The correct answer is 1 only.

Key Points

• Powerful newspapers emerged during these years under distinguished and fearless journalists.
• These were
  • The Hindu and Swadesamitran under the editorship of G. Subramaniya Iyer.
  • Kesari and Mahratta under B.G. Tilak.
  • Bengalee under Surendranath Banerjee.
  • Amrita Bazar Patrika under Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh.
  • Sudharak under ,Gopal Ganesh Agarkar.
  • Indian Mirror under N.N. Sen.
  • Voice of India under Dadabhai Naoroji etc.

The correct answer is Japan.

Key Points

• Japan has the highest percentage of its geographical area under forests.
• Still, forest areas cover 67 percent of Japan's total land area and agricultural lands 14 percent. Because of its mountainous topographical nature, a large part of Japan is still decorated with beautiful primitive and secondary forests.
• Brown bears, black bears, and Japanese deer trot in forests, and golden eagles, cranes, and herons glide in the blue sky. 
• Japanese flora is very abundant and diverse - more than 6,000 species of higher plants were identified due to the diversity of climatic conditions and geographical features.

Additional Information

• The Greater Hinggan is the biggest and most important pine forest in China.
• China’s great topological and climatic diversity has produced a vast array of natural vegetation types. The country’s total number of seed-plant species is approximately 30,000, representing some 2,700 genera; more than 200 of these genera are endemic to China.
• According to the 2019 report, the country's total forest cover is 712,249 square kilometers (21.67 percent of India's total geographical area), slightly up from 708,273 sq. km (21.54 percent) in 2017. The country's tree cover is 95,027 sq. km (2.89 percent of the total area), slightly up from 93,815 sq.
• The forests of Indonesia are the third-largest tropical forests in the world. Tropical forests are one of the greatest biodiversity hotspots on Earth. Indonesia is home to 10% to 15% of all known plants, mammals, and birds on the planet.

Important Point

• The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest. It's home to more than 30 million people and one in ten known species on Earth.
• The smallest forest on the list, Kakamega forest is just under 90 square miles. Although it is small now, it was once the largest old-growth forest in the world.
• The Daintree Rainforest is estimated to be 180 million years old, tens of millions of years older than the Amazon Rainforest.

The correct answer is Nagarjuna.

Key Points

• Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve is the largest tiger reserve in India. 
• The reserve spreads over five districts, Kurnool District, Prakasam District, Guntur District, Nalgonda District, and Mahabub Nagar district. 
• It spreads across  Andhra Pradesh and ‎Telangana
• The reservoirs and temples of Srisailam are major attractions for many tourists and pilgrims.
•  It is the largest tiger reserve forest in India and is located inside the Nallamala forest area.

Additional Information

• Pench Tiger Reserve: 
• It is one of the premier tiger reserves of India and the first one to straddle across two states - Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. 
• Corbett Tiger Reserve: 
  • Today after the addition of areas into the originally declared National Park, the total area of Tiger Reserve extends 1288.31 sq. km spreading over three districts of Uttarakhand viz., Pauri, Nainital, and Almora. 
• Manas Tiger Reserve: 
  • Manas Tiger Reserve spans the districts of Kokrajhar, Chirang, Buxa, and Udalguri in northwest Assam.

The correct answer is Migration.

Key Points

• Migration is an important determinant of population change.
• Migration is the movement of people across different states and regions.
• When people migrate within the boundaries of the country, it is called internal migration.
• International migration refers to the migration of people between countries.
• Migration is an important determinant of population change as it not only changes the size of the population but also affects the population composition of urban and rural areas.
• In India, the rural-urban migration has resulted in a steady increase in the percentage of the population in cities and towns.

The correct answer is 2/3.

Key Points

• Vidhan Sabha can ask the President to create or dissolve the Vidhan Parishad if it has a majority of 2/3 members in the house.
• This provision is mentioned in Article 169 of the Indian Constitution.
• The Vidhan Sabha can pass a resolution requesting the President to create or dissolve the Vidhan Parishad, and if the President approves the request, then the necessary steps are taken to implement it.
• Vidhan Sabha is the lower house of the state legislature in India, and it is responsible for making laws and policies at the state level.
• Vidhan Parishad is the upper house of the state legislature, which is also known as the Legislative Council.
• It acts as a check on the Vidhan Sabha and plays a crucial role in the legislative process.

Additional Information

• The Vidhan Parishad is not present in all the states of India.
• It is only present in a few states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, and Karnataka.
• The creation or dissolution of the Vidhan Parishad is a political decision, and it is often influenced by the ruling party's agenda and the opposition's demands.
• The Vidhan Parishad's members are not directly elected by the people, unlike the Vidhan Sabha.
• Instead, they are elected by different constituencies like local bodies, teachers, graduates, and others.

The correct answer is Uttar Pradesh.

Key Points

• Madhya Pradesh, Maharastra, Orissa, Gujrat, Rajsthan, Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, and Karnataka are the states having a larger number of Scheduled Tribes. These states account for 83.2% of the total Scheduled Tribe population of the country.
• Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Jammu & Kashmir, Tripura, Mizoram, Bihar, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu, accounting for another 15.3% of the total Scheduled Tribe population.
• The share of the remaining states / Uts is negligible.
• Uttar Pradesh has 0.6% of the total scheduled tribe population in India.

Additional Information

• Census is nothing but a process of collecting, compiling, analyzing, evaluating, publishing and disseminating statistical data regarding the population.
  • It covers demographic, social and economic data and is provided as of a particular date. 
• Census operations started in India long back during the period of the Maurya dynasty.
  • It was systematized during the years 1865 to 1872.
  • it has been conducted uninterruptedly from the year 1881 being a trustworthy resource of information.
• Census of India, 2011:
  • Total Population of India was 1,210,193,422.
  • The Sex Ratio (females per thousand males) of India was 940.
  • The population density was reported at 382 persons per sq. km.
  • Total districts covered- 640. Hence, statement 1 is correct.
  • Crude Birth Rate- 21.8.
  • Crude Death Rate- 7.1 per thousand population
  • Infant Mortality Rate was 44 per thousand live births
  • Literacy rate of the country- 74.04 per cent. (82.14 for males and 65.46 for females).
  • State with the highest literacy- Kerala (94.0%)
  • State with the lowest literacy- Bihar (61.8%)
  • state with the highest female literacy rate- Kerala (92.1%)

The correct answer is Pakistan.

The Takht-i-Bahi Buddhist monastery is located in Mardan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

• It is considered to be the most influential relics of Buddhism in Gandhara and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.
• The Buddhist monastery was founded in the 1st century CE and its construction was funded by the Indo-Parthian Kingdom.
• The monastery contains inscriptions bearing the name of Gondophares, the founder of the kingdom.
• The kingdom was founded by the Gondophares after the declaration of Independence from the Parthian Empire.
• Taxila in Pakistan and Kabul in Afghanistan were its capitals.
• The kingdom began to decline when it was invaded by the Kushans in the 1^st Century AD and it ended in the 3^rd Century AD  by the invasion of the Sassanians.

The correct answer is 1999:

Key Points

• Export Promotion Bureau was established by the Govt. of U.P. in the year 1999 for promoting exports from the State of Uttar Pradesh.
• Export Promotion Bureau is headed by Export Commissioner who is also Principal Secretary, Department of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Export Promotion, Uttar Pradesh.
• Export Promotion Bureau office is located at Niryat Bhawan, Second Floor, 8 Cantt Road, Kaiser Bagh, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

Additional Information

• Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) -
  • It has been established by the Government of India under the Agricultural and Processed Products Export Development Authority Act passed by the Parliament in December 1985.

The correct answer is 20 years.

Key Points

• For 20 years, the biological patent is legal in India.
• A biological patent is a patent relating to an invention or discovery in biology.
• The term of every patent in India is granted for 20 years from the date of filing of the application.
  • However, for applications filed under the national phase under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), the term of patent will be 20 years from the international filing date accorded under PCT. 3.
  • In India, the Patents (Amendment) Act 2002 introduced Section 3(j) in which that prohibits patenting of 'plants and animals in whole or any part thereof other than microorganisms but including species, varieties, and seeds, and essentially biological processes for production and propagation of plants and animals.”

Important Points

•  A Patent is a statutory right for an invention granted for a limited period of time to the patentee by the Government, in exchange of full disclosure of his invention for excluding others, from making, using, selling, or importing the patented product or process for producing that product for those purposes without his consent.
• The patent system in India is governed by the Patents Act, 1970 (No.39 of 1970) as amended by the Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005, and the Patents Rules, 2003.
• An invention is patentable subject matter if it meets the following criteria –
  • It should be novel.
  • It should have inventive steps or it must be non-obvious
  • It should be capable of Industrial application.
  • It should not attract the provisions of section 3 and 4 of the Patents Act 1970

The correct answer is Shravasti.

Key Points

• Makkhali Putta Goshala was born in Shravan near Shravasti.
• He was a prominent philosopher of the 6th century BCE.
• He was the founder of the Ajivika sect.
• In Jain and Buddhist texts, he is described as 'Makkhaliputt Goshal', 'Goshalak Mankhaliputt', while in the Shanti Parva of 'Mahabharata' he is called 'Manki' Rishi.
• He was the contemporary of Gautama Buddha, Mahavira and Bimbisara.

Additional Information

• Makkhali Gosal was a visionary.
• His philosophy was 'Ditthi'.
• According to the Ajivika sect, the world cycle is fixed, it finishes in its own order and performs liberation.
• Livelihood did not believe in effort and might.
• According to it, all human beings are subject to destiny.
• Bindusar was a disciple of the Ajivika sect.