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Explanation: Raja Man Singh of Amber commanded the Mughal army at Haldighati on 18 June 1576, with Asaf Khan; Maharana Pratap's forces included Hakim Khan Sur. Todar Mal was Akbar's revenue minister, Bairam Khan was Akbar's regent who died in 1561, and Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan was a noble and poet of the later years of the reign.

Explanation: The 20-year-old Italian Kimi Antonelli of Mercedes finished third at the Mexico City Grand Prix (Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez) and became the youngest driver in F1 history to be crowned champion. Max Verstappen won the race and Lewis Hamilton was second.

Explanation: Rani Lakshmibai, born Manikarnika, was born in Varanasi (Kashi) in present-day Uttar Pradesh. She grew up at Bithoor near Kanpur in the court of the Peshwa Baji Rao II, became queen of Jhansi on her marriage to Gangadhar Rao, and died fighting near Gwalior in June 1858.

Explanation: The 2026 Youth Olympic Games are being held at Dakar in Senegal. Sixteen-year-old Dhinidhi Desinghu clocked 56.27 seconds for bronze in the women's 100m freestyle, behind Croatia's Ana Bobanovic (gold) and New Zealand's Alyssa Lawson (silver).

Explanation: Dong, in the Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh near the India–China–Myanmar trijunction, at the confluence of the Lohit and Sati rivers, is known for India's first sunrise. Kibithu and Walong are nearby places in the Lohit valley of the same district, and Tawang is in western Arunachal Pradesh.

Explanation: GRSE will build five corvettes and Goa Shipyard Limited three. It is the first project in which ships will be designed by the Indian Navy and built by Defence PSUs selected through a competitive process. The contracts were signed at Kartavya Bhawan-2, New Delhi, in the presence of Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh, not by the Defence Minister, so statement 3 is wrong.

Explanation: The National Commission for Women was set up on 31 January 1992 under the National Commission for Women Act, 1990, and Jayanti Patnaik was its first chairperson. It is a statutory body. The National Commission for Scheduled Castes is a constitutional body under Article 338, so statement 3 is wrong.

Explanation: India won 14 medals (four gold, two silver and eight bronze) and finished on top of the medal tally. The golds came from Aarti Dhariyal (women's 54 kg), Ankushita Boro (65 kg), Arundhati Chaudhary (70 kg) and Pawan Bartwal (men's 55 kg). Jaismine won silver, not gold, in the women's 57 kg, so statement 3 is wrong.

Explanation: The UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) was set up in 1991 to monitor a ceasefire and organise a referendum on self-determination, which never took place because of disputes over voter eligibility. It ends after the Security Council did not renew its mandate; UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said 1 November marked the start of its liquidation phase.

Explanation: Lokayan 26 was flagged off from Kochi, not Visakhapatnam, on 20 January 2026. The ten-month voyage covered over 22,000 nautical miles, made 17 port calls in 11 countries across Asia, Europe, Africa and North America, and included two transatlantic crossings.