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The correct answer is Mundaka Upanishad.

• The national motto of India, 'Satyameva Jayate' inscribed below the Emblem of India is taken from Mundaka Upanishad.
• This motto means "Truth Alone Triumphs". It is written in Devanagari script.
• Mundaka Upanishad is listed as number 5 in the Muktika canon of 108 Upanishads of Hinduism. This Upanishad is a poetic verse style Upanishad, with 64 verses, written in the form of mantras.
• Katha Upanishad is listed as number 3 in the Muktika canon of 108 Upanishads. It is embedded in the last short eight sections of the Kaṭha school of the Krishna Yajurveda.
• Chandogya Upanishad is a Sanskrit text embedded in the Chandogya Brahmana of the Sama Veda of Hinduism. It is one of the oldest Upanishads. It is listed as number 9 in the Muktika canon of 108 Upanishads.
• Aitareya Upanishad comprises the fourth, fifth and sixth chapters of the second book of Aitareya Aranyaka.

The correct answer is Train Manager.

Key Points

• The Indian Railways has announced its decision to redesignate the post of 'Train Guard' as 'Train Manager'.
• Trains Guard is virtually a train In-charge of the respective train.
• 'Assistant guard’ and ‘goods guard’ will now be known as ‘assistant passenger train manager’ and ‘goods train manager’.
• The ‘mail/express guard’ will be known as ‘mail/express train manager’.

• South African bowler Dale Steyn announced his retirement from Test cricket.
• He has played 93 Tests for South Africa, finishing with 439 wickets, the most in the long format by a South African bowler.
• Steyn played his first Test against England at Port Elizabeth in December 2004.

The Correct Answer is Minimum Support Price.

Key Points

Minimum Support Price

• Minimum Support Price (MSP) is a form of market intervention by the Government of India to insure agricultural producers against any sharp fall in farm prices.
• The minimum support prices are announced by the Government of India at the beginning of the sowing season for certain crops.
• The MSP is decided based on the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP).

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• The government announces minimum support prices (MSPs) for 22 mandated crops and fair and remunerative price (FRP) for sugarcane.
• The list of crops is as follows.
• Cereals (7) - paddy, wheat, barley, jawar, bajra, maize, and ragi
• Pulses (5) - gram, arhar/tur, moong, urad, and lentil
• Oilseeds (8) - groundnut, rapeseed/mustard, toria, soybean, sunflower seed, sesamum, safflower seed, and nigerseed
• Raw cotton
• Raw jute

The correct answer is The Finance Minister.

Key Points

• Budget
• The term ‘budget’ has nowhere mentioned in the Constitution, rather it is the popular name for the ‘annual financial statement’.
• Article 112 of the Indian Constitution deals with the ‘annual financial statement’.
• The budget is a statement of the estimated receipts, expenditure, and certain other elements of the Government of India in a financial year.
• Presentation of Budget
• Since 2017 it is presented on the 1^st of February (earlier it was presented on the last working day of February).
• The Finance Minister presents the budget before the Lower House (Lok Sabha) first and delivers his 'budget speech'.
• It can be presented to the House in two or more parts and no discussion takes place on the day of presentation.
• After Lok Sabha, the budget is laid before the Upper House (Rajya Sabha).
• Finance Minister
• The Finance Minister heads the Ministry of Finance of the Government of India.
• The responsibility of the fiscal policy of the government lies with the Finance Minister.
• Presenting the Union Budget before Parliament is one of the key duties of the Finance Minister.

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Additional Information 

• On the recommendations of the Acworth Committee Report(1921), the Railway Budget got separated from the General Budget in the year 1924. This continued till 2016, from 2017 onwards the railway budget is merged with the general budget.
• The Finance Ministers who later became the Prime Minister of India - Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, V.P. Singh, and Manmohan Singh.
• The Finance Ministers who later became the President of India - R. Venkataraman and Pranab Mukherjee.

The correct answer is William Shakespeare.

Key Points

• The play 'Merchant of Venice' has been written by William Shakespeare.
• The summary of the play 'Merchant of Venice' is as follows - 
• Antonio, an antisemitic merchant, takes a loan from the Jew Shylock to help his friend to court Portia.
• Antonio can't repay the loan, and without mercy, Shylock demands a pound of his flesh.
• The heiress Portia, now the wife of Antonio's friend, dresses as a lawyer and saves Antonio.
• The main characters in the play are - 
• Portia - Portia is a female protagonist of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. A rich, beautiful, intelligent heiress of Belmont, she is bound by the lottery set forth in her father's will, which gives potential suitors the chance to choose among three caskets.
• Antonio - Antonio is the merchant of the title and is the first character we meet in this play. He has invested all his money in cargo that is currently on numerous ships. When his best friend Bassanio asks for a loan of 3000 ducats, he is unable to offer cash but agrees to act as a bond.
• Bassanio - Bassanio is a fictional character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. He is a spendthrift who wasted all of his money in order to be seen as a respectable man. To regain his fortune, he is determined to marry Portia, a wealthy, intelligent heiress of Belmont.
• The various works of William Shakespeare are-
• Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus.

Important Points

• William Wordsworth:
• ​"The child is the father of Man" is written by William Wordsworth.
• William Wordsworth used the expression, "The child is the father of the man" in his famous 1802 poem, "My Heart Leaps Up," also known as "The Rainbow."
• Robert Frost: Won the Pulitzer Prize four times for poetry.
• ​1924- New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost
• 1931- Collected Poems by Robert Frost
• 1937- A Further Range by Robert Frost
• 1943- A Witness Tree by Robert Frost​
• Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. is an American actor, producer, and director.

• Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is a cashless transaction system in which money can be instantly sent to users without knowing their bank account details.
• It also does not require any credit or debit card.

'The Jungle Book' is written by Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–94. The tales in the book (as well as those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families, and communities. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle.

The correct answer is Journalist.

Key Points

• Veteran journalist, Padma Shri awardee Vinod Dua passed away on December 4, 2021.
• He was a pioneer in broadcast Hindi journalism, worked with Doordarshan and NDTV.
• He was the 1^st electronic media journalist to win the Ramnath Goenka Journalism Award in 1996.
• He lost his wife, radiologist Padmavati ‘Chinna’ Dua, to the virus in June. He also was hospitalized with Covid earlier this year.

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• In December 2021, the renowned National Award-winning choreographer and actor, Shiva Shankar Master passed away.
• In November 2021, Notable author, historian, and Padma Vibhushan awardee Babasaheb Purandare passed away.

The correct answer is Dr. Homi Bhabha.

• Homi Jehangir Bhabha is known as the 'Father of the Indian Nuclear Programme'.
• He was an Indian nuclear physicist who founded Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
• Ajit Kumar Mohanty was appointed as the director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for a period of three years in march 2019.
• He is a well-known nuclear physicist. He obtained a PhD degree from Bombay University.
• Dr Homi Bhabha established the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) in January 1954.
• In 1966, at Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay was renamed Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).

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