UPSC Daily PIB Quiz for 4ᵗʰ November 2026

1) With reference to critical minerals and their value chains in India, consider the following statements:

1. The National Critical Mineral Mission envisages strengthening domestic exploration, processing, recycling and overseas acquisition of critical mineral assets.
2. Recovery of critical minerals from coal fly ash, red mud and electronic waste represents an approach to reduce dependence on primary mineral extraction.
3. The 2023 amendments to the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 enabled the Central Government to auction mining leases and composite licences for specified critical and strategic minerals.
4. Critical mineral security is relevant not only to the energy transition but also to sectors such as semiconductors, aerospace and defence.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

2) With reference to Aditya-L1 and the study of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), consider the following statements:

1. VELC is an internally occulted coronagraph designed to observe the solar corona and study CMEs at their early stages.
2. The 530.3 nm green emission line observed by VELC is associated with highly ionised iron in the solar corona.
3. Doppler measurements can provide information about plasma motion along the line of sight, while coronagraphic imaging helps study its propagation across the plane of the sky.
4. An asymmetric expansion of a CME can influence its interaction with the solar wind and consequently affect its propagation and arrival time near Earth.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

3) Consider the following statements regarding the indigenous foundation models released under the IndiaAI Mission:

1. EKA-1 is a sparse hybrid language model with 26.3 billion parameters, trained on approximately 7.5 trillion tokens.
2. EKA-1 supports all 22 Scheduled Indian Languages alongside English.
3. Dhīr models are designed for secure, on-premise and offline-capable deployment, reducing dependence on external cloud infrastructure.
4. Access to subsidised national AI compute infrastructure is one of the forms of support provided under the IndiaAI Mission.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

4) With reference to the SUVIKALP Mine Repurposing Tool, consider the following statements:

1. TOPSIS evaluates alternatives on the basis of their relative proximity to an ideal solution and distance from an undesirable solution.
2. Integration of the RECLAIM framework allows community priorities to be considered alongside technical, environmental and economic factors.
3. PRISM extends the process beyond identification and ranking of repurposing options towards implementation planning and monitoring.
4. The platform adopts a uniform post-mining land-use model to ensure that all closed coal mines are repurposed for the same economic activity.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

5) With reference to Exercise Tiger Triumph 2026, consider the following statements:

1. It is an India–US bilateral tri-service Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief exercise, with the 2026 edition being conducted as a Tabletop Exercise.
2. The National Disaster Response Force is participating for the first time in the 2026 edition.

Which of the statements given above are incorrect?