Ans: B 

Exp:

• Make In India Initiative, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 25, 2014 completed its 10 years.

• • Aim: To boost domestic manufacturing, foster innovation, enhance skill development, and facilitate foreign investment.

• Statement  1 is correct: Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry is Nodal Ministry for its implementation.

• Statement  2 is not correct: Make In India 2.0: It focuses on furthering sustainability, innovation, and self-reliance with strategic interventions in renewable energy, green technologies, and advanced manufacturing.
  • Make In India 2.0 focuses on additional 27 sectors, which include 15 manufacturing sectors and 12 service sectors

Ans: B

Exp: 

• Recently, the Council of Europe awarded its 2024 rights prize to Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado for her struggle for democracy under President Nicolas Maduro’s iron-fisted rule.
• Venezuela is located on the northern edge of South America.
• Statement 2 is correct:  It is geographically positioned in the Northern and Western hemispheres of the Earth. 
• Venezuela is bordered by Brazil to the south; by Guyana to the east; by Colombia to the west and southwest.
•  It is also bounded by the North Atlantic Ocean to the northeast and by the Caribbean Sea to the north. 
• Statement 1 is not correct: Venezuela shares maritime borders with Barbados, The Dominican Republic, Dominica, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and Puerto Rico.
• Statement 3  is correct: Pico Bolivar is its highest point.

Ans: B

Exp:

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested 26 more ‘cybercriminals’ under Operation Chakra-III.

• Statement 1  is not correct:The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has launched Operation Chakra-III in close coordination with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) USA and other foreign law-enforcement agencies.
• Statement 2  is correct: Under it, it checks  highly organised cybercrime networks targeting victims globally.

Ans: C

Exp: 

The Karnataka government has asked the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) to withdraw the sixth draft notification issued by it for declaration of Eco-Sensitive Area (ESAs) of the Western Ghats.

About Western Ghats 

• Statement 1 is correct: Older than the Himalaya mountains, the mountain chain of the Western Ghats represents geomorphic features of immense importance with unique biophysical and ecological processes.

• Location: Stretches 1,600 km (990 mi) along the western coast of the Indian peninsula.
• Statement 2 is not correct: Coverage: 160,000 km² (62,000 sq mi) across six states: Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu.
• Protected Areas in the Western Ghats: Protected Areas Includes two biosphere reserves, 13 National Parks, several wildlife sanctuaries, and many Reserve Forests.
  • Statement 3 is correct: Major Protected Areas include Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Silent Valley National Park, Bandipur National Park, and Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary.

Ans: B

Exp: 

Output levels in India’s core sectors slipped to a nine-month low in August, even as year-on-year growth slipped 1.8%, marking the first contraction in three and a half years.

About Index of Industrial Production: 

• • IIP is an indicator that measures the changes in the volume of production of industrial products during a given period.
  • Statement 1 is not correct: It is compiled and published monthly by the National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
  • Statement 2 is correct: It is a composite indicator that measures the growth rate of industry groups classified under: Broad sectors, namely, Mining, Manufacturing, and Electricity.

• Statement 3 is correct: Base Year: 2011-2012.