Option (c) is correct

Explanation:

• India’s retail inflation slid to an 18-month low of 4.7% in April 2023, staying below the Reserve Bank of India’s 6% tolerance threshold for price rise for the second successive month.
• Retail inflation or Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation, is the rate at which the prices of goods and services that consumers buy for personal use increase over time.
• It measures the change in the cost of a basket of goods and services that are typically purchased by households, including food, clothing, housing, transportation, and medical care.

Answer: (d)

Explanation:

• • Tropical cyclones are violent storms that originate over oceans in tropical areas and move over to the coastal areas bringing about large scale destruction caused by violent winds, very heavy rainfall and storm surges.
  • They are known as Cyclones in the Indian Ocean, Hurricanes in the Atlantic, Typhoons in the Western Pacific and South China Sea, and Willy-willies in the Western Australia.
  • The conditions favourable for the formation and intensification of tropical storms are: 

• Large sea surface with temperature higher than 27° C; 

• Presence of the Coriolis force; 

• Small variations in the vertical wind speed; 

• A pre-existing weak low-pressure area or low-level-cyclonic circulation; 

• •  Upper divergence above the sea level system.

Option (a) is correct

Explanation:

About Carbon Dating:

• The Allahabad High Court ordered a “scientific survey”, including carbon dating, of a Shivling said to have been found at the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi.
• Carbon dating is a widely-used method to establish the age of organic materials, things that were once living. 

• Living things have carbon in them in various forms. 
• The dating method is based on the fact that Carbon-14 (C-14), an isotope of carbon with an atomic mass of 14, is radioactive, and decays at a well known rate. 

Option (b) is correct

Explanation:

Index of Industrial Production:

• IIP is an indicator that measures the changes in the volume of production of industrial products during a given period.
• It is compiled and published monthly by the National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
• It is a composite indicator that measures the growth rate of industry groups namely, Mining, Manufacturing, Electricity, Basic Goods, Capital Goods, and Intermediate Goods.
• Base Year for IIP is 2011-2012.

Option (c) is correct

Explanation:

United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)

• UNHRC is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system, which is responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the world.
• The Council is made up of 47 Member States, which are elected by the UN General Assembly through direct and secret ballot.
  • The Council’s Membership is based on equitable geographical distribution. African and Asia-Pacific states have 13 seats each, Latin American and Caribbean states have 8 seats, Western European and other states have 7 seats, and Eastern European states have 6 seats.
  • Members of the Council serve for a period of three years and are not eligible for immediate re-election after serving two consecutive terms.

Option (d) is correct

Explanation:

• Amid consistent rise in deaths of pedestrians and cyclists, Punjab has taken the lead among the states and UTs to implement the ‘right to walk‘ by making it mandatory for all road-owning agencies, including National Highways Authority of India to provide footpaths and cycle tracks in all future expansion of roads and construction of new ones.