17th January 2026

Consider the following statements regarding Bio-Safety Level 4 (BSL-4) facilities in India:

1. BSL-4 facilities are designed to work with highly infectious pathogens for which vaccines or treatments are generally unavailable.
2. These facilities operate under stringent international safety standards and support research on diagnostics, vaccines, and outbreak response.
3. India’s upcoming BSL-4 laboratory, located Gandhinagar, will be an independent facility without an integrated animal bio-safety laboratory.

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Which spacecraft, launched by NASA in 1977, is known as the only human-made object to have visited all four outer planets of our solar system - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune - and is now in the interstellar space, becoming the second human-made object to enter the space beyond our solar system?

Consider the following statements regarding the RBS-15 missile system:

1. It is a fire-and-forget, supersonic anti-ship missile with land attack capability.
2. Its guidance system integrates an inertial navigation system (INS), GPS receiver, radar altimeter, and a Ku-band radar seeker.
3. The missile lacks advanced electronic counter-countermeasure (ECCM) capabilities, making it vulnerable to jammers and decoys.
4. It is capable of performing sea-skimming flight and unpredictable evasive maneuvers.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements about the Gorakhnath Temple in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh:

1. The temple belongs to the Nath monastic group, which is a sub-sect of the Vaishnavism tradition in Hinduism.
2. The central shrine of the temple houses a sacred image of Guru Gorakhnath and a Shiva Linga.
3. The temple's architecture is a blend of traditional and modern South Indian styles.
4. It is considered the epicenter of the Nath tradition, which was instituted by Guru Matsyendranath.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements about Similipal National Park:

1. It is located in the Deccan Peninsular Bio-geographic Zone and exhibits biodiversity elements characteristic of the Western Ghats, Eastern Ghats, and the eastern Himalayas.
2. It is the only tiger reserve in India where melanistic tigers have been recorded.
3. Sal is the dominant tree species, and the vegetation consists solely of tropical moist deciduous forests without any grassland patches.
4. It is part of the Mayurbhanj Elephant Reserve and also holds the highest population of tigers in the state of Odisha.

Which of the statements given above are correct?