As per the RBI report, India's outward FDI commitments in January 2024 amounted to $2. 09 billion, reflecting a significant 25. 7% year-on-year increase.

Kalamkari is an ancient style of hand painting done on cotton or silk fabric with a tamarind pen, using natural dyes. So, Statement 1 is correct. The word Kalamkari is derived from a Persian word where ‘kalam‘ meaning pen and ‘Kari‘ meaning craftsmanship. This art involves 23 tedious steps of dyeing, bleaching, hand painting, block-printing, searching, and cleaning. Motifs of flowers, peacocks, divine characters of Hindu epics like Mahabharata and Ramayana are drawn. Prime colours: indigo, mustard, rust, black, and green. Natural dyes are used to paint colours in Kalamkari art, extracted from natural sources with no use of chemicals and artificial ingredients. So, Statement 2 is incorrect. There are two styles of Kalamkari art in India: the Srikalahasti style and the Machilipatnam style. So, Statement 3 is correct. In the Machilipatnam style of Kalamkari, motifs are essentially printed with hand-carved traditional blocks with intricate detailing painted by hands. The Srikalahasti style of painting draws inspiration from the Hindu mythology describing scenes from the epics and folklore. It has its origin in the temples. The quality of the water, air, and sunshine are all-important in the process of art-making of this nature.

Ghana is the first country to get free COVID19 vaccines through the COVAX scheme of the United Nations. The vaccine is delivered by UNICEF.

India's mineral production experienced a notable increase of 5.1% in December 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, according to data from the Ministry of Mines.

The theory of Everything – Stephen Hawking

Indomitable Spirit – APJ Abdul Kalam

How to live Longer and feel better – Linus Pauling

The world As I see it – Albert Einstein

Fauna is a term which refers to all of the animal life within a specified region, time period, or both. The “flora and fauna” of a certain place is a descriptor of all the life in a region, including both the plant-like organisms and the animal-like organisms. However, while this was once used as a scientific term, advances in science and our understanding of the relationships between organisms has forced science to adopt the more descriptive systems of taxonomy and cladistics to describe the relationships between organisms.

Scientist Ivan Pavlov is related to experimental psychology who has done many experiments on living beings. He propounded the 'Scholastic Contract Theory' of learning. 

Monsoons are basically seasonal winds that reverse their direction according to the change in season. They are periodic winds. They travel from the sea to the land in summers and from land to the sea during winters. India gets southwest monsoon winds in the summers and northeast monsoons during the winters. The Southwest monsoon arises because of the formation of an intense low-pressure system over the Tibetan Plateau. The Northeast monsoon arises due to the high-pressure cells formed over the Siberian and Tibetan plateaus. So we can say that extensive land area  is responsible for the monsoon winds in India. Thus Statement 1 is correct.

Reasons responsible for the monsoon winds in India are the following:

• Intense heating of Tibetan plateau during summer months
• Vast land area
• Permanent high-pressure cell in the South Indian Ocean (east to northeast of Madagascar in summer)
• Subtropical Jet Stream (STJ)
• Tropical Easterly Jet (African Easterly Jet)
• Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone
• Strengths of Low pressure over Tibet and high pressure over the southern Indian Ocean
• Somali Jet
• Somali Current
• Indian Ocean branch of Walker Cell
• Indian Ocean Dipole

India is flanked by the Indian Ocean on three sides in the south and girdled by a high and continuous mountain wall in the north. As compared to the landmass, water heats up or cools down slowly. This differential heating of land and sea creates different air pressure zones in different seasons in and around the Indian subcontinent. The difference in air pressure causes a reversal in the direction of monsoon winds. Therefore it is responsible for monsoon winds in India. So statement 2 is correct.

The subtropical jet that occurs in the Earth's atmosphere at 30–40° latitude is thermally driven and associated with the descending branch of a large overturning of the tropical atmosphere called the Hadley circulation. Therefore it is responsible for monsoon winds in India. So statement 3 is correct.

The Mauryan empire was one of the greatest empires which ruled on India. 

It has great historical significance. The rule of Mauryas ruled from 322-185 B.C. & under them, the majority of India remained united as a single state by the great founder emperor Chandragupta Maurya. With the help of Chanakya, Chandragupta Maurya laid the foundation of this great Mauryan empire.

The headquarters of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is Geneva, Switzerland.

The WTO has many roles: it operates a global system of trade rules, it acts as a forum for negotiating trade agreements, it settles trade disputes between its members and it supports the needs of developing countries.