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In the article 7: New Western Ghats Lizard Discoveries, the issue of discoveries is discussed.
What were the implications of the survey results of the Kottiyoor Day Gecko?
A) It was an entirely new species, which was first discovered.
B) It was a rediscovery of a gecko that was critically endangered and had not been seen since 1970s.
C) It turned out that the gecko is dead now.
D) It indicated that the gecko has moved to an unfamiliar range of mountains.
Response: B) This was a rediscovery of a severely endangered gecko last observed in the 1970s.
Explanation: It is an article that talks of a rediscovery that has been achieved and it has not been witnessed since the 1970s.
What two organizations were involved in conducting the herpetological survey?
A) ISRO and NASA
B) Kerala Forest Department, MARC.
C) WWF and IUCN
D) Indian Army and Indian Navy.
Response: B) Kerala Forest Department and MARC.
Explanation: According to the article, the survey was the collaborative project between the Kerala Forest Department and the Malabar Awareness and rescue centre of the wild animals (MARC).
Article 8: NAVYA Project trains girls in their teens with Vocational training.
What are the two ministries that are working on NAVYA project?
A) Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Defence.
B) Ministry of Knowledge and Enterprise as well as Ministry of Women and Child Development.
C) Ministry of Finance and ministry of education.
D) Ministry of Rural Development and Ministry of Agriculture.
Response: B) Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Ministry of Women and Child Development.
Explanation: The partnership is made clear in the article, naming it as between the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) and the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD).
Other than technical skills, what are other areas that the NAVYA program concentrates on in order to develop in a holistic way?
A) Future astrophysics and quantum computing.
B) Political campaigning, and oratory.
C) Health, nutrition, financial literacy, legal awareness.
D) ancient history, old arts.
Response: C) Health, nutrition, financial literacy, and legal awareness.
Explanation: In the section of Holistic Development, there are modules of health, nutrition, and hygiene, financial literacy, legal awareness, and interpersonal communication.
Article 9: Infrastructure Development of Food Grain storage in India by 2025.
Which is the major government agency that is doing centralized storage and keeping buffer stocks of food grains?
A) NITI Aayog
B) Food Corporation of India (FCI).
C) National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (NAFED).
D) Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC).
Correct answer: B) food corporation of India (FCI).
Explanation: The article explains that, there is centralised storage supported by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) which purchases grains at Minimum Support Price and has warehouses....
What is the most important use of Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS)?
A) They produce cold storage equipment.
B) They have decentralized storage at the village level.
C) They have the duty of exporting grains internationally.
D) They establish Minimum Support Price of crops.
Response: B) They offer local, village level storage systems.
Motivation: The part of the explanation on the subject of PACS Decentralised Storage describes how these societies are improving the village level storage to minimise the costs and losses incurred in transport.
Article 10: Fresh UGC regulations about registering foreign students.
As per the new UGC regulations, how is it that all foreign students are to be registered henceforth, starting in 2025-26 academic year?
B) The Sixty-Five Percent Portal.
B) Study in India (SII), portal.
C) Ministry of External Affairs web site.
D) The portal of the individual university on the subject of admission.
Response: B) The Study in India (SII) portal.
Explanation: The primary argument of the article is that the foreign students will be required to enroll on the Study in India (SII) portal starting the academic year 2025-26.
What is one of the chief aims of this new centralized registration system?
A) To raise the cost of university tuition on the students of foreign origin.
B) To minimize the total population of foreign students in India.
C) To improve transparency, security and monitoring student visas.
D) To reinforce the Indian languages among foreign students.
Response: C) To increase the level of transparency, safety and monitor student visas.
Rationale: It aims to make the enrolment and movement more transparent, safe, and in accordance to the visa norms by being informed about the enrolment and movement in real-time.
Article 11: The Jal Prahar 2025 Joint Amphibious Exercise of Indian Navy.
Jal Prahar 2025 exercise was held to build operational preparedness in what kind of a war?
A) Cyber Warfare
B) Amphibious Warfare
C) Mountain Warfare
D) Air Defence Warfare
Answer: B) Amphibious Warfare
Explanation: The overview explains that the drill was an effort to improve the inter-service coordination and war preparedness in amphibious warfare.
What stage of the exercise was that where real amphibious landings and use of Landing Craft Assault vessels was involved?
A) The Harbour Phase
B) The Planning Phase
C) The Sea Phase
D) The Debriefing Phase
Answer: C) The Sea Phase
Elaboration: The article states that the phase of the Sea consisted of the testing of the amphibious landings including the deployment of Landing Craft Assault (LCA) ships.
Article 12: NASA-ISRO NISAR Satellite Acquires the First images of the earth.
What is the most important technological benefit of the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) of the NISAR satellite?
A) It is able to capture color photos with a greater amount of resolution than the eye.
B) It is able to see the surface of the earth day and night, no matter what the weather is like.
C) It is oriented on communication.
D) It has a concentration on deep space phenomena.
Explanation: B) It is able to see the surface of the Earth, both by day and night, whether it is sunny or not.
Explanation: The article indicates that, SAR can generate high-resolution images of the surface of the earth at any time of the day and in all weather conditions.
What are the two space agencies that have come together to create a joint Earth observation mission called NISAR?
A) ROSCOSMOS (Russia) and JAXA (Japan).
B) NASA (USA) and ISRO (India)
C) ESA (Europe) and CNSA (China)
D) CSA (Canada): and KARI (South Korea).
Option: B NASA (USA) and ISRO (India).
Explanation: It is explicitly mentioned in its mission overview that NISAR is an Earth observation project and is a partnership of NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
Article 13: India, Sustainable Livestock Transformation Initiatives.
According to the article, what is the ranking of India on milk production in the world?
A) Second Largest
B) Third Largest
C) Largest
D) Fifth Largest
Answer: C) Largest
Explanation: According to the article India is the largest milk producer in the world that produces about a quarter of the world supply.
What purpose is a mission to save native cattle breeds and increase genetic diversity?
A) The National Digital Livestock Mission.
B) Rashtriya Gokul Mission.
C) Animal