Option (d) is correct

Explanation:

• President Droupadi Murmu will make a six-day official visit to Serbia starting in an effort to bolster India’s bilateral relations.
• Serbia is a landlocked country located in the central part of the Balkan Peninsula in South Eastern Europe. 
• It is positioned both in the Northern and Eastern hemispheres of the Earth. 
• Serbia is bordered by Romania in the northeast; Hungary in the north; North Macedonia in the south; Bulgaria in the southeast; Montenegro in the southwest; and Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina in the west.

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Option (c) is correct

Explanation:

• Iran and Afghanistan are locked in a long-standing dispute over the sharing of water from the Helmand River. 
• Statement 1 is correct: Lake Hamun is the largest freshwater lake in Iran.
  • It used to be one of the world’s largest wetlands, straddling 4,000 square kilometres (1,600 square miles) between Iran and Afghanistan, fed by the Helmand.
  • But it has since dried up, a trend experts blame on drought and the impact of dams and water controls.
• Statement 2 is correct: The Helmand is Afghanistan’s longest river. It originates near Kabul in the western Hindu Kush mountain range and flows in a southwesterly direction through desert areas for a total of about 1,150 kilometres (715 miles).

Option (b) is correct

Explanation:

• NHPC Limited (A Govt. of India Enterprise) and Vidhyut Utpadan Company Limited (VUCL), Nepal signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) in New Delhi for development of Phukot Karnali Hydro Electric Project (480 MW) in Nepal.
• Phukot Karnali Hydro Electric Project will use the flow from the Karnali River for power generation.

Option (a) is correct

Explanation:

• Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) is devising an affordable product covering health, life, property, accident risks to give citizens protection, expedite claim settlements by linking death registries onto one industry platform
• IRDA striving to create an “UPI-like moment” in insurance through a plan worked out with general and life insurance firms that he termed “Bima Trinity”.
• Statement 1 not correct: Bima Vaahak is a women-centric workforce operating at the Gram Sabha level. 
  • Each Gram Panchayat would have a ‘Bima Vahak’ who would be tasked to sell and service simple parametric bundled insurance products.

• Statement 2 is correct: Bima Vistaar is a comprehensive bundled policy that covers life, health, property, and accidents. 
  • IRDAI to develop an affordable, accessible and comprehensive cover – Bima Vistaar’ for rural population in the event of natural disasters, such as floods, and earthquakes.

• Statement 3 is not correct: Bima Sugam is a one-stop shop for all insurance related queries, policy purchase, claim settlement and insurance advice. It is a unified platform that combines insurers and distributors.

Option (d) is correct

Explanation: 

• Government-owned engineering consultancy firm Engineers India (EIL) is studying the prospects and feasibility of developing salt cavern-based strategic oil reserves in Rajasthan, in line with the government’s objective of increasing the country’s strategic oil storage capacity.
• Strategic Petroleum Reserves are large stockpiles of crude oil and petroleum products maintained by many countries, primarily for emergency situations or times of severe supply disruptions.
• India’s present SPR capacity is around 39 million barrels of crude, which can meet around 9.5 days of demand.
• Statement 1 is correct: Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserve (ISPRL) under the aegis of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas is nodal agency for  Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR).
• Statement 2 is correct: India’s Strategic Oil Storage Facilities in Mangaluru, Padur, and Visakhapatnam are made up of excavated rock caverns.
• The oil marketing companies (OMCs) have storage facilities for crude oil and petroleum products for 64.5 days — which means there is sufficient storage to meet around 74 days of the country’s petroleum demand.

Option (c) is correct

Explanation:

Union Minister for Jal Shakti has launched the Unified Registration Portal for GOBARdhan.

• Statement 1 is correct: The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation under the Jal Shakti Ministry has launched the GOBAR (Galvanizing Organic Bio-Agro Resources) – DHAN scheme.
  • It was launched in 2018.

• Statement 2 is correct: It is being implemented under the Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin-Phase.
• Aim:
  • To keep the villages clean, increase the income of rural households, and generate energy from cattle waste.