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