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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Explanation
The correct answer is Haryana. 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. The Union Minister began the day with a visit to this facility before the workshop at Panchkula, which is also in Haryana. Options A, B and D name neighbouring States, and that geographical closeness is exactly what makes them plausible distractors in an examination hall. Two supporting details help fix the answer. First, the State's own Environment, Forest and Wildlife Minister, Rao Narbir Singh, spoke at the event and highlighted the work of the Pinjore centre. Second, he argued that conservation breeding should be judged not by the number of animals born but by healthy, genetically managed populations, scientific knowledge, technical capacity and recovery of the species in the wild.
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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 →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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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.
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 →Since ethanol supply year 2014-15, how much foreign exchange has the ethanol blending programme saved?
- A.More than Rs 62,000 crore
- B.More than Rs 1.01 lakh crore
- C.More than Rs 1.66 lakh crore
- D.More than Rs 1.97 lakh crore
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The ministry listed four cumulative outcomes of the blending programme since ethanol supply year 2014-15: foreign exchange savings above that amount, substitution of about 316 lakh metric tonnes of crude oil, avoidance of about 952 lakh metric tonnes of carbon dioxide, and transfers of more than Rs 1.66 lakh crore…
Read the full explanation →What ethanol content was recorded on average in the samples tested in Karnataka?
- A.19.30 per cent
- B.21.50 per cent
- C.26 per cent
- D.31 per cent
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All 56 samples tested in Karnataka, taken from different locations and from all three oil marketing companies, conformed to the prescribed specification, with ethanol content ranging between 19 and 20 per cent and averaging that figure.
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