The Bharat Ratna will be conferred on former Prime Ministers P. V. Narasimha Rao and Choudhary Charan Singh, as well as Green Revolution pioneer M. S. Swaminathan, adding to the two awardees already announced earlier this year — socialist leader Karpoori Thakur and former Deputy Prime Minister L. K. Advani.

A Rashtrapati Bhawan communique made the announcement on Friday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauding his late predecessors — the Congress PM Rao’s liberalisation policies, and the Janata Party PM Singh’s championing of the farmers’ cause — as well as the late agricultural scientist Swaminathan’s services in the field.

The Bharat Ratna is India’s highest civilian honour. This year’s tally of five awardees, one more than the four announced in 1999, is the highest that has ever been announced in a single year.

Source – https://www.thehindu.com/news/national

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West Africa’s regional bloc appealed for unity on after emergency talks on the withdrawal of three coup-hit countries from the group.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) extraordinary session also addressed President Macky Sall’s decision to delay elections in Senegal, a major concern for the region that came just a week after Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger declared their departure.
The chairman of the ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council urged the three countries not to leave, warning their exit would “bring more hardship and do more harm to common citizens”.

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

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Passage 1

1. The Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award was established in?

A. 1951

B. 1953

C. 1954

D. 1956

2. The nomination process for the Bharat Ratna is distinctive, with recommendations made directly by?

A. President

B. PM

C. Union Cabinet

D. Any Union Cabinet Minister

3. The late PV Narasimha Rao served as the ___th Prime Minister of India from 1991-1996.

A. 7th

B. 8th

C. 9th

D. 10th

4. India celebrates National Farmers Day on which of this date, to commemorate the birth anniversary of the 5th Prime Minister of India, Choudhary Charan Singh?

A. 20 Dec

B. 21 Dec

C. 22 Dec

D. 23 Dec

5. Swaminathan is considered the father of India’s Green Revolution. He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in ___ and the inaugural World Food Prize in ___.

A. 1971 and 1987

B. 1974 and 1981

C. 1977 and 1984

D. 1979 and 1986

Passage 2

6. The ECOWAS, also known as CEDEAO in French, is a regional intergovernmental organization established in?

A. 1971

B. 1975

C. 1978

D. 1981

7. In the recent years Chad, Guinea, Mali and Sudan caught international attention for which one of the following reasons is common to all of them?

A. Discovery of rich deposits of rare earth elements

B. Establishment of Chinese military bases

C. Southward expansion of Sahara Desert

D. Successful coups

8. The West African foreign and defence ministers attended the council meeting which was held in?

A. Abuja

B. Bamako

C. Niamey

D. Ouagadougou

9. In meeting, which country was discussed as worrying, the country plunged into its worst political crisis in decades this weekend when Sall postponed the February 25 vote to December just hours before campaigning was set to begin?

A. Niger

B. Mali

C. Senegal

D. Benin

10. Which of this is incorrect about the ECOWAS?

A. It was created through the Lagos Treaty, ECOWAS aims to foster economic integration, cooperation, and development among West African nations.

B. The Secretariat, headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria.

C. ECOWAS consists of 12 member states: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d’ Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali and Togo.

D. None

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