1. The sex ratio at birth for 2021–23, as per the Women and Men in India 2025 report, stood at what figure?
Answer: A. The report records a rise in the birth sex ratio from 904 in 2017–19 to 917 in 2021–23, pointing to better survival of girl babies.
2. Where will the country's first green methanol facility come up?
Answer: D. The plant is planned at Deendayal Port Authority in Kandla, Gujarat, and will draw on Prosopis juliflora as its biomass feedstock.
3. What recycling capacity has been set as the goal under the National Critical Mineral Mission?
Answer: B. The mission sets a recycling goal of 850 kilo tonnes per annum, which signals an industrial scale of ambition.
4. Which description fits a 'Tathagata' in Buddhist thought?
Answer: E. The word denotes someone who has moved past samsara, the round of birth and death, and reached enlightenment.
5. Roughly how many credit cards did Federal Bank take over from Standard Chartered Bank?
Answer: D. The deal covers about 4.5 lakh cards, mostly held by customers whose only relationship is a single product.
6. Which data source will the Index of Service Production draw on to gauge output?
Answer: A. GST outward supplies serve as a stand-in for services output because they give real-time transaction records.
7. Which year has been proposed as the base for the Index of Service Production?
Answer: E. Growth of the services sector under the ISP will be measured against a 2024-25 base.
8. A key weakness of the ISP at the start is that it:
Answer: B. GST does not capture informal activity, so a large slice of services GVA is missing from the index in its early stage.
9. A 'non-co-branded' credit card is one that:
Answer: E. Such cards come straight from the bank with no tie-up with an outside brand.
10. For removing price effects from indices such as the ISP, why do global practices favour PPI over CPI?
Answer: C. Since the PPI tracks producer-level prices, it is a better tool for stripping inflation out to obtain real output.
11. Justice Anupinder Singh Grewal, newly named head of a corporate tribunal, was born in which Punjab district?
Answer: E. He was born on 10 March 1964 in Ludhiana district. The tribunal he now heads is the NCLT.
12. EPFO's E-PRAAPTI portal primarily helps members to do which of the following?
Answer: B. It uses Aadhaar-based authentication to identify, track and link inoperative EPF accounts with the UAN.
13. C-ART in Visakhapatnam was described as which number of such testbed in India?
Answer: E. It is the third such testbed in India and the first on the East Coast.
14. In the RSF World Press Freedom Index 2026, which of these statements about India is correct?
Answer: B. India was 157th with a score of 31.96, a fall of six places from 151st; Pakistan was 153rd.
15. The review says several states spend more than what share of revenue receipts on interest payments?
Answer: E. Several states spend over 15% of revenue receipts on interest, a sign of fiscal stress.