Monday, 3 August 2026

The Vessel Communication and Support System, under which satellite transponders are being fitted on Indian marine fishing vessels, forms part of which one of the following schemes?

With reference to the Vessel Communication and Support System being installed on Indian marine fishing vessels, consider the following statements:

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The Nabhmitra application, associated with India's satellite communication network for marine fishing vessels, is intended primarily to:

Satellite transponders on Indian fishing boats warn crews approaching the International Maritime Boundary Line. Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Exclusive Economic Zone of a coastal State may extend up to:

Rakthamichthys anchi, a blood-red fish newly described by scientists in 2026, was discovered in which one of the following States?

The striking blood-red colour of the newly described fish Rakthamichthys anchi arises from:

With reference to Rakthamichthys anchi, consider the following statements:

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When taxonomists announce a new species such as Rakthamichthys anchi, it means that the organism:

The Asiatic wild buffalo (Bubalus arnee) is placed in which one of the following categories of the IUCN Red List?

The wild buffaloes translocated to Barnawapara Wildlife Sanctuary in Chhattisgarh in 2020 and 2023 were brought from which one of the following States?

With reference to the Asiatic wild buffalo (Bubalus arnee), consider the following statements:

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A principal obstacle to conserving genetically pure Asiatic wild buffalo populations in India is that:

The Indravati Tiger Reserve, covered by the Asiatic wild buffalo recovery plan, lies along the Indravati River, which is a tributary of the:

The 2026 catalogue that updated the number of butterfly and moth species recorded from India was prepared by scientists of which one of the following institutions?

The name of the insect order Lepidoptera, which contains butterflies and moths, refers to which one of the following features?

With reference to butterflies and moths, consider the following statements:

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The recent national catalogue of Indian Lepidoptera listed a number of nomina nuda. In zoological nomenclature, a nomen nudum is:

DNA barcoding, used alongside anatomy in modern species descriptions such as those in the Indian Lepidoptera catalogue, identifies organisms by:

The Amboseli ecosystem, where a cluster of unusual elephant deaths was investigated in 2026, lies in which one of the following countries?

The freshwater swamps that sustain wildlife in the Amboseli ecosystem are fed mainly by underground flows from the catchment of:

With reference to the Amboseli ecosystem, consider the following statements:

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Under the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme, a biosphere reserve differs from a national park chiefly in that a biosphere reserve:

The loss of adult female elephants is demographically more damaging to an elephant population mainly because:

PowerBank-50, a satellite battery module built by the Hyderabad start-up TakeMe2Space, powered an experimental payload flown on which one of the following launch vehicles?

In the space industry, saying that a hardware component has flight heritage means that it:

With reference to PowerBank-50, an Indian satellite battery module, consider the following statements:

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In small-satellite engineering, commercial off-the-shelf hardware refers to:

The Ujh Multipurpose Project, whose phased implementation the Union government reviewed in 2026, is located in:

The Ujh River, on which a large multipurpose project has been proposed, joins which one of the following rivers?

With reference to the Indus Waters Treaty, 1960, consider the following statements:

How many of the above statements are correct?

WAPCOS Limited, entrusted with implementing the Ujh Multipurpose Project, is a public sector undertaking under which one of the following Union Ministries?

Inclusion of an irrigation scheme in the Union government's list of national projects primarily entitles the scheme to:

The Cholanaikkan, who received identity documents at an outreach camp near Nilambur in 2026, are officially classified as:

The Cholanaikkan community of the Nilambur forests in Kerala speaks a language belonging to which one of the following families?

With reference to the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, consider the following statements:

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Kudumbashree, which runs neighbourhood groups among the tribal communities of Nilambur, is best described as:

The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 is administered at the Union level by which one of the following Ministries?

Which one of the following statements about the Suez Canal is correct?

With reference to Egypt, consider the following statements:

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The intensity of an earthquake, as distinct from its magnitude:

In seismology, the epicentre of an earthquake is:

Earthquakes around the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba are associated mainly with:

Which one of the following statements about leptospirosis is correct?

With reference to leptospirosis, consider the following statements:

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Which one of the following antibiotics is commonly recommended for chemoprophylaxis against leptospirosis among high-risk groups during floods?

The One Health approach, invoked for the control of diseases such as leptospirosis, is best described as:

The National Centre for Disease Control, which runs a dedicated leptospirosis prevention programme, functions under which one of the following Union Ministries?