Option (b) is correct

Explanation:

• Recently, the North Korea tested its latest Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

Option (a) is correct

Explanation:

• The Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare launched a campaign called BHARAT (Banks Heralding Accelerated Rural & Agriculture Transformation) under the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund. 
• It aims to actively involve and garner support from commercial banks (both public and private sector), regional rural banks, small finance banks, non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), and select cooperative banks. 
• The campaign’s primary objective is to promote the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund scheme and encourage these financial institutions to participate in supporting agricultural infrastructure development.

Option (c) is correct

Explanation:

• Statement 1 is correct: A new study of the sediments from a seasonal lake in the Kaas Plateau in the Satara district of Maharashtra has indicated a major shift in the Indian Summer Monsoons towards dry and stressed conditions with low rainfall during the Early-Mid–Holocene, around 8664 years BP.
• Statement 2 is correct: Kaas Plateau, nestled in the Western Ghats is about 140 km from Pune, was included in the UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site in 2012. 
• Known as Kaas Pathar in Marathi, its name is derived from the Kaasa tree, botanically known as Elaeocarpus glandulosus (rudraksha family).

Option (d) is correct

Explanation:

• A team of doctors from Tamil Nadu along with scientists from Japan have developed a disease-modifying treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).
• Statement 1 is correct:DMD  is a genetic disorder that is characterized by growing muscle degeneration and weakness due to changes in Dystrophin protein which helps in maintaining healthy muscle cells. 
• DMD is caused due to the DMD gene failing to produce any functional dystrophin because of mutations in the dystrophin gene, found in the X chromosome.
• Statement 2 is correct:The onset of this genetic disorder is generally in early childhood, usually between the ages of two and three, and is typically known to affect boys.
• Statement 3  is correct:Rare cases of women diagnosed with DMD have also been reported but the number is still very insignificant.

Option (d) is correct

Explanation: 

• The Union Home Minister inaugurated a two-day G20 conference on “Crime and Security in the Age of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Metaverse” in Gurugram.
• Statement 1 is correct: Anything that can be converted into a digital form can be an NFT. 
  • Everything from drawings, photos, videos, GIF, music, in-game items, selfies, and even a tweet can be turned into an NFT, which can then be traded online using cryptocurrency.
• Statement 2 is correct:NFT works on blockchain as it gives users complete ownership of a digital asset. 
  • For instance, if you’re a sketch artist, and if you convert your digital asset to an NFT, what you get is proof of ownership, powered by Blockchain.

Option (c) is correct

Explanation: 

• There were two primary reasons for selecting Sriharikota as the launch site. 
• Statement 1 is correct: One, it is on the east coast which facilitates the launching of the rockets in an easterly direction. By launching a rocket eastwards, one can take advantage of Earth’s rotation. For a launch site close to equator the magnitude of the velocity imparted due to Earth’s rotation is about 450 m/s, which can lead to substantial increase in the payload for a given launch vehicle.
• Statement 2 is correct: Two, its proximity to the equator, Geostationary satellites must necessarily be in the equatorial plane. So, for such satellites, the closer the launch site is to the equator the better it is.