Target Prelims 2021 Daily Quiz

16 June 2021
Q1. Which of the following cities are located in the Brahmaputra Valley?

1. Guwahati
2. Dibrugarh
3. Aizwal
4. Tezpur

a. 1 and 2 only
b. 1, 2 and 3 only
c. 2, 3 and 4 only
d. 1, 2 and 4 only

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Q2. Which of the following statements are correct?

1. The construction of Humayun's tomb was commissioned by Humayun’s son Akbar.

2. The tomb has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
3. The last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar took refuge here, during the Mutiny
of 1857, before being exiled to Rangoon.

a. 1 only
b. 1 and 2 only
c. 1 and 3 only
d. 2 and 3 only

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Q3. ‘Christchurch Call to Action Summit’ is related to -

a. Tackling GHG emissions linked to cryptocurrency mining

b. Curbing online dissemination of extremist content
c. Preventing oil spills and marine disasters
d. Promoting climate resilient agricultural practices

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Q4. Mayun island/Perim island, recently seen in news, is located near which crucial
maritime chokepoint?

a. Strait of Malacca
b. Suez Canal
c. Bab-el-Mandeb Strait
d. Strait of Hormuz

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 PYQP (2017)
Q.5 Consider the following in respect of Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS):

1. Inaugural IONS was held in India in 2015 under the chairmanship of the Indian
Navy.
2. IONS is a voluntary initiative that seeks to increase maritime co-operation among
navies of the littoral states of the Indian Ocean Region.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

a. 1 only
b. 2 only
c. Both 1 and 2
d. Neither 1 nor 2
 FACT OF THE DAY

International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)

• It is an intergovernmental organization created by the mandate of the Third United Nations

Conference on the Law of the Sea.
• It was established by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS),
signed in 1982.
• The Convention entered into force in 1994, and established an international framework for
law over "all ocean space, its uses and resources".
• The ITLOS is one of four dispute resolution mechanisms listed under the UNCLOS.
• The tribunal is based in Hamburg, Germany.
• According to its founding statute, the Tribunal has a set of 21 judges who serve from a
variety of states parties, "according to a method that intends to assure an equitable
geographical representation“.
• ITLOS Members are elected for a period of 9 years and may be re-elected. Every 3 years,
the term of one-third of the members expires.
• India played a constructive role in deliberations leading to UNCLOS’s adoption in 1982
and has been a party to the convention since 1995.
• Ms. Neeru Chadha, an eminent lawyer and the first Indian woman to become the chief legal
adviser in the Ministry of External Affairs, won the election to the International Tribunal
for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) for a nine-year term from 2017 to 2026.
• In the Enrica Lexie case, Italy moved the International Tribunal for Law of the Sea (ITLOS)
seeking for the two Italian marines to stay in their own country during the trial process and
also to stop India from going ahead with its criminal prosecution. The ruling went in favour
of Italy with compensation ordered for the victims families.