1. What is Google's Project Suncatcher chiefly trying to achieve?
Answer: E. The project from Google's AI and Advanced Infrastructure Division plans solar-powered AI data centres on satellites, tapping constant sunlight and easing the environmental load of ground-based facilities.
2. Ethiopia's decision to follow India's DAY-NRLM model is chiefly aimed at what?
Answer: A. Ethiopia wants to use the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-NRLM approach to improve rural livelihoods through self-help groups, financial inclusion and skilling, with women at the centre.
3. Which balance does the so-called Mamdani Model stress?
Answer: C. Drawing on Zohran Mamdani's welfare ideas, it proposes a Rawls-Pareto thermostat that pairs caring welfare with economic efficiency for fair and lasting growth.
4. The World Bank's Financial Sector Assessment 2025 points to which sign of progress in India's finance?
Answer: E. The assessment found the system more resilient, diverse and inclusive thanks to strong digital infrastructure and rising private involvement, although state-owned institutions still matter.
5. What is the main aim of the IBBI's new proposal concerning bidders in insolvency cases?
Answer: D. IBBI wants bidders to reveal who ultimately controls them, so the clean slate feature of the IBC cannot be misused.
6. What is the ceiling on voting rights that a shareholder can hold in an Indian private sector bank?
Answer: C. RBI rules bar any shareholder from voting more than 26% of the rights in a private bank, whatever the size of their holding, so no single investor dominates.
7. Which suggestion did the World Bank-IMF FSAP 2025 report make for India's financial sector?
Answer: D. It advises adopting borrower-focused macroprudential instruments, namely Debt Service to Income limits and Counter-Cyclical Capital Buffers, to withstand financial shocks better.
8. What is the theme of the FAO State of Food and Agriculture 2025 report?
Answer: B. Titled Addressing Land Degradation Across Landholding Scales, it shows how erosion, loss of nutrients and loss of carbon weaken food output and climate resilience.
9. The FAO says what share of the world's cropland is showing falling productivity?
Answer: A. Close to a fifth of global cropland is losing productivity because of degradation caused by people, notably in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
10. According to FAO's 2025 report, who holds most of the world's farmland?
Answer: B. The biggest one percent of farms hold more than 70% of farmland; they add heavily to monocropping and degradation yet have more resources for restoration.
11. Who announced on 24 January 1950 that Vande Mataram would receive honour equal to Jana Gana Mana?
Answer: D. Dr Rajendra Prasad made the statement, recognising the song's role in the freedom movement.
12. India's six consecutive Olympic hockey golds were won over which period?
Answer: B. The streak of six golds ran from 1928 to 1956.
13. Gogabeel is an important wintering site on which migratory route?
Answer: B. The lake is an important wintering location along the Central Asian Flyway.
14. Which company announced Project Suncatcher for space-based AI data centres?
Answer: A. Project Suncatcher is a Google initiative.
15. Which scheme did DAY-NRLM replace when it was launched in 2011 as NRLM?
Answer: B. NRLM restructured the earlier Swarnajayanti Grameen Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY).