Q1. Consider the Following statement regarding International Society for Ethnopharmacology (ISE):

1. The International Society of Ethnopharmacology (ISE) was initiated and founded in 1990 by Prof. Laurent Rivier, a toxicologist.
2. Prof. Namrita Lall is the elected president of this Society.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Q2. Consider the following statement MV Ram Prasad Bismil:

1. It is one of the longest aircraft.
2. It is the longest  vessel ever to sail on Brahmaputra.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Q3. Consider the following statement regarding Cyclone “Asani”:

1. It was a strong tropical cyclone that made landfall in India in May 2022.
2. Sri Lanka has named it. In Sinhalese, Asani denotes wrath. 

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Q4. Consider the following statement regarding Indian Railway:

1. Indian Railways is a statutory body.
2. There are a total of 19 zones and 70 Divisions on the Indian Railway System.
3. Konkan Railway has recently completed 100 percent electrification across the zone and it has set new benchmarks for sustainable development.
4. The Konkan Railway is one of the 19 railway zones in India with its headquarters at Pune.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Q5. Consider the following statement regarding Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA):

1. Ministry of Defence is associated with the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).
2. The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Bill was passed by both the Houses of Parliament and it received the assent of the President on 11th September, 1958.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Q6. Consider the following statement regarding USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Services Data) messages:

1. USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) is a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) protocol that is used to send text messages. 
2. USSD uses codes made up of the characters that are available on a mobile phone.
3. RBI regulated the USSD messages sent from Banks.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Q7. Consider the following statement regarding India UK partnership on FTA (free trade agreement):

1. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Britain’s biggest business organization CBI (Confederation of British Industry) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to set up a new joint commission called UK-India Business Commission.
2. The aim of this commission is to find the opportunity of the FTA between two countries.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Q8. Consider the following statement regarding Saint Tukaram Maharaj:

1. Sant Tukaram Maharaj was a 17th-century Marathi Saint, was a Sant of Varkari sampradaya - that venerates the god Vitthal - in Maharashtra, India.
2. Tukaram was part of the egalitarian, personalized Varkari devotionalism tradition.
3. His religious activities antagonized the Brahmin, who persecuted him. 

Which of the above statements is correct?

Q9. Recently, where the archaeologists of the BHU discovered north India’s first stone stupa, built during the reign of  Asoka:

Q10. Consider the following statement regarding Centre for Brain Research (CBR):

1. The Centre for Brain Research was established as an autonomous, non-profit research organization in the Indian Institute of Science campus.
2. CBR also spearheads the GenomeIndia project that is funded by the Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India. 
3. CBR is situated in Chennai.

Which of the above statements is correct?

Q11. Consider the following statement regarding ‘Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH)’:

1. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) set-up to promote and facilitate an environment that accelerates innovation across the financial sector.
2. It identifies challenges in the Indian financial system by building applied research and extensive stakeholder consultation.
3. Senapathy (Kris) Gopalakrishnan is the first Chairperson of RBIH and Mr. Rajesh Bansal is the CEO.

Which of the above statements is correct?

Q12. Consider the following statement regarding ‘Global Labour Resilience Index 2023’

1. Whiteshield, a global strategy and public policy advisory firm, released its Global Labour Resilience Index (GLRI) 2023 during the World Government Summit.
2. Denmark is on the first position.

Which of the above statement is/are correct