1. The IMPACT framework announced during the Prime Minister's Malaysia visit expands to what?
Answer: C. Unveiled on the Prime Minister's trip to Malaysia, the framework seeks closer ties in economic growth, digital links, culture and strategic engagement.
2. What position did India hold in the USGBC LEED List 2025 for countries outside the USA?
Answer: D. Mainland China took first place, while India rose to second with over 16 million gross square metres of certified space.
3. What do Nature-Based Solutions, as IUCN defines them, chiefly seek to do?
Answer: C. NbS cover actions to protect, sustainably manage and restore ecosystems so as to address climate change, disaster risk, and food and water security, with benefits for nature and people.
4. Which three Sutras guide the India–AI Impact Summit 2026?
Answer: E. The New Delhi summit follows the Three Sutras of People, Planet and Progress, put into practice through Seven Chakras centred on responsible AI deployment.
5. In which year was Project Tiger, now marking its Golden Jubilee, begun?
Answer: A. It began in 1973 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme, using a core and buffer approach to conserve tigers and their habitats.
6. Under the 2026 RBI directions, up to what sum must banks lend to Micro and Small Enterprises without collateral?
Answer: B. Banks were told to give all micro and small enterprises loans up to ₹20 lakh without collateral, and may raise this to ₹25 lakh for borrowers with good records.
7. In RBI's January 2026 Consumer Confidence Survey, what does a Current Situation Index reading under 100 imply?
Answer: D. The index came in at 98.1, and any value beneath 100 means consumers are gloomy about present economic conditions.
8. In which year was the Voluntary Retention Route, since simplified by RBI, first introduced?
Answer: C. The route started in 2019 to draw stable, long-term foreign portfolio money into Indian debt, offering lighter rules in return for commitments to stay invested.
9. What is the main aim of the Nationwide Pulse Self-Reliance Mission?
Answer: E. The mission wants domestic pulse output to meet national needs and turn India into a global exporter through cluster-based production, seed villages and pulse mills.
10. Under the Pulse Self-Reliance Mission, each pulse mill can receive a government subsidy of up to how much?
Answer: A. Of the 1,000 pulse mills planned nationwide, each is to get government support of up to ₹25 lakh to encourage processing and value addition.
11. What does the 'P' in the India–Malaysia IMPACT framework stand for?
Answer: B. IMPACT is India–Malaysia Partnership for Advancing Collective Transformation.
12. In the USGBC LEED list for 2025 (outside USA), which position did India get?
Answer: B. India climbed to 2nd from 3rd in 2024.
13. According to the UNEP report discussed, NbS funding must rise to how much per year by 2030?
Answer: B. The notes say funding must triple to $571 billion a year by 2030.
14. What are the Seven Chakras of the India–AI Impact Summit 2026?
Answer: B. They are thematic Working Groups converting AI principles into policy and pathways.
15. Which document did India and Greece sign to strengthen defence cooperation?
Answer: B. The two countries signed a Joint Declaration of Intent (JDI).