN list of Least Developed Country.
- The Doha Programme of Action (DPoA) for the Decade (2022-2031) was agreed upon during the first part of the LDC5 conference at New York in 2022.
- The second part of LDC5 conference held under the theme ‘From Potential to Prosperity’ at Qatar in March, 2023.
- The declaration adopted in the second part of LDC5 focuses on implementing the DPoA.
- The DPoA is the 10-year plan to put the world’s 46 most vulnerable countries back on track to achieving the UN-mandated Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
3. Consider the following statements about a tiger reserve:
- It shares boundaries with Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (Kerala) on the west and Bandipur Tiger Reserve (Karnataka) to the north.
- The Moyar River serves as a natural division between this reserve and Bandipur Sanctuary.
- It forms part of the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve.
Which Tiger Reserve is being described above?
[A] Mudumalai
[B] Sathyamangalam
[C] Srivilliputtur Megamalai
[D] Kalakkad – Mundanthurai
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Correct Answer: A [Mudumalai]
Notes:
Mudumalai Tiger Reserve is located at the tri-junction of Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, forming a part of the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve. It shares boundaries with Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary and Bandipur Tiger Reserve, with the Moyar River naturally dividing Mudumalai and Bandipur. Other options do not fulfill all these geographical and ecological criteria.
Originally written on
May 9, 2023
and last modified on
May 9, 2023.
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