The correct answer is 2 min.

Key Points

• According to Rule 7 of the AIBA Boxing competition Rules, in all AOB Junior Boys and Girls competitions, the Bouts must consist of three rounds of two minutes each.
• In all AOB Elite Men and Youth Boys competitions, the Bouts must consist of three rounds of three
  minutes each.
• In all AOB Elite Women and Youth Girls competitions, the Bouts must consist of four rounds of two
   minutes each.
• For all the above-listed Competitions, the rest time between rounds is one minute.

Additional Information

• AIBA (International Boxing Association)
  • HQ - Lausanne, Switzerland
  • President - Umar Nazarovich Kremlev (Russian)
  • Founded - November 1946

The correct answer is Satyendra Prasad Sinha.

Key Points

• Satyendra Prasad Sinha was the first Indian to join the Viceroy's Executive Council.
• The Viceroy's Executive Council was the cabinet of the government of British India consisting of five members heading revenue, military, law, finance, and home among which for the first time in the section of Law, S P Sinha was introduced as the first Indian member.
• Sachidanand Sinha was the first president(nominated) of the Indian Constituent Assembly where he was selected as the interim president in the first meeting of the constituent assembly held on 9^th December 1946.
• Dr. B R Ambedkar was appointed as a chairman of the Drafting Committee which was appointed on 29^th August 1947.
• Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected as the president of the constituent assembly in the second meeting of the constituent assembly on 11th December 1946.

The correct answer is: Low-power objective lens.

Key Points

• The coarse adjustment knob is used to quickly move the stage of the microscope up or down.
• This quick and imprecise adjustment is ideal for the low-power objective lens, where the risk of collision between the lens and the slide is minimal.
• It allows the observer to quickly bring the specimen into the general area of focus.
• However, for higher magnification lenses, the fine adjustment knob should be used to avoid damaging the slide or the lens.

Additional Information

• A microscope is an instrument used to see objects that are too small for the naked eye.
• Objective lenses are the primary lenses in a microscope that gather light from the sample, magnify the image of the sample, and project it into the eyepiece.

Pairs 1 and 3 are incorrectly matched.

Key Points

• The battle of Khatoli was fought in 1517 AD. between the Rajput army of Mewar led by Rana Sanga (Maharana Sangram Singh) and the army of the Delhi Sultanate led by Ibrahim Lodi. Hence pair 1 is incorrectly matched.
  • A fierce battle was fought at Khatoli near Bundi.
  • The sultan was defeated and fled from the battlefield.
  • A son of the sultan was imprisoned.
  • The next year, the sultan sent Miyan Husain and Miyan Mukhan as the head of a large army.
  • Again the army of the Sultan was defeated by the Maharana, at Badi near Dholpur.
• The Battle of Khanwa was a decisive engagement between the Mughal forces under Babur and the Rajput alliance under Rana Sanga of Mewar. Hence pair 2 is correctly matched.
  • The battle was fought on 16 March 1527.
  • It ended in a decisive victory for the Mughal forces and would consolidate Babur and his descendant's rule for centuries to come.
• The Battle of Chandwar was fought between  Muhammad Ghori and Jayachandra. Hence pair 3 is incorrectly matched. 
  • Jayachandra was the last great ruler of the Gahadavala dynasty of northern India. 
  • He was killed in the Battle of Chandwar in 1194A.D. by Muhammad of Ghori.
  • The Battle of Chandwar (1193 or 1194) was the second major victory won by Muhammad of Ghor in northern India, after the second battle of Tarain.
  • Muhammad's first expedition in the Ganges plain had ended in defeat at the hands of Prithviraj Chauhan at Tarain in 1191.

The Correct Answer is 2021.

In News

• India, Israel, UAE, US announce space venture.

Key Points

• The I2U2 grouping has announced a new joint space venture at the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
• The space venture will primarily use the space-based observation data and capabilities of the four I2U2 partner countries.
• The I2U2 grouping consists of four nations: India, Israel, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.
• The grouping was formed in October 2021.
• I2U2 is aimed to encourage joint investments in six mutually identified areas such as water, energy, transportation, space, health, and food security.

The correct answer is Padma Bhushan.

Key Points

• Mrinalini Sarabhai is famous for Bharatanatyam.
• Mrinalini's older sister Lakshmi Sehgal was the commander-in-chief of the Rani of the Jhansi regiment which was an all-women combat regiment of the Indian National Army.
• Mrinalini was born to a Tamil Brahmin father and Malayali Nair mother in present-day Kerala on 11 May 1918. Bharatanatyam is a dance of Tamil Nadu in southern India.
• She trained over 18,000 students in Bharatnatyam and Kathak.

Additional Information

• Uday Shankar is known as the Father of Modern Dance in India.
• The Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh is the first and the only five-star rank officer in the Indian Air Force. Singh was conferred Padma Vibhushan in 1965.
• It's a known fact that Sachin Tendulkar is the only sportsperson who was conferred with the Bharat Ratna in 2014.
• Yoga Guru Swami Sivananda, Ghulam Nabi Azad Among Winners.  
• Sonu Nigam receives Padma Shri Award, Victor Banerjee conferred with Padma Bhushan.

The Correct Answer is The Autobiography of God.

In News

• Filmfare Awardee Lenaa Kumar releases her debut book on self-realisation, published by Geetika Saigal’s Beeja House.

Key Points

• The author, Lenaa Kumar, is an award-winning actress, clinical psychologist, scriptwriter, and entrepreneur renowned for her impact on Indian cinema over a career spanning more than 25 years.
• “The Autobiography of God” is for the rational, logical, practical, seekers, non-conformists, leaders, pioneers, rebels, and free spirits.
• Having pursued acting from the age of 16, she has worked in over 175 films in five languages, delivering blockbusters and critically acclaimed performances in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam films.
• She has won numerous awards, including the Filmfare Awards, Me-Brand Accelerator Awards, SIIMA Awards, IIFA Award, Toronto International South Asian Film Awards, Kerala State Film Awards, and Kerala Film Critics Association Awards.
• An active advocate for mental health, emotional well-being, and self-awareness, she is a transformational speaker on a mission to empower with self-realization through infotainment.
• Her TEDx talk has been viewed more than 850,000 times.

Concept:

Light:

• Light is a form of energy, which produces the sensation of vision in our eyes. 
• The objects around us reflect light. The reflected light reaches our eyes and make that thing visible to us. 
• Luminous objects like Sun, stars, electric bulbs etc have their own light and they are considered a source of light. 
• Non Luminous objects are those objects which do not have their own light but reflect the light coming from some source.
• Light travels in a straight line in a given medium. 

Transparent, translucent, and opaque object

• Transparent object: The object that allows light to pass through them or the objects across we can see are transparent objects. Examples. Glass, water.
• Translucent object: The object that partially allows light to pass through them are translucent objects. Example filter paper.
• Opaque object: The object across which light cannot pass are called opaque object, for example, cardboard, books, etc. 

Shadow Formation

• A shadow is a black spot that is formed when an opaque object comes into the path of light. 
• This happens because light travels in a straight line and if there is any obstacle in between the light could not pass through it.
• It is formed on the screen which could be a wall or anything like that. 
• The size of the shadow depends upon the distance between opaque objects and sources of light.

Explanation:

For the shadow formation, source of light, screen and opaque object all are required. 

So, these properties of light can be used to explain the phenomenon of shadow formation:

1. Light travels in a straight line.

2. Light does not pass through opaque objects.

The correct answer is Blue Box subsidies.

Key Points

• Blue box subsidy:  Blue Box refers to a category of domestic support or subsidies under the WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture.
  • ​Blue box supports are subsidies that are tied to programmes that limit production. Hence it is an exception to the general rule related to agricultural support. The Blue box subsidies aim to limit production by imposing production quotas or requiring farmers to set aside part of their land. It covers payments directly linked to acreage or animal numbers (reduction).
• ​Amber Box subsidy: For agriculture, all domestic support measures considered to distort production and trade (with some exceptions) fall into the amber box. The total value of these measures must be reduced. Various proposals deal with how much further these subsidies should be reduced, and whether limits should be set for specific products rather than having overall “aggregate” limits.
• Green Box Subsidy: The green box is defined in Annex 2 of the Agriculture Agreement. In order to qualify, green box subsidies must not distort trade, or at most cause minimal distortion. They have to be government-funded (not by charging consumers higher prices) and must not involve price support.

The correct answer is Rajasthan.

Key Points

Antyodaya Anna Yojana:

• Antyodaya Anna Yojana was launched to help the poorest of the poor.
• It is implemented for providing rice and wheat at a low rate through the public distribution system.
• Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a former Indian prime minister, introduced the Antyodaya Anna Yojana on December 25, 2000.
• Introduced during the 9th five-year planning in India.
• It comes under Department of Food and Public Distribution of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
• This scheme was first implemented in the Rajasthan.
• The food grains allocated through this scheme are 35 kilograms of rice and wheat at ₹3 per kilogram of rice and ₹2 per kilogram of wheat.
• Initially, it provided only 25 kilograms of food grains and it was increased to 35 kilograms in 2002.
• Antyodaya ration card is the identification card issued to the beneficiaries of this scheme.