1. With referance the Rare Earth Minerals, consider the following:

1. They consist of a set of seventeen radioactive elements.
2. India has about 6% of the world’s rare earth reserves.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

2. With regard to Sangeet Natak Akademi, consider the following:

1. It is India’s national academy for music only.
2. It is an autonomous body of the Ministry of Culture.
3. Sangeet Natak Akademi established and looks after the Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy in Imphal.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

3. Consider the following with regard to Vostro accounts.

1. A Vostro account is an account that a domestic bank holds for a foreign bank in the domestic bank’s currency.
2. For an Indian entity, In case of trade with a foreign country, payments in rupee for the export and import of goods will go to these Vostro accounts.
3. The objective behind permitting Vostro accounts is to promote growth of global trade with emphasis on exports from India and to support the interest of the global trading community in the rupee.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

4. Right to Education is enshrined in which of the articles of the Indian Constitution?

1. Article 21A
2. Article 45
3. Article 44
4. Article 47

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5. Which of the statement(s) given below is/are correct regarding transfer of High Court Judges?

1. Article 222 provides for the transfer of HC judges, including the Chief Justice. 
2. The proposal for transferring a HC judge should be initiated by the CJI and the consent of the judge is not required

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6. When a Judge of the High Court is transferred, CJI should take the views of which of the following?

1. The Chief Justice of the court concerned.
2. The Chief Justice of the court to which the transfer is taking place.
3. One or more SC judges
4. The President

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7. With respect to the Direct Benefit Transfers (DBT), which of the statement(s) is/are correct?

1. The Government of India introduced the DBT scheme in 2013 to transfer subsidy benefits from various Indian welfare schemes directly into the beneficiaries’ bank accounts
2. The Centre’s Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) with an annual income support of Rs 8,000 to all landholding farmer families in India is implemented through DBT.

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8. The construction of Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh is being led by – 

9. Which one of the following statements best describes the role of B cells and T cells in the human body?

10. Which of the following statements are correct? 

1. The China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) is a foreign aid agency of the People’s Republic of China.
2. It recently hosted the ‘China-Indian Ocean Region Forum’ with 19 countries from the region including India.