Saturday, 6 June 2026

The Jan Samarth portal, which completed four years of operation in June 2026, is best described as:

The auto-validation feature of the Jan Samarth portal works by:

A credit guarantee scheme of the kind administered through the National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company assists small borrowers mainly by:

With reference to the Jan Samarth portal, consider the following statements:

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Surha Tal, also known as the Jai Prakash Narayan Bird Sanctuary and declared India's 100th Ramsar site, lies in which one of the following states?

Surha Tal is an oxbow lake, a landform produced when:

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, under which Surha Tal has been designated, was adopted in 1971 in which one of the following countries?

Under the Ramsar Convention, the Montreux Record is a register of:

With reference to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, consider the following statements:

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E85 automotive fuel, launched at a retail outlet in Delhi in June 2026, consists mainly of:

A flex-fuel vehicle is one that can:

Ethanol supplied for India's petrol blending programme is produced mainly from:

The Ethanol Blended Petrol Programme, under which E85 has been introduced in India, is implemented mainly by which one of the following ministries?

With reference to ethanol as a transport fuel in India, consider the following statements:

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Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), which held its Tech Summit 2026, functions under which one of the following ministries?

The Software Technology Park scheme administered by STPI was created primarily to:

In India's balance of payments, receipts from the export of software services are recorded under the:

With reference to Software Technology Parks of India, consider the following statements:

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Under the Constitution of India, the tribes or tribal communities deemed to be Scheduled Tribes in relation to a State are specified by:

The National Education Society for Tribal Students (NESTS), which manages the Eklavya Model Residential Schools, works under which one of the following ministries?

Grants-in-aid to States for promoting the welfare of Scheduled Tribes, from which the Eklavya Model Residential School scheme was initially funded, are provided under which Article of the Constitution?

The government aims to open an Eklavya Model Residential School in every block that has:

With reference to Eklavya Model Residential Schools, consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

The Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, whose century-long records were recently used to study supergranulation, is maintained by which one of the following institutions?

The solar cycle, over which sunspot numbers rise and fall, has an average length of about:

Supergranulation seen on the Sun's visible surface arises from:

With reference to sunspots, consider the following statements:

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The Nilgiri Tahr, whose third synchronised population survey was released in 2026, is the State Animal of which one of the following states?

In the IUCN Red List, the Nilgiri Tahr is placed in which one of the following categories?

The natural habitat of the Nilgiri Tahr is best described as:

The Nilgiri Tahr receives the highest level of legal protection in India by being listed in which Schedule of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972?

With reference to Project Nilgiri Tahr, consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

The Anusandhan National Research Foundation, which is supporting a new online training platform for researchers, has been created primarily to:

Under the Patents Act, 1970, the term of a patent granted in India is:

The Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, which grants patents in India, works under which one of the following ministries?

With reference to the Anusandhan National Research Foundation, consider the following statements:

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Venezuela, whose acting President visited India in June 2026 for energy talks, shares a land boundary with which one of the following countries?

Lake Maracaibo, a major oil-producing region of Venezuela, is connected to which one of the following water bodies?

The Orinoco Belt of Venezuela is significant chiefly as a large deposit of:

With reference to Venezuela, consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

With reference to the physical geography of Venezuela, consider the following statements:

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Portatrochammina bharatensis, described by Indian scientists in June 2026, is a newly discovered:

Portatrochammina bharatensis was collected from sediments of Jaitapur Creek, which lies on the coast of which one of the following states?

Fossil foraminifera are valued by geologists mainly because they:

Consider the following statements about the foraminifer Portatrochammina bharatensis:

How many of the above statements are correct?