Answer: (a)
Only statement 3 is correct.
Food Corporation of India (FCI)
• Establishment and Objectives: Founded in 1965 under the Food Corporation Act, 1964, FCI serves as a statutory body under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Government of India.
• Core Objectives: FCI is entrusted with the tasks of providing price support to farmers by
1. Procuring grains at Minimum Support Prices (MSP),
2. Supplying grains to Public Distribution System (PDS), and
3. Maintaining strategic grain reserves.

Answer: (b)
Prakash Singh, who served as DGP of UP Police and Assam Police besides other postings, filed a PIL in the Supreme Court post retirement, in 1996, seeking police reforms. In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court in September 2006 had directed all states and Union Territories to bring in police reforms. The ruling issued a series of measures that were to be undertaken by the governments to ensure the police could do their work without worrying about any political interference.

Answer: (d)
Magnetoelectric multiferroics, like MnBi2S4, have potential applications in spintronics and electronic memory devices due to their ability to exhibit both magnetism and ferroelectricity simultaneously.
a) This statement is incorrect. MnBi2S4 is not a common mineral found in abundance; it is a novel mineral belonging to the ternary manganese chalcogenide family and is also known as mineral graţianite.
b) This statement is incorrect. Magnetoelectric multiferroics are materials that exhibit both magnetism and ferroelectricity simultaneously, as stated in the passage.
c) This statement is incorrect. MnBi2S4 undergoes magnetic ordering at low temperatures, not high temperatures, and this property makes it suitable for energy-efficient data storage, not unsuitable.

Answer: (b)
Statements 1 and 3 are correct.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• It is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations (UN) for assessing the science related to climate change.
• It was created in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
• The objective of the IPCC is to provide governments at all levels with scientific information that they can use to develop climate policies.
• IPCC reports are also a key input into international climate change negotiations.
• The IPCC is an organization of governments that are members of the United Nations or WMO. Currently it has 195 members.
• The IPCC published its First AR in 1990, second in 1995, third in 2001, fourth in 2007 and the Fifth Assessment Report in 2014.

Answer: (a)
The Global Invasive Species Database was developed and is managed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group’ of the Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. It was developed as part of the global initiative on invasive species led by the erstwhile Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) in 2000. The GISD over the past two years has been redesigned with support from the Abu Dhabi Environment Agency, the Italian Ministry of Environment and ISPRA – the Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Italy.