निम्नलिखित कथनों पर विचार कीजिए : कथन–I. इज़राइल ने कुछ अरब राज्यों के साथ राजनयिक संबंध स्थापित किए हैं। कथन–II. ‘अरब शांति पहल’ सऊदी अरब की मध्यस्थता से इज़राइल और अरब लीग के बीच हस्ताक्षरित हुआ। उपर्युक्त कथनों के बारे में, निम्नलिखित में से कौन-सा एक सही है?

(a) कथन–I और कथन–II दोनों सही हैं तथा कथन–II, कथन–I की सही व्याख्या है

(b) कथन–I और कथन–II दोनों सही हैं तथा कथन–II, कथन–I की सही व्याख्या नहीं है

(d) कथन–I गलत है किन्तु कथन–II सही है

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India & the world: places, pacts & relations

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Prelims 2023 · Q10

Medium

भारत की कनेक्टिविटी परियोजनाओं के संदर्भ में, निम्नलिखित कथनों पर विचार कीजिए :

1.स्वर्णिम चतुर्भुज परियोजना के अधीन पूर्व-पश्चिम गलियारा (कॉरिडोर), डिब्रूगढ़ और सूरत को जोड़ता है।
2.त्रिपक्षीय राजमार्ग मणिपुर में मोरेह को, म्यांमार से होते हुए, थाईलैंड में चियांग माई से जोड़ता है।
3.बांग्लादेश-चीन-भारत-म्यांमार आर्थिक गलियारा (कॉरिडोर) उत्तर प्रदेश में वाराणसी को चीन में कुनमिंग से जोड़ता है।

उपर्युक्त में से कितने कथन सही हैं?

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With reference to India's projects on connectivity, consider the following statements:

1. East-West Corridor under Golden Quadrilateral Project connects Dibrugarh and Surat.

2. Trilateral Highway connects Moreh in Manipur and Chiang Mai in Thailand via Myanmar.

3. Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor connects Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh with Kunming in China.

How many of the above statements are correct?

(a) Only one · (b) Only two · (c) All three · (d) None

उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English

Answer: (d) कोई भी नहीं

Every statement has a wrong end-point or a wrong project name. The East-West Corridor runs from Silchar to Porbandar and is separate from the Golden Quadrilateral, the Trilateral Highway runs from Moreh to Mae Sot in Thailand, and the BCIM corridor was planned from Kolkata to Kunming.

✗ 1. The East-West Corridor links Silchar in Assam with Porbandar in Gujarat (about 3,640 km). It belongs to the North-South and East-West corridor programme, not to the Golden Quadrilateral, which joins Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata.
✗ 2. PIB states that the India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway aims to connect Moreh in Manipur to Mae Sot in Thailand via Myanmar, not Chiang Mai.
✗ 3. The Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) Economic Corridor was conceived to link Kolkata with Kunming in Yunnan through Bangladesh and Myanmar; Varanasi is not on it.

Remember · East-West Corridor: Silchar–Porbandar; North-South: Srinagar–Kanniyakumari. Trilateral Highway: Moreh–Mae Sot. BCIM: Kolkata–Kunming.

📘 Read it in NCERT: Class 12 India: People and Economy, Ch 7 (practise this chapter)

Sources

NCERT Class 12 · India: People and Economy, Chapter 7 “The East-West Corridor has been planned to connect Silchar in Assam with the port town of Porbandar in Gujarat with 3,640-km of road length.”
PIB: Ashtalakshmi, the North-East at the Heart of India's Act East Policy ↗ “The India–Myanmar–Thailand Trilateral Highway is a flagship project under this framework. It aims to connect Moreh in Manipur to Mae Sot in Thailand via Myanmar.”

Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper I (2023, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 1 Oct 2026 (how we verify). Permalink ·

Prelims 2023 · Q78

X-Ray · Core #57 Easy

निम्नलिखित में से कौन-सा एक देश, दशकों से गृहकलह और खाद्य संकट से त्रस्त रहा है तथा हाल के पिछले दिनों में अति गंभीर दुर्भिक्ष के लिए समाचारों में था?

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Which one 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?

(a) Angola · (b) Costa Rica · (c) Ecuador · (d) Somalia

उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English

Answer: (d) सोमालिया

Somalia, in the Horn of Africa, is the country that fits: years of conflict plus a prolonged drought pushed it to the edge of famine in 2022, and UN agencies issued repeated famine warnings.

✓ (d) In April 2022 the UN agencies FAO, OCHA, UNICEF and WFP warned that millions of Somalis were at risk of sliding into famine because of prolonged drought, and WFP describes the country as facing protracted conflict, drought and displacement.
✗ (a) Angola is in southern Africa. It was not the subject of the UN famine warnings that made Somalia the news in 2022.
✗ (b) Costa Rica (Central America) and Ecuador (South America) had no comparable civil strife or famine warning, so options (b) and (c) are easily ruled out.

Remember · Somalia (Horn of Africa): protracted conflict plus a prolonged drought led UN agencies to warn of famine in 2022.

Sources

OCHA: Joint FAO-OCHA-UNICEF-WFP Statement on the Drought Emergency in Somalia (12 April 2022) ↗ · reference work “Millions of Somalis are at risk of sliding into famine as the impact of a prolonged drought continues to destroy lives and livelihoods”
World Food Programme: Somalia country page ↗ · reference work “Somalia faces complex challenges of protracted conflict, drought, displacement, limited social services and reduced humanitarian funding.”

Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper I (2023, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). Permalink ·

Prelims 2023 · Q93

X-Ray · Core #57 Easy

निम्नलिखित युग्मों पर विचार कीजिए :

	प्रायः समाचारों में उल्लिखित होने वाले क्षेत्र	समाचारों में होने का कारण
1.	उत्तरी किवू और इटुरी	आर्मीनिया और अज़रबैजान के बीच युद्ध
2.	नागोर्नो-कारबाख़	मोज़ाम्बीक में उपप्लव
3.	खेरसॉन और जपोरिज़िया	इज़राइल और लेबनान के बीच विवाद

उपर्युक्त में से कितने युग्म सही सुमेलित हैं?

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Consider the following pairs:

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?

(a) Only one · (b) Only two · (c) All three · (d) None

उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English

Answer: (d) कोई भी नहीं

None of the pairs is correct; each region has been paired with the wrong conflict. North Kivu and Ituri are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nagorno-Karabakh is at the centre of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia are regions of Ukraine occupied by Russia.

✗ 1. North Kivu and Ituri are provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where armed attacks and clashes between armed groups (including M23) and the army have displaced millions. The Armenia-Azerbaijan war is a different conflict.
✗ 2. Nagorno-Karabakh is the region at the heart of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict; the UN Security Council has discussed the Lachin Corridor linking it with Armenia. The Mozambique insurgency is unrelated.
✗ 3. Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, with Donetsk and Luhansk, are Ukrainian regions that the UN General Assembly said are temporarily occupied by Russia. They have nothing to do with an Israel-Lebanon dispute.

Remember · North Kivu and Ituri: DR Congo. Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenia-Azerbaijan. Kherson and Zaporizhzhia: Ukraine, occupied by Russia.

Sources

OCHA: DR Congo (Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu) Scale-up Response Report, July-December 2023 ↗ · reference work “The humanitarian situation in the provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri remained precarious due to the intensification of armed attacks against civilians and the resumption of clashes between non-state armed groups and the army.”
UN Security Council meeting coverage: Lachin Corridor, Nagorno-Karabakh (August 2023) ↗ “Movement through the Lachin Corridor — connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia and the rest of the world — must be reopened immediately, speakers told the Security Council today, as they called on both Armenia and Azerbaijan”
UN News: General Assembly demands Russia reverse course on attempted illegal annexation (12 Oct 2022) ↗ “notes that the regions of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia are temporarily occupied by Russia as a result of aggression, violating Ukraine’s territorial integrity, sovereignty and political independence.”

Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper I (2023, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). Permalink ·

Prelims 2023 · Q94

X-Ray · Core #57 Medium

निम्नलिखित कथनों पर विचार कीजिए :

कथन–I: इज़राइल ने कुछ अरब राज्यों के साथ राजनयिक संबंध स्थापित किए हैं।
कथन–II: ‘अरब शांति पहल’ सऊदी अरब की मध्यस्थता से इज़राइल और अरब लीग के बीच हस्ताक्षरित हुआ।

उपर्युक्त कथनों के बारे में, निम्नलिखित में से कौन-सा एक सही है?

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Consider the following statements:

Statement-I. Israel has established diplomatic relations with some Arab States.

Statement-II. The 'Arab Peace Initiative' mediated by Saudi Arabia was signed by Israel and Arab League.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?

(a) Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct and Statement-II is the correct explanation for Statement-I · (b) Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct and Statement-II is not the correct explanation for Statement-I · (c) Statement-I is correct but Statement-II is incorrect · (d) Statement-I is incorrect but Statement-II is correct

उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English

Answer: (c) कथन–I सही है किन्तु कथन–II गलत है

Statement-I is correct: Israel has normalised relations with several Arab States, including the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in 2020. Statement-II is wrong: the Arab Peace Initiative was a Saudi proposal adopted by the Arab League in 2002, and Israel never signed it.

✓ Statement-I In September 2020 Israel signed the Abraham Accords with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, establishing normal relations. Egypt (1979) and Jordan (1994) had earlier made peace with Israel.
✗ Statement-II The Arab League summit in Beirut (27-28 March 2002) adopted the initiative presented by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. It asks Israel to withdraw from Arab territories occupied since 1967 and offers normal relations from Arab States in return. Israel is the party addressed, not a signatory.

Remember · Arab Peace Initiative (2002): Saudi proposal adopted by the Arab League at Beirut; land for peace and normal relations. Israel did not sign. Abraham Accords (2020): Israel with UAE and Bahrain.

Sources

UN Security Council meeting coverage SC/14315 (29 September 2020): normalization of ties between Israel and Gulf Arab States ↗ “Citing the agreements — collectively known as the Abraham Accords — between Israel on the one hand and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on the other”
UN Question of Palestine (UNISPAL): Arab Peace Initiative, Beirut Summit of the League of Arab States, 27-28 March 2002 ↗ “Having heard the statement in which His Royal Highness Prince Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, presented his Initiative and called for Israel’s full withdrawal from all the Arab territories that have been occupied since 1967 … 1. Requests Israel to re-examine its policies and to incline towards peace and declare that a just peace is also its own strategic choice”

Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper I (2023, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). Permalink ·

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