Ministry of Jal Shakti.
C)Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
D) Central Pollution Control Board.
B) NITI Aayog and it Ministry of Jal Shakti.
Background: The document expressly states that the Yearly Sujalam Bharat Summit saw NITI Aayog operationalizing the arrangements that included the Ministry of Jal Shakti as the sink lead, to incorporate the grassroots input into the national water policy.
Article 11: Discovery of New Snake Eel.
Question 11: This new species of finless snake eel, Apterichtus kanniyakumari was discovered in the waters off the:
A) Gujarat
B) Colachel, Kanniyakumari district.
C) the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
D) Puri, Odisha
Brin. Colachel, Kanniyakumari district answer.
Explanation Scientists have made the discovery on the Colachel coast of the Kanniyakumari district and named the species Apterichtus kanniyakumari in honor of the geographical and cultural importance of the region.
Article 12: GST Forthcoming Tribunal (GSTAT).
Question 12: What is the main role of the newly created Goods and Services tax Appellate tribunal (GSTAT)?
A) To establish new GST tax rates with every year.
B) To offer a specialized place of dispute resolution of GST nature.
C) To audit financial records of very big corporations.
D) To give up the Finance Ministry in policy-making.
2) To offer a specialized forum to resolve GST related disputes.
Explanation: The establishment of GSTAT was necessary in order to bridge a major gap, in that there was a specialized tribunal that was lean, concise, and precise in the resolution of disputes involving the GST assessments and interpretations to save time of litigations and to provide their clients with clarity.
Article 13: E-Sign Voter Check.
Question 13: The new system that the Election Commission has implemented to conduct its elections using an Aadhaar-based e-sign verification on its ECINET portal is meant primarily to:
A) enable home based voting.
B) bar fraudulent modifications of electeor lists.
C) Do compulsory voting on all elections.
D) Find voter ID associated with social media.
As a precaution, discourage any fraud commissions on voter rolls.
Explanation:Aadhaar-based authentication is required in terms of voter registration, deletion, or correction requests. This speaks directly to fraudulent acts occurring in the past like mass deletion of voters using forged forms where only real voters can do so.
Article 14:-Agni-Prime Test of Rail Launcher.
Question 14: The strategic importance of successful testing of anAgni-Prime missile by India in its duration of 2025 using its rail based launcher is because:
B) Demonstrates that India has the capability of launching missiles in space.
B) Contributes significantly to the mobility of the missile and its survivability.
C) Has an inexpensive substitute of road-mobiles.
D) Makes the missile able to carry a heavier nuclear warhead.
Answer. B.) Markedly increases the mobility and the survivability of the missile.
Explanation A rail launcher can fly cross country at a relatively high speed and do so very quietly on the national rail system making it more difficult to be spotted and targeted, increasing dramatically the survivability and credibility of the Indian strategic deterrent.
Article 15: UNEP Young Champs of The Earth.
Question 15: Innovations aimed at tackling any of the following sets of issues were honored with the 2025 UNEP Young Champions of the Earth award?
A) Space debris, satellite communication and asteroid mining.
B) Cybersecurity, blockchain and quantum computing.
C) plastic substitutes, waste disposal and water reuse.
D) Deep-sea mining, ocean thermal power and tidal power.
answer Waste management, plastic substitutes and water reuse.
Explanation: The Indian, Kenyan and the US winners were noted to have worked on banana waste leather (waste management), water hyacinth packaging (plastic alternative) and a grey water recycling system (water reuse).
Protecting Mahendragiri Endangered: Hills.
Question 16: What particular preserved status in the Mahendragiri Hills are conservationists demanding in order to shield the hills against large scale construction developments?
B) World Heritage Cultural UNESCO site.
B) National Park.
C) Biosphere Reserve.
D) Tiger Reserve.
shortcut:answer|> C) Biosphere Reserve.
Reason: Although it is a Biodiversity Heritage Site, activists contend that a Biosphere Reserve status is required at a greater level of protection and management in order to legally safeguard the ecology and tribal culture at the hills against unregulated development of the region through tourism.
2012 was the year that Article 17: Uttar Pradesh International Trade Show was held.
Question 17: Which country will be the one taking part in the Uttar Pradesh International Trade Show 2025 (UPITS-2025) as one of the partner countries of this location, indicating an important bilateral relationship?
A) United States
B) Russia
C) Japan
D) United Arab Emirates
Answer 2) Russia
Explanation: The role of the partner country Russia defines in the article is a critical point of the trade show, whose purpose is to improve bilateral relations in trade and the establishment of investment unions.
Article 18: The article provides details of the meeting of world food regulators.
Question 18: The Global Food Regulators Summit 2025 (GFRS), which will be held at FSSAI in New Delhi had a major interest in:
A) marketing the indian restaurants all over the world.
B) Prohibition of international trade of genetically modified foods.
C) To coordinate international food safety standards and to work in favour of safer food systems.
D) Pricing basic foodstuffs on a global basis.
c) incorporating the problem of bringing together international food safety standards and facilitating safer food systems.
Purpose: The goal of the summit was to bring all of the food standards together in the world, to aid in better risk evaluation and to use technology to develop safe, sustainable and equitable food production systems with international cooperation.