Answer: C

Explanation

• The 48-member NSG is an elite club of countries that deals with the trade-in nuclear technology and fissile materials besides contributing to the non- proliferation of nuclear weapons.
• Brought in 1974– in response to the Indian nuclear test (smiling Buddha)
• It is a Group of nuclear supplier countries that seek to prevent nuclear proliferation by controlling the export of materials, equipment and technology that can be used to manufacture nuclear weapons.
• India is not a member.
• China, one of the five nuclear-weapon states, stridently opposes India’s NSG bid primarily on the grounds that New Delhi is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
• The Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) is an informal political understanding among states that seek to limit the proliferation of missiles and missile technology.

• The regime was formed in 1987 by the G-7 industrialized countries.
• India joined the group in 2016.
• The MTCR is not a treaty and does not impose any legally binding obligations on Partners (members)
• Australia Group is an informal association of 42 nations formed in 1985 that works to prevent the exportation of chemical and biological weapons and the materials used to produce them.
• India joined it in 2018
• Wassenaar Arrangement is an elite club of countries which subscribe to arms export controls, similar to the Nuclear Suppliers Group and the Missile Technology Control Regime.

• WA has 42 members, the latest entrant being India. (2018)

• With the exception of China, all the other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council are signatories of the WA, which is headquartered in Vienna.

Answer: A

Explanation

• The Global Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has removed Nicaragua and Pakistan from its ‘grey list’ of jurisdictions under increased monitoring, noting their progress in improving their money-laundering prevention regimes. (October 2022)
• The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) was established in July 1989 by a Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Paris, initially to examine and develop measures to combat money laundering

Answer: D

Explanation

• It is a transnational grid that will be laid all over the globe to transport the solar power generated across the globe to different load centres.
• It would thus help in realizing the vision of “One Sun, One World, One Grid” articulated by India.
• The idea was first proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the first assembly of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) in 2018.
• The goal of this project is to connect energy systems across borders in order to accelerate the transition to renewable energy.
• India established the Green Grids Initiative-One Sun One World One Grid (GGI-OSOWOG) project in collaboration with the United Kingdom to create an integrated global electricity grid
• To accelerate the transition to sustainable energy, Britain and India have planned to improve connections between the world’s electricity power grids

• The program will connect 80 countries, allowing surplus renewable energy to be sent to locations with a deficit.
• For instance, countries, where the sun has set, may draw energy from those who are still able to create solar electricity.