1. What is the central aim of the Draft National Labour and Employment Policy, 2025, known as Shram Shakti Niti?
Answer: C. By linking major national and state databases such as EPFO, ESIC, PM-JAY and e-SHRAM, the policy seeks to let social security benefits follow workers across sectors and regions.
2. The Draft National Labour and Employment Policy rests on which framework?
Answer: B. Drawing on the Indian tradition of śrama dharma, the policy uses the three-P approach to balance worker welfare against business growth and sustainable livelihoods.
3. Which of these people won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
Answer: D. Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi shared the award for developing Metal-Organic Frameworks, which are highly porous materials with many uses.
4. What is RBI's Unified Markets Interface meant to do?
Answer: A. RBI announced the digital infrastructure to make financial transactions more efficient, transparent and secure, and it supports wholesale settlement in central bank digital currency.
5. PFRDA wants to widen pension coverage to which segments?
Answer: E. The regulator plans to bring in underserved groups, including farmers through FPOs, SHG members and platform workers, using fintech platforms to enrol them.
6. Which capability is part of RBI's AI-driven UPI Help?
Answer: A. The assistant runs on NPCI's Small Language Model and helps users with payments, grievances and mandates within the UPI system.
7. What does NPCI's Credit Line on UPI, or Clou, do?
Answer: C. Users, particularly those new to credit, can draw on a pre-sanctioned line right inside their UPI app, with digital payment history used to assess them.
8. What sets Aditya Birla Capital's "SimpliFi" apart?
Answer: E. The tool gives tailored guidance on financial planning, tracking investments and handling health cover, and it can interpret any insurance policy on the spot.
9. What is the main benefit of Dry Direct Seeded Rice, a technology KisanKraft promotes?
Answer: D. Rice is sown in unpuddled dry soil, saving 50–60% of the water, lowering methane and input costs, while yields stay about the same as with conventional practice.
10. Which technique does Kerala's low-emission rice farming initiative promote?
Answer: B. The state programme promotes AWD to cut greenhouse gas emissions, conserve water and make rice farming more resilient to climate change.
11. What is the title of the draft National Labour and Employment Policy released in October 2025?
Answer: C. The draft NLEP is titled Shram Shakti Niti, 2025.
12. Which ministry launched PM-KUSUM in 2019?
Answer: C. PM-KUSUM was launched by MNRE.
13. Which mission did NITI Aayog's AI roadmap for informal workers put forward as its lead recommendation?
Answer: A. The roadmap recommends the Digital ShramSetu Mission.
14. At which event did RBI announce the Unified Markets Interface (UMI) concept in 2025?
Answer: B. RBI announced UMI at Global Fintech Fest 2025.
15. Who is the PFRDA Chairman who spoke about broadening pension coverage at Global Fintech Fest 2025?
Answer: B. PFRDA Chairman S. Ramann made the announcement.