In which State is the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre at Pinjore located?

The correct answer is 'From Crisis to Recovery - Conserving India's Vultures'. 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. Options A, C and D are invented slogans; none of them appears in the release. Store the theme together with the rest of the event card, because that is how such questions are set: the occasion is International Vulture Awareness Day 2026, the venue is Panchkula in Haryana, the Minister is Bhupender Yadav, the Haryana Minister present is Rao Narbir Singh, and the partners are the Central Zoo Authority, the Haryana Forest and Wildlife Department, the Bombay Natural History Society and the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre at Pinjore.

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.

The correct answer is 'Story of Jatayu: Saving India's Vulture'. 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. Options B, C and D are invented titles and appear nowhere in the release. Books and reports released at government events are asked about very often, so note the title along with the occasion and the person releasing it. Alongside the book, a prize distribution was held for an online drawing competition and a digital photography competition on vulture conservation. The Minister used the occasion to press for more Vulture Safe Zones, for vulture-safe veterinary practices, for a supply of safe food, and for the technical capacity that species recovery in the wild will need.

The correct answer is the PRANA portal. The Secretary of the ministry explained that the National Clean Air Programme gives every city a framework within which it works out its own strategy for clean air, while this portal follows the various parameters of air quality management for the cities under the programme. Option A names a portal associated with air quality information for the public, option C names the environmental clearance platform of the ministry, and option D names a scheme in the sanitation sector; none of these is what the release credits with the tracking work. Remember the trio together for revision: the programme is NCAP, the survey that ranks the cities is the Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan, now in its fifth round, and the portal that keeps the score through the year is PRANA.

The correct answer is 14. The ministry set out the record on PM10 for the year 2025-26 against the base of the financial year 2017-18 in four steps, and every one of those steps appears among the options here, which is what makes the question worth practising. Option D gives 108, the number of cities that showed any improvement in PM10 levels. Option C gives 72, the cities where the fall in PM10 concentration crossed 20 per cent. Option B gives 26, the cities where the fall crossed 40 per cent. Only 14 cities actually met the National Ambient Air Quality Standards, which is the strictest of the four tests, and that is the answer. Learn the chain in descending order, 108 then 72 then 26 then 14, because the harder the test the smaller the count.