{"id":2025,"date":"2024-04-03T09:02:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T03:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2024-04-03T09:02:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T03:32:18","slug":"q-consider-the-following-pairs-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-consider-the-following-pairs-29","title":{"rendered":"Q. Consider the following pairs :"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regions often mentioned in news \u2014 Reason for being in news<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>North Kivu and Ituri : War between Armenia and Azerbaijan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nagorno-Karabakh: Insurgency in Mozambique<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kherson and Zaporizhzhia: Dispute between Israel and Lebanon<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>Only one<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Only two<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All three<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>None<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (d) None<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"notes\">Notes:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"north-kivu-and-ituri\"><strong>North Kivu and Ituri:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>North Kivu and Ituri\u00a0<\/strong>are the eastern provinces of\u00a0<strong>Democratic Republic of Congo<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The President of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi declared a\u00a0<strong>\u201cState of Siege\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0due to the increasing violence in the eastern provinces of North Kivu and Ituri.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The violence killed more than hundred people and displaced more than 1.5 million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/North-Kivu-and-Ituri-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"North Kivu and Ituri\" class=\"wp-image-50448\" title=\"Upsc prelims research: international relations 2023 1\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"nagornokarabakh\">Nagorno-Karabakh:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nagorno-Karabakh is a\u00a0<strong>mountainous and heavily forested region that under international law is recognised as part of Azerbaijan<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recently, protests against possible concessions by Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh which is disputed with neighboring Azerbaijan, have increased.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Nagorno-Karabakh-1024x581.png\" alt=\"Nagorno-Karabakh\" class=\"wp-image-50449\" title=\"Upsc prelims research: international relations 2023 2\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"kherson-and-zaporizhzhia\">Kherson and Zaporizhzhia<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Russia released vote tallies showing overwhelming support in four\u00a0<strong>provinces of Ukraine<\/strong>\u00a0to join with Russia.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The four regions are\u00a0<strong>Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Kherson-and-Zaporizhzhia.webp\" alt=\"Kherson and Zaporizhzhia\" class=\"wp-image-50450\" title=\"Upsc prelims research: international relations 2023 3\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"cabo-delgado\">Cabo Delgado:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The insurgency in Cabo Delgado is an ongoing Islamist insurgency in\u00a0<strong>Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique<\/strong>, mainly fought between militant Islamists and jihadists attempting to establish an Islamic state in the region, and Mozambican security forces.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Civilians have been the main targets of terrorist attacks by Islamist militants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The main insurgent faction is\u00a0<strong>Ansar al-Sunna<\/strong>, a native extremist faction with tenuous international connections.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Ansar al-Sunna (\u201cSupporters of the Tradition\u201d)<\/strong>\u00a0is similar to the name of an Iraqi Sunni insurgent group that fought against U.S. troops between 2003 and 2007.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They are\u00a0<strong>known locally as al-Shabaab<\/strong>\u00a0but they are not formally related to the better known Somali al-Shabaab.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Insurgency-in-Cabo-Delgado-812x1024.png\" alt=\"Insurgency in Cabo Delgado\" class=\"wp-image-50451\" style=\"width:739px;height:auto\" title=\"Upsc prelims research: international relations 2023 4\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"golan-heights\">Golan Heights<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Golan Heights (Golan) is a\u00a0<strong>region in the Levant.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>rocky plateau<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>in<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>south-western Syria<\/strong>, about 60km (40 miles)\u00a0<strong>south-west of<\/strong>\u00a0the Capital,\u00a0<strong>Damascus<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is\u00a0<strong>bounded by<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>Jordan River<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0<strong>Sea of Galilee\u00a0<\/strong>on the west,\u00a0<strong>Mount Hermon<\/strong>\u00a0on the north, the seasonal\u00a0<strong>Wadi Al-Ruqq\u0101d River<\/strong>\u00a0on the east, and the\u00a0<strong>Yarm\u016bk River\u00a0<\/strong>on the south.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Golan extends about 44 miles (71 km) from north to south and about 27 miles (43 km) from east to west at its widest point.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is\u00a0<strong>roughly boat-shaped<\/strong>\u00a0and has an area of\u00a0<strong>1,150 square kilometres.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>History<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Israel seized<\/strong>\u00a0the Golan Heights from Syria\u00a0<strong>in the closing stages of the 1967 Six-Day War.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Most of the Syrian Arab inhabitants fled the area during the conflict.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An armistice line was established, and the region came under Israeli military control. Almost immediately, Israel began to settle the Golan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Syria tried to retake<\/strong>\u00a0the Golan Heights\u00a0<strong>during the 1973 Middle East<\/strong>\u00a0Despite inflicting heavy losses on Israeli forces, the surprise\u00a0<strong>assault was thwarted.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both\u00a0<strong>countries signed an armistice in 1974,<\/strong>\u00a0and a\u00a0<strong>UN observer force has been in place\u00a0<\/strong>on the ceasefire line\u00a0<strong>since 1974.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Israel unilaterally annexed the Golan Heights in 1981<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are more than\u00a0<strong>30 Israeli settlements<\/strong>\u00a0in the Golan. The settlements are\u00a0<strong>considered illegal under international law<\/strong>, although Israel disputes this.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>About\u00a0<strong>20,000 Syrians and 20,000 Israelis live\u00a0<\/strong>in the Golan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Strategic Importance:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Syrian capital, Damascus,\u00a0<\/strong>can be\u00a0<strong>clearly seen<\/strong>\u00a0from the\u00a0<strong>top of the Golan Hills<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>When it rains<\/strong>\u00a0here, its\u00a0<strong>water goes to the Jordan River<\/strong>, which supplies water in dry areas. It is believed that\u00a0<strong>this water supplies one-third of Israel\u2019s water<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Apart from this, the\u00a0<strong>land here is very fertile,<\/strong>\u00a0which is very good for farming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Golan-Heights-560x1024.webp\" alt=\"Golan Heights\" class=\"wp-image-50452\" style=\"width:524px;height:auto\" title=\"Upsc prelims research: international relations 2023 5\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regions often mentioned in news \u2014 Reason for being in news How many of the above pairs are correctly matched? Answer: (d) None Notes: North Kivu and Ituri: Nagorno-Karabakh: Kherson and Zaporizhzhia Cabo Delgado: Golan Heights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[47],"years":[50],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-international-relations","years-50"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":47,"label":"International Relations"}],"years":[{"value":50,"label":"2023"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashish Singh","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/sociology-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":47,"name":"International Relations","slug":"international-relations","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":47,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":79,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}