1. The Doha Declaration 2025, adopted at COSP-11 of UNCAC, centres on using what to fight corruption?
Answer: E. It stresses harnessing AI, advanced analytics and digital governance tools to prevent, detect and tackle corruption worldwide.
2. Which pair of laws does the SHANTI Act, 2025 replace?
Answer: C. By repealing both earlier statutes on nuclear regulation and liability, the Act puts them under a single framework.
3. Which players does the SHANTI Act, 2025 allow into India's civil nuclear sector?
Answer: A. Indian private companies and joint ventures can enter, but companies incorporated abroad are specifically kept out.
4. What triggered the #SaveAravalli campaign?
Answer: D. Protection would extend only to landforms 100 metres or higher under the definition the Court accepted, raising environmental alarm.
5. The Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025 promises how many days of work a year to each rural household?
Answer: B. The Act raises the earlier statutory guarantee to a minimum of 125 days annually for every household.
6. Why is Lothal, the site planned for the National Maritime Heritage Complex, historically important?
Answer: E. Lothal, an Indus Valley Civilization town, is known for a sophisticated dockyard dating to roughly 2400 BCE.
7. An RBI staff study found which asset to be the steadiest when geopolitical risk is elevated?
Answer: C. Gold turned out to be least affected by geopolitical shocks, confirming its safe-haven status.
8. In the RBI study, which asset reacted most strongly to geopolitical shocks?
Answer: A. Oil prices swing sharply when tensions rise because of supply disruptions and sanctions.
9. What approval did the RBI grant Mswipe Technologies in December 2025?
Answer: D. The payment aggregator licence lets Mswipe run merchant payment aggregation both online and in physical stores under a single framework.
10. Which technology does the RuPay SIB Paytag from South Indian Bank rely on?
Answer: B. The tag supports secure tap-to-pay at point-of-sale terminals as well as on online platforms through NFC.
11. Where was COSP-11 to the UN Convention against Corruption held in December 2025?
Answer: B. The conference took place in Doha, Qatar.
12. Which law does the SHANTI Act, 2025 replace along with the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010?
Answer: A. The notes say it replaces the Atomic Energy Act, 1962 and the 2010 liability Act.
13. Under the new Aravalli definition accepted by the Supreme Court, hills must rise at least how high above local relief?
Answer: C. The new definition requires hills of 100 m or more above local relief.
14. The Viksit Bharat-G RAM G Act, 2025 replaces which earlier law?
Answer: A. The Act replaces the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005.
15. Under which IMF facility did Sri Lanka receive USD 206 million after Cyclone Ditwah?
Answer: A. The aid came under the Rapid Financing Instrument.