Current affairs Mar 16(2025-03-17)

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Which of the following statements are correct?
1. Only 5 states of India have common border with Myanmar
2. Among northeastern states of India, Assam is the only state having no international border.

Which of the following statements are correct regarding National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP)?
1. NERPAP is voter registration project of the ministry of Home affairs.
2. The Election Commission first tried the Aadhaar-voter ID linking in 2015 when it launched the NERPAP to address the duplicate entries in electoral rolls.
3. Supreme Court, in an interim order held that the mandatory use of Aadhaar should only be for welfare schemes and PAN linking and following this order, the NERPAP exercise was discontinued.

The genus Uniyala, a new species found in the Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve in Kerala has been confirmed as a distinct species and endemic to southwestern India. The species is

Which of the following statements are correct?
1. Article 342(1) of the Indian Constitution empowers the President to specify tribes or tribal communities as Scheduled Tribes in relation to a State or Union Territory. 
2. The power to specify a community as scheduled tribe is exercised by the President after consulting with the Governor of the State.
3. After the president specified a community as scheduled tribe through public notification, it can not be modified by any Act of Parliament

Which of the following statements are correct?
1. The Madhav National Park is an important connecting corridor to Ranthambore tiger reserve in Rajasthan
2. Madhya Pradesh has the highest number of tiger reserves in India than any other states.

Which of the following statements are correct regarding Raisina Dialogue?
1. It was launched in 2016 by the SAARC organization as a “flagship south Asian international dialogue”.
2. It aims to bring together leaders and thinkers from around the world. Envisioned by the government as a potential rival to the Munich Security Conference 
3. The Indian version is named after the Raisina Hills, where Rashtrapati Bhavan, key Ministries and Parliament are located.