Option (a) is correct.

Explanation:

According to the Ministry of Education, all States need to encourage aspirants to utilise the newly launched SATHEE portal for  Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) exam preparation.

• Statement 1 is not correct: SATHEE (Self Assessment Test and Help for Entrance Exams) is an initiative by the Ministry of Education in association with IIT Kanpur. About 5,000 students from the Kendriya Vidyalayas, Navodaya Vidyalayas, and schools under the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) have registered on the platform so far.
• Statement 2 is correct: SATHEE has been launched to give students free learning and assessment platform. Whereas private coaching centres and portals seek payment, SATHEE is an open learning platform available to students at no cost. 
• Statement 3 is correct: The portal uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to interact with students, and can be customised to each student’s pace of learning. SATHEE’s integrated AI chatbot helps students align their learning needs. It is in line with the National Education Policy, with the goal to provide inclusive, high quality education even to remote parts of the country.

Option (b) is correct.

Explanation:

The 59th International Tropical Timber Council (ITTC) concluded on November 17, 2023. The ITTO is an intergovernmental organisation for promoting the sustainable management, restoration and conservation of tropical forests and trade in tropical forest resources including improved market intelligence. 

• Statement 1 is not correct: ITTO was established under the International Tropical Timber Agreement 1983 (ITTA 1983), negotiated under the auspices of the UN Conference on Trade and Development. 
• Statement 2 is  correct: It began operations in 1987 and its headquarters are located in Yokohama, Japan.
• Statement 3 is  not correct: The ITTO facilitates funding for forestry projects in tropical timber producing countries.All projects are funded by voluntary contributions from governments.
• Statement 4 is correct: India is a member of the organsiation.

Option (b) is correct.

Explanation:

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies (OPEC+) are likely to extend and may even deepen oil supply cuts into next year.

About OPEC:

• Founding Members: OPEC was founded in Baghdad in 1960 by Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela. 
• Headquarters: OPEC had its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, in the first five years of its existence. This was moved to Vienna, Austria in 1965. 
• Objective: OPEC regularly meets to set oil production targets and coordinate output to help manage global oil prices for the entire group.
• OPEC+: In 2016, largely in response to falling oil prices driven by significant increases in U.S. shale oil output, OPEC signed an agreement with 10 other oil-producing countries (including Russia) to create OPEC+. 

Option (b) is correct.

Explanation:

• Statement 1 is not correct: Recently, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released the 14th Emissions Gap Report 2023- Broken Record.
• Statement 2 is correct: The report brings together many of the world’s top climate scientists to look at future trends in greenhouse gas emissions and provide potential solutions to the challenge of global warming.

Key Findings of Emissions Gap Report 2023:

• Limiting Global Warming: There is only a 14% chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels.
• Breaching Paris Agreement Targets: Even if the existing nationally determined contributions (NDC) are delivered by 2030, the world will warm by 2.5°C, breaching the 2°C target set by the Paris Agreement.
• Warming Under the Current Policy Scenarios: Warming will reach 3°C, given the implementation gap i.e. the difference between the commitments made by countries in their NDCs and the actual measures and policies implemented to achieve those commitments. 

Option (d) is correct.

Explanation:

Bharti Enterprises-backed OneWeb India recently became the only satellite broadband services provider to receive the authorisation from Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) to launch Eutelsat OneWeb’s commercial satellite broadband services in India.Eutelsat-OneWeb aims to provide internet services to the rural and unconnected areas, territorial waters of India on a 24/7 basis. 

• Statement 1 is not correct: The Eutelsat OneWeb is a global constellation with 648 satellites (including spares) orbiting Earth in circular polar orbits at 1200 km altitude and shall provide about 21 Gbps throughput over India.
• Statement 2 is not correct: The assignment of the spectrum will be done by the Indian Government’s Department of Telecommunication (DoT).
• Statement 3 is not correct: IN-SPACe is an autonomous nodal agency under the Department of Space responsible for regulating private space firms in India.
• New Space India Limited (NSIL) is a wholly owned Government of India undertaking/ Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE), under the administrative control of Department of Space (DOS) to commercially exploit the research and development work of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Centres and constituent units of DOS.