The new tri-weekly train approved between Machilipatnam and Kurnool City will cover what distance?

The correct answer is North Eastern Railway. The Varanasi division, abbreviated BSB, belongs to this zone, and the sanction of 223 crore rupees extends Kavach 4.0 across the balance sections of that division, a total of 614.75 route kilometres. Option A is wrong because Northern Railway is a separate zone and the division named in this approval does not sit under it. Option C is wrong because North Central Railway, although it operates in the same broad region of the country, is not the zone to which the Varanasi division reports. Option D is wrong for the same reason: East Central Railway is headquartered elsewhere and the approval does not concern it. Kavach itself is an Automatic Train Protection system developed within the country, and its job is to stop a train from passing a signal at danger and to apply the brakes when the driver does not.

The correct answer is the Energy, Mineral and Cement Corridor, under which Indian Railways has identified this section. The stretch is only 6 km long but it carries high-grade iron ore and pellets from the Bolani mines of SAIL and from private sidings towards steel plants and ports, and the doubling has been cleared at a completion cost of 122 crore rupees. Option B is wrong because the Golden Quadrilateral is a highway network connecting the four large metropolitan cities and is not the frame used for this railway project. Option C is wrong because the dedicated freight corridors are separate purpose-built lines and this approval is a doubling of an existing single-line section, not a new corridor. Option D is wrong because no such corridor is named in the approval. After commissioning, the doubling is expected to move an additional 8.9 MTPA of freight and to reduce delays to goods trains.

The correct answer is the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, usually written as UAPA. The Home Minister said the Shahzad Bhatti network, which smuggled weapons, explosives and narcotics across the border, has been designated a terrorist organisation under this law. He added that better coordination among agencies had allowed more than 40 of its modules to be dismantled, with over 100 FIRs registered and 350 people arrested in 15 states. Option A is wrong because the NDPS Act deals with drug offences and does not carry the power to declare a body a terrorist organisation. Option B is wrong because the Arms Act governs the possession and sale of weapons, not terrorist designations. Option D is wrong because the National Security Act provides for preventive detention of individuals and is not used to proscribe an organisation. UAPA is the statute under which the central government lists terrorist organisations in India.

The correct answer is 288 fugitives from 36 countries. Speaking at the counter-terrorism conference in New Delhi, the Union Home Minister said that over the years from 2019 to 2026 the government succeeded in bringing 288 fugitive criminals back to India, and that these returns came from 36 different countries. He cited the figure while launching the Extradition Portal, which is intended to make such returns faster by putting the effort of the agencies on one platform. Options A, C and D carry numbers that were not stated: neither the count of fugitives nor the count of countries in those choices matches what was announced. A student should attach the pair of numbers to the portal, because examiners usually test the figure and the launch together. The Minister also asked the state police forces to set up dedicated teams so that extradition work does not rest on the central agencies alone.

The correct answer is the Extradition Portal. At the PRAHAAR conference in New Delhi the Union Home Minister launched this portal, whose purpose is to bring together and quicken the effort of returning fugitives who have fled abroad. The same address put a number to that effort: between 2019 and 2026 India secured the return of 288 fugitive criminals from 36 countries, and state police forces were urged to build dedicated teams that work alongside the central agencies on such cases. Option B is wrong because no cyber crime reporting portal was launched at this event; the conference was devoted to counter-terrorism policy and to the seven pillars of the framework. Option C is wrong because the National Intelligence Grid is an existing arrangement and was not the subject of any launch here. Option D is wrong because narcotics featured only in the description of the Shahzad Bhatti network, whose modules were dismantled, and no separate coordination portal for narcotics was announced. Only the Extradition Portal was launched at the conference.