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			Q. 01 / 25
		
		Amid slowing CASA (Current Account-Savings Account) deposit growth, Indian banks are increasingly turning to which type of costlier funding, per an RBI Financial Stability Report finding?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: With the credit-deposit growth gap widening, banks rely more on Certificates of Deposit and high short-term rate bulk deposits — costlier, less stable than low-cost CASA deposits, which fell to about 39% of total liabilities.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 02 / 25
		
		Mohammed Shaheed Faisal, the Bengaluru engineer newly designated a terrorist, is accused of handling the terror module behind which 2024 blast?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: The NIA identified Faisal, 40, currently in Rawalpindi, as handler of the module behind the IED explosion at The Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru on March 1, 2024. He carries a Rs 10 lakh reward.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 03 / 25
		
		In the Grand Chess Tour’s Croatia leg (blitz section), who emerged sole leader after the penultimate day, ahead of R. Praggnanandhaa?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: Firouzja led with 20 points, while Praggnanandhaa could manage only 3.5 points from the opening nine rounds of the blitz section.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 04 / 25
		
		India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) sent Meta a notice to stop the rollout of which WhatsApp feature?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: MeitY said the username feature, which lets users chat without sharing phone numbers, could facilitate impersonation, identity spoofing and digital-arrest scams; it cited Sections 66C, 66D and 79 of the IT Act while questioning WhatsApp's due diligence obligations.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 05 / 25
		
		India withdrew its emergency gas-supply regulation order (issued in March 2026) after shipping normalised through which strait?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: The Natural Gas (Supply Regulation) Order, 2026, brought in under the Essential Commodities Act after the West Asia conflict disrupted LNG shipments, was eased once a ceasefire took hold and traffic through the Strait of Hormuz resumed.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 06 / 25
		
		Kaziranga National Park’s patrol elephant Joymala, who passed away recently at 66, earned international fame in 2004 for which incident?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: The dramatic incident was captured on camera and became one of Kaziranga's most iconic wildlife images. Inducted in 1992, Joymala served 34 years as a 'jungle warrior' safeguarding the park.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 07 / 25
		
		Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary announced plans to set up how many Fast Track Courts (FTCs) in the State?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: Speaking at a State-level conference on New Criminal Laws in Bodh Gaya, Choudhary said 100 FTCs would be set up for prompt resolution of crime-related cases, urging maximum use of technology and AI in investigation, prosecution and judicial processes.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 08 / 25
		
		Kimi Antonelli, who won the British Grand Prix sprint race and took pole position, drives for which F1 team?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: Antonelli overtook Lewis Hamilton to win the sprint at Silverstone and set the fastest lap in qualifying, edging Ferrari's Charles Leclerc by 0.175 seconds to claim pole for Sunday's race.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 09 / 25
		
		The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has forcefully urged a federal judge to permanently dismiss the criminal case against which Indian billionaire?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: The DoJ told the court the 2024 prosecution (alleging a $250 million bribery scheme) was legally flawed and inconsistent with the administration's priorities, calling its earlier dismissal motion terse, bland and conclusory.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 10 / 25
		
		France beat Paraguay 1-0 in the FIFA World Cup 2026 Round of 16. Who scored the winning goal?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: A VAR review awarded a penalty after Desire Doue was fouled by Diego Gomez inside the box; Mbappe converted it in the 70th minute to send France into the quarterfinals.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 11 / 25
		
		CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is being shut down for a four-year, $1.5-billion overhaul to upgrade it to its:
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: The High-Luminosity LHC upgrade will let proton beams collide five times more often at the same energy, increasing the odds of detecting rare particles such as those linked to dark matter, ahead of the LHC's planned run until 2041.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 12 / 25
		
		Kaziranga National Park’s patrol elephant Joymala, who passed away recently at 66, earned international fame in 2004 for which incident?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: The dramatic incident was captured on camera and became one of Kaziranga's most iconic wildlife images. Inducted in 1992, Joymala served 34 years as a 'jungle warrior' safeguarding the park.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 13 / 25
		
		As per PFRDA’s new (Dec 2025) NPS exit norms, what is the maximum lump-sum withdrawal now allowed at retirement for corpus above ₹12 lakh?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: The mandatory annuity portion has been reduced from 40% to 20% of the corpus, so subscribers can now withdraw up to 80% as lump sum, against 60% earlier.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 14 / 25
		
		In which year was India’s NLEM last overhauled, before the current 4-year lag flagged by civil society groups?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: The NLEM was last overhauled in 2022. The Working Group on Access to Medicines and Treatments urged a transparent revision, noting 17 cancer-treating agents and 9 monoclonal antibodies on the WHO list are missing from India's list.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 15 / 25
		
		The 2013 Supreme Court judgment directed translocation of Asiatic lions from Gujarat’s Gir forest to which national park, as their ‘second home’?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: The April 15, 2013 Supreme Court judgment ordered translocation of Asiatic lions to Kuno National Park, MP, to reduce extinction risk from a single-site population — but Gujarat has resisted the move for over a decade.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 16 / 25
		
		Gujarat’s Snake Research Institute (SRI) at Dharampur is developing a region-specific anti-venom targeting how many medically important venomous snake species of the state?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: SRI, under the Gujarat Forestry Research Foundation, supplied lyophilised (freeze-dried) venom from four species to a Telangana-based manufacturer via e-auction; the first anti-venom batch is expected within a year.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 17 / 25
		
		The HPCL Rajasthan Refinery Ltd. (HRRL) petrochemical complex, inaugurated by PM Modi, is India’s first greenfield integrated refinery-petrochemical complex, located at:
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: PM Modi inaugurated the HRRL petrochemical complex at Balotra, in the area carved out of erstwhile Barmer district — India's first greenfield integrated refinery-petrochemical complex. Modi said India had weathered the West Asia crisis without fuel rationing.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 18 / 25
		
		Charles Leclerc’s win at the British Grand Prix, Silverstone, marked Ferrari’s how-many-th Grand Prix victory?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: The race finished behind a safety car; it was Leclerc's first win since the 2024 United States GP and moved him up to fourth in the drivers' championship standings.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 19 / 25
		
		As per NFHS-6 (2023-24) data, the national Exclusive Breastfeeding (EBF) rate for infants under six months declined from what level (NFHS-5) to what level?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: Despite institutional deliveries rising to 90.6%, EBF fell from 63.7% (NFHS-5) to 55.8% (NFHS-6); the sharpest declines were seen in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi, while Kerala, Gujarat and West Bengal improved.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 20 / 25
		
		Cape Verde, the World Cup 2026’s celebrated underdog story, is an archipelago made up of how many islands?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: Officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, the archipelago lies 460-570 km off Africa's west coast; the tiny nation has become one of the World Cup's biggest underdog stories, with football investment worth an estimated $190 billion (~12% of GDP).			
			
		
		
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			Q. 21 / 25
		
		The U.S. birthright citizenship guarantee, at the centre of the recent SCOTUS ruling, is rooted in which Amendment to the Constitution?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: The 14th Amendment (1868) declares that all persons born or naturalised in the U.S. and subject to its jurisdiction are citizens; it was added after the Dred Scott case to permanently secure citizenship for freed slaves.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 22 / 25
		
		The Jirang Organic Agro Farmers Producer Company, a Meghalaya farm-collectivisation success story, is located in which district?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: Formed in 2017 under the Mission Organic Value Chain Development for the North East, the FPC now has 433 members across 18 villages; a ₹2.46-crore pulp-processing unit set up in 2025 has sharply cut wastage and lifted farmer incomes.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 23 / 25
		
		As per PM Modi’s statement, India is currently the world’s ______ largest oil refiner.
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: Modi said India is currently the world's fourth-largest oil refiner and would continue expanding refining capacity, crediting domestic refineries for helping the country cope with West Asia conflict disruptions.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 24 / 25
		
		Direct-Seeded Rice (DSR), gaining traction in Punjab amid El Nino-linked monsoon concerns, mainly saves on which two inputs compared to traditional transplanting?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: DSR uses specialised drills to sow seeds directly, avoiding water-intensive puddling and manual transplantation — helpful amid water and labour shortages caused by an erratic, El Nino-affected sowing season.			
			
		
		
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			Q. 25 / 25
		
		The Telangana Cancer Atlas, which found private hospitals treat a slightly larger share of cancer patients than government ones, is based on data from which scheme?
		
							
								
								
								
						
		
					
				Explanation: The Atlas, using Rajiv Aarogyasri Health Care Trust data (April 2020–September 2025), found over 1,00,294 unique cancer patients treated, private hospitals accounting for 53.4% of cases versus 43.4% in government institutions.