Solution (b)

About Red Sanders:

• Pterocarpus santalinus or Red Sanders is an endemic tree of South India. 
• They are found in Tropical Dry Deciduous forest of the Palakonda and Seshachalam hill ranges of Andhra Pradesh and also found in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. They are restricted to the southern parts of the Eastern Ghats.
• It is protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). While its export without state permission is illegal, farmers can grow it.
• It is listed as an Endangered species by the IUCN, because of overexploitation for its timber in South India.

Source: https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/red-sanders-worth-rs-1-crore-seized/article32055231.ece

Solution (c) 

International Comparison Program (ICP) is a partnership of various statistical administrations of up to 199 countries guided by the World Bank.  

World Bank has released new PPPs for the reference year 2017, under the International Comparison Program (ICP).  

India has participated in almost all ICP rounds since its inception in 1970.  

India is participating in the current phase of International Comparison Programme (ICP) with reference to 2017.  

India is third-largest economy in terms of its PPP-based share in global actual individual consumption and global gross capital formation.  

The next ICP comparison will be conducted for the reference year 2021. 

Source: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-sum-and-substance-of-the-eus-china-dilemma/article32060289.ece

Solution (a)

The CCTNS is a project for creating a comprehensive and integrated system for effective policing through e-Governance.

The concept was first conceived in the year 2008 by the then Home Minister in the aftermath of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

The system includes a nationwide online tracking system by integrating more than 14,000 police stations across the country.

The project is implemented by NCRB (not NITI Aayog).

Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/natgrid-to-have-access-to-database-that-links-around-14000-police-stations/article32058643.ece

Solution (a)

The Churachandpur Mao Fault is named after two places in Manipur and runs north-south into Myanmar along the border of Champhai.

Faults are discontinuities or cracks that are the result of differential motion within the earth’s crust. Vertical or lateral slippage of the crust along the faults causes an earthquake.

Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/mizoram-quake-zone-caught-between-two-geological-faults/article32060785.ece

Solution (b)

International Criminal Court (ICC) 

• It is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal that sits in The Hague in the Netherlands.  (ICC is not part of the United Nations)
• The ICC has the jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. 
• The ICC is intended to complement existing national judicial systems and it may therefore only exercise its jurisdiction when certain conditions are met, such as when national courts are unwilling or unable to prosecute criminals or when the United Nations Security Council or individual states refer situations to the Court. 
• The ICC began functioning on 1 July 2002, the date that the Rome Statute entered into force. 
• The Rome Statute is a multilateral treaty which serves as the ICC’s foundational and governing document. States which become party to the Rome Statute, for example by ratifying it, become member states of the ICC. 

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-srebrenica-massacre-the-ethnic-cleansing-of-bosnian-muslims-6502200/