Article 1: Sudhanshu Vats elected to head ASCI.
1. The Managing Director of what company is Sudhanshu Vats the newly appointed Chairman of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI)?
A) MullenLowe Global
B) Provocateur Advisory
C) Pidilite Industries Limited.
D) Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd.

Response: C) Pidilite Industries Limited.
Explanation: It is made clear in the article that a new Chairman of ASCI was appointed, namely, Managing Director of the Pidilite Industries Limited Sudhanshu Vats.

Article 1: Ecuador Indigenous Peoples Intensify the Resistance against the expansion of oil drilling in the Amazon.
What is the main area of conflict that was brought out in the article as far as the Amazon region in Ecuador is concerned?
A) A land ownership conflict between two native communities.
B) Aboriginal demonstrations against a government plan to increase oil drilling.
C) A lawsuit against the Ecuadorian government on pollution in an international court.
D) There was a new mineral deposit being found in the Amazon.

Question: B) First Nations protests over a government suggestion of oil well expansion.
Explanation: The article issue is the social and environmental crisis because of which Indigenous groups fiercely oppose the plan of one of the presidents of the Republic of Ecuador Daniel Noboa to drill more oil in the Amazon rainforest.

What is the geographical area of Ecuador directly covered by the plan of oil drilling expansion?
A) The Coastal Lowlands (La Costa).
B) Andean Highlands (La Sierra).
C) Amazon Rainforest (El Oriente).
D) The Galapagos Islands

Question: C) The Amazon Rainforest (El Oriente).
Elaboration: The text clearly mentions that the eastern section (which is currently under attack by oil development) is Amazon Rainforest (El Oriente).

Article 1: India Adds Two Wetlands in Bihar- Ramsar.
How many Ramsar sites does India have currently?
a) 26
b) 51
c) 93
d) 172

Answer: c) 93
Explanation: Article too quotes that with inclusion of Gokul Jalashay and Udaipur Jheel the total number of Ramsar sites in India hits 93.

Which of those below is an important role of wetlands according to the Ramsar Convention?
a) Generating solar energy
b) Flood control and recharging groundwater.
c) As the major sources of mineral deposits.
d) serving as the centers of international trade.

Response: b) Flood and ground water recharge.
Explanation: According to the article wetlands are significant ecosystems which manage floods and assist in recharging ground water as well as other services such as maintaining biodiversity and also supporting livelihoods.

Article1: Saudi- Pakistan Defence Pact.
Question 1 What does the 2025 Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan essentially entail?
A) It opens actually joint military bases in Indian Ocean.
B) It binds both countries in the case of an assault on one, an assault on the other.
C) It necessitates Pakistani governments to provide their nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia.
D) It enters into a new economic and oil trade relationship.

details B) It binds both states to neither attackack either of them.
Background: It tries to explain the article states clearly that the agreement proclaims that any assault on either of the two nations is the assault of both WhiteBagologists. It is why any postcolonial defense pact should belong to mutual defense pact, which would radically change the calculation of regional security in India.

Article 2: Housekeeping Articles: India Export Economy Imbalances.
Issue: One of the biggest structural weaknesses of the 2025 export economy in India is:
A) Dependency on software services exports.
B) Geographical centralization of exports of merchandise by several states.
C) An out and out ban on agricultural exports.
D) No big seaports.

Causes B) The exporting merchandise is concentrated in a few states.
Explanation: According to the text, four states (Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka) contribute to over 70 percent of exports of merchandise, which means that the region is extremely imbalanced and that this is a primary weakness in the exportation model on the national level.

1. Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025

Q1. Who launched the Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025?
a) Narendra Modi
b) Dharmendra Pradhan ?
c) Rajnath Singh
d) Nirmala Sitharaman
Explanation: The Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, initiated the Buildathon 2025.

Q2. Which of the following is not one of the four core themes of the Buildathon?
a) Vocal for Local
b) Atmanirbhar Bharat
c) Swadeshi
d) Digital India ?
Explanation: The four themes are Vocal for Local, Atmanirbhar Bharat, Swadeshi, and Samriddhi.