Explanation

• Statement 1 is incorrect – It was organized by HRA (Hindustan republic army) not HSRA.
• It aims to Looting the money to buy arms for their revolution against the British government.
• Statement 2 is incorrect – Ram Prasad Bismil, Chandrasekar Azad, Ashfaqulla Khan, Thakur Roshan Singh and Rajendranath Lahiri are among the personalities involved in this action, but not Bhagat Singh.
• Bhagat Singh later joined in HRA after the kakori train incident.
• To know more about Kakori Train Action, click here

Explanation

• Option is (c) correct – ALPS is a pumping and filtration system, which uses a series of chemical reactions to remove 62 radionuclides from contaminated water.
• However, ALPS is not able to remove tritium from the contaminated water.
• Tritium is an isotope of hydrogen, and water containing tritium has chemical features almost identical to water with ordinary hydrogen.
• Technologies exist that can recover tritium when it is highly concentrated in small amounts of water, for example at nuclear fusion facilities.
• However, the stored water at the Fukushima Daiichi NPS has a low concentration of tritium in a large volume of water and so the existing technologies are not applicable.
• It is relevant because of new proposed Ocean model for Fukushima’s wastewater release

Explanation

• Statement 1 is correct – It is a group of 17 minerals essential to modern technology.
• These are relatively abundant but costly and complex to extract particularly heavy rare earths such as terbium, fetch high prices.
• Statement 2 is incorrect – China is the largest currently accounts for over 60% of global rare earth mining and nearly 90% of processing output.
• Australia ranks as the world’s fourth-largest producer of rare earths.
• India holds third-largest reserves globally about 6.9 million tonnes in monazite-rich sands along the coasts of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Kerala and Rajasthan’s Jalore & Barmer districts.
• Statement 3 is incorrect – MSP is US-led alliance of 14 countries, established in 2022 to secure critical mineral supply chains.

• Option (b) is correct – Financial Fraud Risk Indicator was Introduced by Department of Telecommunications (DoT)  to strengthen Cyber Fraud Prevention.
• It is a risk-based metric that classifies a mobile number to have been associated with Medium, High, or Very High risk of financial fraud.
• This classification is an outcome of inputs obtained from: National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP), DoT’s Chakshu facility and Digital Intelligence Platform (DIP) and Intelligence shared by banks and financial institutions.
• It empowers stakeholders such as banks, NBFCs, and UPI service providers to prioritize enforcement and take additional customer protection measures in case a mobile number have high risk.

Explanation

• Option (a) is correct – Ministry of Micro, Small, & Medium Enterprises.
• Raising and Accelerating MSME Performance (RAMP) It is a Central Sector Scheme supported by World Bank.
• Its objective is to improve access to market, finance and technology upgradation by enhancing the outreach of existing schemes.
• To strengthen institutions at the Central and State level, and to enhance Centre- State collaboration.