1. Which country is known as the Pearl of Africa?
a) Uganda
b) Egypt
c) South Africa
d) Somalia
Answer. a) Uganda
Context:
1. The Union Minister of India visited Uganda to officially represent India at the swearing-in ceremony of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who assumed his seventh term in office.
2. Uganda is a diverse, landlocked multi-party republic located in east-central Africa. Often referred to as the “Pearl of Africa” (a term popularized by Sir Winston Churchill), it gained formal independence from British rule on October 9, 1962.
2. " Panzath Nag Spring Conservation Festival" is a local festival of ----
a) Jammu & Kashmir
b) Himachal Pradesh
c) Kerala
d) Manipur
Answer. a) Jammu & Kashmir
Context:
1. The centuries-old community-led spring cleaning and fish-catching festival at Panzath Nag in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district was recently observed with participation from thousands of villagers.
2. The Panzath Nag festival is a traditional community-driven ecological conservation practice in which villagers collectively clean a natural spring and surrounding water channels while participating in controlled traditional fish-catching activities.
3. The ‘Royal Order of the Polar Star, Degree Commander Grand Cross’ was given to PM Modi recently by which country?
a) The United Arab Emirates
b) Netherland
c) Sweden
d) Norway
Answer. c) Sweden
Context:
1. The Prime Minister was conferred with Sweden’s highest honor for a foreign head of government, the ‘Royal Order of the Polar Star, Degree Commander Grand Cross’.
4. Chola copper was recently in the news. These are bilingual inscriptions, using Tamil and which language?
a) Sanskrit
b) Telugu
c) Kannada
d) Malayalam
Answer. a) Sanskrit
Context:
1. During his diplomatic visit to the Netherlands, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Dutch PM Rob Jetten oversaw the historic repatriation of the Chola-era Anaimangalam copper plates (popularly known as the Leiden copper plates) to India.
2. These bilingual inscriptions serve as enduring, unalterable state records of land grants, tax exemptions, religious endowments, and royal lineages.
3. The charters typically open with an elaborate genealogy of the Chola kings written in Sanskrit (using the Grantha script), followed by the minute operational details of the land grant written in Tamil.
5. " Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR)" is located in which state?
a) Bihar
b) Chhattisagrh
c) Jharkhand
d) Rajasthan
Answer. c) Jharkhand
Context:
1. India’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered human-elephant conflict research centre is set to be established within the Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Jharkhand.
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