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This is because ethanol is an agro-based product, mainly produced from a by-product of the sugar industry, namely molasses. Ethanol mixing is said to reduce environmental degradation while adding extra income to the pocket of sugarcane farmers. It will help India achieve its dream of self-reliance in the energy sector.

e-RUPI is a cashless and contactless instrument for digital payment developed by National Payments Corporation of India.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has increased the maximum amount of e-RUPI from  ₹ 10.000 currently to ₹ 1 lakh. It was further announced that the e-RUPI voucher can be used more than once until the amount is fully redeemed.

e-RUPI does not require the beneficiary to have a bank account, a major distinguishing feature as compared to other digital payment forms. It ensures an easy. contactless two-step redemption process that does not require sharing of personal details either.

Statement 3 is incorrect. One of the advantages is that e-RUPI is operable on basic phones also and hence it can be used by persons who do not own smartphones or in places that lack internet connection.

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shri Nitin Gadkari, launched India's first green hydrogen-based fuel cell EV Toyota Mirai; 650 km in one charge in April, 2022. He mentioned at an event that FCEV is powered by hydrogen and is one of the best zero-emission solutions. It is completely environment-friendly with no tailpipe emissions other than water.

The Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Twenty-first Amendment) Act, 1967, amended the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution so as to include Sindhi as one of the languages, thereby raising the total number of languages listed in the Schedule to fifteen.

Manigramam refers to a medieval merchant guild, organised by itinerant ethnic Indian traders, primarily active in South India. The Nanadesis were a guild of traders who organised themselves into one of the biggest trading associations at the time of the Hoysala Empire.

These guilds traded extensively both within the peninsula and with Southeast Asia and China. The towns on the West Coast were home to Arab, Persian, Chinese, Jewish and Syrian Christian traders. The trades in horses were primarily carried here and slaves were also bought here for the sale.

During the war, King Marthanda Varma's forces defeated the Dutch East India Company's forces led by Admiral Eustachius De Lannoy on 10th August, 1741. The Dutch never recovered from the defeat and no longer posed a large colonial threat to India.

Kumarila Bhatta was a Hindu philosopher and a scholar of Mimamsa School of philosophy from early medieval India. He is famous for many of his various theses on Mimamsa. He was a staunch believer in the supreme validity of Vedic injunction, a champion of Purva-Mimamsa and a confirmed realist.

Prabhakara was an Indian philosopher-grammarian in the Mimamsa tradition of Kerala. The views on Sabara's Bhasya, a commentary on Jaimini's Purva-Mimamsa Sutras led to rise of Prabhakara School within Mimamsa and further developed as competent philosophical system along with the rival school of Kumarila Bhatta.

It was an ancient kingdom in present day Central India. It is located in present day Maheshwar in Madhya Pradesh, on the banks of Narmada River. It is mentioned in several ancient texts and is said to have been ruled by the legendary Haihaya ruler Kartavirya Arjuna. Mahishmati was the most important city in the southern part of the Avanti Kingdom, and later served as the capital of the Anupa Kingdom.

Lok Sabha Speaker has the authority to appoint the Chairman of the committee. The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee used to be appointed from the ruling party until 1966-67, however; a convention later decided that the Chairman of the committee will be appointed invariably from the opposition party.