Review answers

Explanation: Pingali Venkayya of Andhra Pradesh designed a flag for the Congress that Gandhi saw at Bezwada (Vijayawada) in 1921; with later changes it became the 1931 Swaraj flag (saffron, white, green with the charkha), which the Constituent Assembly adopted with the Ashoka Chakra on 22 July 1947. Bhikaiji Cama unfurled a tricolour at Stuttgart in 1907, and Sister Nivedita designed an early flag with a vajra.

Explanation: The fishing vessel Azini had been hijacked by an armed pirate group off the north-eastern coast of Somalia. In an operation of over 48 hours, a mission-deployed Indian Navy warship and a maritime reconnaissance aircraft tracked it; Marine Commandos were airdropped by an IAF C-17, and all 20 crew were rescued without casualties.

Explanation: Akbar built the Allahabad Fort in 1583 on the banks of the Yamuna near its confluence with the Ganga, and named the city Ilahabas. The fort houses the Ashokan pillar (with inscriptions of Samudragupta and Jahangir) and the Akshayavat tree.

Explanation: Pralay is an indigenous quasi-ballistic missile that can carry different types of warheads and has a range of up to 500 km. In the test from Launch Complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, it hit two simulated targets about 500 km away. A 500-km range rules out an intercontinental missile.

Explanation: The Godavari, often called the Dakshin Ganga, is the longest peninsular river (about 1,465 km) and has the largest basin among them, about 3.13 lakh sq km, nearly 10% of India's area. The Krishna basin (about 2.59 lakh sq km) is second; the Mahanadi and Narmada basins are smaller.

Explanation: The Indian trio scored 1659 for team gold in the men's 50m pistol, an event not on the Olympic roster; China (1648) took silver. In the individual event Ravinder won silver, not gold: Russia's Anton Aristarkhov won with 561. India's women's 10m air rifle team also won silver.

Explanation: Statement 1 is wrong: High Courts also issue writs for Fundamental Rights under Article 226, and their writ power is even wider. Dr B. R. Ambedkar called Article 32 the 'heart and soul' of the Constitution. Since the 44th Amendment (1978), a Presidential order under Article 359 during a National Emergency cannot suspend the enforcement of Articles 20 and 21.

Explanation: The Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) is the primary payload among Aditya-L1's seven. Scientists of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics combined its data with NASA's SDO observations and 3-D modelling, and showed for the first time that the CME expanded non-uniformly into an asymmetric shape, not as a simple symmetric bubble.

Explanation: Tiger Triumph 2026, the 5th edition of the India–US bilateral tri-service Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief exercise, opened on 2 Nov 2026 at the Maritime Warfare Centre, Visakhapatnam. This year it is being conducted as a Tabletop Exercise (TTX), not a field exercise, and an NDRF team is participating for the first time.

Explanation: All 435 House seats were being contested, but governorships were at stake in 36 states, not all 50. In Ohio, Indian American Vivek Ramaswamy faced Democratic nominee Amy Acton for Governor. The vote was widely seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump's second term.