Answer: (B)
Explanation:
Krishna and Bhima, which are two important rivers flowing through Karnataka, originate from Maharashtra. Naturally controls these rivers and every summer Karnataka has to beg the former for its share of water. There have been instances of Maharashtra demanding money to release water to Karnataka and directing the state to provide water to the villages of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka.
Bhima River also known as Chandrabhaga River which originates in Maharashtra flows 300km in Karnataka through Vijayapura and Yadgir districts before entering Telangana.

Answer: (B)
Explanation:
What is the NFSA?
The NFSA came into effect on July 5, 2013. The law guaranteed “access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices” under the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) to 50% of the urban and 75% of the rural population of the country. The overall national coverage of the NFSA is about 67.5% of the population.
Under the law, the number of persons to be covered in rural and urban areas of a state shall be calculated on the basis of population estimates as per the Census of which the relevant figures have been published. The latest published Census figures are from 2011 — and based on that, about 81.35 crore people can be covered by the NFSA.
The subsidised prices are specified in Schedule-1 of the NFSA, which the government can change by executive order. Until the end of 2022, NFSA beneficiaries paid Rs 3, Rs 2, and Re 1 per kg of rice, wheat, and nutri-cereals (millets) respectively. These prices were not changed for years, even though the economic cost of foodgrains and the food subsidy bill grew steadily. From this year onwards, the rations were made entirely free.
The quantity of grains to which a beneficiary is entitled is also laid down in the law, and cannot be changed without Parliament’s approval.
There are two categories of beneficiary households under the NFSA — the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) households, and the Priority Households (PHs). Each AAY household is entitled to 35 kg of foodgrains every month irrespective of the number of members in the household.
PHs are entitled to receive foodgrains according to the number of family members. Each member of a PH is entitled to receive 5 kg of foodgrains every month under the NFSA. So, the bigger a PH family, the greater is the quantity of foodgrains it gets.

Answer: (D)
Explanation:
The Sixteenth Finance Commission will cover the five-year period beginning 2026-27, the report for which is expected to be taken up by the government at the time of presentation of Budget 2026-27.
The Finance Commission is constituted by the President under article 280 of the Constitution, mainly to give its recommendations on distribution of tax revenues between the Union and the States and amongst the states themselves. The Commission’s work involves redressing the vertical imbalances between the taxation powers and expenditure responsibilities of the Centre and the States respectively and equalisation of all public services across the states.
The share of states in the central taxes for the 2021-26 period was recommended to be 41 per cent same as that for 2020-21. This was less than the 42 per cent share recommended by the 14th Finance Commission for 2015-20 period, with the 1 percent adjusted to factor in the new union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.

Answer: (A)
Explanation:
NATO recently announced the formal suspension of a key Cold War-era security treaty in response to Russia’s pullout from the deal.
The alliance said its members who signed the treaty are now freezing their participation in the pact.
Most of NATO’s 31 allies have signed the Treaty of Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, which was aimed at preventing Cold War rivals from massing forces at or near mutual borders. It was signed in November 1990, but not fully ratified until two years later.