GST Overhaul 2025
Q1. When will the new GST design be in force?
a) September 4, 2025
b) September 22, 2025
c) October 1, 2025
d) January 1, 2026
Answer: b) September 22, 2025
Q2. So what GST rate will cement now pay in the new regime?
a) 5%
b) 12%
c) 18%
d) 28%
Answer: c) 18%
APEDA BHARATI Initiative
Q3. What does BHARATI stand for?
a) Bharat Hub Agricultural Research and Technology Innovation.
b) Bharat Hub Agritech, Resilience, Advancement and Incubation of export enablement.
c) Bharat Agro-Tech Resilience and Incubation Team of India.
d) Bharat High-tech Agri Research and Trade Initiative.
Answer: b) Bharat Hub Agritech, Resilience, Advancement and Incubation of export enablement.
Q4. What is the number of startups that are being backed up in BHARATI pilot stage?
a) 50
b) 75
c) 100
d) 200
Answer: c) 100
Boston Brahmins
Q5. Who invented the name Boston Brahmins in 1861?
a) John Adams
b) Oliver Wendell Holmes
c) T.S. Eliot
d) Franklin D. Roosevelt
Choice: b) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Q6. What were the primary descendants of the settlers of Boston Brahmin?
a) French
b) Spanish
c) English
d) Dutch
Answer: c) English
Delhi Forest Department Definition of Tree.
Q7. The Delhi Preservation of Trees Act (DPTA), 1994, states that the trunk diameter of a plant qualifying as a tree is:
a) 2 cm
b) 5 cm
c) 10 cm
d) 15 cm
Answer: b) 5 cm
Q8. Under the new definition, what is the diameter of the trunk at what height?
a) 10 cm above ground
b) 20 cm above ground
c) 30 cm above ground
d) 50 cm above ground
Answer: c) 30 cm above ground
ESA Solar Orbiter
Q9. ESA solar orbiter mission was launched in collaboration with:
a) ISRO
b) NASA
c) JAXA
d) CNSA
Answer: b) NASA
Q10. So what are Solar Energetic Electrons (SEEs) primarily associated with?
a) Lunar cycles
b) Solar flares & CMEs
c) Magnetic storms on Earth
d) Asteroid collisions
Answer: b) Solar flares & CMEs
Vrindavani Vastra
Q11. On what saint-reformer was the Vrindavani Vastra made?
a) Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
b) Srimanta Sankardeva
c) Tulsidas
d) Kabir
Answer: b) Srimanta Sankardeva.
Q12. Where does Vrindavani Vastra lie at the moment?
a) Indian Museum, Kolkata
b) National Museum, Delhi
c) British Museum, London
d) Guwahati State Museum
Response: c) British Museum, London.
WHO Mental Health Report 2025
Q13. WHO states that what was the number of suicides around the world in 2021?
a) 5 lakh
b) 6.5 lakh
c) 7.27 lakh
d) 10 lakh
Answer: c) 7.27 lakh
Q14. How many suicides should the UN decrease by what year?
a) 2025
b) 2030
c) 2035
d) 2040
Answer: b) 2030
Exercise MAITREE-XIV
Q15. Exercise MAITREE 14th edition was conducted in which Indian state?
a) Assam
b) Meghalaya
c) Sikkim
d) Manipur
Answer: b) Meghalaya
Q16. What is the name of exercise MAITREE? What country is this used with?
a) Japan
b) Thailand
c) Vietnam
d) Indonesia
Answer: b) Thailand
NARI 2025 Report
Q17. What city was number one in the NARI 2025 safety index of women?
a) Delhi
b) Kohima
c) Jaipur
d) Patna
Answer: b) Kohima
Q18. How many women did NARI 2025 say were safe at work?
a) 50%
b) 65%
c) 80%
d) 91%
Answer: d) 91%
Operation SWARNA (Swarnamukhi river).
Q19. What river is the centre of operation SWARNA in Andhra Pradesh?
a) Krishna
b) Swarnamukhi
c) Godavari
d) Tungabhadra
Answer: b) Swarnamukhi
Q20. What buffer area will be proposed along Swarnamukhi river?
a) 25 metres each side
b) 50 metres each side
c) 100 metres each side
d) 200 metres each side
Answer: b) 50 metres each side
Senna Spectabilis Invasion
Q21. In what Indian wildlife sanctuary has Senna spectabilis mostly become established?
a) Bandipur
b) Wayanad
c) Periyar
d) Mudumalai
Answer: b) Wayanad
Q22. What were the most active communities in the eradication effort in Wayanad?
a) Toda & Irula
b) Kurichiya & Kattunaikka
c) Soliga & Kurumba
d) Bhil & Gond
Respondent: c) Kurichiya and Kattunaikka.
Anti-cancer Discovery Organoselenium.
Q23. What kind of breast cancer is the newly discovered organoselenium compound effective against?
a) HER2-positive
b) Luminal A
c) Luminal B
d) Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)
Answer: d) Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)
Q24. What will the name of the new compound be?
a) Benzylic monoselenide 2
b) Diselenide 7
c) Nitro-alkyl selenide 5
d) Organoselenium oxide 3
Answer: b) Diselenide 7