Ans: B

Exp:

To mark 75 years of the Republic of India, invitees to the Rashtrapati Bhavan’s “At home” reception will receive a curated box of GI-tagged crafts from Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh, highlighting the region’s rich heritage under the “One District One Product” scheme.

• One District One Product is an initiative launched with the aim of unlocking the full potential of districts, fostering economic and socio-cultural growth, and generating employment, particularly in rural areas. 

• Statement 1 is correct: The One District One Product (ODOP) concept originated in Japan as a strategy for regional development.
• Examples : Zari Zardozi embroidery of Bhopal , Blue Pottery of Jaipur
• Statement 2 is correct: Ministry of Commerce and Industry is the nodal agency for its implementation.
• Statement 3 is not correct: It is a centrally sponsored scheme shared by the Centre and states in 60:40 contributions.
• Objective : To transform each district in India into an export hub by promoting its specialized products. 
• This involves scaling up manufacturing, supporting local businesses, identifying potential foreign customers, and aligning with the vision of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat.’
• It aligns with the ‘Districts as Exports Hub’ initiative led by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), Department of Commerce.

Ans: A

Exp:

• • Silver Notice: It is designed to assist member countries in identifying, locating, and recovering criminally obtained assets. Hence, Option (a) is correct.

• These assets can include:

• • • • Properties
      • Vehicles
      • Financial accounts
      • Businesses
    • It aids members in requesting information on assets linked to a person’s criminal activities such as fraud, corruption, drug trafficking, environmental crime etc.
    • The pilot phase will run until November 2025.

• How Does It Work?

• Requesting Information: Member countries can request information about assets suspected of being linked to criminal activities.

• Identification and Action: The notice aids in locating assets, enabling further legal measures such as seizure or confiscation, in accordance with national laws.

• General Secretariat Review: Before issuance, the Interpol General Secretariat reviews each notice to ensure compliance with organisational rules and to prevent misuse for political purposes.

• Purple Notice: It is a request to seek or provide information on the modus operandi, objects, devices and concealment methods used by criminals
• Black Notice: It is a request to seek information on unidentified bodies in member nations. 
• Yellow Notice: It is issued to help locate missing persons, often minors, or to help identify persons who are unable to identify themselves. This is highly useful in cases of human trafficking or in case of missing persons due to calamities.
• Green Notice: It is issued to provide warnings and intelligence about persons who have committed criminal offenses and are likely to repeat these crimes in other countries.
• Orange Notice: It is issued to provide warnings about an event, a person, an object or a process representing a serious and imminent threat to public safety.

Ans: C

Exp:

• Kerala’s Kappad and Chal beaches in Kozhikode and Kannur districts, have been bestowed with the Blue Flag certification.
• ‘Blue Flag’ is a certification that can be obtained by a beach, marina, or sustainable boating tourism operator, and serves as an eco-label.
• Statement 1 is correct: It is awarded by Denmark-based non-profit Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE).
• It is awarded annually to Beaches and Marinas in FEE member countries.
• It is an Internationally recognised eco-label that is accorded based on 33 criteria → Standards were established by the Copenhagen-based Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) in 1985
  • These criteria are divided into 4 major heads namely,
    • Environmental education and information
    • Bathing water quality
    • Environmental management
    • Conservation and safety services in the beaches
• It is accorded by the international jury composed of : United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), Denmark-based NGO Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
• Certification is updated annually,  Locations must continue to meet the criteria to retain their Blue Flag status
• Blue Flag Beaches → Over 4000 Blue Flag certified beaches across the world
  • Spain led with a total of 729 blue flag sites → Followed by Greece.
  • Statement 2  is correct: It is an eco-label awarded annually to beaches, marinas, and sustainable boating tourism operators.
• On the lines of Blue Flag certification, India has also launched its own eco-label BEAMS.

Ans: D

Exp:

• • National Youth Day or Rashtriya Yuva Diwas is observed in India every year on January 12 to honour the teachings and ideals of Swami Vivekananda

• Objectives of National Youth Day

• • Generate awareness about the life and message of Swami Vivekananda to inspire and motivate youth into participating in nation building.
  • To involve youth in various activities and to promote spirit of service and volunteerism.
• Statement 1 is correct:The theme of National Youth Day 2025 is “Youth for a Sustainable Future: Shaping the Nation with Resilience and Responsibility”. 
• Statement 2 is correct:Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had called Vivekananda the “maker of modern India.”
• Statement 3 is correct: Swami Vivekanand founded the Ramakrishna Mission on May 1, 1897 at Belur Math near Calcutta.       
• Swami Vivekanand’s Religion was an amalgamation of Sri Ramakrishna’s spiritual teachings of Divine manifestation and his personal internalization of the Advaita Vedanta philosophy.
• He introduced the philosophies of Yoga and Vedanta to the West and  thus became popular as the ‘messenger of Indian wisdom to the Western world’.
• Swami Vivekananda’s nationalism  is based on Humanism, Universalism and spiritualism, cardinal features of Indian culture.

Ans: C

Exp:

• Big Tech firms that announced large language AI models also released Small language models subsequently.
• Small language models (SLMs) are artificial intelligence (AI) models capable of processing, understanding and generating natural language content. As their name implies, SLMs are smaller in scale and scope than large language models (LLMs).
• In terms of size, SLM parameters range from a few million to a few billion, as opposed to LLMs with hundreds of billions or even trillions of parameters.
• Statement 1 is correct:Large Language Models (LLMs) are intentionally built to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) while small language models are made for specific use cases.
• Statement 2 is correct:Small language models are more compact and efficient than their large model counterparts. 
• LLMs serve as the base for SLMs. Like large language models, small language models employ a neural network-based architecture known as the transformer model. 
  • Transformers have become fundamental in natural language processing (NLP) and act as the building blocks of models like the generative pre-trained transformer (GPT).