Consider the following statements about the National Cyber Security Policy, approved by the union Cabinet in May 2013 :

1. The policy focuses on manpower training.
2. It aims to create a secured computing environment across the country.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which of the following statements about Dr. Aparajita Datta is/are correct?

1. She is a wildlife biologist.
2. She has been working for the conservation of hornbills in the dense tropical forests of Arunachal Pradesh.
3. She was honoured with the Whitley Award, also known as Green Oscar, in the year 2013 in London.

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Who among the following won the men’s Singles title of the Madrid Open Tennis Tournament, 2013?

Which one among the following films was presented the Best Feature Film award in the 60th National Film Awards?

Which one among the following is an indigenously built Weapon System Integrated helicopter handed over to the Indian Army in February 2013 by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd?

Who among the following is the Chairman of the Fourteenth Finance Commission?

Which of the following statements about Chit Fund in India is/are correct?

1. It is a kind of savings scheme.
2. There are no Acts regulating the activities relating to Chit Funds in India.

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Who among the following is the author of the book Pax Indica : India and the World of the 21st Century?

Which one among the following about Prof. C.N.R. Rao is not correct?

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He was a popular urdu poet and Hindi lyricist, who worked extensively in Hindi films. He was a Padma Shri and won two Filmfare awards. The President of India recently released a commemorative postage stamp on his birth anniversary at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

11. Statement I :
I. The process of decay and disintegration of rocks in situ is called weathering.
Statement II :
II. Weathering takes place both mechanically and chemically.

Statement I :
I. Doldrums is a calm belt between 5^o N and 5^o S of the equator.
Statement II :
II. The sun rays strike almost vertically over the equator throughout the year.

Statement I :
I. In the 19th century, India was the largest British colony.
Statement II :
II. India became a big market for British manufactured goods and a field of investment for foreign capital in the 19th century.

Statement I :
I. Glass is not considered as a true compound.
Statement II :
II. Glass does not have a definite melting point.

Statement I :
I. Limestone decomposes when it is heated in air.
Statement II :
II. Increase in the content of CO2 in the atmosphere in recent years is mainly due to the using of limestone in the manufacture of cement.

Statement I :
I. Very little hydrogen is produced when sulphuric acid is added to calcium.
Statement II :
II. The salt that is produced, calcium sulphate, is insoluble.

Statement I :
I. Zinc is used for galvanization to protect iron from rusting.
Statement II :
II. Zinc is more reactive towards oxygen than iron.

Which of the following are the results of EI Nino?

1. Reduction in the amount of planktons which further reduces the number of fish in the sea.
2. Irregularities in the evaporation of sea water.
3. Distortion of equatorial atmospheric circulation.

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Esker is a geomorphic feature developed by

It is known that the atmosphere is divided into some layers. In which one among the following layers, is the percentage composition of Helium gas maximum?

The rigid lithospheric slabs are known as ‘Plates’. What would be the result, if the oceanic plate collides with the continental plate?

1. Oceanic plate is forced below the continental plate.
2. Continental plate is forced below the oceanic plate.
3. Continental and oceanic plates never collide.

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Consider the following layers of the atmosphere :

1. Troposphere
2. Stratosphere
3. Mesosphere
4. Thermosphere

Which one among the following is the correct sequence of the layers with increasing altitude from the Earth’s surface?

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Jawahar tunnel on Jammu-Srinagar highway passes through

What would be the date and local time of a place located at 88^o 30' E longitude when the local time at 0^o longitude is 19.00 hrs of 28th February 2013?

Which of the following statements about tornadoes are correct?

Tornadoes usually spin

1. anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere.
2. clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
3. clockwise in the northern hemisphere.
4. anticlockwise in the southern hemisphere.

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Which one among the following terms is used to describe a plant that grows only in a mountainous environment?

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. Air close to the Earth's surface is heavier.
2. Air close to the Earth's surface contains larger quantity of water vapour and dust particles.

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The term albedo implies the

Which of the following statements are correct?

1. Assam produces nearly 80% of jute in India.
2. Jute grows well on loamy soil.
3. Hot and humid conditions are ideal for growing jute.
4. Jute is commonly cultivated with wheat in rotation.

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The Indian Standard time is ahead of Greenwich Mean Time by

Which of the following is the main characteristic of Mediterranean climate?

Which one, among the following atmospheric gases, filters out most of the ultraviolet radiation of the Sun?

Which one among the following is not a factor that affects direction of wind?

Presbyopia is a visual defect caused by

Which one among the following animals does not undergo periodic moulting of their external body covering?

Which one among the following organs in humans is not involved in elicitation of immune response?

From which part of turmeric, is the turmeric powder obtained?

Which one among the following substances is never excreted out through urine under normal circumstances in any healthy individual?

Which one among the following animals gives birth to the biggest baby?

Muscles of which one among the following body parts contract slowly but can remain contracted for a longer time?

Solutions of three enzymes were prepared namely lipase, trypsin and amylase, in order to remove stains from a piece of cloth. Out of these three enzyme solutions, only lipase could completely remove the stain. This indicates that the stain was due to

Which one among the following diseases is not caused by polluted water?

Which one among the following animals is a mammal?

Which of the following statements with regard to the Fifth report is/are correct?

1. It was submitted to the British parliament in 1813 for consideration.
2. It became the basis of intense parliamentary debates on the nature of the East india Company’s rule in India.
3. It was primarily on the economic conditions of the urban and industrial centres of India.

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Consider the following statements about Salt Satyagraha :

1. It was a form of Civil Disobedience.
2. It was the first nationalist activity in which women participated in large numbers.
3. Gandhiji first experimented with Salt Satyagraha in South Africa.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which of the following statements about Ryotwari system is/are correct?

1. The government collected the revenue directly from the individual cultivators.
2. The cultivators were not recognized in law as the owners of the land.

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Which of the following statements about Russia is/are correct?

1. Russia emerged as the first socialist state in the world.
2. Socialist state in Russia was established by Bolsheviks in 1917.

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 Consider the following statements :

1. Dadabhai Naoroji first put forward ‘the theory of drain of wealth’.
2. The Indian National Congress adopted a resolution to criticize the drain of wealth in its annual session at Calcutta in 1896.

Which of the statements given avove is/are correct?

Which of the following statements about Quit India Movement of 1942 is/are correct?

1. The movement was massive in character.
2. One of the unique features of the movement was the participation of the communists at the local level defying the official stand of the Communist Party.
3. It was a completely non-violent movement.

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Consider the following statements :

1. Annie Besant was the first woman President of the Indian national Congress.
2. The historic Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916 was presided by Madan Mohan Malviya.
3. Mahatma Gandhi presided over the annual session of Congress only once at Belgaum in 1924.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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What was the common element among the following three newspapers?

(i) The Servant of India (ii) Dnyan Prakash (iii) Hitawad

"… it has reduced us politically to serfdom. It has sapped the foundations of our culture … it has degraded us spititually." This was Mahatma Gandhi complaining of the ill-effect on Indians of which action/policy of the colonial government?

The Indian National Congress was founded during the viceroyalty of

Kandh Revolt against the British was led by

The implementation of factory legislation in India in the nineteenth century was a result of the pressure on the Government of India from

Who among the following was the President of Indian national Congress when India attained independence?

Who among the following has described the uprising of 1857 as the First Indian war of Independence?

Arrange the following events of Indian freedom movement in correct sequence beginning from the earliest :

1. Second Round Table Conference
2. Communal Award
3. Poona Pact
4. Simon Commission

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Consider the following statements:

1. Morley – Minto reforms ended the official majority in state legislative assemblies.
2. Despite the Government of India Act, 1909 the non-officials were elected to local bodies indirectly.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

No Indian shall by reason only of his religion, place of birth, descent, colour or any of them be disabled from holding any office or employment under the company." This was a pledge first given by the

A beautiful rainbow on the sky is due to the

The weight of an object may be assigned by using Newton’s

A current of 0.5 A is drawn by a filament of an electric bulb for 20 minutes. The amount of electric charge that flows through the circuit is

Which one among the following properties of a proton may change while it moves freely in a magnetic field?

Power required by a boy of mass 30 kg to run up a staircase of 40 steps in 10 seconds is (Height of each step is 15 cm) (Take g = 10 m/s2)

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The figure given above shows the temperature (T) – Time (t) plot when we start heating a piece of naphthalene. The temperature (T*) at the plateau of the curve signifies

A piece of paper and a coin both having the same mass are dropped from the 10th floor of a building. The piece of paper would take more time to reach the ground because

During sunrise and sunset, sun appears reddish-orange because

Ohm’s law can also be taken as a statement for

Motion, of a particle can be described in x-direction by x = a sin ωt, and y-direction by y = b cos ωt. The particle is moving on

 
The plot given above represents displacement ‘x’ of a particle with time ‘t’. The particle is

 A bullet of mass 20 gm is fired in the horizontal direction with a velocity 150 m from a pistol of mass 1 kg. Recoil velocity of the pistol is

What should be the reading of the voltmeter in the circuit given above? (All the resistances are are equal to 1 Ω and the battery is of 1.5 volt)

 
The plot given above represents the velocity of a particle (in m/s) with time (in seconds). Assuming that the plot represents a semi-circle distance traversed by the particle at the end of 7 seconds is approximately

Suppose we have an iron nail and an iron ball of same mass. When submerged in water, the iron ball may float but the nail always sinks. This is because

An electric heater is rated 1500 watt. If electric power costs Rs 2 per kilo-watt-hour, then the cost of power for 10 hours running of the heater is

The ceilings of a concert hall are generally curved

Bats can know about their prey at a distance even in the night by emitting

Rays of light get refracted while passing from air to glass because

White light while passing through a glass prism breaks up into light of different colours because

Which one among the following situations is best represented by the velocity – time plot shown above?

When long dry hair is brushed the strands often move away from each other because while brushing

If the length of a simple pendulum is being increased by 4-fold, time period of oscillation will be

A pressure cooker works on the principle of

Pressure of a gas increases due to increase of its temperature because at higher temperature

The presence of sulphur in gunpowder

Calcium ammonium nitrate (CAN) is a popular nitrogen fertilizer because it is

Chromium oxide is used as an ingredient in paints to obtain

A mixture of sodium chloride and naphthalene can be separated by

The pH of the solution obtained by dissolving pure sodium chloride in water is

Oxygen on reaction with non-metals forms oxides, which are

Biogas consists of mainly

A gas is evolved when a piece of zinc metal placed in dilute sulphuric acid (H₂SO₄). What is the gas?

Turmeric (Haldi) rapidly becomes colourless on addition of

Metalloids are

Two reactants in a flask produce bubbles and gas; it turns lime water into milky. The reactants in the flask are

For Mahatma Gandhi, Satyagraha is

1. a political force.
2. a philosophy of life.
3. an ideology of action.

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