Who inaugurated the international workshop on tiger landscapes in New Delhi?
- A.The Prime Minister
- B.Bhupender Yadav, Union Environment Minister
- C.S. P. Yadav, Director General, IBCA
- D.Mia Oka, ADB Country Director for India
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Explanation
The correct answer is Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change. He opened the two-day workshop and delivered the inaugural address, in which he said that conservation with harmony and human-nature coexistence should be the foundation of ecological conservation. Option C names the Director General of IBCA, who was among the dignitaries on the dais but did not inaugurate the workshop. Option D names the ADB Country Director for India, who spoke at the event and welcomed the IBCA-ADB partnership, but again did not inaugurate it. Option A is wrong, though the release does note the growing role of IBCA under the Prime Minister's vision, which is the detail that makes this distractor tempting. Other dignitaries on the dais included Secretary Tanmay Kumar and Sushil Kumar Awasthi.
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Practice Questions
Which two organisations signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the international workshop on tiger landscapes?
- A.IBCA and the World Bank
- B.IBCA and the Asian Development Bank
- C.NTCA and the World Wide Fund for Nature
- D.NTCA and the Asian Development Bank
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The two formalised their partnership through an MoU at the event, marking a step towards stronger collaboration in landscape conservation, sustainable development, capacity building, knowledge exchange and nature-positive financing initiatives.
Read the full explanation →The International Big Cat Alliance works for the conservation of how many big cat species?
- A.Four
- B.Five
- C.Seven
- D.Nine
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The release describes IBCA as a global platform for cooperation among countries and institutions working for the conservation of the seven big cat species, and notes its growing role under the vision of the Prime Minister.
Read the full explanation →According to the ADB Country Director, the year 2026 marks how many years of ADB's partnership with India?
- A.25 years
- B.30 years
- C.40 years
- D.50 years
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Mia Oka, the Asian Development Bank's Country Director for India, said while welcoming the partnership with IBCA that 2026 marks the completion of forty years of ADB's partnership with India.
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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