(1.) Which state-owned oil enterprise commenced deepwater appraisal drilling in the Mahanadi Basin under the Samudra Manthan mission on 25 July 2026?
(2.) What is the designation of the deepwater exploratory well spudded by ONGC in the Mahanadi Offshore Basin on 25 July 2026?
(3.) Where is ONGCs Deepwater Exploration Mission Centre (DeepX) located?
(4.) Which policy framework in India allows oil companies to select offshore or onshore blocks for hydrocarbon exploration directly from the national geological database?
(5.) On the eve of which national commemorative day did Defence Minister Rajnath Singh address troops at Dras on 25 July 2026?
(6.) In which year was Operation Vijay executed by the Indian Armed Forces to reclaim occupied heights in the Kargil sector?
(7.) What was the codename of the Indian Air Force operations carried out during the 1999 Kargil Conflict alongside Operation Vijay?
(8.) Which state became the first in India to launch Artificial Intelligence as a mainstream subject from Class 1 to 12 under project Sarbat.AI?
(9.) With whose international ethical guidelines is the Sarbat.AI school curriculum in Punjab aligned?
(10.) Where is the headquarters of the Tobacco Board of India situated?
(11.) Under which statutory Act was the Tobacco Board established in India?
(12.) Which specific variety of tobacco accounts for the primary commercial auctions supervised by the Tobacco Board in Andhra Pradesh?
(13.) According to the ICMM report released in July 2026, what percentage of global mining facilities face high or extremely high baseline water stress?
(14.) Which South American nation sees 86% of its copper and lithium mining facilities operating under extreme baseline water stress as per ICMM data?
(15.) Which Constitutional Article lays down that Union Ministers hold office during the pleasure of the President?
(16.) Who assumes additional charge of the Ministry of Education following the resignation accepted on 25 July 2026?
(17.) Under Article 75(3) of the Constitution of India, the Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to which body?
(18.) In petroleum geology, petroleum deposits are exclusively found in which class of rock formations?
(19.) What is the term used to describe a well drilled to evaluate the commercial size and flow potential of a newly discovered oil field?
(20.) Which Union Ministry oversees the statutory functioning of the Tobacco Board?
(21.) What is the full form of the OALP mechanism introduced under Indias 2016 Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy (HELP)?
(22.) Which sector recorded the highest annual growth (+43.9%) among Indias core industries for June 2026 following its inclusion in the revised index?
(23.) How many total core industries are currently monitored in Indias Index of Eight/Nine Core Industries?
(24.) Where is the Dras War Memorial (Vijay Path) located?
(25.) Under which Article of the Constitution does the President appoint the Prime Minister and other Ministers on the Prime Ministers advice?
(26.) Which nodal agency under the Ministry of AYUSH signed an MoU with NRDC on 25 July 2026 for intellectual property and innovation promotion?
(27.) What is the motto of the Indian Coast Guard, demonstrated during the Porbandar medical evacuation operation on 25–26 July 2026?
(28.) In deepwater petroleum geology, water depths extending beyond 1,500 metres up to 3,000 metres are classified under which category?
(29.) Which state capital is developing the Amaravati Quantum Valley (AQV) where PNB is establishing Indias first bank-led Quantum Finance Hub?
(30.) Which air service operates the Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Dhruv utilized in naval and coast guard offshore rescue missions?
(31.) Which parameter defines Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 monitored in environmental risk datasets like ICMM?
(32.) What is the total estimated hydrocarbon potential of Indias eastern and western offshore sedimentary basins combined?
(33.) Which primary river basin lies adjacent to the offshore petroleum blocks where ONGC spudded its MN-DW18-1-H-D well?
(34.) Under the Constitution of India, what is the maximum permissible strength of the Council of Ministers including the Prime Minister in the Lok Sabha?
(35.) Which Constitutional Amendment Act capped the size of the Council of Ministers at 15% of the total strength of the Lok Sabha?