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Statement IIndia receives the highest share of FDI inflow from Mauritius.
Statement IIThere is a Double Taxation Avoidance agreement between India and Mauritius.
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Which of the following statements is not correct regarding the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act ?
In which one of the following pair of states has the Indian Army launched “Operation Good Samaritan” ?
Which amongst the following countries is the largest troop contributor to the United Nations peace keeping mission ?
Which of the following statements regarding the United Nations Millennium Development Goals report, 2010 is/are correct ?
Which one of the following statements regarding FIFA World Cup, 2010 is not correct ?
Consider the following passage about a folk dance form of India :
This dance is-performed solo or in group of 3 or 4 females essentially on the occasion of worship of goddess Manasa. As per mythology, Behulaa had to dance before the goddess Manasa to get back her husband’s (luikhindar) life. The dancers while-dancing leave their hair open. Another striking moment of this dance is dancing with Daa (sharp weapon used for sacrifice) and rotating of dancers’ head in rapid circular motion, with open tresses.
Which one of the following dance form is described above ?
Consider the following statements regarding Sukhoi PAK FA T-50 aircraft:
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
Who among the following sport stars was conferred honorary Lieutenant Colonel rank by the Territorial Army ?
Consider the following statements :
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
Consider the following paragraph and identify with the code given below the cartoon character(s) described therein :
Consider the following paragraph and identify with the code given below the cartoon character(s) described therein :
He has/they have already completed the 75th year of his/their appearance. It is /they are the only cartoon characters) to appear as mascot for the sports team of a major American University, University of Oregon. His/their dominant personality trait is his/their short temper and, in contrast, his/their positive looks on life.
What is a green data centre ?
In IP Spoofing
Cloud computing refers to
Which one among the following animal tissues transports hormones and heat and maintains water balance ?
Cattle are capable of digesting cellulose present in the grass and/or fodder that they eat. This ability is attributed to the
Why are pregnant women recommended substantial intake of green leafy vegetables in their diet, especially in the 1st trimester ?
Which among the following statements about bio fertilizers are correct ?
Which of the following statements correctly describe the properties of hormones ? j
Human body’s main organ of balance is located in:
What is the most conspicuous salient feature of people with ‘Progeria’ ?
A deficiency of which one of the following minerals is most likely to lead to an immunodeficiency ?
Which of the following statements about the sound waves is/are correct.?
The Earth is an oblate spheroid and not a perfect sphere. This is because
Which one of the following statements is correct ?
The force acting on a particle executing simple harmonic motion is
As the sunlight passes through the atmosphere, the rays are scattered by tiny particles of dust, pollen, soot and other minute particulate matters present there. However, when we look up, the sky appears blue during mid-day, because
A passenger in a moving train tosses a five rupee coin. If the coin falls behind him, then the train must be moving with a uniform
The pressure exerted on the ground by a man is greatest
Which one of the following is not needed in a nuclear fission reactor ?
An athlete diving off a high springboard can perform a variety of exercises in the air before entering the water below. Which one of the following parameters will remain constant during the fall ?
If an object having mass of 1 kg is subjected to a force of 1N it moves with
The apparent weight of a steel sphere immersed in various liquids is measured using a spring balance. The greatest reading is obtained for the liquid
Scuba divers are; at risk due to high concentration of dissolved gases while breathing air at high pressure under water. The tanks used by Scuba divers are filled with
Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists :
List I (Sugar):
List II (Source):
The law enforcement agencies use a chemical test to approximate a person’s blood alcohol level. The person under- going the test blows into the mouthpiece of a bag containing sodium dichromate solution in acidic medium. A Chemical reaction with ethanol changes the colour of the solution from
Raw mangoes’ shrivel when pickled in brine. The phenomenon is associated with
Which among the following is the correct increasing order of pH found in human body ?
Which one of; the following is not a periodic property i.e. does not show any trend on moving from one side to the other in the periodic table ?
Consider the following statements regarding the properties and uses of glass wool:
Which of the statements given, above are correct ?
Which one of the following reducing agents can also act as an oxidizing agent ?
Which one of the following is not a mixture ?
Consider the following statements about the famous traveller Ibn Battuta :
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ? .
Consider the following statements about Vijayanagara Empire :
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Which one of the following statements regarding the revolt of 1857 is not correct ?
Prior to 1813, which among the following measures, was not adopted by the British to exploit the Indians economically ?
Consider the following statements relating to Indigo revolt:
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
Which one among the following prompted Rabindranath Tagore to surrender his title of ‘Sir’. ?
Which of the following statements regarding Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of Satyagraha is/are correct ?
Which one among the following sums up Marx’s view about history ?
During the year 2009-2010, which of the following sectors experienced negative growth rale in India ?
Read the following passage and answer the questions :
A government in a democratic country has to respond to on-going priorities in public criticism and political reproach, and to the threats to survival it has to face. The removal of long standing deprivations of’ the disadvantaged people of our country may, in effect, be hampered by the biases in political pressure, in particular when the bulk of the social agitation is dominated by new problems that generate immediate and noisy discontent among the middle class Indians with a voice. If the politically active threats are concentrated only on some specific new issues, no matter how important (such as high prices of consumer goods for the relatively rich, or the fear that India’s political sovereignty might be compromised by its nuclear deal with the USA), rather than on the terrible general inheritance of India of acute deprivation, deficient schooling, lack of medical attention for the poor, and extraordinary under nourishment (especially of children and also of young women), then the pressure on democratic governance acts relentlessly towards giving priority to only those particular new issues, rather than to the gigantic persistent deprivations that are at the root of so much inequity and injustice in India. The perspective of realization of justice and that of an adequately broad nyaya are central not only to the theory of justice, but also to the practice of democracy.
What are the ‘new’ issues that dominate the middle class led social agenda today ?
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A government in a democratic country has to respond to on-going priorities in public criticism and political reproach, and to the threats to survival it has to face. The removal of long standing deprivations of’ the disadvantaged people of our country may, in effect, be hampered by the biases in political pressure, in particular when the bulk of the social agitation is dominated by new problems that generate immediate and noisy discontent among the middle class Indians with a voice. If the politically active threats are concentrated only on some specific new issues, no matter how important (such as high prices of consumer goods for the relatively rich, or the fear that India’s political sovereignty might be compromised by its nuclear deal with the USA), rather than on the terrible general inheritance of India of acute deprivation, deficient schooling, lack of medical attention for the poor, and extraordinary under nourishment (especially of children and also of young women), then the pressure on democratic governance acts relentlessly towards giving priority to only those particular new issues, rather than to the gigantic persistent deprivations that are at the root of so much inequity and injustice in India. The perspective of realization of justice and that of an adequately broad nyaya are central not only to the theory of justice, but also to the practice of democracy.
What is the minimum mandate of a democratic government ?
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A government in a democratic country has to respond to on-going priorities in public criticism and political reproach, and to the threats to survival it has to face. The removal of long standing deprivations of’ the disadvantaged people of our country may, in effect, be hampered by the biases in political pressure, in particular when the bulk of the social agitation is dominated by new problems that generate immediate and noisy discontent among the middle class Indians with a voice. If the politically active threats are concentrated only on some specific new issues, no matter how important (such as high prices of consumer goods for the relatively rich, or the fear that India’s political sovereignty might be compromised by its nuclear deal with the USA), rather than on the terrible general inheritance of India of acute deprivation, deficient schooling, lack of medical attention for the poor, and extraordinary under nourishment (especially of children and also of young women), then the pressure on democratic governance acts relentlessly towards giving priority to only those particular new issues, rather than to the gigantic persistent deprivations that are at the root of so much inequity and injustice in India. The perspective of realization of justice and that of an adequately broad nyaya are central not only to the theory of justice, but also to the practice of democracy.
What does the author mean by nyaya ?
Which among the following are the five principles of peaceful coexistence or Panchsheel as outlined by Jawaharlal Nehru ?
The core of political democracy lies in the basic axiom of electoral democracy which is based on
Which one of the following statements regarding judiciary in India is not correct ?
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Civil society has become the leitmotif of movements struggling to free themselves from unresponsive and often tyrannical post colonial elites. If the first wave of liberation took place along with decolonization, the second wave comes up against those very elites who had taken power after decolonization. I see the beginning of an authentic civil society in the voice of those outside the ambit of norms laid down by the state — ecology, gender, class — in the resistance of those who refuse to let the state site its projects wherever it places, in the voice of those who reject corrupt elites in the political passions of those whose nerves are not numbed by consumer capitalism, in the letters to the newspapers, in oral communication. These are people who do not opt out of civil society but who demand that the state deliver what it has promised in the Constitution and the law, who demand state accountability, who expand the sphere of rights to encompass those which has arisen out,of the struggles of the people.
What does the author mean by “authentic civil society” ?
Read the following passage and answer the questions :
Civil society has become the leitmotif of movements struggling to free themselves from unresponsive and often tyrannical post colonial elites. If the first wave of liberation took place along with decolonization, the second wave comes up against those very elites who had taken power after decolonization. I see the beginning of an authentic civil society in the voice of those outside the ambit of norms laid down by the state — ecology, gender, class — in the resistance of those who refuse to let the state site its projects wherever it places, in the voice of those who reject corrupt elites in the political passions of those whose nerves are not numbed by consumer capitalism, in the letters to the newspapers, in oral communication. These are people who do not opt out of civil society but who demand that the state deliver what it has promised in the Constitution and the law, who demand state accountability, who expand the sphere of rights to encompass those which has arisen out,of the struggles of the people.
What are the demands not generated by people’s struggles?
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Civil society has become the leitmotif of movements struggling to free themselves from unresponsive and often tyrannical post colonial elites. If the first wave of liberation took place along with decolonization, the second wave comes up against those very elites who had taken power after decolonization. I see the beginning of an authentic civil society in the voice of those outside the ambit of norms laid down by the state — ecology, gender, class — in the resistance of those who refuse to let the state site its projects wherever it places, in the voice of those who reject corrupt elites in the political passions of those whose nerves are not numbed by consumer capitalism, in the letters to the newspapers, in oral communication. These are people who do not opt out of civil society but who demand that the state deliver what it has promised in the Constitution and the law, who demand state accountability, who expand the sphere of rights to encompass those which has arisen out,of the struggles of the people.
What are the methods i adopted by civil society activists?
Which one of the following fundamental rights is also available to a foreigner in Indian soil ?
Consider the following statements :
Which of the following three rivers of the peninsula India have the Amarkantak region as their source ?
Consider the following statements :
Which of the statements given above is /are correct ?
Which of the following factors influence ocean currents ?
Which among the following states of India have common borders with Pakistan ?
Which among the following pairs are correct ?
Which one of the following is a correct sequence in the increasing order of salinity concentration ? .
Consider the following places of Kashmir region :
The agricultural production in different parts of India is very much affected by varying intensities of floods and droughts. Which one of the following measures would not be sustainable in this respect ?
Which one of the following places with petrochemical industries is most westward located in India ?
Which of the following statements with regard to Inter-State Council is/are correct ?
In India the right to “freedom of speech and expression” is restricted on the grounds of
Which of the following statements is/are correct ?.
Why is political power sharing through different levels of government desirable in a democracy ?
Which of the following statements is /are correct ?
Formal or procedural democracy does not by any means guarantee
To which among the following the residuary powers were conferred by the federation established by the Act of 1935 ?
Which of the following statements relating to the Non-alignment movement is/are not correct ?
Consider the following statements about Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia :
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
Which of the following statements about Ryotwari settlement is/are correct?
Consider the following statements about the Non-cooperation movement:
Which of the statements. given above is/are correct ?
What is the characteristic feature of Narmada Valley ?
Why are inner lining of hot water geysers made up of copper ?
A woman desires to clean the surface of her gold ornaments by a chemical approach. For this she requires to use
Consider the following statements relating to estimation of National Income :
Which of the statements given above is /are correct ?
Consider the following events in the history of British India :
A diffraction pattern is obtained -using a beam of red light. Which one among the following will be the outcome if the red light is replaced by blue light ?
Which one of the following statements is true?
Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists :
List I (Region):
List II (Characteristic Vegetation):
Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the given tiger reserves of India from north to south ?
Which of the following statements is/are correct with respect to the Chilean Earthquake (February 2010) ?
The impeachment’ of the President of India can be initiated in
Which of the following statements with regard to the expansion of the desert in Rajasthan is /are correct ?
Which one of the following was not a result of British Colonial rule in India ?
Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?
Which one among the following is the idealized global pattern of surface wind from the Equator to Pole ?
Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists :
List I (Industrial policy):
List II (Salient feature):
Which one among the following has been producing/can produce light by a chemical change ?
Consider the following statements :
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
Mosquito can be a vector for following diseases except
Which one of the following is the correct sequence of increasing velocity of wind ?
Which one of the following mountain ranges separates Europe from Asia ?
Which one among the following is not a Baltic nation ?
Which one of the following Indian company has recently acquired African mobile service operations in fifteen countries from Zain ?
Zero Hour in the Indian Parliament starts at
‘An Inconvenient Truth’ is a film directed by Al Gore to promote public awareness about
During the Indian monsoon season
Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the following topographical features found from upper to lower course of a river ?
The Earth moves around the Sun in an elliptic trajectory due to gravity. If another Sun like star is brought near the Earth, what will be the shape of the trajectory ?
Which among the following are the most important raw materials for manufacturing of soap ?
Chemically silk fibres are predominantly
Which one of the following countries does not have a border with China ?
The Russian revolutionaries derived their ideology from the doctrines of