Among 389 members of the Constituent Assembly, only fifteen women contributed to making the Constitution of India. They were:

* Ammu Swaminathan

* Dakshayani Velayudhan

* Begum Aizaz Rasul

* Durgabai Deshmukh

* Hansa Jivraj Mehta

* Kamla Chaudhary

* Leela Roy

* Malati Choudhury

* Purnima Banerjee

* Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

* Renuka Ray

* Sarojini Naidu

* Sucheta Kriplani

* Vijalakshami Pandit

* Annie Mascarene

The New Development Bank (NDB) is established by The BRICS states (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). According to the Agreement on the NDB, “the Bank shall support public or private projects through loans, guarantees, equity participation and other financial instruments”. Moreover, the NDB “shall cooperate with international organisations and other financial entities, and provide technical assistance for projects to be supported by the Bank. The bank is headquartered in Shanghai, China. The first regional office of the NDB will be opened in Johannesburg, South Africa.

In geology, horst and graben signifies the regions that lie between normal faults and are either higher or lower than the region beyond the faults.

A horst refers to a block pushed upward relative to the blocks on each side by the faulting, whereas a graben is a block usually long compared to its width that has been lowered relative to the blocks on each side because of the faulting.

The horst and graben are formed when the normal fault of the opposite dip takes place in pair with parallel strike lines.

The horst and graben are always formed together.

The fiscal policy is generally concerned with:-

1. Capital formation.

2. Mobilization of resources.

3. Employment generation.

4. Efficient allocation of financial resources.

5. Price stability and control of inflation.

6. Reduction in qualities of income and wealth and balanced regional development.

These are some of the focus areas of the fiscal policy.

The International Mother Language Day is observed on February 21. Hence, option A is correct.

Explanation)

* International Mother Language Day: Prime Minister says mother tongue education is linked to child's mental development

* This year's theme, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is "Using technology for multilingual learning: Challenges and Opportunities."

* Many political leaders, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, extended greetings on International Mother Language Day, which is identified worldwide on February 21 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity.

* Bangladesh started the celebration of International Mother Language Day. It was approved by the UNESCO General Conference in 1999 and has been observed globally since 2000.

The Doctrine of Rarest of Rare was created in the case of Bacchan vs State of Punjab on 9^th May 1980. The SC (Supreme Court), in this case, endeavoured to cut out a doctrine especially for offences culpable with death to reduce the uncertainty for courts regarding when to go for the highest level of punishment of the land.

By the majority of 4 to 1, the death penalty’s constitutionality was upheld by the SC and a principle was laid down that the death penalty should be surrounded only in the rarest of rare cases.

However, the extent of this phrase was left unexplained. The Ratio Decidendi of Bacchan Singh case was that the death sentence is constitutional if it is advised as an alternative for the misdeed of murder and if the normal sentence authorized by law for murder is imprisonment for life.

This signifies that the death penalty can only be inflicted on the rarest of rare cases where an alternative option is excluded.

The local differences of the temperature and the pressure produce local winds. These winds are local in their extent and are confined to the troposphere lowest level.

Cold winds example:

* Pampero

* Gregale

* Bora

* Tramontane

* Mistral

Warm winds example:

* Foehn or Fohn

* Chinook

* Zonda

* Loo

* Sirocco

Consumer Price Indices (CPI) measure changes over time in general level of prices of goods and services that households acquire for the purpose of consumption. CPI is widely used as a macroeconomic indicator of inflation, as a tool by governments and central banks for inflation targeting and for monitoring price stability, and as deflators in the national accounts. CPI is also used for indexing dearness allowance to employees for increase in prices.

According to Global Innovation Index (GII), 2020, Switzerland is the world’s most-innovative economy followed by Sweden, the United States of America (U.S.), the United Kingdom (U.K.) and the Netherlands. Hence, first statement is correct.

India has been ranked at 48^th position. Hence, second statement is incorrect.

The Global Innovation Index (GII) provides detailed metrics about the innovation performance of 131 countries. It is published by Cornell University, INSEAD, and the World Intellectual Property Organization. Hence, third statement is correct.

Indian innovation index is released by NITI Aayog. Hence, fourth statement is correct.