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Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?
The Ukai Dam, constructed across the Tapi River, is the second-largest reservoir in Gujarat after the Sardar Sarovar.
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River Damodar is called 'Sorrow of Bengal' because it:
The river Damodar is called the sorrow of Bengal because it brought floods and destruction. The river Hwang Ho was also known as the 'Sorrow of China' because it often used to change its course after floods.
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Which event brought about a profound change in Ashoka's administrative policy?
The Kalinga war was fought between Ashka and the state of Kalinga 261 BC. The massive bloodshed filled Ashoka with remorse and he adopted Buddhism under the Buddhist monk Upagupta and abandoned the policy of physical conquest and adopted the policy of cultural conquest.
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Out of the following glands which is referred to as the master gland?
The pituitary gland is sometimes called the 'master gland' of the endocrine system because it controls the functions of many of the other endocrine glands. It is located at the base of the brain.
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BCG immunization is for:
BCG (Bacille Calmette-Guerin) is a vaccine for tuberculosis (also known as TB) disease. TB is a serious infection that affects the lungs and sometimes other parts of the body, such as the brain (meningitis), bones, joints and kidneys.
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Chocolates can be bad for health because of a high content of:
Chocolates can be bad for health because of a high content of nickel. Nickel is the most abundant toxic metal and its presence creates a serious risk to children's health.
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Detergents used for cleaning clothes and utensils contain:
Detergent is a sodium salt of long-chain benzene sulphonic acid or sodium salt of long-chain alkyl hydrogen sulphate, which has cleansing properties in water. Like soaps, Detergents contain anionic groups such as sulphonate groups or sulphate groups and long-chain hydrocarbon, a non-ionic group.
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Which of the following is at the apex of the subordinate criminal courts?
Court of Sessions Judge is the highest apex of the subordinate criminal courts in the district. The district court is also a court of sessions when it exercises its jurisdiction on criminal matters under the Code of Criminal procedure. The district and sessions judge is often referred to as “district judge” when presiding over civil matters and “sessions judge” when presiding over criminal matters.
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How many types of writs can be issued by the Supreme Court?
The Constitution of India empowers the Supreme Court and the High Courts to issue Writs for the enforcement of the fundamental rights conferred by the Part-III of the Constitution of India under Article 32 and Article 226. There are five types of Writs — Habeas Corpus, Mandamus, Certiorari, Prohibition and Quo-Warranto.
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Which among the following subjects is not an aim of the monetary policy of the Reserve Bank of India?
The monetary policy states the use of financial instruments under the control of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to standardise magnitudes such as availability of credit, interest rates, and money supply to achieve the ultimate objective of economic policy mentioned in the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. Social justice is not an aim of the monetary policy of RBI.
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Who developed the idea that “means justify the ends”?
Mahatma Gandhi developed the idea that “means justify the ends”. For Gandhi, the end is satya or truth which requires no justification and the means- ahimsa or non-violence must be justified not only with reference to the end but also in itself. Every act must be justified with reference to satya and ahimsa.
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Who coined the word 'Geography'?
The first recorded use of the word geography was by Eratosthenes (276–194 BC), a Greek scholar who is credited with creating the discipline of geography.
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Through which Educational Report Calcutta University came into existence?
The Wood's Despatch of 1854 recommended the establishment of universities at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras.
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The Home Rule League was started by:
Tilak found the first home rule league at the Bombay provincial congress at Belgaum in April 1916.
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Asteroids revolve around the Sun between which of the following two planets?
Asteroids are rocky objects revolving around the sun that are too small to be called planets. The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter.
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Which one of the following instruments is used to study the dispersion of light?
The separation of visible light into its different colours is known as dispersion. A spectrometer is used to study the dispersion of light. It is a device for measuring wavelengths of light over a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is widely used for spectroscopic analysis of sample materials.
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The sensation of weightlessness in a spacecraft in an orbit is due to the:
Reason of weightlessness in a spacecraft is Zero reaction force by spacecraft surface. When spacecraft is moving with constant speed along the orbit, the spacecraft as well as the person inside it, both fall towards the earth with acceleration 'g'.
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The most densely populated state in India is:
As per the census of India 2011, the most densely populated State in India is Bihar (1,106) followed by West Bengal (1,028) and Kerala (860). National Capital Region area of Delhi possesses the highest population density among the states of India having a statistic of 11,297 per square kilometre, the state of Arunachal Pradesh has the lowest record of population density having just 17 per square kilometre.
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Where was India's first computer installed?
A British-built HEC 2M computer, happened to be the first digital computer in India, which was imported and installed in Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in 1955.
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The abbreviation 'SEBI' stands for:
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is the regulatory body for the securities and commodity market in India under the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. It was established on 12 April 1988 and given Statutory Powers on 30 January 1992 through the SEBI Act, 1992.
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