Which of the following statements about Anant Nag is correct?

The correct answer is Anant Nag. The Government of India announced on 16 September 2026, acting on the recommendation of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award Selection Committee, that the veteran actor would receive the country's highest cinema honour for the year 2024. The citation recognises a screen career running beyond five decades and more than 300 films in Kannada, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil and Marathi. Options A, C and D name other distinguished figures of Indian cinema, and each has been honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in a different year, which is exactly why they work as distractors here. None of them is the recipient for 2024. Aspirants should pair the year with the name, because papers often ask for the award year rather than simply for the latest winner. Note also that the honour is announced by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

The correct answer is Kevadia in Gujarat. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting stated that Anant Nag would be handed the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2024 at the 72nd National Film Awards ceremony, and that the ceremony was fixed for 22 September 2026 at Kevadia. Option A is wrong because Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi has hosted National Film Awards ceremonies in earlier years, which makes it a natural but incorrect guess for this edition. Option D is wrong for the same reason: Bharat Mandapam hosts many national events but was not the venue chosen here. Option C is wrong because Mumbai, despite being the centre of the film industry, was not selected. Candidates should tie three things together for this story, the edition number of 72, the date of 22 September 2026 and the venue of Kevadia.

The correct answer is 2026 to 2029. The Home Minister said the Ministry of Home Affairs has decided to run a strengthened campaign against narcotics and has prepared a roadmap for this period, under which every village and every city in the country is to be freed of narcotics with the participation of all concerned departments and all State governments. He expressed the hope that the Goa Police would emerge as a leading force in this work as well. The other options shift the window by a year or two in either direction, which is the usual way a period question is set. One more date from the same speech shares its closing year and is worth remembering with it: the International Police Sports Championship is to be held in India in 2029, and the Home Minister asked the Goa Police to prepare for it from now.

The correct answer is from 23 per cent to 53 per cent, an improvement of 30 percentage points in a single year, so that convictions are now secured in 53 per cent of the FIRs registered. Every option keeps the same gap of 30 points, which is deliberate, because a candidate who has remembered only the size of the improvement and not the two end points will have no way to choose. The figure of 18 in option A is borrowed from another part of the same speech, where the response time under helpline 112 fell from 18 minutes to 8 minutes. Alongside the conviction rate the Home Minister cited the implementation of the three new Nyaya Sanhitas, where the Goa Police stood first in the country for several months and now ranks second with 93.38 per cent progress, performing well on all nine parameters.

The correct answer is 1930, the helpline against cyber fraud. The Home Minister said this number will become a strong shield against every kind of cyber fraud, and that the Goa Police has moved ahead of other States by putting an AI-based call agent on it. The agent takes complaints in Konkani, Marathi and Hindi, and on the Chief Minister's initiative in every language listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, which matters in a State that receives tourists from across the country and the world. Option B names 112, which also appears in the speech but as the emergency response helpline, where the response time has been cut from 18 minutes to 8 minutes with prompt help given on nearly 20,000 calls. Options A and D name older police and child helplines that this release does not discuss. Keep the pair apart: 112 for emergency, 1930 for cyber fraud.