A. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
B. The Indian Space Research Organization
C. The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
D. The Defence Research and Development Organisation
✅ The correct answer is option A.
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) was awarded the National Intellectual Property (IP) Award 2018 in the category ‘Top R&D Institution/Organisation for Patents and Commercialisation’.
✅ The correct answer is option B.
On 17 November 1966, the UN General Assembly passes Resolution 2152 establishing the UN Industrial Development Organization as an autonomous body within the United Nations. Its mission was to promote and accelerate the industrialization of developing countries.
✅ The correct answer is option C.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a UN agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with over 17300 staff working in 135 countries.
✅ The correct answer is option A.
In WTO terminology, subsidies in general are identified by ‘Boxes’ which are given the colours of traffic lights : green (permitted), amber (slow down – i.e. be reduced), red (forbidden).