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Q: Which Act was passed to consolidate the provisions of the preceding Government of India Acts 1610 0

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    Government of India Act, 1858
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    Government of India Act, 1861
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    Government of India Act, 1892
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    Government of India Act, 1915
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Answer : 4. "Government of India Act, 1915"

Q: The most powerful woman in business in India as related by the "Fortune" for the year 2012 is: 1610 0

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    Chanda Kochhar
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    Prabha Parameswaran
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    Debjani Ghosh
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    Anjali Bansal
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Answer : 1. "Chanda Kochhar"

Q: CAG India is currently in which city to attend the 70th Regular Session of the UN Board of Auditors? 1610 0

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    New York
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    New Jersey
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    Washington
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    Paris
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Answer : 1. "New York"

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Direction :  passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/phrases are given in bold in the passage to help you locale them while answering some of the questions. 

Governments have traditionally equated economic progress with steel mills and cement factories. While urban centres thrive and city dwellers get rich, hundreds of millions of famers remain mired in poverty. However fears of food shortages, a rethinking of anti-poverty priorities and crushing recession in 2008 are causing a dramatic shift in world economic policy in favour of greater support for agriculture.  last time when the world's farmers felt such love was in the 1970's. At that time, as food prices spiked, there was real concern that the world was facing a crisis in which the planet was simply unable to produce enough grain and meat for an expanding population. Governments across the developing world and international aid organisations plowed investment agriculture in technological breakthroughs, like high-yield strains of important food crops, boosted production. The result was the Green Revolution and food production exploded. into the early 1970s, while But the Green Revolution became a victim of its own success. Food prices plunged by some 60% by the late 1980's from their peak in the mid- 1970's. Policy-makers and aid workers turned their attention to the poor's other pressing needs, such as health care and education. Farming got starved of resources and investment. By 2004's aid directed at agriculture sank to 3.5% and "agriculture lost its glitter", “Also, as consumers in high-growth giants such as China and India became wealthier, they began eating more meat. So grain once used for human consumption got diverted to beef up livestock. By early 2008, panicked buying by importing countries and restrictions slapped on grain exports by some big producers helped drive prices up to heights not seen for three decades. Making matters worse, land and resources got reallocated to product cash crop such as bio fuels and the result was that voluminous reserves of grain evaporated. Protests broke out across the emerging world and fierce food riots toppled governments.

This spurred global leaders into action. This made them aware that food security is one of the fundamental issues in the world that has to be dealt with in order to maintain administrative and political stability. This also spurred the US, which traditionally provisioned food aid from American grain surpluses to help needy nations to move towards investing in farm sectors around the globe to boost productivity. This move helped countries become more productive for themselves and be in a better position to feed their own people. Africa, which missed out on the first Green Revolution due to poor policy and limited resources, also witnessed a 'change. Swayed by the success of East Asia, the primary poverty- fighting method favoured by many policy-makers in Africa was to get farmers off their farms and into modern jobs in factories and urban centres. But that started proved to be highly insufficient. Income levels in the countryside badly trailed those in cities while the FAO estimated that the number of poor going hungry in 2000 reached an all-time high at more than one billion. In India, on the other hand, with only 40% of its farmland irrigated, entire economic boom currently underway is held hostage by the unpredictable monsoon. With much of India's farming areas suffering from drought this year, the government will haw a tough time meeting its economic growth targets. In report, Goldman Sachs predicted that if this year too receives weak rains. It could cause agriculture to contract by 2% this Fiscal years, making the government's 7% GDP-growth target look a bit rich-. Another Green revolution is the need of the hour and to make it a reality, the global community still has much backbreaking farm work to do. 

Which of the following factors was/were responsible for neglect of the farming sector after the Green Revolution?
(i) Steel and cement sectors generated more revenue the government as com- pared to agriculture.
(ii) Large scale protests against favouring agriculture the cost of other important sectors such as education and health care.
(iii)Attention of policy-makers and aid organisations was diverted from agriculture to other sectors. 

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    Only (i) and (ii)
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    Only (iii)
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    Only (ii) and (iii)
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    Only (i) and (iii)
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    All (i), (ii) and (iii)
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Answer : 2. "Only (iii) "

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What are glyceridia species used?

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    in the form of green manure
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    Green leaf as compost
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    Both A and B
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    None of these
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Answer : 2. "Green leaf as compost"

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What force is used to remove cream from milk?

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    frictional force
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    Centripetal force
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    centrifugal force
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    none of these
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Answer : 3. "centrifugal force"

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Direction: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word as your answer.
Mentor

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    Guide
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    Genius
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    Stylist
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    Philosopher
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Answer : 1. "Guide"

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Which of the following is not a unit of heat?

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    Calorie
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    Phon
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    Joule
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    Kcal
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Answer : 2. "Phon"
Explanation :

The correct answer is Phon. Phon is not a unit of Heat.

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