Answer: B. Officially the United Mexican States, it lies in the south of North America, bordering the US to the north and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast, with the Pacific, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean around it.
2. In which year were the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation established?
Answer: E. Since 2000 the awards have honoured outstanding conservation projects in the region, encouraging technical excellence, cultural authenticity and community involvement.
3. In which state is Our Lady of Grace Cathedral, a recent UNESCO Award of Merit winner, located?
Answer: C. The church stands in Papdy village, Vasai, and is a 16th-century Catholic building from Portuguese times, made with stone and mud mortar.
4. Which category of naval vessel does INS Anjadip, recently in the news, belong to?
Answer: A. Anjadip is an ASW-SWC built for coastal and shallow-water work, one of eight such ships planned to strengthen India's anti-submarine capability.
5. With which organization did Bharti Airtel Foundation develop the AI-enabled Teacher App 2.0?
Answer: D. Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the app, built with California-based nonprofit CK-12 Foundation, offering teachers AI tools, learning content and dashboards.
6. Which two organizations jointly released the States' Electricity Transition (SET) Report 2026?
Answer: A. The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis and Ember published it together, covering 21 states that account for around 95% of India's power demand.
7. The SET Report 2026 names which states as leaders in EV adoption and green hydrogen development?
Answer: D. According to the report, these three states are ahead on electric vehicles and green hydrogen, showing progress toward a clean electricity transition.
8. RBI's new mis-selling guidelines are chiefly intended to stop which practice in banking?
Answer: B. They target tie-in sales of third-party items like insurance with loans or banking services, and also require clear consent and suitability checks.
9. Under RBI's revised broker funding norms, banks' capital market exposure is limited to what share of net worth?
Answer: C. Capital market exposure may not go beyond 20% of net worth; most broker exposures need full collateral and funding for proprietary trading is restricted.
10. The APB100 benchmark rates Asian companies on how they handle risks in which supply chain sector?
Answer: E. Released by Asia Research and Engagement, it assesses 100 large Asian firms on ESG risk management across meat, dairy, poultry and seafood supply chains.
11. India's 256/4 against Zimbabwe ranks as which in T20 World Cup history among all teams' totals?
Answer: B. It was India's highest total and the second highest by any team in the tournament.
12. What is the capital of Mexico, which deployed around 10,000 troops in February 2026?
Answer: C. Mexico City is the capital of the United Mexican States.
13. Which monument received the Award of Merit at the 2025 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation?
Answer: A. The award went to Our Lady of Grace Cathedral, Vasai in Maharashtra.
14. INS Anjadip is which ship in the eight-vessel ASW-SWC project?
Answer: C. The notes call it the third vessel of the project.
15. Teacher App 2.0 was developed by Bharti Airtel Foundation with which partner?
Answer: A. The partner was California-based CK-12 Foundation.