Option (a) is correct.

Explanation:

• Recently, Google has enabled its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Bard, to scan user data from its popular applications (apps) like Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Docs, and Drive
• About Google Bard:
  • Bard is Google’s conversational, AI chat service.
  • Bard currently responds in more than 40 languages and serves users in over 230 countries and territories. Nevertheless, the new extension will only be available in English initially.
  • Bard is to compete with the popular tool ChatGPT by Microsoft-backed OpenAI. 
  • The new features allow users to utilise Bard as a one-stop solution for tasks such as double-checking responses and summarising emails.
  • Additionally, it can retrieve relevant information from various apps, including Maps, YouTube, Drive, Docs, as well as Travel with Google.

Option (c) is correct.

Explanation:

• Recently, Azerbaijan has launched an operation against the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region and demanded the surrender of Armenian separatists.
• The ex-Soviet Caucasus rivals have been locked in a decades-long dispute over Karabakh, fighting two wars over the mountainous territory in the 1990s and in 2020.
• Armenia:
  • It is a landlocked country of Transcaucasia, lying just south of the great mountain range of the Caucasus and fronting the northwestern extremity of Asia.
  • To the north and east Armenia is bounded by Georgia and Azerbaijan, while its neighbours to the southeast and west are, respectively, Iran and Turkey. 
  • The capital is Yerevan (Erevan).
• Nagorno-Karabakh Region:
  • The Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, a self-declared country whose independence is not internationally recognized. 
  • The general region includes the northeastern flank of the Karabakh Range of the Lesser Caucasus and extends from the crest line of the range to the margin of the Kura River lowland at its foot.

Option (d) is correct.

Explanation:

A new elephant corridor report released by the central government showed a 40 per cent increase in elephant corridors across 15 elephant range states in India.

• Statement 1 is correct: Elephant (Elephas maximus) is the largest terrestrial mammal of India. Elephants are referred to as ecosystem engineers and it is a keystone species.
  • A keystone species is a species that has a disproportionately large effect on its natural environment relative to its abundance, a concept introduced in 1969 by the zoologist Robert T. Paine
• Statement 2 is correct: Elephant Corridors of India are prepared by Project Elephant. Project Elephant was launched by the Government of India in the year 1992 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme with following objectives:
  • To protect elephants, their habitat & corridors.
  • To address issues of man-animal conflict.
  • Welfare of captive elephants
• Statement 3 is correct: The CITES Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) Programme is a site-based system designed to monitor trends in the illegal killing of elephants, build management capacity and provide information to help range States make appropriate management and enforcement decisions.

Option (c) is correct.

Explanation: The new Parliament building, which had its maiden sittings of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha recently, narrates the stories of India’s democratic traditions from the Vedic period to the present day.

• Statement 1 is  correct: The Shri Yantra is called the “Queen of Yantras,” (Rajayantra) is the symbol of the great divine mother principle, the source of all energy, power, and creativity. Vedic traditions, specifically the Shri Vidya school of tantra, regard the design as the representation of the universe as well as the body of the goddess related to the feminine principle of shakti or energy. Every line, triangle, and lotus petal symbolises a specific type of shakti.
• Statement 2 is correct: The New Parliament’s triangular shape is based on the sacred geometries of Shri Yantra. The growth of democracy in the country is depicted through a series of exhibits in the Constitution Hall of the new building. 

Option (b) is correct.

Explanation:

African nations Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda are keen to replicate India’s ethanol blending and biogas initiatives and are set to visit India for ethanol blending and biogas studies.

• Statement I is correct: The three founding members of the Global Biofuels Alliance (GBA) includes India, U.S. and Brazil. They were recently joined by Argentina, Canada, Italy and South Africa, who are also G-20 member countries.
• Statement II is correct: The GBA Alliance shall work in collaboration with the Clean Energy Ministerial Biofuture Platform, the Mission Innovation Bioenergy initiatives, and the Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP).
• Both the statements are individually correct but statement-II is not the correct explanation for statement-I.