UPSC International Relations – Chapter 19: Global Issues – Terrorism, Climate, Technology and Health Diplomacy (29 MCQs)
UPSC International Relations – Chapter 19: Global Issues – Terrorism, Climate, Technology and Health Diplomacy (29 MCQs) – 29 questions, subject: International Relations. Every question has the correct answer with a one-line explanation; tap "Show Answer". Free practice for TNPSC, UPSC, SSC, Bank and RRB exams – Shanmugam IAS Academy, Coimbatore.
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India became a member of the Financial Action Task Force in:
Correct Answer: A [2010]
Explanation:
India became the 34th member of the FATF at the June 2010 plenary, after holding observer status from 2006.
The third "No Money for Terror" ministerial conference was held in 2022 at:
Correct Answer: B [New Delhi]
Explanation:
India hosted the third No Money for Terror ministerial conference in New Delhi on 18–19 November 2022.
India announced its target of net zero emissions by 2070 at:
Correct Answer: B [COP26, Glasgow]
Explanation:
2021.
The WHO Pandemic Agreement on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response was adopted in May 2025 by the:
Correct Answer: B [World Health Assembly]
Explanation:
the 78th World Health Assembly adopted the WHO Pandemic Agreement on 20 May 2025.
The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure was launched in 2019 at:
Correct Answer: C [the UN Climate Action Summit, New York]
Explanation:
Prime Minister Modi launched CDRI at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York in September 2019; its secretariat is in New Delhi.
Under its updated NDC, India aims to reduce the emission intensity of its GDP by 2030, compared with 2005 levels, by:
Correct Answer: B [45%]
Explanation:
India's updated NDC of August 2022 commits to cutting the emission intensity of GDP by 45% by 2030 from 2005 levels.
The first AI safety summit was held in November 2023 at:
Correct Answer: A [Bletchley Park]
Explanation:
The UK hosted the first AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in November 2023; it produced the Bletchley Declaration.
India is NOT a party to which of the following?
Correct Answer: C [Budapest Convention on cybercrime]
Explanation:
India has not signed or acceded to the Council of Europe's Budapest Convention on cybercrime (2001).
India's "Vaccine Maitri" initiative began in:
Correct Answer: C [January 2021]
Explanation:
Vaccine Maitri began on 20 January 2021, when India sent gifted Covishield doses to Bhutan and the Maldives.
Consider the following statements:
1. Bidibidi refugee settlement is in Uganda.
2. Dadaab refugee complex is in Kenya.
3. Cox's Bazar refugee camps are in Myanmar.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct Answer: B [1 and 2 only]
Explanation:
Bidibidi is in north-western Uganda and Dadaab in Kenya; Cox's Bazar, statement 3's camps, is in Bangladesh, so only 1 and 2 hold.
Assertion (A): India carried out Operation Kaveri in 2023.
Reason (R): Fighting broke out in Sudan between the army and the Rapid Support Forces in April 2023.
Correct Answer: A [Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A]
Explanation:
the operation evacuated Indians from Sudan.
The Tigray conflict took place in:
Correct Answer: D [Ethiopia]
Explanation:
Tigray is a northern region of Ethiopia, where war between federal forces and the TPLF ran from 2020 to 2022.
Operation Dost (2023) was India's relief mission to:
Correct Answer: A [Turkey and Syria]
Explanation:
Operation Dost sent NDRF teams, an army field hospital and relief to Turkey and Syria after the February 2023 earthquakes.
Kachin, a region often in the news for armed conflict, is in:
Correct Answer: D [Myanmar]
Explanation:
Kachin is the northernmost state of Myanmar, where the Kachin Independence Army has fought the military for decades.
The International Solar Alliance was launched jointly by India and:
Correct Answer: D [France]
Explanation:
Prime Minister Modi and President Hollande launched the ISA together at COP21 in Paris on 30 November 2015.
The UN General Assembly adopted the UN Convention against Cybercrime in:
Correct Answer: B [2024]
Explanation:
The General Assembly adopted the UN Convention against Cybercrime on 24 December 2024, the first global treaty on cybercrime.
Arrange the following in chronological order:
1. Paris Agreement
2. Kyoto Protocol
3. Adoption of the UNFCCC
4. India's net zero 2070 pledge
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Correct Answer: C [3-2-1-4]
Explanation:
1992, 1997, 2015, 2021.
India joined the US-led Minerals Security Partnership in:
Correct Answer: D [2023]
Explanation:
June 2023.
The 'Delhi Declaration', adopted in October 2022 at a special meeting of the UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee held in India, deals with:
Correct Answer: A [countering the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes]
Explanation:
adopted on 29 October 2022, it covers terrorist misuse of the internet, new payment technologies and unmanned aerial systems (drones).
India hosted the summit of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence in December 2023 at:
Correct Answer: A [New Delhi]
Explanation:
India, as GPAI lead chair, hosted the GPAI Summit at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, on 12–14 December 2023.
Consider the following statements regarding AI Action Summit held in Grand Palais, Paris in February 2025:
I. Co-chaired with India, the event builds on the advances made at the Bletchley Park Summit held in 2023 and the Seoul Summit held in 2024.
II. Along with other countries, US and UK also signed the declaration on inclusive and sustainable AI.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct Answer: A [I only]
Explanation:
the US and UK did not sign the declaration.
Consider the following statements:
1. The International Solar Alliance was launched at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015.
2. The Alliance includes all the member countries of the United Nations.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct Answer: A [1 only]
Explanation:
launched at COP21, Paris.
Which of the following countries has been suffering from decades of civil strife and food shortages and was in news in the recent past for its very severe famine?
Correct Answer: D [Somalia]
Explanation:
Somalia has faced civil strife since 1991 and suffered severe famine in 2011 and near-famine drought in 2022–23.
Very recently, in which of the following countries have lakhs of people either suffered from severe famine/acute malnutrition or died due to starvation caused by war/ethnic conflicts?
Correct Answer: D [Yemen and South Sudan]
Explanation:
War-driven hunger left lakhs facing famine or acute malnutrition in Yemen and South Sudan; famine was declared in South Sudan in 2017.
Consider the following statements:
1. Bidibidi is a large refugee settlement in north-western Kenya.
2. Some people who fled from South Sudan civil war live in Bidibidi.
3. Some people who fled from civil war in Somalia live in Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct Answer: C [2 and 3]
Explanation:
Statement 1 is wrong as Bidibidi is in Uganda; statements 2 and 3 on South Sudanese and Somali refugees are correct.
Among the following which were frequently mentioned in the news for the outbreak of Ebola virus recently?
Correct Answer: B [Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia]
Explanation:
The 2014–16 West African Ebola outbreak, the largest ever, centred on Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Consider the following pairs:
Regions often mentioned in news — Reason for being in news
1. North Kivu and Ituri — War between Armenia and Azerbaijan
2. Nagorno-Karabakh — Insurgency in Mozambique
3. Kherson and Zaporizhzhia — Dispute between Israel and Lebanon
How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?
Correct Answer: D [None]
Explanation:
North Kivu and Ituri are in the DRC; Nagorno-Karabakh concerns Armenia and Azerbaijan; Kherson and Zaporizhzhia are in Ukraine.
Consider the following pairs:
Area of conflict mentioned in news — Country where it is located
1. Donbas — Syria
2. Kachin — Ethiopia
3. Tigray — North Yemen
How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?
Correct Answer: D [None]
Explanation:
Donbas is in Ukraine, Kachin in Myanmar and Tigray in Ethiopia.
Consider the following pairs:
Country — Reason for being in the news
1. Argentina — Worst economic crisis
2. Sudan — War between the country's regular army and paramilitary forces
3. Turkey — Rescinded its membership of NATO
How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?
Correct Answer: B [Only two pairs]
Explanation:
Turkey remains a NATO member.
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