1. Recently, drone carrying drugs was shot down near the India-Pakistan international border in Amritsar. UAV’s are used in which of the following purposes?

1. package delivery 
2. in agriculture for spraying pesticides
3. monitoring environmental changes
4. aerial photography

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2. With reference to the Drone Rules, 2021, which of the statement(s) given below is/are not correct?

1. No flight permission required upto 200 feet in green zones and upto 400 feet in the area between 8 and 12 km from the airport perimeter.
2. No pilot licence required for micro drones (for non-commercial use), nano drone and for R&D organisations.
3. No restriction on drone operations by foreign-owned companies registered in India.

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3. With reference to Indian elephants, consider the following statements: 

1. There are around 32 elephant Reserves in India notified by the state governments. 
2. The first elephant reserve was the Singhbhum elephant Reserve of Jharkhand. 
3. Among the States in India, the highest elephant population is in Karnataka.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

4. Consider the following statements regarding the POCSO Act, 2019:

1. The Act increased minimum punishment for penetrative sexual assault from 7 years to 15 years.
2. It also provides for with imprisonment between 20 years to life, with fine if person commits penetrative sexual assault on child below age of 16 years.
3. The Act also defines child pornography as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct that involves child such as photograph, video, digital or even computer generated image indistinguishable from actual child.

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5. Consider the following:

1. The subject of a census falls in the Concurrent list.
2. The caste census is under the administrative control of the Registrar General of India (RGI).
3. Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) was first held in 2011.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

6. Consider the following, with regard to Indian Star Tortoise:

1. They are found in only in India and Sri-Lanka.
2. The IUCN status of the tortoise is Vulnerable.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

7. In human body, which one of the following hormone regulates blood calcium and  phosphate? 

8. Consider the following:

1. Generative AI models can be used to improve performance of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models.
2. Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is a type of machine learning technique that uses deep neural networks to translate text from one language to another.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

9. Consider the following statements with respect to Lambanis: 

1. They were once nomadic tribes who arrived from Afghanistan to India
2. They are believed to have assisted the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb to carry goods to the southern part of the country in the 17th century
3. The Lambadi Language belongs to Dravidian group of languages and the language does not have a native script

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

10. Which amongst the following statements is the best description of Madrid Protocol?