Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on February 8 that the Government has decided to scrap the Free Movement Regime (FMR) along Myanmar border to ensure the internal security of the country and to maintain the demographic structure of India’s North Eastern States. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has recommended the immediate suspension of FMR, he said.

“It is Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji’s resolve to secure our borders. MHA has decided that the FMR between India and Myanmar be scrapped to ensure the internal security of the country and to maintain the demographic structure of India’s North Eastern States bordering Myanmar. Since the Ministry of External Affairs is currently in the process of scrapping it, MHA has recommended the immediate suspension of the FMR,” Mr. Shah posted on X.

Source – https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-suspends-free-movement-regime-with-myanmar/article67824429.ece

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Northern Ireland will conduct a referendum on uniting with the Republic of Ireland in this decade, the leadership of Sinn Fein, the party that heads the government of Northern Ireland, said on Thursday.
“We believe that we will have polls, referendums on the question of unity in this decade,” Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald told journalists at a Foreign Press Association briefing in London. Earlier in the day, Ms. McDonald had clarified to Sky News that by “this decade” she had meant before 2030.
The conversation around the referendum would need to be “inclusive” and “planned, orderly, peaceful, democratic constitutional”, she said, adding that multiple identities could be accommodated within the national framework and this would involve working with the U.K., on the rights of British citizens living in Ireland.

Source- https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/

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Passage 1

1. The FMR is a mutually agreed arrangement between India and Myanmar that allows tribes living along the border on either side to travel up to __ km to the other side without a visa.

A. 12

B. 16

C. 25

D. 30

2. The FMR was implemented in which year as part of the GoI’s Act East policy?

A. 2015

B. 2016

C. 2017

D. 2018

3. Which Indian state government has suspended the FMR since 2020?

A. Arunachal Pradesh

B. Manipur

C. Tripura

D. Mizoram

4. Historically, the British demarcated the border between India and Myanmar in?

A. 1826

B. 1859

C. 1898

D. 1905

5. Which of this is incorrect?

A. Indo-Myanmar Border (IMB) is a 1,643 km long border between Myanmar and three Indian states, namely Mizoram, Manipur, and Arunachal Pradesh.

B. Border with Myanmar had been predominantly unfenced, except for a small section in Manipur covering approximately 10 km.

C. Both a and b

D. None

Passage 2

6. Which of this has been called the “problem child” of Brexit?

A. UK

B. Northern Ireland

C. Southern Ireland

D. Eastern Belfast

7. Northern Ireland was the region of a 30-year civil war existing in which of this time frame, known as ‘The Troubles’ between the Republicans and the Unionists?

A. 1968-1998

B. 1964-1994

C. 1961-1991

D. 1958-1988

8. Who is the current PM of Ireland?

A. Katrin Jakobsdottir

B. Jonas Gahr Store

C. Leo Varadkar

D. Ulf Kristersson

9. Which of this is not correct?

A. Northern Ireland is governed by a power-sharing agreement which is known as consociationalism and is laid down in the Good Friday Agreement of 1991.

B. The Good Friday Agreement is a unique peace treaty because it conceded to most of the demands from both sides of the conflict.

C. After a bloody war it was able to gain independence from England through the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921. However the Ireland was split into two territories. As there was a protestant majority in Ulster out of the 32 counties in Ireland six remained with the U.K. which formed the region of Northern Ireland.

D. None

10. Recently which pro-Irish unity politician from the Sinn Fein party made history by becoming the first Nationalist First Minister of Northern Ireland?

A. Michael Martin

B. Mary Lou

C. Gerry Adams

D. Michelle O Neil

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