The Indian Standard Time (IST) is based on

Collision-coalescence process of precipitation is applicable to?

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Which one among the following nutrients is a structural component of the cell wall of plants?

Balanced diet should have approximately

Which one among the following statements is correct?

What are cold-blooded animals?

Sickle-cell anaemia is a disease caused due to the abnormality in?

Carbohydrates are stored in plants and animals in the form of

Which of the following statements regarding oxidation and reduction are correct?

1. In oxidation, loss of electron takes place whereas in reduction, gain of electron takes place
2. In oxidation, gain of electron takes place whereas in reduction, loss of electron takes place
3. Oxidising agent decreases the oxidation number but reducing agent increases the oxidation number
4. Oxidising agent increases the oxidation number but reducing agent reduces the oxidation number

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Which one among the following is correct regarding ²⁰Ne, ²³Na⁺, ¹⁹F^- and ²⁴Mg²⁺?

Which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched?

1. Isotopes: Atoms with same atomic number but different atomic mass
2. Isobars: Atoms with same number of neutrons but different atomic number
3. Isotones: Atoms with same mass number but different atomic number

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Sometimes, indigestion is caused by the secretion of too much hydrochloric acid in the stomach. To ease the pain caused, a tablet can be taken that reacts to reduce the amount of acid present. Which one among the following would be inappropriate for a manufacturer to include as a major reactant in the tablet?

Muhammad bin Tughlaq's experiment of introducing token currency could not succeed on account of

 The Parliament can legislate on the subjects in the State List if the

The writ of certiorari is issued by superior court to

Schemes run under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act are sponsored

The World Bank was created immediately after the Second World War. Its activities are focused on the developing countries. Which among the following are the activities of the Bank?

1. Human development
2. Agriculture and rural development
3. Environmental protection and governance
4. Loans and grants to the member countries

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A refracting telescope consists of

The nucleus of a singly ionized carbon atom contains

Two similarly charged bodies are kept 5 cm apart in air. If the second body is shifted away from the first by another 5 cm, their force of repulsion will be

A glass of water does not turn into ice as it reaches 0^o C. It is because

The main power supply in India is at 220 V, whereas that in the US is at 110 V. Which one among the following statements in this regard is correct?

The equatorial rain forest is also known as

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The Earth's surface receives maximum energy at 12 noon but the maximum temperature never occurs at 12 noon. State which of the following reasons are correct.

1. Transformation of solar energy into heat requires some time.
2. The loss of energy through long-wave radiations from the Earth's surface exceeds the energy received from the Sun at 4.00 p.m.
3. Energy received by the Earth from solar radiations continues to exceed the energy lost by outgoing long-wave radiations from the Earth's surface up to 4.00 p.m.

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Certain parts of a plant can be bent easily without breaking. This flexibility in certain parts, like leaf and stem, can attributed to the abundance of

Which of the following is not a micronutrient for a plant?

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. Ligaments are highly flexible.
2. Ligaments connect muscles and bones
3. Ligaments contain very little matrix.

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Cell membrane is selectively permeable because

The following equation is an example of a redox reaction, in which Cl2 is the oxidizing agent and FeBr3 is the reducing agent:

2FeBr₃(aq) + 3Cl₂(g) = 2FeCl₃(aq) + 3Br₂(l)
Which one among the following statements if incorrect for this redox reaction?

Which one among the following nitrogen compounds has the least percentage of nitrogen by mass

 Which one among the following is the correct order of amount of lime (CaO), silica (SiO₂), alumina (Al₂O₃) and ferric oxide (Fe₂O₃) in Portland cement

Which one among the following transitions of electron of hydrogen atom emits radiation of the shortest wavelength?

Which one among the following is the most appropriate statement with respect to the atomic weight of an element?

During the discussion on the Demands for Grants, motions can be moved to reduce the amount of a demand. Such a motion is called a 'cut-motion'. Which of the following categories are classified as 'cut-motion'?

1. Disapproval of policy cut
2. Economy cut
3. Token cut

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Which of the statements given below is/are correct?

1. The Speaker immediately vacates his/her office whenever the State Legislative Assembly is dissolved.
2. No Member of a State Legislative Assembly shall be liable to any proceeding in any court in respect of anything said or any vote given by him/her in the legislature.

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Consider the following statements about Cripps Proposals of 1942 :

1. Provision was to be made for participation of Indian States in the Constitution-making body.
2. British Government undertook to accept and implement the Constitution
3. All provinces of British India were to give an undertaking about the acceptance of the Constitution.
4. In the ongoing World War, no resources of British India would be used.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one among the following was NOT one of the causes of the Third Anglo-Maratha War?

William Bentinck attempted to reform Hindu society by suppressing/abolishing social evils. Which one among the following was not included in them?

Karam is a festival celebrated to worship Karam Devta, the God of power. Which one among the following tribal communities in India traditionally celebrates this festival?

The terra-cotta plough of the Harappan civilization was found at

Which one among the following works of Mahatma Gandhi provides a critique of modern machine-oriented civilization?

The penetrating power of X-rays can be increased by

The graph given above indicates change in temperature (θ) when heat (Q) was given to a substance. Which among the following parts of the graph correctly depict the latent heat of the substance?

When a solid object is immersed in water, there is a loss in its weight. This loss is

Body A of mass 2 kg and another body B of mass 4 kg and of same material are kept in the same sunshine for some interval of time. If the rise in temperature is equal for both the bodies, then which one among the following in this regard is correct?

For a steel boat floating on a lake, the weight of the water displaced by the boat is

Consider the following coal mines of India

1. Bokaro
2. Adilabad
3. Ranigunj
4. Bishrampur

Select the correct sequence of the above from east to west

Which one among the following agricultural crops/groups of crops may be grown in abundant in lowlands and river deltas of fertile alluvial soil where there is high summer temperature and rainfall varies from 180 cm to 250 cm?

Arrange the following tropical forest groups in the correct order of sequence based on area covered in India beginning from the largest covered area

1. Moist deciduous
2. Dry deciduous
3. Wet evergreen
4. Semi-evergreen

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Which one among the following is the major reason for low agricultural productivity in dry regions of India?

Which one among the following groups is referred to as types of precipitation?

Which one among the following is the most important source of fish catch in India?

In which one among the following areas of South-East Asia, there is largest concentration of peasant population?

The largest number of temperate cyclones originate mostly over the

Which one among the following statements is NOT correct?

Which one among the following statements regarding Chinook winds is not correct?

Consider the following statements relating to planning in India :

1. In the year 1938, the National Planning Committee was set up in India under the chairmanship of Jawaharlal Nehru.
2. The Bombay Plan was prepared by the India industrialists.
3. Acharya Kripalini prepared the Gandhian Plan

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one among the following statements regarding the Government of India Act, 1935 is NOT correct?

Consider the following statements relating to Jain literature :

1. The sacred books of the Jainas are known as Siddhanta or Agama.
2. The language of the earliest Jain texts is eastern dialect of Pali known as Ardha Magadhi.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one among the following was a newspaper founded and edited by Raja Rammohan Roy?

Which one among the following is not produced by sound waves in air?

A body attached to a spring balance weighs 10 kg on the Earth. The body attached to the same spring balance is taken to a planet where gravity is half that of the Earth. The balance will read

The resistance of a wire is 10 Ω. If it is stretched ten times, the resistance will be

If the focal length of the biconvex lens is 25 cms, then the power of the lens will be

The thermal conductivity of copper is 4 items that of brass. Two rods of copper and brass having same length and cross-section are joined end to end. The free end of copper is at 0^o C and the free end of brass is at 100^o C. The temperature of the junction is

The torque on a rectangular coil placed in a uniform magnetic field is large when the

Two metallic wires A and B are of same material and have equal length. If the cross-sectional area of B is double that of A, then which one among the following is the electrical resistance of B?

Two thin convex lenses of focal lengths 4 cm and 8 cm are separated by a distance of 4 cm in air. The combination will have the focal length

The Damuda series of Gondwana system has three stages, namely, Raniganj, Barren Rocks and Barakar. The middle stage is called Barren because

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Where do you find the Isle of Youth?

 For which among the following house appliances, magnet is an essential part?

Consider the following statements :

Hypermetropia is a defect of vision in which

1. a person cannot see the distant objects clearly
2. a person cannot see the near objects clearly
3. the near point of the eye gets shifted away from the normal position
4. the far point of the eye gets shifted towards the eye

Which of the statements given above are correct?

To obtain the powerful parallel beams of light from a vehicle's headlight, one must use

Which among the following is the major constituent of soda lime glass?

Which among the following about Mahatma Gandhi's Non-Cooperation Movement are correct?

1. Refusal to attend Government Durbars and official functions
2. Participation in elections
3. Participation in rallies for the boycott of foreign goods
4. Surrender of titles

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Gandhiji's call for breaking Salt Laws was in response to the

 The Suez Canal, the Strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Gibraltar are important because they

Which one among the following is the largest exporter of small arms in the world?

Which among the following islands in the South China Sea are the source of conflict between several countries?

In recent past, the Indian Navy has deployed its fleet ships to patrol near the Gulf of Aden to

The only operational Naval Base exclusively controlled by the Indian Navy is located at

Who among the following led India to their first overseas test victory in cricket?

Who among the following was conferred the highest Bangladesh award - the Bangladesh Swadhinata Sammanona in the year 2011?

Dhanush, a missile inducted into the Indian Navy

India commissioned its first indigenously built stealth warship INS Shivalik and inducted into the Indian Navy recently, thus joining the elite group of countries capable of constructing such vessels. Which among the following other countries are in the elite group?

1. Russia
2. The United States
3. Germany
4. The United Kingdom

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Which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. The Indian Army is organized into five Regional Commands
2. The Headquarters of Northern Command is located at Lucknow

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An object is in uniform circular motion on a plane. Suppose that you measure its displacement from the centre along one direction, say, along the x-axis. Which one among the following graphs could represent this displacement (x)?