Q.8569·Miscellaneous·2017·EasyWhich country signed a Memorandum of Understanding with India for promoting the production of Pigeon peas/Tur and other pulses in July 2016?View question
Q.8570·Miscellaneous·2017·EasyStatement I: The interior part of Maharashtra does not receive adequate rain in the summer season. Statement II: The interior part of Maharashtra lies in the rain shadow of the Western Ghats.View question
Q.8571·Miscellaneous·2017·EasyGeorge Washington was made the Commander in Chief of the American forcesView question
Q.8572·Miscellaneous·2017·EasyStatement I: The Communists left the All India Trade Union Congress in 1931. Statement II: By 1928, the Communists were no longer working with the mainstream national movement.View question
Q.8573·Miscellaneous·2017·EasyStatement I: The early Aryans, who were essentially pastoral, did not develop any political structure which could measure up to a State in either ancient or modern sense. Statement II: Kingship was the same as tribal chiefship, the term Rajan being used for tribal chief who was primarily a military leader and who ruled over his people and not over any specified territory.View question
Q.8575·Miscellaneous·2017·EasyThe Twelfth Five-Year Plan focussed on inclusive growth. Which of the following were considered as challenges for inclusiveness? 1. Poverty 2. Group inequality 3. Regional imbalance 4. Unemployment Select the correct answer using the code given below.View question
Q.8576·Miscellaneous·2017·EasyStatement I: Global warming signifies the rise in global surface temperature. Statement II: The increase of concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere causes the rise in global surface temperature.View question
Q.8577·Miscellaneous·2017·EasyWhich of the following statements are correct about ‘Saakshar Bharat’ scheme? 1. It is a centrally sponsored scheme which was launched during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan. 2. The scheme applies to women in particular and disadvantaged groups in general. 3. The scheme applies to persons above the age of 10 years. 4. The scheme is anchored with Panchayati Raj Institutions and Local Self-Government. Select the correct answer using the code given below.View question
Q.8578·Miscellaneous·2017·EasyWhich of the following statements relating to the powers of the President of India is/are correct? 1. The executive power of the Union shall be vested in the President. 2. The executive power shall be exercised by the President only through officers subordinate to him. 3. The supreme command of the defence forces of the Union shall be vested in the President. Select the correct answer using the code given below.View question
Q.8579·Miscellaneous·2017·EasyWhich one of the following peasant struggles was an outcome of British opium policy?View question
Q.8580·Miscellaneous·2017·EasyWhich of the following statements regarding Article 21 of the Constitution of India is/are correct? 1. Article 21 is violated when the under-trial prisoners are detained under judicial custody for an indefinite period. 2. Right to life is one of the basic human rights and not even the State has the authority to violate that right. 3. Under Article 21, the right of a woman to make reproductive choices is not a dimension of personal liberty. Select the correct answer using the code given below.View question
Q.8581·Miscellaneous·2017·EasyWhich one of the following statements about the Sayyid brothers during the period of Later Mughals is not true?View question
Q.8582·Miscellaneous·2017·EasyWhich of the following statements is/are correct regarding Right to Education in India? 1. Free and compulsory education should be provided to all children of the age of six to fourteen years. 2. The imperative of the provision of the Right to Education Act, 2009 is that schools must have qualified teachers and basic infrastructure. 3. There should be quality education without any discrimination on the ground of economic, social and cultural background. Select the correct answer using the code given below.View question
Q.8583·Miscellaneous·2017·EasyWhich of the following statements with regard to the heterodox sect between sixth and fourth century BC are correct? 1. The Jain ideas were already being circulated in the seventh century BC by Parshva. 2. Although Buddhism, and to a lesser extent Jainism, took account of the changes in material life and reacted against orthodoxy, neither of these sought to abolish the caste system. 3. The first female disciple of Mahavira is said to have been a captured slave woman. 4. Buddha held that nuns could attain spiritual liberation just like a monk and granted them an equal status in the mendicant order. Select the correct answer using the code given below.View question
Q.8584·Miscellaneous·2017·EasyWhich one of the following statements regarding freedom to manage religious affairs as per the Constitution of India is not correct?View question
Q.8585·Miscellaneous·2017·EasyWhich one of the following combinations of year and event concerning the French Revolution is correctly matched?View question
Q.8586·Miscellaneous·2017·EasyWhich one of the following statements relating to protection against arrest and detention of individuals under Article 22 is not correct?View question