SHORT is the required five letter word, which becomes SHORTER when two letters 'ER' are added to it.

Answer: C) Ram Nath Kovind Explanation: BJP-led NDA's presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind registered an emphatic win over his rival and Opposition candidate Meira Kumar. Succeeding Pranab Mukherjee, Kovind sworn in as the 14th president of India on July 25, 2017.

Dispute Act, 1947 put certain prohibitions on the right to strike. A strike may be illegal if it contravenes the provision of section 22, 23 or 24 of the Act.

Answer: C) Tea Explanation: Makaibari is the world's first tea factory and was established in 1859 in Darjeeling, West Bengal.    It is most expensive tea in India which costs around 1.12 lakhs for 1 kg of tea.   Hence, Makaibari is the costliest variety of Tea.

Answer: A) Argon Explanation: The most common gas people breathe from clean air is nitrogen. Air is a mixture of gases, and the air on Earth contains about 78 percent nitrogen and about 21 percent oxygen. Argon, carbon dioxide neon, helium, methane, krypton, hydrogen and xenon are in much smaller amounts.

Answer: C) Veins have valves; arteries do not. Explanation: Veins are blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart. Most veins carry deoxygenated blood from the tissues back to the heart; exceptions are the pulmonary and umbilical veins, both of which carry oxygenated blood to the heart. In contrast to veins, arteries carry blood away from the heart.   Veins are less muscular than arteries and are often closer to the skin. There are valves in most veins to prevent backflow.

There are many possibilities for this. We can hold a breathe, meeting, conversation, party, grudge, etc... but cannot touch them.

Answer: B) 2 : 1 Explanation: Given that train K crosses a pole in 30 seconds and train L crosses the same pole in one minute and 15 seconds. Let the length of train K be Lk and that of train L be Ll given that Lk = 3/4 Ll As the train K and L crosses the pole in 30 seconds and 80 seconds respectively, => Speed of train K = sk = Lk/30 Speed of train L = sl = Ll/80 Lk = 3/4 Ll => sk = 3/4 Ll/(30) = Ll/40 Ratio of their speeds = sk : sl = Ll/40 : Ll/80 => 1/40 : 1/80  =  2 : 1