Q.13285·Miscellaneous·2013·EasyHow does participatory budgeting seek to make the functioning of local governance institutions more transparent and accountabl ? 1.By allowing citizens to deliberate and negotiate over the distribution of public resources 2.By allowing citizens to play a direct role in deciding how and where resources should be spent 3.By allowing historically excluded citizens with access to important decision-making venues Select the correct answer using the code given below:View question
Q.13286·Miscellaneous·2013·EasyOutstanding historian Eric Hobsbawm who expired on 1st October, 2012, has authored a large number of books. The title of his famous autobiography isView question
Q.13288·Miscellaneous·2013·EasyNobel Prize in Chemistry for the year 2012 was given for the work onView question
Q.13289·Miscellaneous·2013·EasyWhich one among the following statements about Grigori Perelman is not correct?View question
Q.13290·Miscellaneous·2013·EasyWho among the following was declared as the immediate future President of China in the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China held in November 2012?View question
Q.13291·Miscellaneous·2013·EasyDuring the last part of November 2012, there was a severe fire accident which took away the lives of more than hundred people in Bangladesh. The accident occurred inside aView question
Q.13292·Miscellaneous·2013·EasyWhich of the following are included in the category of direct tax in India? 1.Corporation Tax 2.Tax on Income 3.Wealth Tax 4.Customs Duty 5.Excise Duty Select the correct answer using the code given below.View question
Q.13294·Miscellaneous·2013·EasyIf the time of a place located on 165° E meridian is 11:00 p.m. on Sunday, what would be the time on the place located on 165° W meridian?View question
Q.13295·Miscellaneous·2013·EasyThe first day out we met our first rhino, two of them, and I had the fright of my life. The pair had got our scent before we spotted them, and being bad tempered beasts, they rushed towards where they thought we were. Now it just happened that we were about fifty yards to one side of where they expected to find us — which was just as well, for I must say I did not like their look. As they thundered past, we crouched low and let them go. It did not strike me as a good opportunity for rhino photography. Anyhow I was much too frightened to have been able to hold the camera steady. The author could not take the photographs of the rhinos becauseView question
Q.13296·Miscellaneous·2013·EasyThe first day out we met our first rhino, two of them, and I had the fright of my life. The pair had got our scent before we spotted them, and being bad tempered beasts, they rushed towards where they thought we were. Now it just happened that we were about fifty yards to one side of where they expected to find us — which was just as well, for I must say I did not like their look. As they thundered past, we crouched low and let them go. It did not strike me as a good opportunity for rhino photography. Anyhow I was much too frightened to have been able to hold the camera steady. When the author saw a rhino for the first time, he wasView question
Q.13297·Miscellaneous·2013·EasyThe first day out we met our first rhino, two of them, and I had the fright of my life. The pair had got our scent before we spotted them, and being bad tempered beasts, they rushed towards where they thought we were. Now it just happened that we were about fifty yards to one side of where they expected to find us — which was just as well, for I must say I did not like their look. As they thundered past, we crouched low and let them go. It did not strike me as a good opportunity for rhino photography. Anyhow I was much too frightened to have been able to hold the camera steady. From the above passage it appears that rhinosView question
Q.13298·Miscellaneous·2013·EasyMany poor farmers had been compelled to take up indigo cultivation when the British settlers were given the right to purchase and cultivate land in India. Many whites, therefore, either acquired land or advanced loans to poor farmers and pressurised them to forsake the farming of food-grains and other cash crops for indigo cultivation. Indigo export to Europe was lucrative for the British settlers who held a monopoly of this business. Within a few years, most of the fertile lands had come under forced indigo cultivation, resulting in a famine situation in Bengal. When the farmers declined to cultivate indigo, they were tortured, jailed and even killed. Indigo export was profitable for the British settlers becauseView question
Q.13299·Miscellaneous·2013·EasyMany poor farmers had been compelled to take up indigo cultivation when the British settlers were given the right to purchase and cultivate land in India. Many whites, therefore, either acquired land or advanced loans to poor farmers and pressurised them to forsake the farming of food-grains and other cash crops for indigo cultivation. Indigo export to Europe was lucrative for the British settlers who held a monopoly of this business. Within a few years, most of the fertile lands had come under forced indigo cultivation, resulting in a famine situation in Bengal. When the farmers declined to cultivate indigo, they were tortured, jailed and even killed. British settlers bought land in Bengal in order toView question
Q.13300·Miscellaneous·2013·EasyMany poor farmers had been compelled to take up indigo cultivation when the British settlers were given the right to purchase and cultivate land in India. Many whites, therefore, either acquired land or advanced loans to poor farmers and pressurised them to forsake the farming of food-grains and other cash crops for indigo cultivation. Indigo export to Europe was lucrative for the British settlers who held a monopoly of this business. Within a few years, most of the fertile lands had come under forced indigo cultivation, resulting in a famine situation in Bengal. When the farmers declined to cultivate indigo, they were tortured, jailed and even killed. The poor farmers in Bengal took up indigo cultivation becauseView question
Q.13301·Miscellaneous·2013·EasyWhen Ibbotson returned from Pauri, I told him of the leopard’s habit of going down the road between Rudraprayag and Golabrai on an average once in every five days. I convinced him that the only hope I now had of shooting the man-eater was by sitting over the road ten nights; for, the leopard would be almost certain to use the road at least once during the period. Ibbotson agreed to my plan reluctantly, for I had already sat up many nights, and he was afraid that another ten nights on end would be too much for me. The narrator wanted toView question
Q.13302·Miscellaneous·2013·EasyWhen Ibbotson returned from Pauri, I told him of the leopard’s habit of going down the road between Rudraprayag and Golabrai on an average once in every five days. I convinced him that the only hope I now had of shooting the man-eater was by sitting over the road ten nights; for, the leopard would be almost certain to use the road at least once during the period. Ibbotson agreed to my plan reluctantly, for I had already sat up many nights, and he was afraid that another ten nights on end would be too much for me. Ibbotson was reluctant to agree to the narrator’s plan because he was afraid thatView question