How many vultures did the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre, Pinjore, house during 2025-26?
- A.245
- B.356
- C.412
- D.180
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Explanation
The correct answer is 356. The release records that the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre at Pinjore housed that many vultures during 2025-26 and bred 35 chicks successfully in the same period. The rest of the centre's year is worth memorising with it, because any one line of it can be turned into a question: 87 vultures were released or contributed for reintroduction, 90 birds were transferred to other conservation-breeding institutions, and 1,222 participants from 22 institutions were trained there. Options A, C and D are near-miss figures that do not appear anywhere in the release. Remember also what the centre actually does: scientific husbandry, artificial incubation, veterinary care, breeding and genetic management, focused on the White-rumped, Long-billed and Slender-billed vultures. It is run jointly by the Haryana Forest Department and the Bombay Natural History Society.
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Practice Questions
What was the theme of the national workshop held on International Vulture Awareness Day 2026?
- A.Wings of Hope
- B.From Crisis to Recovery - Conserving India's Vultures
- C.Save the Scavengers
- D.Vultures for a Clean India
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Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav inaugurated the national workshop under this theme at Panchkula in Haryana, and the release uses the same phrase again at the close to describe the journey the country has made in vulture conservation through science, policy, conservation breeding, safe landscapes and community participation.
Read the full explanation →In which State is the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre at Pinjore located?
- A.Punjab
- B.Himachal Pradesh
- C.Haryana
- D.Uttarakhand
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Pinjore lies in Haryana, and the centre there is described in the release as a joint initiative of the Haryana Forest Department and the Bombay Natural History Society.
Read the full explanation →Which coffee table book was released on International Vulture Awareness Day 2026?
- A.Story of Jatayu: Saving India's Vulture
- B.Return of the Scavenger
- C.India's Vulture Atlas
- D.Guardians of the Sky
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The release says this coffee table book was brought out during the inaugural session at Panchkula. It records the country's vulture conservation story, moving from a falling population to a working conservation breeding programme built around the centre at Pinjore.
Read the full explanation →In the road dust review, how much of the targeted road length in NCR had been redeveloped?
- A.3,221 km of 5,480 km
- B.5,480 km of 6,747 km
- C.2,298 km of 3,221 km
- D.2,345 km of 5,480 km
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Road-owning agencies were told to give priority to repairing potholes, damaged footpaths and central verges and to pave roads end to end as the CAQM framework requires, backed by surveys using artificial intelligence.
Read the full explanation →PAVAN, which brings air quality, emission, weather, satellite and compliance data onto one platform, belongs to which body?
- A.India Meteorological Department
- B.Commission for Air Quality Management
- C.National Green Tribunal
- D.Municipal Corporation of Delhi
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PAVAN stands for the Platform for Air Quality Vigilance and Analytics for NCR, and it is CAQM’s own platform, built so that air quality readings, emission data, meteorological information, satellite inputs and compliance records can be seen together instead of in separate silos.
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