1. What must social media platforms do under the IT (Intermediary Guidelines) Amendment Rules, 2026?
Answer: D. The revised rules call for clear labels on lifelike AI-made content, and platforms that fail to comply risk losing safe harbour.
2. What rank does India hold in the Network Readiness Index (NRI) 2025?
Answer: C. India climbed to 45th with a score of 54.43, pointing to stronger digital and ICT readiness.
3. What is Form 7 used for?
Answer: E. A registered voter or BLA can file it to seek deletion of, or object to, an entry because of death, duplication, shifting or ineligibility.
4. To which order does Lyriothemis keralensis belong?
Answer: B. The species is a newly found dragonfly from Kerala, and all dragonflies are classified in the order Odonata.
5. What is the current Standing Deposit Facility (SDF) rate?
Answer: A. The SDF rate of 5% forms the lower bound of the LAF corridor, sitting 25 basis points under the repo rate.
6. To what level has RBI proposed raising the unsecured loan exposure limit for UCBs?
Answer: B. The draft norms lift the cap to 20% of total advances, replacing the earlier limit of 10% of total assets.
7. SEBI is weighing a lower monitoring threshold for IPO/QIP proceeds. What would the new figure be?
Answer: E. SEBI is looking at cutting the threshold from ₹100 crore to ₹50 crore so that oversight and investor protection improve.
8. Under RBI's draft norms, which NBFCs could be exempt from registration?
Answer: A. Small NBFCs under ₹1,000 crore that take no public funds and deal with no customers would be exempted and treated as Unregistered Type I NBFCs.
9. In which year was the MSP scheme for Minor Forest Produce (MFP) launched?
Answer: D. It began in 2013–14 so that tribal gatherers would be spared distress sales and exploitation by middlemen.
10. For which commodities is TRIFED the nodal agency for MSP implementation?
Answer: C. The Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India runs the MSP scheme meant for Minor Forest Produce.
11. What was the voter turnout in the 11 February 2026 Barbados general election?
Answer: B. Turnout was 42% of 271,205 registered voters.
12. Arctic Sentry followed tensions between the United States and which country over Greenland?
Answer: E. Greenland is part of Denmark, and the mission followed US-Denmark tensions over it.
13. From which date did the amended IT Rules on labelling AI-generated content come into force?
Answer: B. The provisions took effect on 20 February 2026.
14. For which period are the draft CAFE-III norms planned to apply?
Answer: B. CAFE-III is set to apply between FY28 and FY32.
15. Which institute achieved induced captive breeding of the mangrove clam?
Answer: B. ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute achieved it.