{"id":2899,"date":"2026-04-23T08:14:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:14:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:44:40","slug":"consider-the-following-pairs-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/prelims\/consider-the-following-pairs-4","title":{"rendered":"Consider the following pairs:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I. International Year of the Woman Farmer: 2026&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">II. International Year of Sustainable and Resilient Tourism: 2027&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">III. International Year of Peace and Trust: 2025&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IV. International Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defence: 2029&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How many of the pairs given above are&nbsp;<strong>correctly matched?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list mcq\">\n<li>Only one\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Only two\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Only three\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All the four<\/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) All the four<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The UN General Assembly has declared<strong>\u00a02026 as the International Year of the Woman Farmer.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This initiative aims to highlight the crucial role of women farmers in food security, nutrition, and poverty eradication, and to address the challenges they face.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The United Nations has proclaimed<strong>\u00a02027 as the International Year of Sustainable and Resilient Tourism.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on 26 February 2024 to declare 2027 as the International Year of Sustainable and Resilient Tourism. It aims to emphasize the active promotion of sustainable and resilient tourism as a vital tool for poverty eradication, supporting the involvement of women, youth, older persons, and persons with disabilities, expanding economic opportunities, and creating decent jobs and income sources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution to declare<strong>\u00a02025 as the International Year of Peace and Trust.\u00a0<\/strong>It calls on the international community to resolve conflicts through inclusive dialogue and negotiation in order to ensure the strengthening of peace and trust in relations between UN member states as a value that promotes sustainable development, peace and security, and human rights.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2025 has been proclaimed an international year devoted to four different themes:\u00a0<strong>International Year of Glaciers, Peace, Quantum science and Cooperatives.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 2024, the UN General Assembly declared\u00a0<strong>2029 the International Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defence\u00a0<\/strong>to take advantage of the close approach of 99942 Apophis and raise global awareness about asteroids.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>On 13 April 2029, the asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass safely at a distance of about 32,000 kilometers above Earth\u2019s surface<\/strong>, within the geostationary orbit, posing no threat to the planet. This extremely close approach will make the asteroid visible to billions of people with the naked eye in the clear night sky.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"upcoming-and-recent-international-years\"><strong>Upcoming and Recent International Years:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2029<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>International Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defence<\/strong>: Raises awareness about asteroid threats and defense mechanisms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2027:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>International Year of Sustainable and Resilient Tourism<\/strong>: Promotes sustainable and resilient tourism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2026:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists<\/strong>: Highlights the importance of rangelands and the role of pastoralists.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development<\/strong>: Recognizes the role of volunteers in achieving SDGs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>International Year of the Woman Farmer<\/strong>: Focuses on closing gender gaps in agrifood systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2025:<\/strong>\u00a0Quantum Science and Technology, Cooperatives, Glaciers\u2019 Preservation, and Peace and Trust.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2024:<\/strong>\u00a0International Year of Camelids.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023:<\/strong>\u00a0International Year of Millets, &amp; International Year of Dialogue as a Guarantee of Peace.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2022:<\/strong>\u00a0International Year of Glass, Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, and Sustainable Mountain Development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I. International Year of the Woman Farmer: 2026&nbsp;&nbsp; II. International Year of Sustainable and Resilient Tourism: 2027&nbsp;&nbsp; III. International Year of Peace and Trust: 2025&nbsp;&nbsp; IV. International Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defence: 2029&nbsp;&nbsp; How many of the pairs given above are&nbsp;correctly matched?&nbsp;&nbsp; Answer: (d) All the four Upcoming and Recent International Years:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,1],"tags":[47],"years":[63],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prelims","category-upsc","tag-international-relations","years-63"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"},{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"}],"post_tag":[{"value":47,"label":"International Relations"}],"years":[{"value":63,"label":"2025"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"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},{"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}],"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\/2899","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}