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The correct answer is Prajapati.

Key Points

• In the Later Vedic period, the two outstanding Rig Vedic Gods, Indra, and Agni lost their former importance.
• On the other hand, Prajapati, the creator, came to occupy the supreme position in the later Vedic pantheon.
• Some of the other minor Gods of the Rig Vedic period also came to the forefront Rudra, the god of animals, became important in later Vedic times and Vishnu came to be conceived as the preserver and protector of the people who now led a settled life instead of a semi-nomadic life as they did in Rig Vedic times.
• In addition, some symbolic objects began to be worshipped, and we notice signs of idolatry in later Vedic times.
• As society became divided into social classes such as Brahmanas, Kshatriyas, vaishyas, and Shudras, some of the social orders came to have their own deities.
• Pushan, who was supposed to look after cattle, came to be regarded as the God of the Shudras.
• People worshipped Gods for the same material reasons in this period as they did in earlier times.
• However, the mode of worship changed considerably. Prayers continued to be recited, but they ceased to be the dominant mode of placating the gods.
• Sacrifices became far more important, and they assumed both public and domestic character.
• Public sacrifices involved the king and the whole of the community, which was still in many cases identical with the tribe.
• Private sacrifices were performed by individuals in their houses.

The correct answer is David Easton.

Key Points

• The systems analysis approach in political science was primarily propounded by David Easton.
• He conceived this adaptation in 1953.
• He published "A Systems Analysis of Political Life" in 1965, which is considered one of the key works in this area.
• His work was influenced by cybernetics.
• The approach aimed to provide an abstract, holistic view of politics.

The correct answer is Shri Arif Mohammed Khan.

Key Points

• Arif Mohammad Khan is the current governor of Bihar.
• Former President Zakir Husain and Ram Nath Kovind were two such governors of Bihar who succeeded on to become the president of India.
• 41 governors with additional charge, and the 46^th governor also counted before independence—the location of Bihar in India.

The correct answer is World Health Organisation

Key Points

• The World Health Organization (WHO) released a report titled 'Tobacco: Poisoning Our Planet' to coincide with World No Tobacco Day.
• The World Health Organization was established on April 7, 1948.
• The headquarters of the World Health Organisation (WHO) is located in Geneva, Switzerland.
• Tedros Adhanon is the Director-General of the World Health Organization.
• Therefore April 7 is observed as World Health Day every year.
• The World Health Assembly and the Executive Board are the governing bodies of WHO.
• WHO gets funding from its member nations which can be either compulsory or Voluntary.
• The countries which are members of UNO are the members of WHO also.

Additional Information

• UNICEF was created by United Nations General Assembly on 11 Dec 1946.
• UNICEF is the successor of the International Children's Emergency Fund (ICEF) which was created in 1946 by the U.N. Relief Rehabilitation Administration with the prime objective of providing immediate relief to children and mothers affected by World War II.
• The primary objective of the agency is to provide humanitarian and development aid to children worldwide.
• UNICEF is having more than 150 country offices across the globe & having a presence in 192 countries & Territories.
• The National establishment for the reworking Republic of India, conjointly known as NITI Aayog, was fashioned via a resolution of the Union cupboard on Jan one, 2015.
• NITI Aayog :
• NITI Aayog is that the premier policy ‘Think Tank’ of the govt of the Republic of India, providing each directional and policy inputs. Whereas coming up with strategic and long-run policies and programs for the Govt of the Republic of India, NITI Aayog conjointly provides relevant technical recommendations to the Centre and States.
• NITI Aayog Chairperson:  Narendra Modi.
• NITI Aayog Headquarter: New Delhi.

The correct answer is Rabindra Nath Tagore

Key Points 

Rabindranath Tagore:

• He was born in Calcutta on 7^th May 1861.
• He was also referred to as ‘Gurudev’, ‘Kabiguru’, and ‘Biswakabi’.
• He is regarded as the outstanding creative artist of modern India and hailed by W.B Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, novelist, and painter, who was highly influential in introducing Indian culture to the west.
• In 1913 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work on Gitanjali.
• He was the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize.
• He was the first Indian and First Asian to receive the Nobel Prize.
• In 1915 he was awarded a knighthood by British King George V.
• In 1919, following the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre, he renounced his Knighthood.
• He is said to have composed over 2000 songs and his songs and music are called ‘Rabindra Sangeet’ with its own distinct lyrical and fluid style.
• He is responsible for modernising Bengali prose and poetry. His notable works include Gitanjali, Ghare-Baire, Gora, Manasi, Balaka, and Sonar Tori, He is also remembered for his song ‘Ekla Chalo Re’.
• He published his first poems aged 16 under the pen name ‘Bhanusimha’.
• He not only gave the national anthems for two countries, India and Bangladesh but also inspired a Ceylonese student of his, to pen and compose the national anthem of Sri Lanka.

The correct answer is Company Act, 1956

Key Points

• A Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) is a company registered under the Companies Act, 1956 engaged in the business of loans and advances, acquisition of shares/stocks/bonds/debentures/securities issued by Government or local authority or other marketable securities of a like nature.
• NBFC cannot accept demand deposits.
• The deposit insurance facility of Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation is not available to depositors of NBFCs, unlike in case of banks.
• NBFCs whose asset size is of ₹ 500 cr or more as per the last audited balance sheet are considered as systemically important NBFCs.
• The rationale for such classification is that the activities of such NBFCs will have a bearing on the financial stability of the overall economy.

The correct answer is Tamil Language.

Key Points

• Dravidian languages, a family of around 70 languages mainly spoken in South Asia.
• The Dravidian languages are split into groups in the South, South-Middle Central, and North; these groups are further split into 24 subgroups.
• The Constitution of India acknowledges the four major literary languages: Tamil, Telugu,  Malayalam, and Kannada.
• They are also official languages, respectively, of the states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, and Karnataka (formerly Mysore).
• Tamil is the oldest of the four literary languages in the Dravidian family, with examples dating to the early Common Period.
• Tolkappiyam (1^st–4^th century CE; "Ancient Literature"), the first known work in the Tamil language, is a treatise on grammar and poetics.

Additional Information

• Until around the 9^th century CE, Malayalam was the west coast dialect of Tamil.
• Geographically isolated by the steep Western Ghats from the main speech group, the dialect gradually evolved into a distinct language.
• Kannada is the official language in the state of Karnataka.
• The inscriptions in Kannada date from the 5^th century CE, while Kavirajamarga ('The Royal Road of Poets'), the first literary work, is a ninth-century treatise on poetics.
• Telugu is spoken by the greatest population among the Dravidian languages.
• It is the third most frequently spoken of all Indian languages, after Hindi and Bengali.

The correct answer is Sadbhavana Diwas.

Key Points

• 20^th August is celebrated as Sadbhavana Diwas.

The correct answer is Nephron.

Key Points

• Nephron
• The kidneys are two bean-shaped organs found in vertebrates located on the left and right retroperitoneal space.
• The nephron is the structural and functional unit of the kidney. Hence option 2 is correct.
• Each human adult kidney contains around 1 million nephrons.
• Lymphocyte
• A lymphocyte is one of the subtypes of a white blood cell in a vertebrate's immune system.
• Lymphocytes include
• Natural killer cells (which function in cell-mediated, cytotoxic innate immunity).
• T cells (for cell-mediated, cytotoxic adaptive immunity).
• B cells (for humoral, antibody-driven adaptive immunity).
• Lobule
• The lobule of the liver, are small divisions of the liver defined at the microscopic (histological) scale.
• The hepatic lobule is a building block of the liver tissue, consisting of a portal triad, hepatocytes arranged in linear cords between a capillary network, and a central vein.
• Neuron
• The neuron is the basic working unit of the brain.
• It is a specialized cell which transmits the information to other nerve cells, muscle, or gland cells.

The correct answer is Virus.

Key Points

• Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne disease caused by the chikungunya virus.
• Viruses are small intracellular parasites, which contain either an RNA or DNA genome surrounded by a protective, virus-coded protein coat.
• A complete virus particle is called a virion.
• Viruses are inert outside the host cell and can be crystallized.
• The main purpose of a virus is to deliver its genome into the host cell to allow its transcription and translation by the host cell.
• A bacteriophage is a virus that destroys bacteria.