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MARCH 26 2017

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1.Consider the following statements about Sidi rituals:

1. Sidi rituals is part of the udusallama festival that celebrated in Hassan district of the state.

2. This year pro dalit organization protest against making dalit target in festival for the sake of entertainment of other.

Which of these are correct?

A. 1 ONLY

B. 2 ONLY

C. BOTH 1 AND 2

D. NEITHER 1 NOR 2

[shc_shortcode class=”shc_mybox”]Option C Explanations: Sidi rituals is part of the udusallama festival that celebrated in Hassan district of the state.In this festival dalit people selected to perform ritual which is very risky and this is tradition.This year pro dalit organization protest against making dalit target in festival for the sake of entertainment of other.[/shc_shortcode]

2. Recently Increase in TB patients & need for a policy is in news. Which of these are incorrect regarding?

A.According to report india is home of the largest population affected with the TB

B. India is spending most in health & its an irony

C.Two new TB drugs, Bedaquiline and Delamanid, being used in Europe and the United States for several years, are yet to be made available in India’s national healthcare system

D. TB is not country specific.Occurs round the world.

[shc_shortcode class=”shc_mybox”]Option B explanations : All are correct except B .it is irony of india that we are spending more money on defense than health and reality is that majority people die due to health hazard so first of all for the peace and happiness our own demography should be capable[/shc_shortcode]

3.Which of the following country is considered as capital of TUBERCULOSIS?

A. Australia

B. USA

C. INDIA

D. UK

[shc_shortcode class=”shc_mybox”]Option C Explanations: india is the tuberculosis (TB) capital of the world, with more than 2.8 million cases. Thousands of Indians are being pushed into depression, poverty, suffering and debt every day due to this disease. Clearly, we seem to be losing the battle against this foe, seemingly deadlier than terrorism.Depending on the condition, we have drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), multi-drug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), extensively-drug resistant TB (XDRTB), and totally drug resistant TB (TDR-TB). India has over 100,000 such cases.[/shc_shortcode]

4. Recently Green panchayat initiative for climate adaptation and mitigation is in news:

1. For the better climate adaptation and management work should be done in realistic manner in grass root level.

2. Meenangadi in Wayanad district is on a mission to become India’s first carbon neutral panchayat.

3. The carbon-neutral project intends to offset carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emitted by human activities through a series of greening initiatives.

4. Avoiding vehicles s the top priority.

Which of these are correct?

A. 1 only

B. 1 and 2 only

C. 1,2 and 3 only

D. All of these

[shc_shortcode class=”shc_mybox”]Option C Explanations : 4 is wrong as planting trees are the top priority not avoiding vehicles. All others are correct.[/shc_shortcode]

5. Consider the following about Egyptian vulture which is recently in news:

1. Egyptian vulture that rarely found in city area now visit Yamuna bank in new delhi are worst ecological balance symptom.

2. The Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), one among nine vulture species available in the Indian sub-continent, is a large-range distributed species in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Which of the following is correct?

A. 1 only

B. 2 only

C. Both 1 and 2

D. Neither 1 nor 2

[shc_shortcode class=”shc_mybox”]Option B Explanation:Egyptian vulture that rarely found in city area now visit Yamuna bank in new delhi are that good ecological balance symptom. Vulture is important for human kind because they help to maintain city clean and disease free. The Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), one among nine vulture species available in the Indian sub-continent, is a large-range distributed species in Europe, Africa and Asia[/shc_shortcode]

6. Mrs. Gandhi cleared the Thein Dam hydel power project in 1981. It is on the river:

A. Beas

B. Ravi

C.  Sutlej

D.  Ganga

[shc_shortcode class=”shc_mybox”]Option B Explanations: The Ranjit Sagar Dam, also known as the Thein Dam, is part of a hydroelectric project constructed by the Government of Punjab on the Ravi River in the state of Punjab.Construction begun in 1981 and opened in 2001.[/shc_shortcode]

7.The British Foreign Secretary who resigned over the Falklands crisis was:

A. Lord Carrington

B.  Philip Habib

C. Michael Foot

D. None of these

[shc_shortcode class=”shc_mybox”]Option A Explanations : The Falklands War , also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis, and the “South Atlantic War“, was a ten-week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British overseas territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.[/shc_shortcode]

8.‘TRYSEM’ is Associated with

A. A new system of semester examinations in universities.

B. Training the rural youth for self employment.

C. A training program for students in educational psychology.

D. A training course for farmers in dry land farming.

[shc_shortcode class=”shc_mybox”]Option B Explanation :Trysem was launched in 1979 as a separate national scheme for training rural youth for self employment. The compelling reasons for launching the programme being the huge backlog of unemployment and under employment among the rural youth. Forty youth, both men and women were to be selected in each block and trained in both skill development and entrepreneurship to enable them to become self-employed.It was generating activities in the rural areas, the influx of rural youth to urban areas could curbed. Moreover, local needs could also met with local resources, thereby giving a fillip to rural development. [/shc_shortcode]

 

9.Which one of the following is not a piece of social legislation ?

A. The Immoral Offences and Girls Trafficking Act

B. The Maintenance of Internal Security Act

C. The Abolition of Untouchability (Offences) Act

D. The Special Marriage Act

Option B explanations :

10.The greatest hallmark of personal liberty is:

A. Mandamus.

B. Certiorari.

C. Quo Warranto.

D. Habeas Corpus

[shc_shortcode class=”shc_mybox”]Option D Explanation :a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person’s release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention.[/shc_shortcode]

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