1. The Rare Donor Registry of India will be linked with which portal to widen blood access for patients with rare disorders?
Answer: E. The Health Ministry's e-RaktKosh portal will be integrated with the registry so that rare blood types become easier to find.
2. India's first artificial rain pilot to fight pollution is being launched in which city?
Answer: B. The Delhi government is working with IIT-Kanpur on a cloud seeding project aimed at the city's growing air pollution.
3. Artificial rainmaking through cloud seeding usually relies on which pair of chemicals?
Answer: A. Such chemicals serve as nuclei that help water vapour condense and fall as precipitation during cloud seeding.
4. SEBI is reviewing mutual fund regulations. What is it trying to achieve?
Answer: C. The regulator wants easier compliance for mutual funds, better safeguards for investors and modernised rules.
5. Which AIF categories may now set up Co-Investment Vehicles (CIVs)?
Answer: B. SEBI has permitted CIVs inside Category I and Category II Alternative Investment Funds, making co-investments less complicated.
6. When talking about Indian outward investment, ODI is an abbreviation for what?
Answer: D. The term covers Indian entities putting money into foreign businesses or assets while holding control or influence over them.
7. In 2025, India became the biggest rice producer in the world by overtaking which country?
Answer: C. With rice output reaching 149 million tonnes, India moved ahead of China to take first place in 2025.
8. Which rice cultivation method can save up to 60% of water and also lower emissions?
Answer: A. Because fields need not be kept flooded, DSR consumes less water and cuts methane emissions.
9. A machine that lays mulch and sows seeds in one pass goes by what name?
Answer: D. ICAR-CIAE developed it, and by combining several operations it lowers cost and labour in high-value crop cultivation.
10. Which crop is NOT listed as suitable for the mulch-layer cum-planter?
Answer: B. The technology is aimed at high-value vegetables and corn, and rice does not figure among the crops it suits.
11. A980 is classified as which kind of star, believed to form from white dwarf mergers?
Answer: B. A980 is a cool extreme helium star, a type thought to arise when helium-rich and carbon-oxygen white dwarfs merge.
12. What was the US operation against Iran's nuclear sites in June 2025 called?
Answer: A. The mission was named Operation Midnight Hammer.
13. Which two countries lie on the northern and southern sides of the Strait of Hormuz?
Answer: A. The strait lies between Iran (north) and Oman (south).
14. The Health Ministry is set to integrate which registry with the e-Raktkosh platform?
Answer: B. RDRI is to be linked with e-Raktkosh.
15. Which institute partnered with Delhi's government on its first cloud seeding pilot against pollution?
Answer: C. The pilot was run with IIT-Kanpur and the Department of Environment.