1. Which state was the first in India to use mobile-based e-voting in municipal bypolls?
Answer: C. Bihar let voters cast ballots through a mobile app called E-SECBHR during municipal bypolls, a notable step for digital democracy.
2. Which technology keeps Bihar's e-voting app secure and tamper-proof?
Answer: A. The voting system relies on blockchain to keep a transparent record that cannot be altered.
3. The IUCN lists the bonnet macaque under which conservation status?
Answer: E. Kerala's Mission Bonnet Macaque concerns this species, which the IUCN Red List marks as Vulnerable because its numbers are falling.
4. Moulds for which kind of coin, linked to Indo-Greek history, turned up in Vadnagar, Gujarat?
Answer: D. Excavators found 37 terracotta moulds for the Silver Drachmas of Indo-Greek king Apollodotus II, showing minting continued there for centuries after his rule.
5. As per the 2025 SDG Progress Report, institutional support for senior citizens grew by what factor between 2015-16 and 2024-25?
Answer: B. Government-backed senior citizen facilities went from 23,000 to 157,000, which is a seven-fold rise.
6. CREA's report attributes what percentage of India's PM2.5 pollution to ammonium sulphate?
Answer: C. CREA found that ammonium sulphate makes up 34% of PM2.5 mass in India, a major source of air pollution.
7. Which green chemistry principle stresses making efficient use of every atom in a chemical process?
Answer: B. This central idea urges using as many atoms as possible in a reaction, which cuts down waste.
8. Which institution in India devised a green way to make the cancer drug Tamoxifen?
Answer: E. Chemists at the Hyderabad campus of BITS Pilani created a synthesis with 100% atom economy that is eco-friendly and can be scaled up.
9. Why do Indian banks keep credit growth guidance for FY26 modest even after rate cuts?
Answer: D. Soft loan demand, tough competition for retail deposits and market uncertainty keep banks careful, despite the RBI's 100 bps policy rate cut.
10. Which environmentally safer catalyst is applied in making biodiesel from Jatropha seeds in green chemistry?
Answer: A. As a solid catalyst it can be recovered and produces less waste than the sodium hydroxide traditionally used.
11. The C.R. Rao Award 2025, announced around Statistics Day, was conferred on whom?
Answer: A. Dr Prajamitra Bhuyan received the C.R. Rao Award 2025 for excellence in statistics.
12. Under which World Bank region were Pakistan and Afghanistan regrouped after leaving South Asia?
Answer: D. They were grouped under MENA.
13. Which state became the first in India where voters voted via mobile phones in local body polls?
Answer: B. Bihar achieved this in municipal bypolls.
14. In which schedule of the Wildlife Protection Act is the bonnet macaque listed, as noted for Mission Bonnet Macaque?
Answer: A. The species is in Schedule I, so central permission is needed.
15. Which organisation launched the GoIStats mobile app on Statistics Day 2025?