1. Around how many schools across India are still without an electricity connection, according to the UDISE+ 2024-25 findings that raise concern for digital learning?
Answer: A. While the latest UDISE+ round shows gains in toilets, drinking water and handwashing, more than 25,000 schools remain unelectrified, which holds back digital teaching.
2. DBT and BIRAC rolled out High-Performance Biomanufacturing Platforms as an element of which national policy?
Answer: D. The platforms sit under the BioE3 Policy, whose full name points to a move from bio-manufacturing to a bio-economy by 2047; they aim to back biotech innovation, cut imports and spur green growth.
3. What name was given to the first made-in-India semiconductor chip unveiled at SEMICON India 2025?
Answer: B. The chip honours Dr. Vikram Sarabhai and is the country's first homegrown one, produced with 28nm technology at the Micron plant in Sanand, Gujarat.
4. Where is the 2025 round of the India–US Yudh Abhyas exercise taking place?
Answer: E. This is the biggest Yudh Abhyas so far and is hosted at Fort Wainwright in Alaska, with drills on counter-terrorism, peacekeeping and warfare in extreme cold.
5. Deutsche Bank is reportedly planning to leave retail banking in India. Whose approval is compulsory for transferring such assets?
Answer: C. Under the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 and FEMA, 1999, any sale or transfer of banking assets, retail business included, needs the RBI's nod.
6. In which year was the ₹2000 banknote first brought into circulation, before RBI pulled it back in May 2023?
Answer: A. The note appeared in November 2016, soon after demonetisation, to restore cash availability quickly; RBI later withdrew it in May 2023 under its Clean Note Policy.
7. What was India's Current Account Deficit for the first quarter of FY26?
Answer: D. The CAD narrowed sharply to $2.4 billion, or 0.2% of GDP, compared with $8.6 billion (0.9%) a year earlier, and the previous quarter had even shown a $13.5 billion surplus.
8. PMJAY and similar health insurance schemes give each household a cover of how much per year?
Answer: B. Ayushman Bharat – PMJAY began in 2018 and offers ₹5 lakh yearly per household, reaching about 58.8 crore people.
9. Loans that Indian companies take from overseas lenders in foreign currency are known as External Commercial Borrowings. From whom are ECBs raised?
Answer: E. ECBs come from non-resident sources such as global banks, institutions and bond markets, are denominated in foreign currency, and are governed by RBI under FEMA 1999.
10. How much did net ECB inflows amount to in Q1FY26?
Answer: C. RBI figures put net ECB inflows at $4.6 billion for April–June 2025, up from $2.8 billion in the same quarter of FY25, which shows stronger appetite for overseas capital.
11. Which of these is NOT among the principles highlighted in the Global Governance Initiative?
Answer: E. The GGI highlights sovereign equality, international law, multilateralism and people-centred policies; military blocs are not among them.
12. The PRATUSH radiometer is built around which compact hardware?
Answer: B. The system is based on a single-board computer roughly the size of a credit card.
13. In UDISE+ 2024-25, which region had the highest share of schools with under 10 students?
Answer: A. Ladakh recorded 32.2%, the highest figure listed.
14. The High-Performance Biomanufacturing Platforms were launched under which policy?
Answer: B. The platforms are part of the BioE3 (Bio-manufacturing to Bio-Economy by 2047) Policy.
15. The 'Vikram' chip unveiled at SEMICON India 2025 is named after whom?
Answer: B. It honours Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, father of India's space programme.