Option (d) is correct

Explanation:

• Recep Tayyip Erdogan wins historic Turkey runoff vote in recent elections.
• Turkey borders Armenia, Iran, and Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) in the east, Georgia in the northeast, Bulgaria and Greece in the northwest, and Iraq and Syria in the southeast.

Option (a) is correct

Explanation:

• Recently, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully placed the NVS-01 navigation satellite, weighing about 2,232 kg, into Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit.
• Statement 1 is not correct: NVS-01 is the first in the series of five satellites and is carried by the 51.7 metre tall Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, on its 15th flight.
• Statement 3 is not correct: NVS-01 is the first of India’s second-generation NavIC satellites aimed to augment the navigational capabilities of the country. 
• The satellite would provide real-time positioning and timing services over India and a region approximately 1,500 km around the mainland.
• The NVS-01 carried navigation payloads L1, L5 and S bands. 
• Statement 2 is correct: For the first time, an indigenous atomic clock was flown in NVS-01.

Option (c) is correct

Explanation:

• Recently, the fast fading Sufiyana Mausiki and Tchakri, devotional folk songs were finally replayed with the old-charm setting in a rare bid to “reconnect with the past ” in north Kashmir.
• Sufiyana Mausiki and Tchakri assumed centrality for carpet and shawl weavers of Kashmir for centuries.
• Wanwun are sung at all Kashmiri weddings. A wedding is incomplete without wanwun.

Option (c) is correct

Explanation:

• To ensure efforts under WHO’s R&D Blueprint are focused and productive, a list of diseases and pathogens are prioritised for R&D in public health emergency contexts.
• Statement I is correct: At present, the priority diseases are:
  • COVID-19, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus disease, Lassa fever, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Nipah and henipaviral diseases, Rift Valley fever, Zika and “Disease X”.

• Statement II is not correct: This is not an exhaustive list, nor does it indicate the most likely causes of the next epidemic. 
• Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease. 

Option (a) is correct

Explanation:

• Recently, the CAG of India has been re-elected as external auditor of the World Health Organization (WHO) for a four-year term from 2024 to 2027. 
• CAG is an independent authority under the Constitution of India.
• Statement 1 is not correct: CAG is appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal and provided with tenure of 6 years or 65 years of age, whichever is earlier.
• Statement 2 is correct: The CAG is also the external auditor of Food and Agriculture Organization (2020-2025), International Atomic Energy Agency (2022-2027), Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (2021-2023) and Inter Parliamentary Union (2020-2022).
• Statement 3 is correct:The CAG is a member of the United Nations (UN) Panel of External Auditors. 
  • He is also a member of the Governing Boards of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) and ASOSAI.
• CAG chairs the INTOSAI Knowledge Sharing Committee, its Working Group on IT Audit, and the Compliance Audit Sub-Committee.

Option (b) is correct

Explanation:

• Through UN Security Council resolution 1325 (UNSCR1325), ensuing resolutions, as well as the Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) Declaration of Shared Commitments, the UN has called for an expansion of the role and contribution of women in its operations, including of uniformed women peacekeepers. 
• Statement 1 is not correct: Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) initiative is an initiative of the United Nations (UN) for Peacekeeping.
• Statement 2 is correct: The UN Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) initiative views the Women, Peace and Security agenda as critical to enhancing peacekeeping operations’ performance.