Answer: (D) 
Explanation:
After it announced a tiger census of its own in July, questioning the findings of the All-India Tiger Estimation (AITE) 2022, the Odisha government has unveiled how it plans to carry out
the exercise.
The AITE report, released in July, had said more than half the tigers Odisha had in 2016 have vanished, with one of its two notified tiger reserves, the Satkosia Tiger Reserve, left with
none. It said Odisha has 20 tigers, down from 45 in 2006. The number at the other reserve, the Similipal Tiger Reserve, has doubled from 8 in 2018 to 16 in 2022, the report.

Answer: (A) 
Explanation:
The OSIRIS mission has two identities. In time, it works alongside Japan’s two Hayabusa missions, which have collected and returned samples of 25143 Itokawa and 162173 Ryugu, to
expand our knowledge of the solar system’s history. 
OSIRIS is NASA’s third element of its ‘New Frontiers’ programme, after New Horizons (to explore the Kuiper Belt) and Juno (to study the planet exerting the largest gravitational
influence in the solar system). While studies of Bennu include significant commercial components — such as opportunities for space-mining and impact mitigation technologies — they
also participate in a more timeless quest: to find out where life came from and what its fate could be. 
With OSIRIS’s capsule, humankind virtually gets to hold infinity in the palm of the hand.

Answer: (D)
Explanation:
* Of the more than 800 protected monuments in the State, 280 monuments have been identified for the project.
The Chief Minister said that the cultural pride of the country and economy will get a boost if tourism grows.  “If the public joins hands with the government to protect the
monuments, our history and heritage can be passed on to the next generation. 
At the central level there is a similar Adopt Heritage 2.0 scheme that seeks to foster collaboration with corporate stakeholders through which they can contribute in
preserving these monuments for our upcoming generations”.

Answer: (C)
Explanation:
* In the U.S. there is mutual principled distance: First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits the legislature from making laws “respecting an establishment of
religion” or that “prohibit the free exercise of religion”. What is meant by the word ‘establishment’ is that the legislature cannot declare any religion as the official religion.
Nor can they give preference to one religion. In the U.S.A. the separation between State and religion means that neither the State nor religion can interfere in the affairs of
one another. 
There is one significant way in which Indian secularism differs from the dominant understanding of secularism as practiced in the United States of America. This is because
unlike the strict separation between religion and the State in American secularism, in Indian secularism the State can intervene in religious affairs.
* In France, a one-sided exclusion: It is understood as a formal separation of the State and Church. It involves the complete removal of religious values from the public sphere
and their replacement with secular values such as liberty, equality, and fraternity. The underlying goal of Laïcité is to implant tolerance and assimilate people.
* In India, exclusion of religion is not possible. The state has to intervene to ensure that there is neither inter-religious nor intra-religious domination. Therefore, it maintains
principled distance: it intervenes or not depending on what helps to foster equality, freedom or fraternity. This is unique.
The Indian Constitution allows individuals the freedom to live by their religious beliefs and practices as they interpret these. In keeping with this idea of religious freedom
for all, India also adopted a strategy of separating the power of religion and the power of the State. Secularism refers to this separation of religion from the State.
In Indian secularism, though the State is not strictly separate from religion it does maintain a principled distance vis-à-vis religion. This means that any interference in
religion by the State has to be based on the ideals laid out in the Constitution. These ideals serve as the standard through which we can judge whether the State is or is not
behaving according to secular principles. The Indian State is secular and works in various ways to prevent religious domination. The Indian Constitution guarantees
Fundamental Rights that are based on these secular principles. However, this is not to say that there is no violation of these rights in Indian society. Indeed it is precisely
because such violations happen frequently that we need a constitutional mechanism to prevent them from happening.