Option (b) is correct

Explanation:

• The Supreme Court, while holding that a child born from a void or a voidable marriage is entitled to parents’ share in a Hindu Undivided Family(HUF) governed by Mitakshara law.
• Statement 1 is  not correct: The Mitakshara school of Hindu law governs succession and inheritance of property but only recognised males as legal heirs.
• Statement 2 is correct:It applies to everyone who is not a Muslim, Christian, Parsi or Jew by religion. Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains and followers of Arya Samaj, Brahmo Samaj, are also considered Hindus for this law.
• In a Hindu Undivided Family, several legal heirs through generations can exist jointly.
• Traditionally, only male descendants of a common ancestor along with their mothers, wives and unmarried daughters are considered a joint Hindu family. The legal heirs hold the family property jointly.

Option (c) is correct

Explanation:

• Article 371 D, which offers constitutional protection and guarantees the allocation of 85% of seats in educational institutions to the locals, may not come to their rescue as the validity of the A.P. Reorganisation Act ceases after the 10-year period in May 2024.

Option (d) is correct

Explanation:

• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with Vladimir Putin on Monday, hoping to persuade the Russian leader to rejoin the Black Sea grain deal. 
• The Black Sea lies between the continents of Asia and Europe. It is bound to the west by the Balkan Peninsula in Southeastern Europe, to the east by the Caucasus, north by East European Plains, and south by Anatolia of Western Asia. 
• The Black Sea is also connected to the Sea of Azov by the Strait of Kerch.
• The bordering countries of Black Sea are: Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania.

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Option (d) is correct.

Explanation:

• To solve the ongoing conflict in Manipur and assuage Kukis, the state has proposed to the Centre that the existing autonomous hill councils (ADCs) be given more autonomy.
• Statement 1 is not correct: ADCs are constituted under the sixth schedule of the Indian Constitution.
• Statement 2 is not correct: The tribal areas in the four states of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram have been constituted as autonomous districts but they do not fall outside the executive authority of the state concerned.
• Statement 3 is not correct: The Governor is empowered to organise and re-organise the autonomous districts. Thus, he can increase or decrease their areas or change their names or define their boundaries and so on.
• Statement 4 is not correct: Each autonomous district has a district council consisting of 30 members, of whom four are nominated by the Governor and the remaining 26 are elected on the basis of adult franchise. 
• Statement 5 is not correct: The elected members hold office for a term of five years (unless the council is dissolved earlier) and nominated members hold office during the pleasure of the Governor.

Option (b) is correct

Explanation:

• Statement 1 is correct: Hyderabad-based private sector firm, Grene Robotics, has demonstrated a weapons platform named Indrajaal — which it calls the world’s only autonomous wide area, counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS). 
• It is capable of protecting against micro, mini, small, large and extra-large drones, Indrajaal’s design principle leverages a combination of 12 unique layers of technology to neutralise threats in real time. 
• Statement 2 is correct: Providing 360-degree protection, Indrajaal can defend areas of up to 4000 square kilometres against all classifications and levels of unmanned autonomous threats. 
• Statement 3 is correct: Indrajaal is currently demonstrating the ability to provide protection against all categories of aerial threats, including low radar cross section (RCS) threats, medium altitude long endurance (MALE) and high-altitude long endurance (HALE) UAVs.
• Existing point defence based anti-UAV systems cannot protect large defence bases or vast areas like the National Capital Region which contains several critically important buildings. 
• Statement 4 is  not correct: Indrajaal mitigates these limitations by combining 12 proprietary technologies for the first time into a wide-area networked system.