Option (a) is correct

Explanation:

• To commemorate the 9th International Day of Yoga, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead a unique yoga session at the UN Headquarters New York City.
• Statement 1 is correct: This year, the theme for International Yoga Day 2023 is ‘Yoga for Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam,’ effectively encapsulating our collective aspiration for ‘One Earth, One Family, and One Future.’ 
• Statement 2 is not correct: Considering its universal appeal, the United Nations declared 21st June as the International Day of Yoga on 11th December 2014.
• The first International Yoga Day was celebrated globally on 21st June 2015.

Option (c) is correct

Explanation:

• The four important vaccines are:
  • ZyCoV-D: World’s 1st and India’s indigenously developed DNA vaccine
  • CORBEVAX: India’s first protein subunit vaccine
  • GEMCOVAC-19: World’s 1st and India’s indigenously developed mRNA vaccine
  • iNCOVACC: World’s 1st and India’s indigenously developed intranasal COVID-19 vaccine

Option (b) is correct

Explanation:

• On 21st June 2023, India  hosted the 18th Session of the India – Iraq Joint Commission Meeting in  New Delhi.
• India called for the strengthening of relations between the two countries including the Oil & Gas Sector, Capacity Building and Diversification of trade baskets between the two countries.

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Iraq is bordered to the:

• North by Turkey
• East by Iran
• West by Syria and Jordan
• South by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait

Option (b) is correct

Explanation:

• Statement 1 is correct: Recently, the United Nations adopted a pact commonly known as the High Seas Treaty, which establishes the first-ever framework for governing practices like fishing, mining and oil extraction in international waters, an issue that has threatened oceanic ecosystems across the globe with little oversight.
• Officially known as the Treaty on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction, it falls under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which came into force in 1994.
• Statement 2 is correct: The treaty also establishes principles for sharing the benefits of “marine genetic resources” (MGR) collected by scientific research in international waters – a sticking point that almost derailed last-minute negotiations in March.
  • Developing countries, which often don’t have the money to finance such expeditions, fought for benefit-sharing rights, hoping to not get left behind by what many see as a huge future market in the commercialisation of MGR, especially by pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies searching for “miracle molecules”. 
• High Seas are parts of the sea that are not included in the territorial waters or the internal waters of a country as per Geneva Convention of 1958 on the High Seas.
  • It is the area beyond a country’s Exclusive Economic Zone (that extends up to 200 nautical miles from the coastline) and till where a nation has jurisdiction over living and non-living resources.

Option (a) is correct

Explanation:

• Recently, the Supreme Court held that there was “no merit” in Coal India Ltd (CIL), a public sector undertaking, being excluded from the purview of the Competition Act.
• Competition Commission of India (CCI): 
  • Statement 1 is not correct: A statutory body of the Government of India responsible for enforcing the Competition Act, 2002, which was constituted in March 2009.
  • On the recommendations of the Raghavan committee, the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969 was repealed and replaced by the Competition Act, 2002
  • Statement 2 is not correct: The Commission consists of one Chairperson and six Members who shall be appointed by the Central Government.
  • Statement 3 is correct: The commission is a quasi-judicial body, gives its opinions to statutory authorities and also deals with other cases.

Option (d) is correct 

Explanation:

• Recently, a top official said that National Bank for Financing Infrastructure & Development (NaBFID) aims to disburse about ₹60,000 crore by the end of this fiscal, having lent ₹8,000 crore already in the first quarter.
• Statement 1 is correct: It has been set up as a corporate statutory body with authorised share capital of one lakh crore rupees.
• Statement 2 is correct: NaBFID is regulated and supervised as an All India Financial Institution (AIFI) by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934.
• It is the fifth AIFI after EXIM Bank, NABARD, NHB and SIDBI.
• It is headquartered at the Small Industries Development Bank of India’s (SIDBI) office in Mumbai.