Start-Up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP) is building rural entrepreneurs. It has extended business support services and capital infusion to 153 blocks of 23 States.

As of August 2020, around one lakh enterprises are being supported out of which 75 % are managed by women.

• Start-Up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP) is implemented by Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana –National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM), Ministry of Rural Development, as a sub-scheme since 2016. Therefore, statement 1 is correct.

• It’s objective is to support the rural poor to come out of poverty, supporting them set up enterprises and provide support till the enterprises stabilize. Therefore, statement 2 is correct.

AZD7442 is recently seen in the news. AZD7442 is a combination of two long-acting monoclonal antibodies (LAAB).

AZD7442, a similar class of the drug cocktail used to treat US President Donald Trump recently.

It is developed by AstraZeneca.

AstraZeneca is a British multinational pharmaceutical company.

The first century CE onwards, Gandhara (now in Pakistan), Mathura in northern India and Vengi in Andhra Pradesh emerged as important centres of art production.

Buddha in the symbolic form got a human form in Mathura and Gandhara.

The best example in this regard is the stupa sculptures found at Sanghol in Punjab.

Kerala painters (during the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century) evolved a pictorial language and technique of their own while discriminately adopting certain stylistic elements from Nayaka and Vijayanagara schools.

Most of the narrations are based on those episodes from Hindu mythology which were popular in Kerala.

The artist seems to have derived sources from oral traditions and local versions of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata for painted narration.

Due to the popularity of Buddhism and Jainism, stupas and viharas were constructed on a large scale.

However, there are also examples of a few Brahmanical gods in the sculptural representations.

It is important to note that the stupas were constructed over the relics of the Buddha at Rajagraha, Vaishali, Kapilavastu, Allakappa, Ramagrama, Vethadipa, Pava, Kushinagar and Pippalvina. These all are in Gangetic valley. Therefore, option 2, 3 and 4 are NOT correct.

Prehistoric paintings have been found in many parts of the world.

We do not really know if Lower Palaeolithic people ever produced any art objects. But by the Upper Palaeolithic times, we see a proliferation of artistic activities.

In India, the earliest paintings have been reported from the Upper Palaeolithic times.

The rock shelters on banks of the River Suyal at Lakhudiyar, about twenty kilometres on the Almora– Barechina road, bear these prehistoric paintings.

Lakhudiyar literally means one lakh caves.

• The paintings here can be divided into three categories: man, animal and geometric patterns in white, black and red ochre. So, statement 1 is correct.
• Humans are represented in stick-like forms. So, statement 2 is correct.
• One of the interesting scenes depicted here is of hand-linked dancing human figures. So, statement 3 is correct.

There is some superimposition of paintings. The earliest are in black; over these are red ochre paintings and the last group comprises white paintings. Therefore, statement 4 is incorrect.

By evolving the Nagara and the Dravida styles, the Gupta art ushers in a formative and creative age in the history of Indian architecture with considerable scope for future development.

Two broad orders of temples in the country are known— Nagara in the north and Dravida in the south.

Photosynthesis refers to the process of transforming light energy into chemical energy. In the process of photosynthesis, light energy is captured by green plants and is used to convert water, carbon dioxide, and minerals into oxygen-rich compounds.

The following steps occur during the process of Photosynthesis:

• ​Absorption of light energy by chlorophyll.
• Conversion of light energy to chemical energy.
• Splitting of water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.
• Reduction of carbon dioxide to carbohydrates.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a permanent intergovernmental international organisation, the creation of which was announced on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai (China) by the Republic of Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Australia-India-Japan Ministers’ meeting on Supply Chains Resilience was held. Therefore, statement 1 is not correct.

• The ministerial-level meeting on Supply Chains was attended by Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, Australia's Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment and Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry.
• They underscored the necessity and potential to enhance the resiliency of supply chains in the Indo-Pacific region. So, statement 2 is correct.