Option (b) is correct.

Explanation:

According to the Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, all 5G phones would be required to support NavIC by January 1, 2025, and other phones by December 2025.

• Statement 1 is correct:  Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has established a regional navigation satellite system called NavIC. It was erstwhile known as Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS). It is India’s attempt at building an independent standalone navigation satellite system.
• Statement 2 is correct: NavIC is designed with a constellation of 7 satellites and a network of ground stations. Three satellites of the constellation are placed in geostationary orbit, and four satellites are placed in inclined geosynchronous orbit with equatorial crossing.
• Statement 3 is not correct: NavIC coverage area includes India and a region up to 1500 km beyond Indian boundary. NavIC signals are designed to provide user position accuracy better than 20m.

Option (c) is correct.

Explanation:

India wants the World Bank to take into account several measures taken by the government on the logistics front such as the PM GatiShakti initiative while determining the logistics ranking.

Logistics Performance Index (LPI):

• The LPI is an interactive benchmarking tool developed by the World Bank to help countries identify the challenges and opportunities they face in their performance on trade logistics.
• The LPI 2023 allows for comparisons across 139 countries. 
• The national logistics policy has fixed a target to take up India’s ranking in top 25 by 2030.
• At present, the World Bank considers six parameters to measure performance of countries:

Option (c) is correct.

Explanation:

• A resurgence of scrub typhus cases in Odisha has brought forward the role of climate in driving up the rate of the highly infectious disease. 
• Pair 1 is not correctly matched: Scrub typhus is caused by a zoonotic rickettsial bacterium called Orientia tsutsugamushi, which is transmitted to humans through the bites of infected mites in the larveal stage called chiggers. 
• Pair 2 is correctly matched: Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that most often affects the lungs and is caused by a type of bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Ending the TB epidemic by 2030 is among the health targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• Pair 3 is correctly matched: Hepatitis A is an inflammation of the liver caused by the hepatitis A virus (HAV). The virus is primarily spread when an uninfected person ingests food or water that is contaminated with the faeces of an infected person. 

Option (b) is correct.

Explanation:

• Recent analysis of data obtained by NASA’s shows the spacecraft’s kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos on September 2022, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. 
• Statement I is correct: NASA’s DART mission was the first-ever mission dedicated to investigating and demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection by changing an asteroid’s motion in space through kinetic impact.
• Statement II is correct: The DART mission is NASA’s demonstration of kinetic impactor technology, impacting an asteroid to adjust its speed and path (orbit). DART is the first-ever space mission to demonstrate asteroid deflection by kinetic impactor. It is humanity’s first test of a planetary defence technique associated with asteroids.

Option (d) is correct.

Explanation:

• Poor rainfall, along with a sharp drop in domestic prices in August, has boosted demand for edible oil, leading to an increase in imports.
• Data compiled by the Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA), showed the import of edible oil in August 2023 was 35 per cent higher compared to imports in August 2022.
• Edible Oils
  • The Government of India has continuously been making efforts to increase the area production of oil palm.
  • Various schemes such as the Oil Palm Area Expansion (OPAE), National Mission on Oilseeds and Oil Palm (NMOOP) and the National Food Security Mission (NFSM)–Oilseeds & Oil Palm.
• Oil PALM GROWING STATES
  • Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Kerala are major Oil palm growing States and account 98% of total production. 
  • Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Gujarat and Mizoram have also sizable areas under Oil palm cultivation. 
  • Recently Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur and Nagaland have also initiated Oil palm plantation programs on a large scale.