https://www.fatf-gafi.org/about/membersandobservers/

Pakistan is not a member of FATF.

A high-level team from Pakistan was present at the plenary to defend Pakistan’s record, while delegations of security and diplomatic officials from the 39-member body, which includes India, attended the meeting.

The “blacklist” refers to countries for who there has been a “call to action” or strict banking and international financial sanctions, a list which at present includes Iran and North Korea. Pakistan is one of the 12 countries on the “grey list” or “other monitored jurisdictions” that are being reviewed for actions to stop terror financing and money laundering.

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/up-around-3000-tonne-gold-deposits-found-in-sonbhadra-6280558/

https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/3-500-tonne-gold-mine-found-in-sonbhadra-5-times-that-of-india-s-reserves-120022101252_1.html

Both statements are correct.

Sonbhadra or Sonebhadra is the 2nd largest district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Sonbhadra is the only district in India which borders four states namely Madhya Pradesh, Chhattishgarh Jharkhand and Bihar.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/hc-dismisses-puducherry-cms-plea/article30884194.ece

The Bill was moved after the ratification of the treaty of cession between India and France on August 16, 1962. Article 239A of the Constitution provided for creating a local legislature in Puducherry and it stated that the powers and functions of the elected as well as nominated members of the Assembly would be specified by law. “The law, in this case, is the Government of Union Territories Act of 1963,”.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200220130456.htm

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-how-to-study-light-and-confirm-a-potential-exoplanet-6280488/

A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical spectrograph built by a Penn State team and recently installed on the 10m Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas. The HPF provides the highest precision measurements to date of infrared signals from nearby low-mass stars, and astronomers used it to validate the candidate planet by excluding all possibilities of contaminating signals to very high level of probability. The details of the findings appear in the Astronomical Journal.

Statement 1 is correct: Methane hydrate is a crystalline solid that consists of a methane molecule surrounded by a cage of interlocking water molecules (see image at the top of this page). Methane hydrate is an “ice” that only occurs naturally in subsurface deposits where temperature and pressure conditions are favorable for its formation. Owing to melting of ice, global warming might trigger the release of methane gas from these deposits.

Statement 2 is correct: Four Earth environments have the temperature and pressure conditions suitable for the formation and stability of methane hydrate. These are: 1) sediment and sedimentary rock units below Arctic permafrost; 2) sedimentary deposits along continental margins; 3) deep -water sediments of inland lakes and seas; and, 4) under Antarctic ice.

Statement 3 is correct: Methane is relatively short – lived in the atmosphere; a molecule of methane is oxidized to water and carbon dioxide after a decade or so, mainly by reaction with another trace gas, the hydroxyl radical OH -. Thus, unlike the case of carbon dioxide (which stays in the atmosphere longer than methane), a concerted effort to reduce methane emissions would have almost immediate results in terms of reduction of greenhouse effect.