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Books and Authors
Book: A Life Well Spent
Author: Satish Chandra
About: This book delves into
Ambassador Satish Chandra's journey
from being an IFS probationer to
assuming the role of Deputy National
Security Advisor.
Book: Master Residential Real Estate
Author: Ashwinder Singh
About: The book covers a wide range
of topics, from finding the right
property to financing a home purchase.
Book: Ajay to Yogi Adityanath
Author: Shantanu Gupta
About: This book is a story of grit,
determination and hard work for every
student to follow and take inspiration
from.
Book: Nalanda
Author: Abhay K
About: This book uncover the
extraordinary journey of Mahavihara
o f N a l a n d a – t h e w o r l d ’s fi r s t
university–through painstaking
research and captivating narrative.
Book: The Power of One Thought
Author: BK Shivani
About: This book is a step-by-step
guide to our thoughts through
reflection exercises and guided
meditations to manifest the life we
want.
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Book: Kathakali Dance Theatre
Author: KK Gopalakrishnan
About: The book offers a behind-the-
scenes look into the world of
Kathakali, focusing on the green
room, artists’ struggles.
Book: Ringside
Author: Dr. Vijay Darda
About: This book is a compilation of
Dr Darda’s weekly articles published
between 2011 and 2016 in Lokmat
Media Group newspapers.
Book: NTR: A Political Biography
Author: Ramachandra Murthy
Kondubhatla
About: This book presents a realistic
picture of Nandamuri Taraka Rama
Rao (NTR), the star figure in the
discourse on cinema and politics.
Book: Ninth Building
Author: Zou Jingzhi, Jeremy Tiang
(Translator)
About: This book is a fascinating
collection of vignettes drawn from
Zou Jingzhi’s experience growing up
during the Cultural Revolution.
Book: Still Born
Author: Guadalupe Nettel
About: A book that takes readers into
the lives of two contemporary
Mexican women as they bond over
their shared attitudes towards
motherhood.
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Quick
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 P Upadhyay, INAS has taken over as Director
General of Naval Armament (DGONA) from KSC
Iyer, who superannuated on 31 May 23.
 Recently South Korea has made an exclusive offer
to provide its advanced KSS-III Batch-II
submarines to India.
 India and Vietnamese officials held the third
Maritime Security Dialogue in New Delhi on 31st
May.
 Parminder Chopra becomes first woman head of
Power Finance Corporation
 Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde
announced that Ahmednagar district will be
named after warrior queen Ahilyabai Holkar.
 Prannoy won his maiden BWF World Tour title on
28 May 2023 by emerging victorious at the
Malaysia Masters Super 500 tournament held in
Kuala Lumpur.
 The University of Edinburgh and the Indian
Consulate in the UK collaborated to create the first
open access course in the Hindi language.
 World Milk Day is observed annually on 1 June
and was created by the Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN)
in 2001.
 Renowned author and Congress MP Dr. Shashi
Tharoor released the book "Ringside" written by
Lokmat Media Group Editorial Board Chairman
and former MP Dr. Vijay Darda.
 French rail company, Alstom will manufacture
100 aluminium bodied Vande Bharat trains.
 Union Cabinet approved constitution of an Inter-
Ministerial Committee (IMC) for world’s largest
grain storage plan in cooperative sector
 India has joined the Centralised Laboratory
Network (CLN), which has 15 partner facilities in
13 countries.
 Recently the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has
announced its withdrawal from the US-led
Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), a maritime
alliance.
 Argentina's Celeste Saulo becomes first female
Secretary-General of World Meteorological
Organization
 The Union Cabinet on 31st May approved forming
and empowering an Inter-Ministerial Committee
(IMC) to create the “world’s largest grain storage
plan in the cooperative sector” by converging 8
ongoing schemes of three ministries.
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 The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
(MYAS) Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) approved
Olympic Gold Medallist Neeraj Chopra’s
proposal to train in Kuortane, Finland.
 The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the
national standard body of India, has recently
introduced 31 Indian standards pertaining to
Ayush herbs and products.
 Amarendu Prakash took charge as the new
Chairman and Managing Director of Steel
Authority of India Limited (SAIL) with effect
from 31 May.
 The Cabinet approved the setting up of a Regional
Office of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) at
New Delhi.
 Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE,
has been named the Environmental Airline of the
Year 2023 for the second year in a row at the
Airline Rating Awards.
 Sri Lanka's cabinet ministers approved a proposal
to set up a Truth and Reconciliation Mechanism.
 Medium-range ballistic missile Agni-1 was
successfully test-fired in Odisha.
 High Court of Karnataka has upheld constitutional
validity of Section 37A of the Foreign Exchange
Management Act (FEMA), 1999.
 India and Nepal sign pacts on energy, transport;
India to import 10,000 MW of electricity from
Nepal.
 Integrated Command and Control Centre set up in
Srinagar under Smart City Mission.
 ICAI Central Council approves renewal of mutual
recognition agreement (MRA) with CPA Canada,
CPA Ireland.
 UN Security Council extends UN political mission
in Sudan for 6 months.
 Celeste Saulo of Argentina has been appointed as
the first female Secretary-General of the World
Meteorological Organization (WMO).
 Finale Bahnen-Tournee 2023 cycling: India’s
Esow Alben wins bronze medal.
 3rd Khelo India University Games to conclude in
Varanasi.
 BRICS countries kicked off its foreign ministers
meeting on 1st June in Cape Town, the legislative
capital of South Africa.
 The Odisha government has established a
committee called the Landrace Varietal Release
Committee (LVRC) to release traditional millet
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varieties in accordance with standard operating
protocols (SoP) for seed systems.
 20-year-old Shalini Singh from Lucknow has
become the first woman NCC cadet in India to
complete a mountaineering course in the
Himalayan region of Uttarakhand.
 55 cadets of the Royal Saudi Naval Force (RSNF)
underwent training with the Indian Navy for the
first time.
 World Bicycle Day is an annual event celebrated
on 3 June. The theme for World Bicycle Day 2023
is "Riding together for a sustainable future".
 Araku Valley coffee and black pepper from
Andhra Pradesh have received organic
certification.
 Ashwani Kumar has been appointed as the new
MD and CEO of public sector UCO Bank
 Texas becomes largest state to ban transgender
care for minors
 US President Joe Biden signed into law a bill to
suspend the nation’s debt limit through 1 January
2025.
 Manisha Bhanwala won all four matches to claim
the women’s 65kg gold medal at Ranking series
wrestling event in Kyrgyzstan.
 Sainyam wins women’s 10m air pistol gold in
Junior World Cup.
 World No. 2 Ann Se-young of South Korea
claimed her fourth title in 2023 by defeating
China's He Bingjiao in the women's singles final
of the Thailand Open badminton tournament on
June 4.
 Union Minister of State for Personnel, Jitendra
Singh, announced that Jammu and Kashmir's
Kishtwar will become North India's major "power
hub" generating approximately 6,000 MW of
power upon the completion of ongoing power
projects.
 The next International Union for Conservation of
Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress will
be held from 9 to 15 October 2025 in Abu Dhabi,
United Arab Emirates.
 World Environment Day is an annual event
celebrated on June 5th to raise global awareness
about environmental issues and encourage
positive actions to protect the planet. Theme of
World Environment Day 2023 is 'Solutions to
plastic pollution'.
 State Bank of India (SBI), Bengaluru Circle,
recently launched 'Project Kuber' to meet the
banking needs of its customers.
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 Union Minister of State, Kapil Patil, recently
announced the development of India's first
carbon-neutral village in Bhiwandi Taluka,
located in Thane district.
 Mumbai Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announced
the renaming of Ahmednagar district in western
Maharashtra to Ahilya Nagar, in honor of Ahilya
Devi Holkar, an eminent ruler of the Malwa
kingdom during the 18th century.
 Dennis Francis, a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago
(TT), created history by becoming the first TT
citizen to be elected as the President of the UN
General Assembly (UNGA).
 3rd G20 Health Working Group Meeting is being
held at Hyderabad, Telangana
 UAE to Host World’s Largest Conservation
Conference of IUCN in 2025.
 The 'Elder Line' 14567 service was recently
launched by the Uttar Pradesh Social Welfare
Department.
 External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar recently
co-chaired the first India-Namibia Joint
Commission with Namibian Foreign Minister
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah in Windhoek.
 Suriname awarded President Draupadi Murmu its
highest civilian honour, the Grand Order of the
Chain of Yellow Star, on 5 June, making her the
first Indian to receive the award.
 Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and
Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal flagged off
India's first international cruise vessel - MV
Empress, from Chennai to Sri Lanka on June 5.
 Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das
launched a financial inclusion dashboard named
'Antardrishti' on 6 June.
 Indian Railways decides to secure goomties that
house signalling equipment on railway station
premises with a double-lock arrangement.
 Algeria, Guyana, the Republic of Korea, Sierra
Leone and Slovenia were elected non-permanent
members of the UN Security Council for a two-
year term.
 In Madhya Pradesh, the Chief Minister's Learn
and Earn scheme is set to be launched with the aim
of providing employable skills to the youth.
 The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs,
chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 7
June, has approved the continuation of the Central
Sector Scheme called "Exploration of Coal and
Lignite scheme."
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 AIIMS Nagpur, the branch of the All India
Institute of Medical Sciences in Nagpur, has
emerged as the first AIIMS in India to be
accredited by the National Accreditation Board for
Hospitals (NABH).
 PM Modi launches Amrit Dharohar and MISHTI
schemes for wetland, mangrove conservation.
 Siddharth Chowdhary wins gold in men's shot put
event at U-20 Asian Athletics Championships.
 The government launched the Mission on
Advanced and High-Impact Research, MAHIR, in
the power sector.
 The Pinarayi Vijayan-led Kerala government
officially launched the Kerala Fiber Optical
Network (KFON).
 Nirmala Laxman has been appointed as the
Chairperson of the Board of Directors of The
Hindu Group Publishing Private Limited
(THGPPL) for a period of three years.
 World Food Safety Day is observed annually on 7
June to highlight the importance of maintaining
food standards and protecting consumers from
foodborne illnesses. The theme of World Food
Safety Day 2023 is "Food Standards Save Lives".
 Foundation stone of ONGC National Disaster
Mitigation Centre was launched in Jammu.
 Bajaj Finserv has entered into the mutual fund
business.
 Siddharth Choudhary clinches gold in men’s shot-
put event of U-20 Asian Athletics Championships
in South Korea.
 The Indian Navy and the country's Defence
Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
undertook the first ‘combat' test-firing of the
Varunastra heavyweight torpedo.
 New Generation Ballistic Missile ‘Agni Prime’
was successfully flight-tested by Defence
Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of
Odisha.
 In a bid to make Uttar Pradesh a leading state in
the field of milk development and milk
production, the state government has launched the
Nand Baba Milk Mission scheme at a cost of Rs
1,000 crore.
 According to the Union Minister of Steel and Civil
Aviation, Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, India has
moved from the fourth largest producer of crude
steel to the second largest producer.
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 Muthamizh Selvi, 36, a resident of Johilpatti,
Virudhunagar, became the first woman from
Tamil Nadu to scale Mount Everest.
 Janardan Prasad has been appointed as the new
Director General of the Geological Survey of
India (GSI).
 The government approved a revival package of
over Rs 89,000 crore for BSNL.
 World Oceans Day is celebrated annually on 8
June. The theme for World Oceans Day 2023 is
"Planet Ocean: The Tides Are Changing".
 CCEA approved the continuation of a central-
sector scheme for “Exploration of Coal and
Lignite” with an outlay of ₹2,980 crore from
2021-22 to 2025-26.
 Haryana CM Manohar Lal launches integrated
Water Resources Action Plan-2023-25.
 National Conference on Recent Advances in
School Education to begin at Dr. B R Ambedkar
National Institute of Technology in Jalandhar.
 RBI lets banks issue RuPay prepaid forex cards to
help widen usage
 India and Serbia agree to set bilateral trade of 1
Billion Euros by the end of this decade
 The Kerala government June 5 officially launched
the Kerala Fibre Optical Network (KFON), one of
its flagship projects envisaged during the first term
of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
 Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal will
inaugurate the integrated Water Resources Action
Plan-2023-25 under the Amrit Jal Kranti initiative.
 Farmers Fresh Zone (FarmersFZ), a Kerala-based
startup, has achieved recognition by being chosen
for the United Nations' 'Accelerator Programme.'
 NATO is set to commence its largest air force
deployment exercise in Europe, known as "Air
Defender 23," according to German and US
officials.
 President Droupadi Murmu and her Serbian
counterpart Aleksandar Vucic on 8 June in
Belgrade agreed to set a target for bilateral trade
from the present 320 million euros to one billion
euros by the end of the decade.
 Author Shantanu Gupta launched a new graphic
novel titled "Ajay to Yogi Adityanath" for young
readers.
 World Accreditation Day is a day celebrated
annually on 9th June. 2023 Theme:
"Accreditation: Supporting the Future of Global
Business."
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 Sunil Kumar, representing India, won the gold
medal with a score of 7003 points in the men's
decathlon event at the Asian U20 Athletics
Championships in Yecheon, South Korea.
 CAG to host SAI20 Summit under India’s G20
Presidency in Goa.
 Ravindra Jadeja surpassed Bishan Singh Bedi to
become the country’s most successful left-arm
spinner in Tests.
 Rohit Sharma has become the third Indian opener
to cross 13,000 runs across formats.
 The Kohima bench of the Gauhati High
Courtrecently quashed the 2020 order of the
Nagaland government that banned the sale and
trade of dog meat in markets and restaurants.
 The 53rd Director General level Border
Coordination Conference between Border
Security Force and Border Guard Bangladesh
(BGB) is being held in New Delhi from June 11 to
June 14.
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the
first-ever National Training Conclave at the
International Exhibition and Convention Centre at
Pragati Maidan in New Delhi on 11 June.
 In French Open tennis, World No 1 and top seed
Iga Swiatek of Poland has won the Women's
Singles crown at Paris on 10th June.
 India's Murali Sreeshankar finished third with an
impressive effort of 8.09m in the men's long jump
event at the Paris Diamond League 2023 in France
on June 9.
 Government of India has constituted a Peace
Committee in Manipur under the Chairpersonship
of Governor, Manipur Anusuiya Uikey on 10
June.
 Veteran banker V Anantharaman has been
appointed non-executive chairman of credit
bureau TransUnion CIBIL.
 NTPC Kanti launched Girl Child Empowerment
Mission (GeM)-2023 as part of its CSR initiative.
 Havaldar Alby D'Cruz, the first Keralite to receive
the Ashoka Chakra, passed away at the age of 87.
 Indian Council of Agricultural Research signs a
MOU with Amazon Kisan to Empower Farmers.
 Boris Johnson quits as UK lawmaker after it was
told that he will be sanctioned for misleading
Parliament.
 US Vice President Kamala Harris announces more
than 100 million US Dollars assistance for
Caribbean.
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 A celt, belonging to the neolithic period, was
discovered in Poothinatham village in
Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu.
 Iraq approves record USD 153bn budget aimed at
creating jobs.
 The Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices
(CACP) has recently recommended the Centre to
bring urea under the nutrient-based subsidy (NBS)
regime to address the problem of imbalanced use
of nutrients.
 IndiGo CEO, Peter Albers has been appointed as
the Chairman-elect of the Board of Governors of
the International Air Transport Association
(IATA).
 INS Trishul, a flagship warship of the Indian
Navy, celebrated the 130th anniversary of
Mahatma Gandhi's 'Satyagraha' at the Durban port
in South Africa.
 World Day Against Child Labour is celebrated
every year on 12th June.
 Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh
Chouhan launched the 'Mukhya Mantri Ladli
Bahna Yojana'.
 World Health Organization Headquarters in
Geneva on 7 June 2023.
 The Government of India on 8 June 2023 signed a
$130 million loan agreement with the Asian
Development Bank (ADB) to enhance the income
of Himachal Pradesh farmers.
 International Color Blindness (Albinism)
Awareness Day is observed annually on 13 June.
The theme is based on the previous year's 2022
theme "United in making our voices heard".
 According to Jaskaur Meena, MP from Dausa,
Rajasthan, people in Dausa, Rajasthan celebrate
'Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana' as a ‘God
Bharai' (Baby Shower) ceremony.
 Vigyan-Vidushi – 2023, an initiative aimed at
achieving gender balance in the field of Physics at
the doctoral level, has commenced at the Homi
Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) in
Mumbai.
 National Archives of India organized exhibition
“Hamari Bhasha, Hamari Virasat” on the occasion
of 75th International Archives Day.
 A documentary titled ‘When Climate Change
Turns Violent has won a special prize in the
‘Health for All’ category at the 4th Annual Health
for All Film Festival held at the World Healtth
Organization headquarters in Geneva.
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 The INS Trishul, a leading battleship of the Indian
Navy, sailed to Durban port in South Africa to
observe the 130th anniversary of an event that
happened on 7 June 1893 at the Pietermaritzburg
railway station.
 India and Serbia Aim for 1 Billion Euros Bilateral
Trade Target by the End of the Decade: MEA
 India to buy 31 armed MQ-9 Reaper Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) from General Atomics.
 Karnataka to scrap anti-conversion law in the
state.
 Rajasthan, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu emerge Top
Achievers in Wind Energy Adoption.
 Philip Green to be Australia’s new envoy to India
 The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)
recently unanimously adopted a resolution to set
up a new memorial wall for dead peacekeepers,
which was moved by India.
 Real estate expert, Ashwinder Singh launched a
book titled "Master Residential Real Estate" on
24th May.
 Vivek Johri, Chairman, Central Board of Indirect
Taxes and Customs (CBIC) recently released the
National Time Release Study (NTRS) 2023
report.
 Raja or Mithun Sankranti is a three-day festival of
womanhood celebrated in Odisha, India.
 The Indian Navy recently has launched an
outreach program called "Julley Ladakh" (Hello
Ladakh) to increase awareness about the Navy and
engage with the youth and civil society in the
pristine state of Ladakh.
 The third ship of the Anti-Submarine Warfare
Shallow Water Craft (ASW SWC)
project'Anjadeep'was launched on June 13, 2023
at M/s L&T, Kattupalli.
 Guwahati becomes first railway station in
Northeast to get FSSAI's 'Eat Right Station'
certification
 According to Reuters Institute's Digital News
Report 2023, DD India and All India Radio have
been recognized as the most trusted electronic
media organizations in the country.
 Renowned Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
Cormac McCarthypassed away at the age of 89.
 Recently, the first Janjatiya Khel Mahotsav was
organized at the Kalinga Institute of Social
Sciences, Bhubaneswar, in a collaborative effort
between the Ministry of Culture, the Odisha
Government, and KIIT University.
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 Ministry of Education to host G20 4th Education
Working Group meeting in Pune.
 NITI Aayog and UN sign GoI-UN Sustainable
Development Cooperation Framework 2023-27.
 Centre amends IBC provision to remove
moratorium protection for certain oil companies
 Japan raises age of consent from 13 to 16 years
and clarifies rape law.
 First Women’s Kabaddi League Inaugurated in
Dubai.
 Indian men’s recurve team clinches bronze in
Archery World Cup.
 K.M. Deeksha clinches gold in the 1,500m
National inter-state athletics championships.
 Union Minister of Heavy Industries Dr Mahendra
Nath Pandey unveiled the "Dugdh Sanakalan
Sathi Mobile App" at Mussorie, Uttarakhand.
 India’s biggest natural arch formed 184 million
years ago discovered in Odisha by GSI
 NITI Aayog, United Nations join hands to
accelerate sustainable development in India
 Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways
Sarbananda Sonowal received the first over
dimensional cargo (ODC) transported via
waterways at Numaligarh Refinery jetty (Assam).
 Every year on June 15th, people worldwide unite
to celebrate World Wind Day. Theme of
celebration in India was ‘Pawan – Urja: Powering
the Future of India’.
 World Bank approves loan of $150 million to
support Resilient Kerala programme.
 Prime Minister Modi proposes G-20 membership
for African Union.
 India’s Rankireddy and Shetty clinches Indonesia
Open title- becoming the first doubles pair from
the country to claim a Super 1000 event.
 Father's Day is a special occasion celebrated in
many countries around the world to honor and
appreciate fathers. It is celebrated on the third
Sunday of June. This year Father's Day 2023 is
being celebrated on 18th June.This year's Father's
Day theme is ‘Celebrating the Greatest Heroes of
Our Lives’.
 NTPC Barauni has achieved a significant
milestone by securing the first rank in the Best
Industry Category at the 4th National Water
Awards.
 Egypt emerged victorious in the World Squash
Championship, defeating Malaysia 2-1 in the final
held in Chennai on 17th June.
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 World-Sickle-Cell-Awareness-Day is observed on
19 June each year to raise awareness of the impact
of sickle cell disease (SCD) on individuals,
families and communities around the world.
 Elimination-of-Sexual-Violence-The
International Day for the Elimination of Sexual
Violence in Conflict is observed on 19 June every
year. The theme for 2023 is "Bridging the gender
digital divide to prevent, address and respond to
conflict-related sexual violence."
 The Government of India has constituted an expert
panel headed by former Law Secretary TK
Vishwanathan to propose reforms in the
Arbitration and Conciliation Act and reduce the
burden on the courts.
 The International Day for Countering Hate Speech
is observed annually on 18 June.
 World Blood Donor Day - 14 June - Theme -
"Give blood, give plasma, share life, share often."
 International Albinism Awareness Day - 13 June -
Theme - "United in making our voices heard".
 World Day Against Child Labour - 12 June -
Theme - "Social Justice for All. End Child
Labour!"
 World Accreditation Day - 9 June - Theme -
"Accreditation: Supporting the Future of Global
Business."
 World Oceans Day - 8 June - Theme - "Planet
Ocean: The Tides Are Changing".
 World Environment Day - 5 June - Theme -
'Solutions to plastic pollution'.
 India’s defence ministry on 15th June approved
the acquisition of 31 MQ-9B armed drones from
the US.
 Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu
launched the 'Arunpol App' of Arunachal Pradesh
Police on 14 June 2023.
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lead
International Day of Yoga celebrations at UN
Headquarters in New York.
 President of US Joe Biden to announce over six
hundred million dollar in climate investments.
 The Karnataka government is currently facing
challenges in implementing the Anna Bhagya
scheme starting from July 1 due to the
unavailability of the required amount of rice.
 The UK launched the Developing Countries Trade
Scheme (DCTS) on 19 June.
 The Central Government has introduced a new
collection of courses called "Dakshata" on the
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iGOT Karmayogi platform announced by the
Ministry of Personnel.
 Water-Supply-and-TreatmentCPHEEO organized
a two day National Workshop on “Water Supply
and Treatment” in New Delhi.
 Arundhati-Roy-receives-European-Essay-
PrizeArundhati Roy received the 45th European
Essay Prize for Lifetime Achievement and the
award is presented by the Charles Whelan
Foundation.
 The Vice President of India, Jagdeep Dhankhar
has been invited as the chief guest for the
International Day of Yoga (IDY 2023)
celebrations in Jabalpur on June 21, 2023.
 The United Nations on 19 June adopted the first-
ever treaty to protect marine life in the high seas,
setting a significant milestone in ocean
conservation.
 World Refugee Day is observed annually on 20
June. World Refugee Day is an internationally
recognized day established by the United
Nations.The theme for World Refugee Day 2023
is "Hope away from home".
 Mansukh Mandaviya unveils National Medical
Device Policy 2023 and launches another pharma
related schemes.
 RBI sanctions merger of Maratha Co-op Bank
with Cosmos Co-op Bank.
 Saudi Arabia and Canada to restore full diplomatic
ties and appoint new ambassadors, bringing an end
to a dispute from 2018.
 Jayakumar S Pillai appointed as Deputy Managing
Director of IDBI Bank
 Suman Sharma took oath as a member of the
Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).
 TVS Supply Chain Solutions Executive Vice
President R. Dinesh was appointed as the
President of the Confederation of Indian Industry
(CII) for 2023-24.
 Indian long jumper Murali Sreeshankar won the
gold medal at the International Jumping meeting
in Greece.
 The National Tiger Conservation Authority
(NTCA) set up an 11-member Cheetah Project
Steering Committee.
 On May 27, 2023, Morarji Desai National Institute
of Yoga (MDNIY) under the Union Ministry of
AYUSH organized a mega 'Yoga Festival' at NCC
Parade Ground, Hyderabad.
 Ireland becomes first country to introduce
comprehensive health labelling of alcohol products
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 Second G-20 Anti-Corruption Working Group
meeting concluded in Rishikesh (Tehri),
Uttarakhand
 The Sapta Shakti Command of the Indian Army
conducted exercise 'Sudarshan Shakti 2023' along
the western borders in Rajasthan and Punjab.
 Union Minister Giriraj Singh launched the
SAMARTH campaign to promote digital
transactions at the Gram Panchayat level.
 Patna Municipal Corporation in Bihar, India, has
become the first municipal corporation in the
country to adopt Central Bank Digital Currency
(CBDC).
 Dr. Jagadish Pillai of Varanasi created a Guinness
World Record by singing Shri Ramcharitmanas for
138 hours, 41 minutes and two seconds.
 The sea phase of the second edition of the bilateral
exercise 'Al Mohed Al Hindi- 2023' between the
Indian Navy and the Royal Saudi Naval Force
(RSNF) was conducted at Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia
from 23-25 May 2023.
 Indian head constables Shishupal Singh and Sanwala
Ram Vishnoi were posthumously awarded the Dag
Hammarskjold Medal.
 Iraq unveils USD 17-bn project linking Europe,
West Asia
 Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic quits as head of
ruling party.
 National record-holder Jyothi Yarraji wins women’s
100m hurdles gold at the Kurpfalz Gala athletics
meet.
 Indian athlete Parul Chaudhary bags 3000m
steeplechase bronze in the USATF Los Angeles
Grand Prix athletics meet.
 Karnataka Bank appointed Srikrishnan Harihar
Sarma as its new Managing Director and Chief
Executive Officer (CEO).
 India gets approval to set up second hydroelectric
project in Nepal
 The International Day of United Nations
Peacekeepers is observed annually on 29 May.
 The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
will launch its next-generation navigation satellite,
NVS-1, from Sriharikota on 29 May.
 Praveen Kumar Srivastava was sworn in as Central
Vigilance Commissioner.
 Tamil Nadu and Japanese firms sign six MoUs worth
₹818 crores, in the presence of Chief Minister
M.K.Stalin.
 UN peacekeeping mission: India to train women
personnel from South East Asia later this year.
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 Girish Chandra Murmu, the Comptroller and
Auditor General of India (CAG), has been re-elected
as the External Auditor of WHO.
 Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
chairman S. Somanath has said that Chandrayaan-3
will be launched in July.
 Neyveli Lignite Corporation India Ltd (NLCIL)
inked a MoU with Water and Power Consultancy
Services (WAPCOS) for pumped storage, reservoir
storage, and run-of-river hydropower projects.
 Razorpay launches ‘Turbo UPI’ payment service;
allows customers of online merchants to make UPI
payments directly.
 ADB approves USD 350 million in budgetary
support to Sri Lanka.
 China prepares to send its first civilian into space as
part of a crewed mission to the Tiangong space
station.
 North Korea notified Japan that it plans to launch a
satellite in coming days.
 MS Dhoni becomes first Indian with 300 dismissals
in T20s.
 Tele-law program achieved a significant milestone
by empowering 40 lakh beneficiaries with pre-
litigation advice.
 The X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) mission is
a collaborative effort between the Indian Space
Research Organization (ISRO) and the Raman
Research Institute (RRI) in Bengaluru.
 Goa Statehood Day is celebrated every year on 30
May.
 India won the NSC-CAVA Women's Volleyball
Challenge Cup title held in Kathmandu.
 World No Tobacco Day is celebrated every year on
31 May with the aim of making people aware about
the harmful effects of tobacco consumption.
 On 30 May a new Liberation War Gallery of 1971
was inaugurated at the Indian Cultural Center of the
Indian High Commission in Dhaka.
 The Maharashtra government has approved a new
financial scheme under which Rs 6,000 will be paid
annuallyto overone crore farmers in the state.
 Justice Augustine George Masih was sworn in as the
Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court on May
30, 2023.
 Maharashtra's Bandra-Versova sea bridge to be
named after Veer Savarkar
 National record-holder Jyothi Yarraji won the
women’s 100m hurdles gold in 13.08s in the T-
Meeting at Tilburg in the Netherlands.
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Recent Appointments
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Eddie Wu named as the new CEO of Alibaba
Alibaba announced a major leadership reshuffle. A
Chinese e-commerce company, Alibaba Group
Holding, Eddie Wu (the chairman of Alibaba’s core
Taobao) will take over as the chief executive of the
company. He is one of the co-founders of Alibaba,
who first served it as a technology director back in
1999. While Joe Tsai will take over as chairman on
September 10th, 2023. Another co-founder of
Alibaba, Joe Tsai was appointed as the company chief
financial officer until 2013 and currently serves as
executive vice chairman. He is also the chairman of
Alibaba’s logistics unit Cainiao, as well as a member
of the Taobao and Tmall division. The present CEO
and Chairman Daniel Zhang is planning to step down
this year.
Alibaba:
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, or Alibaba is a
Chinese multinational technology company
specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet, and
technology.
 Founded: 28 June 1999
 President: J. Michael Evans
Finland elected Petteri Orpo as new PM
Finland's parliament elected conservative Petteri Orpo
as prime minister at the head of a four-party coalition.
Parliament voted in favor of Orpo, who won the April
elections.
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He was formally appointed as prime minister by
President Sauli Niinisto. He took over from Sanna
Marin, whose Social Democrats finished third behind
Orpo's National Coalition Party and the Finns Party.
The new coalition is made up of the smaller Swedish
People's Party and Christian Democrats.
Finland:
 Capital: Helsinki
 President: Sauli Niinistö
 Currency: Euro
Hasmukh Adhia appointed chairman of GIFT
City, GACL and GMDC
Former Union Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia has
been appointed as chairman of GIFT (Gujarat
International Finance Tec) City. In addition to this
role, he was also appointed as the Chairman and
Director of the Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd
(GACL) and the Gujarat Mineral Development
Corporation (GMDC). He replaced Sudhir Mankad, to
take the helm of GIFT City. He has also served as the
Principal advisor to Narendra Modi when he was CM
of Gujarat. The Gujarat government also appointed
the advisor to the CM and a former Gujarat cadre IAS
officer SS Rathore as chairman of the DREAM
(Diamond Research and Mercantile) City in Surat.
Gujarat:
 Capital: Gandhinagar
 Governor: Acharya Devvrat
 Chief minister: Bhupendrabhai Patel
Germany confirms new ambassador to Russia
Germany has confirmed the appointment of Alexander
Graf Lambsdorff as its new ambassador to Russia,
after the two countries announced a downgrading of
diplomatic ties as relations collapsed after the invasion
of Ukraine.
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Graf Lambsdorff, a 56-year-old diplomat and member
of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) in the
ruling coalition, will take up his post in the summer
after Russia gave the green light for the move. He
replaces Géza Andreas von Geyr, who has represented
Germany in Russia since September 2019 and is now
set to become Germany's ambassador to NATO in
Brussels. Germany last month said it would shut down
four out of five Russian consulates by revoking their
licences, a tit-for-tat move after Moscow's decision to
limit the number of German officials in Russia.
Background:
Germany and Russia have repeatedly expelled each
other's diplomats. However, the situation has
worsened considerably since the start of the crisis in
Ukraine, which led to massive sanctions against
Russia by the EU.
Reliance Group appoints Parul Sharma as Group
President
The Reliance Group has announced the appointment
of Parul Sharma as the Group President. Sharma was
married to Tony Jesudasan, Reliance Group president
for corporate communications and corporate affairs,
who passed away this February.
Reliance Group:
Reliance Group has five listed companies, Reliance
Power, Reliance Infrastructure, Reliance Capital,
Reliance Home Finance and Reliance Health.
 Founded: 10 July 2006; 16 years ago
 Founder: Anil Ambani
 Headquarters: Mumbai, India
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 Owner and Chairman, Managing Director & Chief
Executive Officer: Anil Ambani
 Co-Owner and Non Executive Director: Tina
Munim Ambani
Ruby Sinha appointed president of BRICS CCI
women vertical
BRICS Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BRICS
CCI) has appointed Ruby Sinha as the president of
BRICS CCI WE, the women’s vertical of the body,
for three years. Sinha takes over from Shabana Nasim,
who has become the Executive Director of BRICS
CCI and Chief Patron of BRICS CCI WE.
Organisation Details:
BRICS CCI is a parent organisation that promotes
commerce and industry in the BRICS and other
friendly nations. The chamber, founded in 2012, is a
not-for-profit and non-governmental organisation.
BRICS CCI is a registered body under the Societies
Registration 'Act 1860, Government of India and
empanelled with Niti Aayog. The Women Vertical of
BRICS CCI has been created with a prime focus on
women empowerment initiatives and policies across
geographies. The objective of the women’s wing is to
create an enabling support system for women
entrepreneurs and professionals across geographies.
Govt appoints SBI MD Swaminathan Janakiraman
as RBI deputy governor
India’s government appointed Swaminathan
Janakiraman as a deputy governor of the Reserve
Bank of India for three years from the date of joining.
Janakiraman, currently the managing director of State
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Bank of India, will succeed Mahesh Kumar Jain,

whose tenure ends on June 22. Jain was appointed as a
deputy governor in June 2018 for three years. He was
re-appointed in June 2021 for a further two-year
period. Shaktikanta Das is the twenty-fifth governor
of the Reserve Bank of India from 12 December 2018.
Note: The central bank has a total of four deputy
governors. The other three are - Michael Debabrata
Patra, M Rajeshwar Rao, and T Rabi Sankar.
Reserve Bank of India: The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has
 Governor: Shaktikanta Das approved Sinha's appointment as Secretary, Research
 Founded: 1 April 1935, Kolkata and Analysis Wing (RAW) for a tenure of two years.
 Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India He was heading the operational wing of RAW before
his promotion. Sinha's predecessor Goel was
Amit Agrawal assumes charge as CEO of UIDAI appointed RAW chief for two years in June 2019. He
was later given two extensions of one year each in
2021 and June 2022.

UK Names First Female Envoy to Pakistan

Senior IAS officer Amit Agrawal has assumed the

charge as the Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of
Unique Identification Authority of India, UIDAI. He
was appointed to the position, following the
retirement of Saurabh Garg. He is also the current The UK announced the appointment of senior
Chairman of the National Digital Communications diplomat Jane Marriott as the next British High
Policy Committee. Commissioner to Pakistan, making her the first female
UIDAI: British envoy to Islamabad. Prior to this appointment,
Established under the Aadhaar Act, 2016, the UIDAI Marriott, 47, was the high commissioner to Kenya
is a statutory body to create unique identification since September 2019. She would be replacing Dr
numbers named as Aadhaar to all citizens of the Christian Turner, who left Pakistan in January after
country. The organisation is responsible for all serving as the envoy since December 2019.
Aadhaar enrolments and authentication, including United Kingdom:
operation and management.  Capital: London
 First Chairman: Nandan Nilekani (Co-founder of  Prime Minister: Rishi Sunak
Infosys)  Deputy Prime Minister: Oliver Dowden
 Chairman: J. Satyanarayana  Currency: Pound sterling
 Launched: 28 January 2009
Kamal Kishore Chatiwal takes over as IGL
Ravi Sinha appointed Research and Analysis Wing Managing Director
chief
Kamal Kishore Chatiwal took over as the new
Senior IPS officer Ravi Sinha, an expert on managing director of Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL), the
neighbourhood countries and operations, was largest CNG distribution company in the country. He
appointed as the new head of external spy agency has replaced Sanjay Kumar, who has taken over as
R&AW, succeeding Samant Goel who completes his Director (Marketing) in GAIL (India) Ltd.
four-year stint on June 30.
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IGL:
Indraprastha Gas Limited is a leading Indian natural
gas distribution company that supplies natural gas as
cooking and vehicular fuel. IGL is a joint venture of
GAIL and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL)
with the Delhi government holding 5% stake.
 Founded: 1998
 Headquarters: New Delhi, India
 Chairman: Sukhmal Kumar Jain
Australia appoints Philip Green as country's new
High Commissioner to India
Australian foreign minister Penny Wong appointed
Philip Green as Australia’s next High Commissioner
to India. He would succeed incumbent Barry
O'Farrell, who served as Australian high
commissioner to India since 2020. Presently, he is
serving as the Australia's ambassador to Germany.
Philip Green will also serve as High Commissioner to
the Kingdom of Bhutan. Hilary McGeachy has been
appointed as Australia’s first Consul-General in
Bengaluru.
Australia:
 Capital: Canberra
 Governor-General: David Hurley
 Prime Minister: Anthony Albanese
 Currency: Australian dollar
Darrell steps down as Logitech CEO, Gecht to take
over as interim CEO
Swiss tech firm Logitech has announced that Bracken
Darrell, president and chief executive officer (CEO),
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will be departing the company to pursue another
opportunity. Board member Guy Gecht will take over
as interim CEO. Last month, the Switzerland-based
tech firm had announced the appointment of Anand
Lakshmanan as its India Head.
Logitech:
Logitech design hardware and software solutions that
help businesses thrive and bring people together when
working, creating, gaming and streaming. Brands of
Logitech include Logitech, Logitech G, ASTRO
Gaming, Streamlabs, Blue Microphones and Ultimate
Ears. Founded in 1981, and headquartered in
Lausanne, Switzerland, Logitech International is a
Swiss public company listed on the SIX Swiss
Exchange (LOGN) and on the Nasdaq Global Select
Market (LOGI).
Pankaj Agrawal to be the new Power Secretary,
Chanchal Kumar new Civil Aviation Secretary
The government of India has appointed Pankaj
Agrawal as the new Power Secretary. He would
replace present Secretary Alok Kumar, who will retire
on June 30. While Rajat Mishra will be the new
Fertiliser Secretary, and Chanchal Kumar to join the
Civil Aviation Ministry as Secretary. Mishra will take
over as Secretary post superannuation of present
incumbent Arun Baroka on August 31. Kumar will
take over as Secretary from Rajiv Bansalupon post
superannuation on August 31. Sudhansh Pant will
move from the Ports, Shipping and Waterways
Ministry to Health Ministry. Subhas Chandra Lal Das
will move to the Ministry of MSME as Secretary.
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Nitin Agarwal appointed the new Director-General
of the Border Security Force (BSF)
Nitin Agarwal, a Kerala cadre Indian Police Service
officer of the 1989 batch, will take charge as the new
Director General of the Border Security Force, ending
a five-month vacancy of the BSF's top post. Agarwal
replaces Pankaj Kumar Singh, who retired on
December 31. Central Reserve Police Force DG
Sujoy Lal Thaosen led BSF in an additional capacity
since Singh's retirement.
Amarendu Prakash takes over as new SAIL
chairman
Amarendu Prakash has taken charge as the new
Chairman and Managing Director of Steel Authority
of India Ltd (SAIL). Prior to this, he was Director in
charge at Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL). He also took on
additional charge as Director In-Charge of the
Rourkela Steel Plant, IISCO, and Durgapur Steel
Plant.
Erdogan sworn in as Turkish president
Tayyip Erdogan to be sworn in as Turkey's president
after winning re-election. He is Turkey's longest
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serving leader. Erdogan, 69, became prime minister in
2003 after his AK Party won an election in late 2002
following the worst economic crisis of Turkey since
the 1970s. In 2014 he became the country's first
popularly-elected president and was elected again in
2018 after securing new executive powers for the
presidency in a 2017 referendum.
Turkey:
 Capital: Ankara
 Currency: Turkish lira
UAE wins Presidency of World Meteorological
Organization
A meteorologist of United Arab Emirates (UAE) Dr
Abdulla Al Mandous has been elected as the new
President of the World Meteorological Organization
(WMO) for a four-year term from 2023 to 2027. The
WMO is an authoritative body within the UN system
that focuses on weather, climate, hydrological, and
related environmental fields. He will succeed Prof
Gerhard Adrian from the German Meteorological
Service, who served as WMO President since June
2019. Under Dr. Al Mandous’ leadership, WMO’s
upcoming 77th Executive Council Session (EC-77)
will be chaired by the UAE in Geneva from 5th to 6th
June.
World Meteorological Organization:
 Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland
 President: Gerhard Adrian
 Secretary-General: Petteri Taalas, Finland
Ajay Yadav assumes charge as SECI Managing
Director
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Ajay Yadav, a seasoned IAS officer from the 2005

batch of the Bihar cadre, has assumed the charge of
Managing Director at Solar Energy Corporation of
India Limited (SECI), effective immediately. Suman
Sharma, effective from May 19, 2023, made the
decision following the relinquishment of the post.
SECI, known for its pivotal role in promoting solar
energy projects and facilitating investments, has been
instrumental in the growth of India’s renewable
energy sector. SECI is a miniratna category-I Central Tata Consultancy Services:
Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE) incorporated in the  Founded: 1968
year 2011. It is the primary implementing agency of  Founder: J. R. D. Tata
the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)  Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
for renewable energy schemes and projects towards
fulfillment of India's international commitments. Angshumali Rastogi named India's representative
to International Civil Aviation Organization
Govt appoints Ashwani Kumar as MD of UCO
Bank Senior bureaucrat Angshumali Rastogi was appointed
India's representative to the council of the
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in
Montreal, Canada. Rastogi has been appointed in
place of Shefali Juneja for three years.

Justice M S Ramachandra Rao Sworn in as 28th

CJ of Himachal HC

The government appointed Ashwani Kumar as

managing director of UCO Bank in place of Soma
Sankara Prasad whose terms comes to an end. Kumar
is currently an executive director of Indian Bank and
prior to this, he served as Chief General Manager of
Punjab National Bank. The central government
appoints Ashwani Kumar as managing director and
chief executive officer in UCO Bank for a period of
three years. The appointment comes into effect from
the date of assumption of office on or after June 1,
2023 or until further orders.
UCO Bank:
 Founded: 6 January 1943
 Founder: G. D. Birla
 Headquarters: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Rajesh Gopinathan steps down as TCS CEO, K
Krithivasan to take over
Rajesh Gopinathan will step down as TCS CEO and
MD after his two-decade-long journey with the IT
firm. Krithi Krithivasan, Global Head of TCS' BFSI
vertical, will take over as TCS CEO on June 1.
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Justice Mamidanna Satya Ratna Sri Ramachandra Rao
was sworn in as the 28th Chief Justice of the
Himachal Pradesh High Court. Justice M S
Ramachandra Rao was elevated as Judge of the High
Court of Andhra Pradesh in June, 2012 and was
appointed to perform the duties of the office of the
Chief Justice for the State of Telangana from August
31, 2021. He also served as a Judge of Punjab and
Haryana High Court as well.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu sworn in as the President of
Nigeria
Bola Tinubu, from Nigeria's ruling All Progressives
Congress party, has been sworn in as the new
President of Nigeria. In February 2023, he defeated
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Nigeria:
 Capital: Abuja
 Currency: Naira
CAG Girish Chandra Murmu re-elected External
Auditor of WHO for four year term
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India, CAG,
Girish Chandra Murmu has been re-elected as the
External Auditor of the World Health Organisation
(WHO) for a four-year term from 2024 to 2027. The
CAG is already holding this position in the WHO
since 2019 for a four-year term from 2019 to 2023.
Comptroller and Auditor General of India:
 Reports to: President of India
 Nominator: Prime Minister of India
 Appointer: President of India
 Term length: 6 yrs or up to 65 yrs of age
(whichever is earlier)
 Inaugural holder: V. Narahari Rao
R Dinesh appointed as CII President for 2023-24
The National Council of Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII) has elected R Dinesh as the president of
CII for 2023-24. He is an executive vice-chairman of
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TVS Supply Chain Solutions. He has replaced Sanjiv
Bajaj, the chairman and managing director, Bajaj
Finserv Limited. Sanjiv Puri (chairman and managing
director of ITC Ltd) has taken over as president-
designate of CII for the year 2023-24. Rajiv Memani
has taken over as vice-president of CII for the year
2023-24.
Confederation of Indian Industry:
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is a non-
governmental trade association and advocacy group.
CII engages business, political, academic, and other
leaders of society to shape global, regional, and
industry agendas. It is a membership-based
organisation. CII has been appointed as the B20 India
Secretariat by the Government of India to lead the
B20 India process during India's G20 Presidency in
2023.
 Formation: 1895
 Headquarters: New Delhi, India
 Director General: Chandrajit Banerjee
Praveen Kumar Srivastava sworn in as Central
Vigilance Commissioner
Praveen Kumar Srivastava sworn in as the Central
Vigilance Commissioner. The Central Vigilance
Commissioner and the Vigilance Commissioners are
appointed by the President on recommendation of a
Committee consisting of the Prime Minister
(Chairperson), the Minister of Home Affairs
(Member) and the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok
Sabha.
CVC:
Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is an apex
Indian governmental body created in 1964 to address
governmental corruption. In 2003, the Parliament
enacted a law conferring statutory status on the CVC.
It has the status of an autonomous body, free of
control from any executive authority, charged with
monitoring all vigilance activity under the Central
Government of India, advising various authorities in
central Government organizations in planning,
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executing, reviewing and reforming their vigilance
work.
 Term length: upto 4 years or 65 years
 Inaugural holder: Nittoor Sreenivasa Rau
New Chief Justices were appointed to Madras and
Bombay High Courts
date they assume office. Justice Dhanuka is the second
senior-most judge at the Bombay High Court after
Justice Gangapurwala.
Karnataka Bank appoints Srikrishnan Harihara
Sarma as MD and CEO

The Mangaluru-headquartered private sector

The Centre issued a notification for the appointment Karnataka Bank has appointed Srikrishnan Harihara
of Justice Ramesh D Dhanuka as the Chief Justice of Sarma as the new managing director and CEO of the
Bombay High Court. It also notified the appointment Bank. The appointment is effective from the date of
of Justice Sanjay V Gangapurwala, Acting Chief his assuming charge and will last for a period of three
Justice of Bombay High Court, as the Chief Justice of years.
Madras High Court. Justice Dhanuka, who will take Karnataka Bank:
oath, May 27, will retire on May 30. He is set to have  CEO: Mahabaleshwara M. S
shortest tenure as head of the High Court. As per  Founded: 18 February 1924
notification issued by the Ministry of Law and Justice,  Headquarters: Mangaluru
the President of India Droupadi Murmu appointed
Justice Dhanuka and Justice Gangapurwala as the
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National News
National News
Yogi implements LADCS to provide free legal aid
to poor
The Yogi Adityanath government has implemented
the Legal Aid Defence Counsel System (LADCS)
under the Uttar Pradesh State Legal Services
Authority for a period of two years to provide free
legal assistance to the people of the state and resolve
minor disputes among them by working out a
compromise formula. The objective of the government
behind implementing LADCS is to strengthen court-
based legal services in order to provide effective and
competent legal assistance to the weak and vulnerable
sections of society. Through the LADCS system, legal
assistance will be provided to the general public at the
levels of chief, deputy, and assistant counsels.
UP to set up Inland Waterways Authority to
promote and regulate water transport
To harness the untapped potential of its waterways
and strengthen the transport sector, Uttar Pradesh
would soon establish an Inland Waterways Authority
to promote and regulate water transport in the state.
To be set up on the line of the Inland Waterways
Authority of India (IWAI) established in 1986, the
proposed statutory body will be known as the Inland
Waterways of Uttar Pradesh with an independent
office and infrastructure. The transport department
that is currently responsible for regulating water
transport in the state, is scheduled to give a
presentation on the proposal before it is sent to the
Cabinet for approval. As per the proposal, Inland
Waterways Transport Authority of Uttar Pradesh will
be responsible for formulating policies, guidelines and
regulations pertaining to water transport. It will work
closely with various stakeholders, including boat
operators, cargo handlers and other entities involved
in the sector, to establish standardized practices and
ensure compliance with safety and other norms.
Inland Waterways Transport Authority (IWTA)
 Formed: 27 October 1986
 Type: Statutory authority
 Headquarters: Noida, Uttar Pradesh
 Chairman: Sanjay Bandopadhyay
 Parent department: Ministry of Ports, Shipping
and Waterways
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UP to host India's first MotoGP racing event
Uttar Pradesh is set to host the country's first MotoGP
racing event at the Buddha international circuit in
Greater Noida on September 22 and 23. This marks
the return of a major motorsport event in India after
the departure of Formula 1 in 2013. Top officials from
MotoGP's had visited India in September last year to
sign a seven-year MoU with Indian race promoters
Fairstreet Sports (FSS).
Uttar Pradesh:
 Capital: Lucknow
 Governor: Anandiben Patel
 Chief minister: Yogi Adityanath
 Official bird: Sarus crane
 Flower: Palash
 Mammal: Barasingha
 Tree: Ashoka
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Society
renamed as Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library
Society
The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Society
housed in Teen Murti Bhavan premises has been
renamed by the government as Prime Ministers'
Museum and Library Society. The move to rename the
Society comes nearly a year after the Pradhanmantri
Sangrahalaya was inaugurated on the premises of the
Teen Murti Bhavan, which served as the official
residence of first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Prime Minister Shri Modi had mooted the idea of
setting up of a museum dedicated to all the Prime
Ministers of India on Teen Murti Premises, New Delhi
in 2016.
Minister Dharmendra Pradhan flags off Gabon’s
first Agri-SEZ Project
Union Minister of Education, Dharmendra Pradhan
has flagged off the first Agri- SEZ project of Gabon
from New Delhi. This project will be implemented by
the AOM group with Centurion University as the
technical and knowledge partner. In the first phase 30
farmers and 20 B. Sc. /M. Sc. Agri and B. Tech/M.
Tech Engineering students from Gajapati district,
Odisha will be traveling together as agri-technical and
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technical consultants for the agriculture SEZ. "Anti-
colonial solidarity, diasporic goodwill, and the
principle of 'South-South' cooperation, among others,
are also playing a significant role in strengthening the
partnership between India and the African continent.
Being a trusted partner in the journey of socio-
economic development, India has extended
concessional loans of over USD 12. 3 billion to Africa
and USD 700 mn of grant assistance with
development projects in various sectors.
Gabon:
 Capital: Libreville
 Currency: Central African CFA franc
 President: Ali Bongo Ondimba
India to host IIAS Annual Conference 2025 at
Kochi, Kerala
India will host the 2025 International Institute of
Administrative Sciences (IIAS) Annual Conference at
Kochi, Kerala in February 2025. The theme for 2025
IIAS Annual Conference at Kochi is proposed as
“Next Generation Administrative Reforms -
Empowering the Citizens and Reaching the Last
Mile”. The aim is to elaborate the public
administration solutions to the policy challenges of the
day.
Government approves over Rs 89,000 crore revival
package for BSNL
Union Cabinet has approved the third revival package
for BSNL with a total outlay of 89,047 crore rupees,
includes an allotment of 4G/5G spectrum through
equity infusion. The authorised capital of BSNL will
be increased from 1,50,000 crore rupees to 2,10,000
crore rupees. BSNL will emerge as a stable telecom
service provider focused on providing connectivity to
the remotest parts of India. The government first
announced a Rs 69,000-crore revival package for
BSNL in October 2019. Last year, it approved a
second revival package to the tune of Rs 1. 64 trillion,
of which a small part was for MTNL.
Cabinet approves to establish Regional Office of
Universal Postal Union in New Delhi
The Cabinet approved to establish Regional Office of
the Universal Postal Union, UPU, in New Delhi. The
aim is to undertake UPU’s development cooperation
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and technical assistance activities in the region by
entering into an agreement with UPU.
Odisha Government Announces 'Mo Ghara'
Scheme
The Odisha government has launched a 'Mo Ghara’
(My House) scheme to provide credit-linked financial
assistance to beneficiaries who face a fund crunch to
complete or upgrade their houses. The scheme will
cover all such families who were left out in the
existing housing schemes. Under the scheme, a
beneficiary can avail housing loan upto Rs. 3 Lakh
which can be repaid in 10 years excluding 1 year
moratorium period in easy instalments. They can opt
for one of the four slabs of the loan amount - Rs. 1
Lakh, 1. 5 Lakh,2 Lakh and 3 Lakh. As per the Odisha
government a family staying in a kutcha house or one
pucca house with RCC roof and has income below Rs
25,000 per month will be eligible for the scheme.
Odisha:
 Capital: Bhubaneswar
 Chief minister: Naveen Patnaik
 Governor: Ganeshi Lal
Maharashtra farmers to get Rs 6,000 per annum
under new scheme
Maharashtra government has approved a new
financial scheme under which more than one crore
farmers in the state will be paid 6,000 rupees annually.
The scheme, Namo Shetkari Mahasanman Yojana,
was approved at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief
Minister Eknath Shinde. The amount is in addition to
6,000 rupees being paid to farmers by the Centre
under the PM Kisan Yojana. Maharashtra Cabinet also
approved implementation of 'Gender Inclusive
Tourism Policy called 'Aai' to empower women in the
tourism sector.
Mansukh Mandaviya unveils National Medical
Device Policy 2023 and launches another pharma
related schemes
The union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya
unveiled the National Medical Devices Policy, 2023,
and launched the Export Promotion Council for
Medical Devices along with Assistance for Medical
Devices clusters for Common Facilities (AMD-CF).
This scheme aims to establish and strengthen common
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infrastructure facilities in the medical devices clusters
and fortify testing facilities for medical devices.
Following the inaugural session, a CEO roundtable
was chaired by Dr. Mandaviya that facilitated
stakeholders in deliberating on the existing issues as
well as discussing avenues for growth of the sector on
a national as well international forum. The Union
Health Minister engaged with the stakeholders
holding an in-depth consultation with them and urged
the participants to brainstorm the ideas on various
fronts - policy, economic, research and innovation.
Himachal CM announces Rs 250 cr for Dhagwar
milk processing plant
Himachal Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu
said that Rs 250 crore will be invested to upgrade the
facilities of the Dhagwar milk processing plant in
Kangra district. The state government aims to collect
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milk from cattle herders and sell milk products to
boost the rural economy. In line with this objective,
the government is launching the 'Him-Ganga' scheme,
which focuses on developing a milk-based economy
in the state. Under the 'Him-Ganga' scheme, cattle
rearers will receive fair prices for their milk and milk
products, based on actual costs. A provision of Rs.
500 crore has been allocated for the 'Him-Ganga'
scheme, starting with a pilot project connecting
farmers before expanding to other areas.
Himachal Pradesh
 Chief minister: Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu
 Governor: Shiv Pratap Shukla
 Capitals: Shimla (Summer), Dharamshala
(Winter)
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International Events
International Events
Philippines Senate approves first-ever sovereign
investment fund
The Philippines Senate approved a bill establishing
the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF), the country's
first-ever sovereign investment fund. The Maharlika
Investment Fund, which shall be the country's first-
ever sovereign investment fund, is designed to
promote economic development by making strategic
and profitable investments in key sectors. In the near
and medium term, the MIF will widen the country's
fiscal space and ease pressures in financing public
infrastructure projects. The Philippines' main finance
mechanisms for infrastructure projects include the
national budget, public-private partnership
arrangements, and official development assistance.
Philippines:
 Capital: Manila
 President: Bongbong Marcos
 Currency: Philippine peso
Iran, Saudi Arabia to resume postal cooperation
Iran’s National Post Company said that postal
cooperation with Saudi Arabia will resume following
this year’s Hajj pilgrimage, which will end on July 1.
Iran in face-to-face talks with President of the Saudi
Post Corporation expressed Iran’s readiness for the
resumption of the bilateral postal cooperation, which
was welcomed by the Saudi side. Iran suspended its
postal cooperation with Saudi Arabia after the two
countries severed diplomatic ties in 2016.
After attending China-brokered talks, Iran and Saudi
Arabia in April announced the resumption of
diplomatic relations with immediate effect.
Saudi Arabia
 Capital: Riyadh
 Currency: Saudi Riyal
Iran
 Capital: Tehran
 Supreme leader: Ali Khamenei
 Official language: Persian
Russia’s Sberbank launches Indian rupee accounts
for individuals
Russia’s dominant lender, Sberbank has launched
Indian rupee accounts for individuals. The aim is to
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expand the range of foreign currencies available to
reduce dependency on the U. S. dollar and euro.
Sberbank has more than 100 million retail clients and
already offers deposits in China’s yuan and UAE
dirhams. Rupee accounts would also be available to
clients. Sberbank would also raise rates on dirham
deposits by 100 basis points for a six-week period.
Sberbank:
 Founded: 22 March 1991
 Headquarters: Moscow, Russia
 Chairman-Supervisory Board: Anton
Germanovich Siluanov
 Chief Executive Officer & Member-Supervisory
Board: Herman Gref
World Bank launches its first road safety project
in South Asia
The World Bank (WB) launched its first dedicated
road safety project in South Asia with a USD 358
million financing agreement signed in Dhaka with the
government of Bangladesh. The project seeks to
improve road safety and reduce fatalities and injuries
from road crashes in selected cities, high-risk
highways, and district roads.
World Bank:
 Established: July 7, 1944 (78 years ago)
 Headquarters: Washington, D. C. , U. S.
 Membership: 189 countries(IBRD), 174 countries
(IDA)
 President: Ajay Banga
 MD: Axel van Trotsenburg
 MD and CFO: Anshula Kant
 Chief Economist: Indermit Gill
First IIT in Tanzania to open in October 2023
In October 2023, the Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT) will open its first overseas campus in Tanzania.
The campus, named IIT Madras at Zanzibar, will
enrol 50 undergraduate and 20 master's students. It
will be one of the three international campuses of the
IIT, with two others being opened in Abu Dhabi and
Kuala Lumpur.
Tanzania:
 Capital: Dodoma
 President: Samia Suluhu Hassan
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 Prime Minister: Kassim Majaliwa
 Currency: Tanzanian shilling
India extends $1 billion credit line to Sri Lanka by
another year
India extended its $1 billion credit line to Sri Lanka
by another year to help the country reeling under an
economic crisis to procure food, medicine and other
essential items. An agreement was signed between
the State Bank of India (SBI) and the Sri Lankan
government for $1 billion credit facility in March last
year. India extended multi-pronged assistance of about
USD 4 billion to Sri Lanka last year, through multiple
credit lines and currency support, in line with India’s
‘Neighbourhood First’ policy.
Sri Lanka:
 Capitals: Colombo, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
 Prime minister: Dinesh Gunawardena
 President: Ranil Wickremesinghe
 Currency: Sri Lankan Rupee
Nepal Approves Second Hydropower Project to Be
Developed by India
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Nepal decided to allow India’s Satluj Jal Vidyut
Nigam (SJVN) Limited to develop a second
hydropower project in the country. At present SJVN
is developing a 900-MW Arun -III hydroelectric
project, a run-of-river located on the Arun River in
Eastern Nepal, scheduled to be completed in 2024. A
meeting of the Investment Board Nepal (IBN) chaired
by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda
approved the draft project development agreement
(PDA) to be signed with India’s state-owned SJVN to
develop the 669-megawatt (MW) Lower Arun
Hydropower project in eastern Nepal. The draft needs
to be endorsed by the Council of Ministers before it
gets implemented. The previous meeting of the IBN
had approved Rs 92. 68 billion investment for the
development of the project. The development of this
669-MW transformative project will prove to be a
milestone for the socio-economic development of the
country. The SJVN has formed a local company,
Lower Arun Power Development Company, in Nepal.
Nepal:
 Capital: Kathmandu
 President: Ram Chandra Poudel
 Prime minister: Pushpa Kamal Dahal
 Currency: Nepalese Rupee
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Banking & Economy
Banking & Economy
Airtel Payments Bank offers customers health
insurance through Care tie-up
Airtel Payments Bank has partnered with Care Health
Insurance to offer health insurance products to its
customer via the Airtel Thanks app. Customers of
APB, the payments banking arm of Bharti Airtel, will
have access to family health insurance products with a
host of sum-insured options, ranging from Rs 50,000
to Rs 5 lakh. The offerings will include coverage for
pre-existing ailments and daycare treatment.
Customers can opt for health insurance services
through the Airtel Thanks app and pay using an APB
account, net banking or debit cards of other banks.
According to the NITI Aayog report, nearly 30% of
India's population is devoid of any health insurance
backup.
Airtel Payments Bank:
 Founded: 2016
 Headquarters: New Delhi, India
 MD & CEO: Anubrata Biswas
Care Health Insurance:
 Founded: 2012
 Headquarters: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
 Non-Executive Chairperson: Dr. Rashmi Saluja
 MD & CEO: Anuj Gulati
Fitch raises India's GDP forecast to 6. 3% for
current fiscal year
Fitch Ratings has raised its forecast for India's
economic growth to 6. 3% for the current fiscal year
2023-24 from 6%. This is primarily because of a
stronger outturn in the first quarter and near-term
momentum. The growth forecast compares with a 7.
2% GDP expansion in FY23. It estimated growth of 6.
5% each for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 fiscal years.
The Fitch stated that the GDP growth in January-
March was higher than expected.
Fitch Ratings:
 Founded: 1914
 Founder: John Knowles Fitch
 Headquarters: UK
 CEO : Paul Taylor
 President: Ian Linnell
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SEBI imposed a 2-yr ban on IIFL Securities
SEBI has banned India Infoline Ltd (IIFL) Securities
from onboarding new clients for two years.
According to SEBI's order in the matter, the ban has
been imposed as IIFL Securities failed to segregate its
own funds from clients' funds and misused credit
balances in clients' funds for benefit of clients having
debit balance.
India Infoline:
 Industry: Financial Services
 Founded: 1995
 Headquarter: Mumbai, India
 Founder Nirmal Jain
 Chairman: Nirmal Jain
 Group Managing Director: R Venkataraman
Kotak Mahindra Bank launches 'ActivMoney',
auto sweep account
Kotak Mahindra Bank has launched its ActivMoney
feature, an auto sweep feature that is offered by other
banks, including Axis Bank and IndusInd Bank. This
feature gives customers the benefit of FD like interest
up to 7% per annum, and the flexibility to access their
funds at any time from the linked savings account. It
allows a savings account holder to earn higher interest
as offered in FDs while retaining the liquidity offered
by a saving account. This is an auto sweep feature that
is offered by several other banks, including Axis
Bank, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and IndusInd Bank.
What is an auto sweep feature?
As and when the balance in the savings or current
account crosses a preset threshold, the excess amount
is automatically used to open FDs for a pre-
determined tenure (also called sweep-out). Similarly,
when the savings account balance falls below a pre-
determined limit, the linked FD(s) are automatically
closed and the proceeds credited to the savings
account to make up the deficit (also called sweep-in).
The threshold limit for sweep-out varies. As this FD
is linked to your savings account, you can access the
funds whenever you wish to, with no penalty charges.
For instance, at Axis Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank,
the required threshold amount in the savings account
is Rs 25,000, at ICICI Bank its Rs 15,000, and at
IndusInd Bank its Rs 20,000.
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Paytm UPI SDK brings India's fastest UPI
payments for merchant apps
One97 Communications Limited (OCL) that owns
leading payments and financial services company
Paytm, brought Paytm UPI software development kit
(SDK) for its merchants, a game-changing product
that enables quick, one step UPI payments that never
fail. With UPI Lite and now Paytm UPI SDK, the
company is now offering its two-sided ecosystem of
consumers and merchants fail-proof UPI payments.
An industry-first solution designed for apps, Paytm
UPI SDK ensures fail-proof, superfast UPI payments
directly from the merchant's app.
IRDAI licences Go Digit Life Insurance to
commence business
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
of India (IRDAI) has granted a certificate of
registration to Go Digit Life Insurance Limited (Digit
Life Insurance) to commence life insurance business
in India. Oben Ventures LLP (promoted by Kamesh
Goyal) and FAL Corporation (having Fairfax
Financial Holdings Limited as its ultimate parent
company) are the promoters of Digit Life Insurance.
Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited is listed on the
Toronto Stock Exchange. The Company has also
executed definitive agreements with Axis Bank
Limited and HDFC Bank Limited for the acquisition
of 9. 94 each in the equity share capital of Go Digit
Life Insurance (by way of a share subscription).
IRDAI:
 Founded: 1999
 Sector: Insurance
 Headquarters: Hyderabad
 Type: Statutory corporation
 Chairperson: Debasish Panda
RBI maintains status quo, keeping repo rate
unchanged at 6.5%; Also retains GDP growth
forecast for fiscal 2023-2024 at 6. 5 percent
RBI announced its second bi-monthly policy of this
fiscal and as expected the apex bank preferred to
maintain status quo by keeping the key rates
unchanged. Monetary Policy Committee decided to
keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 6.5%,
consequently, the Standing Deposit Facility (SDF
rate) remains at 6.25% and the marginal standing
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facility and the bank rates stand at 6.75%. The MPC
also decided by a majority of five out of six members
to remain focused on the withdrawal of
accommodation to ensure that inflation progressively
aligns with the target while supporting growth. In
India Consumer Price Inflation eased during March-
April 2023 and moved into the tolerance band,
declining from 6.7% in 2022-23. Headline inflation,
however, is still above the target as per the latest data
and is expected to remain so according to our
projections for 2023-24. He said that as per our
assessment, inflation will remain above 4%
throughout 2023-24. Shaktikant Das said that taking
into account all factors and assuming a normal
monsoon, CPI headline inflation is projected at 5.1%
for 2023-24. The RBI MPC has kept the GDP growth
rate at 6.5 percent. It said on a quarterly basis, the
GDP growth rate stands at 8% in Q1FY 24, 6.5% in
Q2 FY24, 6% in Q3FY24, and 5.7% in Q4 FY24.
RBI Permits Banks To Issue Rupay Prepaid Forex
Cards
In order to expand payment options for Indians
travelling abroad, the Reserve Bank of India on
Thursday decided to allow issuance of RuPay Prepaid
Forex cards by banks in India for use at ATMs, PoS
machines and online merchants overseas. Further,
RuPay Debit, Credit, and Prepaid Cards will be
enabled for issuance in foreign jurisdictions, which
can be used internationally, including in India. The
decision comes in view of RuPay Debit and Credit
cards issued by banks in India gaining international
acceptance through bilateral arrangements with
international partners and co-badging arrangements
with international card schemes.
BoB launches facility for cash withdrawals using
UPI on its ATMs
Bank of Baroda has launched Interoperable Cardless
Cash Withdrawal (ICCW) facility, in which a
customer can withdraw cash using UPI from the
bank's ATMs. It would be the first public sector bank
to launch this service. BoB customers as well as
customers of other participating issuer banks that use
BHIM UPI, Bob World UPI, or any other UPI
application enabled for ICCW on their mobile phone
can withdraw cash from a Bank of Baroda ATM
without using their debit card.
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Bank of Baroda:
 Founded: 20 July 1908
 Founder: Sayajirao Gaikwad III
 Headquarters: Vadodara, Gujarat, India
 Chairman: Hasmukh Adhia
 MD & CEO: Debadatta Chand
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das launches Financial
Inclusion Dashboard - ANTARDRIHSTI
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das, launched a Financial
Inclusion Dashboard - ANTARDRIHSTI. As the
name suggests, the dashboard will provide the
required insight to assess and monitor the progress of
financial inclusion by capturing relevant parameters.
This facility will also enable the ability to gauge the
extent of financial exclusion at granular levels across
the country so that such areas can be addressed. The
dashboard, presently intended for internal use in the
RBI, will further facilitate greater financial inclusion
through a multi-stakeholder approach.
JPMorgan hikes India's FY24 GDP forecast to 5.
5%
J. P. Morgan raised its forecast for India's annual
growth by 50 basis points to 5.5% for fiscal 2024, but
warned that a global economic slowdown and tighter
financial conditions will still drag the economy. The
change comes after growth in India's gross domestic
product (GDP) accelerated to 6.1% in the March
quarter, government data showed, boosted by
government and private capital spending even as
private consumption remained sluggish. The economy
also grew at a better-than-expected 7.2% for fiscal
2023. The Indian government revised its full-year
growth estimate for the current financial year to 7.2%
from 7% on Wednesday, above the Reserve Bank of
India's estimate of 7%. India's economy grew 9.1% in
fiscal 2022.
RBI launches '100 Days 100 Pays' to return
unclaimed deposits
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) launched '100 Days
100 Pays' campaign to trace and settle the top 100
unclaimed deposits of every bank in every district
within 100 days. The central bank terms balances in
current / savings accounts which are not operated for
10 years, or term deposits not claimed within 10 years
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from the date of maturity as “unclaimed deposits”.
These amounts are transferred by banks to the
Depositor Education and Awareness (DEA) fund
maintained by the RBI. Banks display the list of
unclaimed deposits on their website. State Bank of
India (SBI), the country's largest lender, tops the chart
of unclaimed deposits worth Rs 8,086 crore followed
by Punjab National Bank Rs 5,340 crore and Canara
Bank Rs 4,558 crore.
Razorpay unveils India's fastest one-step payments
solution Turbo UPI
Razorpay has launched ‘Turbo UPI’, which claimed
India's fastest one-step UPI (unified payments
interface) payment solution. It allows customers of
online merchants to make UPI payments directly
without getting redirected to a third-party UPI app
during checkout. Razorpay Turbo UPI aims to deliver
a 5X faster payment experience. It streamlines the
payment process and eliminates any redirection to
external apps. This helps businesses achieve a
significant increase in the success rate of UPI
payments by 10 per cent. This solution was
developed in partnership with NPCI and Axis Bank.
Razorpay Software Private Limited:
 Founders: Harshil Mathur, Shashank Kumar
 CEO: Harshil Mathur
 Founded: 2013
RBI fines Central Bank of India ₹84. 5 lakh over
fraud norms breach
The RBI has imposed a penalty of Rs 84. 50 lakh on
Central Bank of India (the bank) for non-compliance
with certain provisions of norms related to frauds
classification and reporting. The Reserve Bank had
conducted statutory inspection for supervisory
evaluation of the bank with reference to its financial
position as on March 31, 2021. Examination of the
reports revealed that the public sector lender had
failed to report as fraud to RBI certain accounts within
seven days of decision of Joint Lenders' Forum to
declare the accounts as fraud. It had recovered SMS
alert charges from its customers on flat basis rather
than on actual usage basis.
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MoU’s
MOU’sSigned
Signed
Indian Railways, USAID India sign MoU for
Renewable Energy
Indian Railways has signed an MoU with the United
States Agency for International Development/India
(USAID/India) for collaboration on Renewable energy
and Energy Efficiency. The collaboration of Indian
Railways with USAID, India will go a long way in
helping Indian Railways to achieve Net Zero Carbon
Emission by 2030. As part of its commitment to
reduce carbon footprints, Indian Railways is taking
several initiatives. USAID is an agency of the U. S.
Government that supports international development
and advances its Mission objectives by supporting
economic growth, agriculture and trade, clean energy,
climate change mitigation and adaptation, global
health, democracy and conflict mitigation and
management, and humanitarian assistance.
United States Agency for International
Development (USAID):
 Formed: 1961
 Headquarters: Washington, D. C. , U. S.
 Administrator: Samantha Power
US Company GE Aerospace signs MoU with HAL
to produce fighter jet engines for Indian Air Force
US aerospace major, GE Aerospace, has signed a
Memorandum of Understanding with Indian aerospace
company Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, to produce
fighter jet engines for the Indian Air Force. This
major decision has come at a time when Prime
Minister Narendra Modi is on an official visit to the
United States. According to the agreement, GE
Aerospace’s F414 engines will be co-produced in the
country to power the Indian Air Force’s Light Combat
Aircraft Mk2. According to GE Aerospace, eight
F414 engines have been delivered as part of an
ongoing development programme for LCA Mk2. In
addition, GE will continue to collaborate with the
Indian Government on the Advanced Medium Combat
Aircraft Mk2 engine programme.
GE Aerospace:
 Founded: 1917
 Headquarters: Evendale, Ohio, United States
 President & CEO: H. Lawrence Culp Jr.
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HAL:
 Headquarters: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
 Chairperson & MD: CB Ananthakrishnan
Intel and Germany sign agreement for $32. 8
billion chip plant investment
Intel has signed an agreement with the German
government for investing more than 30 billion euros
($32. 8 billion) in a chip manufacturing site in
Magdeburg, Germany. Intel has acquired the land for
two semiconductor facilities in Magdeburg in eastern
Germany in November 2022 and is expected to start
production in four or five years.
Germany:
 Capital: Berlin
 President: Frank-Walter Steinmeier
 Currency: Euro
Intel:
It is one of the world's largest semiconductor chip
manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers
of the x86 series of instruction sets found in most
personal computers (PCs).
 Founded: 1968
 Headquarters: California, U. S.
 Chairman: Frank D. Yeary
 CEO: Pat Gelsinger
Morocco, Israel ink MoU to strengthen
cooperation in health sector
Morocco and Israel have inked a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation in the
health sector. The MoU would help facilitate the
exchange of expertise and best practices in medical
and technological innovation, and the fight against
non-communicable diseases. Since the normalisation
of their relations in December 2020, Israel and
Morocco have stepped up cooperation in various
fields. In January, the two countries agreed to expand
military cooperation in areas including intelligence,
air defence and electronic warfare.
Morocco:
 Capital: Rabat
 Currency: Moroccan Dirham
 Prime Minister: Aziz Akhannouch
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Israel:
 Capital: Jerusalem
 President: Isaac Herzog
 Prime Minister: Benjamin Netanyahu
 Currency: New shekel
HCL Foundation signs MoU with NCUI to train
over 5000 women & youth from marginalised
communities
HCL Foundation has partnered with the National
Cooperative Union of India (NCUI) to train over
5,000 women, youths and artisans from marginalized
communities for sustainable income-generating
opportunities. As per the Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU), HCL Foundation and NCUI’s
Centre for Entrepreneurship Development and
Cooperation (CEDC) will set up a livelihood-cum-
entrepreneurship development centre in Noida. Over
the next three years, NCUI and HCL Foundation will
develop and provide training infrastructure, market
platforms and branding support to self-help groups
(SHGs) and cooperatives across India. Through the
tie-up, HCL Foundation and CEDC will help increase
the employability of women and youth in the private
sector and other organizations. HCL Foundation
(HCLF) was established in 2011 as the Corporate
Social responsibility arm of HCLTech in India.
HCLTech:
 Founded: 11 August 1976
 Founder: Shiv Nadar
 Headquarters: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
 Chairperson: Roshni Nadar Malhotra
 CEO: C Vijayakumar
Defence Ministry signs Rs 500 cr contract to
strengthen Indian Army’s communication system
The Defence Ministry signed a contract of 500 crore
rupees with an indigenous firm for the supply of
Radio Relay Containers to strengthen the Indian
Army’s communication system. The contract was
signed with ICOMM Tele Limited of Hyderabad for
the procurement of more than one thousand Radio
Relay Communication equipment containers. The
Radio Relay Containers will address a long overdue
requirement of mobile communication detachments of
the Indian Army. These containers will be utilised to
provide a protected environment for communication
equipment. The containers would be mounted on
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authorised specialist vehicles and moved as per
operational requirements. This will give a further
boost to the indigenous manufacturing of defence
equipment and stimulate the private sector to actively
engage in realising the vision of a self-reliant India.
The development of such state-of-the-art equipment
will also help in boosting exports to friendly countries.
IT Ministry and Google join hands to boost online
cyber safety in India
Google and the IT Ministry have announced an
extended collaboration to promote online cyber safety
awareness among citizens in India. With a massive
user base of over 700 million Indians using the
internet, it is crucial to ensure inclusivity and safety
for all. The collaboration between Google and the
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
(MeitY) aims to amplify the 'Stay Safe Online'
campaign through various initiatives. These
initiatives include literacy programs focused on cyber
safety, multilingual digital content addressing online
safety concerns, and educational materials guiding
users on navigating online information. Google will
raise awareness on the fundamentals of online safety
through the ‘Be Internet Awesome’ programme,
sharing helpful content covering a wide range of
online safety topics.
 Founded: September 4, 1998
 Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin
 Headquarters: California, U. S.
 CEO: Sundar Pichai
 CFO: Ruth Porat
 CEO of Google Cloud: Thomas Kurian
AIIMS Delhi inks MoU with SMSIMSR to jointly
work in healthcare education
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
Delhi has signed a memorandum of understanding
(MoU) with India's first free medical college, Sri
Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and
Research (SMSIMSR), to jointly work for
undergraduate and postgraduate education in
healthcare. Both AIIMS and SMSIMSR will strive to
promote and promulgate modules of teaching
methodology, to work on and facilitate projects of
national importance in healthcare services with a
special focus on primary healthcare, preventive health
and telemedicine to give combined impetus and
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augment research and innovation, and to promote and
enhance scientific and academic collaboration,
training, and interaction in healthcare services and
medical education. On March 25, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi had inaugurated SMSIMSR, a totally-
free medical college built at a cost of Rs 400 crore at
Muddenahalli, Karnataka.
AIIMS Delhi:
 Established: 1956
 President: Mansukh Mandaviya
 Dean: Neena Khanna
 Director: Dr. M Srinivas
Tata Steel, Germany’s SMS Group join hands for
decarbonisation project
Tata Steel Limited and Germany’s SMS group have
signed an MoU to collaborate on the decarbonization
of steel making process. Under this MoU, the
companies shall undertake further technical
discussions and initiate actions for conducting Joint
Industrial Demonstration of the EASyMelt technology
(developed by SMS group). The demonstration will be
executed at ‘E’ Blast Furnace in Tata Steel’s
Jamshedpur plant with an objective to reduce CO2
emission. The EASyMelt (electric-assisted syngas
smelter) technology is a cutting-edge ironmaking
solution that can be implemented in an existing
integrated steel plant to accelerate decarbonisation.
The core of the technology utilises blast furnace top
gas recycling for syngas production through reforming
of coke oven gas. The resulting syngas is then
injected at both shaft and tuyere levels, with the gas
injected at the tuyere level further being heated using
a plasma torch system.
Note: Tata Steel is the first steel maker in the country
to receive the coveted ‘ResponsibleSteel Certification’
for its Jamshedpur plant, placing India on the global
decarbonisation and sustainability map.
Tata Steel:
 Founded: 26 August 1907
 Founder: Jamsetji Tata, Dorabji Tata
 Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
 Chairperson: Natarajan Chandrasekaran
 Vice Chairman: Noel Tata
 CEO & Managing Director: T. V. Narendran
India, UAE to raise non-petroleum trade to $100
bn by 2030
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Union cabinet minister Piyush Goyal announced India
and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have agreed to
raise non-petroleum bilateral trade worth $100 billion
by 2030. Major imported items by India from UAE
include petroleum crude (US$ 12,756 million)
followed by petroleum products (US$ 6,862 million).
CEPA which was signed between the two nations has
earlier offered various benefits to the two nations.
The agreement covers almost all the tariff lines dealt
in by India (11,908 tariff lines) and the UAE (7581
tariff lines) respectively. In the last fiscal, foreign
direct investment (FDI) from the UAE to India
jumped over three-fold to USD 3. 35 billion from
USD 1. 03 billion in 2021-22, the data of the
Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal
Trade (DPIIT) showed. UAE's investments in India
are mainly in sectors like services, sea transport,
power and construction activities. Major imported
items by India from UAE include petroleum crude
(US$ 12,756 million) followed by petroleum products
(US$ 6,862 million), etc. during April-November
2022.
UAE:
 Capital: Abu Dhabi
 Prime minister: Mohammed bin Rashid Al
Maktoum
 Currency: Dirham
Bangladesh, World Bank ink deals to boost
climate-resilient agriculture
The Bangladesh government and the World Bank
signed two financing deals totaling $858 million to
enhance climate-resilient agricultural growth, food
security and road safety improvement. One agreement
concerns a program on Agricultural and Rural
Transformation for Nutrition, Entrepreneurship and
Resilience that will help transform Bangladesh's
agriculture sector by promoting crop diversification,
food safety and climate resilience. The program will
support sustainable and nutritious food production
through greater efficiency in input use, good
agriculture practices, and the promotion of stress-
tolerant and nutrient-dense varieties. The other
agreement on Road Safety Project, the first dedicated
road safety project in South Asia supported by the
World Bank, will help the country improve road
safety in selected high-risk highways and district
roads.
Bangladesh:
 Capital: Dhaka
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 Prime minister: Sheikh Hasina
 President: Mohammed Shahabuddin
 Currency: Bangladeshi Taka
India and Nepal sign seven agreements in various
fields
India and Nepal signed seven agreements in the fields
including trade and commerce, cross-border
petroleum pipeline, development of Integrated Check
Posts, hydroelectric projects and payment
mechanisms. The agreements were signed after
delegation-level talks between Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa
Kamal Dahal Prachanda in New Delhi. Both Prime
Ministers jointly flagged off the Indian Railway cargo
train from Bathnaha to Nepal Customs yard. They also
inaugurated an integrated Check Post between
Rupaidiha-Nepalgunj and Sunauli-Bhairahawa. They
also laid the foundation stone of the Motihari-
Amlekhguj Oil Pipeline - Phase 2 project. The two
leaders also initiated the construction work of the
Gorakhpur-New Butwal sub- station 400 kv cross-
border transmission line.
Nepal:
 Prime minister: Pushpa Kamal Dahal
 President: Ram Chandra Poudel
 Capital: Kathmandu
 Currency: Nepalese Rupee
Israel, Morocco ink deals to strengthen
transportation cooperation
Israel and Morocco signed three agreements to
strengthen cooperation in the transportation sector.
The first of the three agreements focuses on maritime
trade cooperation. The second agreement deals with
road safety and innovation. The third agreement is
about mutual recognition and conversion of driver's
licenses.
Israel:
 Prime minister: Benjamin Netanyahu
 Capital: Jerusalem
 Currency: New shekel
Morocco:
 Capital: Rabat
 Currency: Moroccan Dirham
 Prime Minister: Aziz Akhannouch
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ADB, India signed agreement for development of
infrastructure in Andhra
Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Indian
government signed a USD 141. 12-million loan to
support the development of high-quality internal
infrastructure in Andhra Pradesh (AP). The funding is
for construction of roads, water supply systems and
electricity distribution network in three industrial
clusters in the state. This financing is part of a larger
$500 million multi-tranche financing facility (MFF)
approved by ADB in 2016 to enhance infrastructure in
the Visakhapatnam and Srikalahasthi-Chittoor nodes.
Asian Development Bank:
 Formation: 19 December 1966
 Purpose: Social and Economic Development
 Headquarters: Mandaluyong, Philippines
 Membership: 68 countries
 President: Masatsugu Asakawa
Reliance completes acquisition of 51% stake in
Lotus Chocolate Company
Reliance Consumer Products (RCPL), the fast-moving
consumer goods (FMCG) arm of Reliance Retail
Ventures (RRVL) has finalised the acquisition of a
controlling stake in Lotus Chocolate Company Ltd.
RCPL completed the acquisition of a 51 per cent
shareholding in Lotus Chocolate for an aggregate
consideration of Rs 74 crore. RCPL took sole control
of the company with effect from May 24, 2023.
Background:
RCPL announced in late December that it will acquire
51 per cent of Lotus Chocolate Company for Rs 74
crore and will also buy another 26 per cent in an open
offer. The chocolate company posted sales of Rs 87
crore during the year ended March 2022, with a net
profit of Rs six crore.
Reliance Consumer Products Limited
 Parent organization: Reliance Retail Ventures
Limited
 Subsidiary: Sosyo Hajoori Beverages Private
Limited
 Founded: 2022
India and US sign Artemis Accord to take Space
cooperation to new heights
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's State Visit to the
United States has witnessed the first major agreement
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as India decided to join Artemis Accords. The signing
of "Artemis Accords '' and Joint Indo-US mission to
the International Space Station in 2024 will provide a
new momentum to the space sector. It is a common
vision with USA and other countries via principles,
guidelines and best practices. India-US will develop a
framework for joint mission to the International Space
Station in 2024. Micron will invest 800 Million US
Dollars with additional financial support from Indian
government. ISRO is likely to team up with NASA as
it plans to return to the moon with a manned mission
by 2025.
Artemis Accords :
The Artemis Accords was signed on October 13, 2020
by eight founder nations - Australia, Canada, Italy,
Japan, Luxembourg, UAE, UK and the United States.
The Artemis Accord is a non-binding agreement with
no financial commitments. It aims at enhancing the
governance of the civil exploration and use of outer
space with intension of advancing the Artemis
program.
India and UAE signed a Mutual Recognition
Arrangement for Authorized Economic Operators
The agreement was formally inked on the sidelines of
the 141st/142nd sessions of the World Customs
Organization's (WCO) Customs Co-operation Council
meeting held in Brussels.
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In a move aimed at promoting greater trade
facilitation and ease of doing business, India and the
United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed a Mutual
Recognition Arrangement for Authorized Economic
Operators. The Mutual Recognition Arrangement
establishes a framework that enables the recognition
of Authorized Economic Operators (AEOs) from both
countries. By mutually recognizing the AEO status,
India and the UAE seek to streamline and expedite
customs procedures, reducing administrative burden
and costs for authorized businesses. The Mutual
recognition arrangement comes as the continuation of
historic India-United Arab Emirates Comprehensive
Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA, which was
signed between the two nations on 18 February 2022
and officially came into force on 1 May 2022. CEPA
is expected to increase the total value of bilateral trade
in goods to over 100 billion US Dollars and trade in
services to over 15 billion US Dollars within five
years.
UAE:
 Capital: Abu Dhabi
 President: Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
 Prime Minister: Mohammed bin Rashid Al
Maktoum
 Currency: UAE dirham
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Awards
Awards &
& Recognition
Recognitions
IOC awards Olympic Order to WHO Director-
General Tedros Ghebreyesus
The International Olympic Committee (IOC)
presented the Director-General of the World Health
Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, with
the Olympic Order for his inspirational role in
ensuring the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 took place
despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Leading the WHO, Dr
Tedros supported the cooperation agreement between
the IOC and the WHO signed in 2020. At the same
time, the IOC honoured the WHO, as an organisation,
with the Olympic Cup for 2021.
IOC:
 Headquarters: Lausanne, Switzerland
 President: Thomas Bach
 Founded: 23 June 1894, Paris, France
 Director General: Christophe De Kepper
 Founders: Pierre de Coubertin, D. Bikélas
Author Salman Rushdie awarded the prestigious
German Peace Prize in 2023
British-American author, Salman Rushdie has been
selected for the prestigious German Peace Prize 2023
for his literary work and his resolve and positive
attitude in the face of constant danger. The Peace
Prize of the German Book Trade, endowed with
€25,000 ($27,300), will be handed out in a ceremony
in October during the Frankfurt Book Fair. Last year,
the award went to Ukrainian author Serhiy Zhadan.
This prize was established in 1950 to recognize a
personality committed to serving international
understanding between nations and cultures through
their work.
Acharya Gopi to be conferred with first Prof.
Jayashankar Award
Eminent poet, literary critic and Sahitya Akademi
Award recipient Acharya N. Gopi has been selected
for Prof. Kothapalli Jayashankar Award instituted by
Bharat Jagruthi, a cultural organisation and extended
arm of Bharat Rashtra Samithi. Professor N Gopi is
the first person to get the award. He will be presented
with a cash award of Rs. 1,01,116 and Swarna
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Kankanam. The award has been instituted earlier this
year for honouring the littérateurs every year.
Gita Press to get Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021
The Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2021 is being
conferred on Gita Press, Gorakhpur. Gandhi Peace
Prize is an annual award instituted by the government
in 1995, on the occasion of the 125th Birth
Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. It is a tribute to the
ideals espoused by Mahatma Gandhi. The award is
open to all persons regardless of nationality, race,
language, caste, creed or gender. The award carries
an amount of one crore rupees, a citation and a plaque.
The award will be given to Gita Press in recognition
of its outstanding contribution to social, economic and
political transformation through non-violent and other
Gandhian methods.
Gita Press:
Gita Press is one of the world’s largest publishers,
having published over 41 crore books in 14 languages,
including over 16 crore Shrimad Bhagvad Gita.
 Founded: 1923
 Founder: Jay Dayal Goyanka, Ghanshyam Das
Jalan
 Headquarters: Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
Vice President to confer 4th National Water
Awards
The VP Jagdeep Dhankhar conferred the 4th National
Water Awards in New Delhi. The Department Water
Resources, River Development, and Ganga
Rejuvenation has announced a total of 41 winners.
The Best State award will be conferred to Madhya
Pradesh, while the Best District conferred on Ganjam
District, Odisha. Best Village Panchayat will be
conferred on Jagannadhapuram Village Panchayat,
Bhadradri Kothagudem district, Telangana; Best
Urban Local Body will be conferred on Chandigarh
Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh; Best Media will
be conferred on Advance Water Digest Private
Limited Gurugram, Haryana; Best School will be
conferred on Jamiyatpura Primary School, Mehsana,
Gujarat; Best Institution for Campus usage will be
conferred on Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board,
Reasi, Jammu and Kashmir; Best Industry will be
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conferred on Barauni Thermal Power Station,
Begusarai, Bihar; Best NGO will be conferred on
Arpan Seva Sansthan, Udaipur, Rajasthan; Best Water
User Association will be conferred on the Sanjeevani
Piyat Sahkari Mandli Ltd, Narmada, Gujarat; and Best
Industry for CSR Activities will be conferred on HCL
Technologies Ltd. , Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The 1st
National Water Awards were launched in 2018.
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das honoured with
‘Governor of the Year’ award
The Reserve Bank of India's Governor, Shaktikanta
Das was honored with the title of ‘Governor of the
Year 2023' by Central Banking in London. The award
recognised his role as the RBI chief in managing
inflation and skilfully handling India's banking system
during crises like COVID pandemic and global
turmoils. Das, who took the charge of the post in
December, 2018, is the second Central Bank governor
to be honoured with the award after Raghuram Rajan,
who bagged the title in 2015. Shaktikanta Das is
serving as the current & 25th governor of the Reserve
Bank of India (RBI). He was earlier a member of the
Fifteenth Finance Commission and India's Sherpa to
the G20. 'Central Banking', a London-based
organisation which definitively covers and analyses
issues around the world's central banks and financial
regulators.
Note: While the National Bank of Ukraine was
presented with the 2023 Central Bank of the Year.
Child rights advocate Lalitha Natarajan wins top
award of US Labor Department
Chennai-based lawyer and activist Lalitha Natarajan
has won US Department of Labor's 2023 Iqbal Masih
Award for the Elimination of Child Labour. In her
role as a member of the Child Welfare Committee
(North Zone), under the Department of Social
Defence, Tamil Nadu, Natarajan ensures victims
receive compensation under the Child Labor Act and
Protection of Children from Sexual Offences
(POCSO) Act . Besides working on child labour
issues, Lalitha also provides legal and counseling
support to victims of domestic violence and sexual
abuse.
Iqbal Masih Award:
The Iqbal Masih Award is a US Congress-mandated
award established by the Secretary of Labor in 2008
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that honors extraordinary contributions to combat
child labour. The award commemorates the World
Day Against Child Labour that is observed on June 12
every year to raise awareness and activism to prevent
child labour.
Ramachandra Guha's book wins Elizabeth
Longford Prize 2023
The book 'Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters
for India’s Freedom', authored by Ramachandra Guha
has won the Elizabeth Longford Prize 2023 for
Historical Biography. This book tells the story of
seven foreigners (4 British, 2 American, and 1 Iris)
who joined India’s freedom struggle. The list of
names includes Annie Besant, B. G. Horniman, Philip
Spratt, Richard Ralph Keithahn, Samuel Stokes,
Madeline Slade, and Catherine Mary Heilemann.
Guha has been awarded £5,000 (₹5 lakhs
approximately) and a bound copy of Elizabeth
Longford’s memoir, The Pebbled Shore. The book has
been published by Penguin Random House in India,
William Collins in the U. K. , and Alfred Knopf in the
USA.
Elizabeth Longford Prize:
The award was founded in 2003 by Flora Fraser and
Peter Soros to commemorate British historian
Elizabeth Longford. Every year it rewards exemplary
works in historical biography. The prize is celebrating
its 20th anniversary this year.
Guwahati Railway Station awarded ‘Eat Right
Station’ certification by FSSAI
The Guwahati Railway Station in Assam under North
East Frontier Railway has been awarded ‘Eat Right
Station’ certification by FSSAI in recognition of
providing high-quality, nutritious food to passengers.
The station has been able to qualify the guidelines
established by FSSAI and becomes the first railway
station in NF Railway to get this status. It is to
mention that the ‘Eat Right Station’ certification is
granted by FSSAI to railway stations adhering to
standard food storage and hygiene practices. This
certification is awarded by FSSAI to railway stations
that set benchmarks in providing safe and wholesome
food to passengers.
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India:
 Formed: 5 September 2008
 Headquarters: New Delhi
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 Chairperson: Shri Rajesh Bhushan
 Chief Executive Officer: Shri Ganji Kamala V
Rao
Indian-origin Priti Patel, Kulveer Ranger in Boris
Johnson's honours list
British Indians Priti Patel and Kulveer Singh Ranger
have been rewarded in former UK Prime Minister
Boris Johnson's honours list, which came hours before
he stepped down as an MP. The honours list, a
tradition granted to outgoing Prime Ministers,
included 38 honours and seven peerages, and was
approved by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak nine months
after Johnson stepped down as premier. Former Home
Secretary Priti Patel was named Dames Commander
of the Order of the British Empire, while Ranger,
former director of transport, was elevated to the
Lords. The list honoured Conservative politicians
Jacob Rees-Mogg and Simon Clarke with
knighthoods. Note: Johnson stepped down as a
Conservative MP on June 9 after claiming that he was
"forced out of Parliament" over the Partygate scandal.
UK:
 Capital: London
 Prime minister: Rishi Sunak
 Monarch: Charles III
India to host Miss World pageant after 27 years
India is set to host 71st Miss World 2023 pageant after
a gap of 27 years. India had last hosted the
international pageant in 1996. Initially, the 71st
edition of Miss World was supposed to be held in
United Arab Emirates (UAE) but the venue has now
been reportedly shifted to India. The first-ever Miss
World from India Reita Faria won the contest in 1966.
Aishwarya Rai (1994), Diana Hayden (1997), Yukta
Mookhey (1999), Priyanka Chopra (2000) and most
recently Manushi Chillar (2017) are the other Indian
winners of the contest. Miss India World 2022 Sini
Shetty will be representing India in Miss World 2023
contest.
Indian-origin Joyeeta Gupta confers Dutch Nobel
Prize
Indian-origin scientist Joyeeta Gupta has been
awarded the Spinoza Prize, the highest distinction in
Dutch science which is also sometimes referred to as
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the ‘Dutch Nobel Prize’. It is awarded each year to
researchers working in the Netherlands. She was
awarded for her outstanding, pioneering and inspiring
scientific work in which she focuses on a just and
sustainable world. Gupta will receive 1. 5 million
euros to spend on scientific research and activities
related to knowledge utilisation.
United Kingdom:
 Capital: London
 Monarch: Charles III
 Prime Minister: Rishi Sunak
 Currency: Pound sterling
President Droupadi Murmu conferred with highest
civilian honour of Suriname
President Droupadi Murmu has been decorated with
the highest civilian honour of Suriname - The Grand
Order of the Chain of Yellow Star, in Paramaribo, the
capital city of Suriname. She received the honor from
the President of the Republic of Suriname,
Chandrikapersad Santokhi. President Murmu is the
first Indian to receive this award.
3 MoUs were signed between the two countries:
Two MoUs were signed in the field of Health and one
in the field of Agriculture. The Government of India
also announced the supply of essential medicines
worth 5. 1 Cr rupees to Suriname to aid the Caribbean
country’s flood relief efforts. A symbolic
consignment of medicines was presented by President
Murmu to President Santokhi in a ceremony at the
presidential palace.
Goan writer Damodar Mauzo gets Jnanpith
Award
Goan writer Damodar Mauzo Goa has received the
prestigious Jnanpith Award, the country's highest
literary honour. Mauzo's 25 books have been
published in Konkani and one in English. Many of his
books have also been translated in different languages.
Mauzo's famous novel 'Karmelin' received the Sahitya
Akademi Award in 1983. The novel, published in
1981, has been translated in Hindi, Marathi, English,
Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Odia and Maithili languages.
Mauzo is the second Goan to receive the Jnanpith
Award. Earlier, Ravindra Kelekar from the coastal
state got the award in 2008.
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Jnanpith Award:
The Jnanpith Award is the oldest and the highest
Indian literary award presented annually by the
Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding
contribution towards literature". Instituted in 1961.
The award is bestowed only on Indian writers writing
in Indian languages and English.
 First winner: G. Sankara Kurup
UN honours 3 Indian peacekeepers killed in service
amid calls for increasing protection
Three Indian peacekeepers who died in the service of
the UN have been honoured with the Dag
Hammarskjold Medal amid calls for better protection
for personnel in its missions. UN Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres handed over the awards to India's
Permanent Representative Ruchira Kamboj.
The three peacekeepers are:
1. BSF Head Constable Shishupal Singh
2. BSF Head Constable Samwala Ram Vishnoi
Above duo were killed in July 2022 while with the
peacekeeping operation known by its French initials
as MONUSCO in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC).
3. A civilian, Shabir Tahir Ali, died while serving
with the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq.
Note: 32 Indian peacekeepers have been killed while
serving in UN peacekeeping missions in the DRC.
United Nations peacekeeping
 Founded: 1945
 Budget: $6. 7 billion
 Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping
Operations: Jean-Pierre Lacroix
 Active personnel: 81,820 total
Sahitya Akademi announces list of recipients of Bal
Sahitya Puraskar & winners of Yuva Puraskar
The Sahitya Akademi has announced a list of 22
recipients of its Bal Sahitya Puraskar and 20 winners
of its Yuva Puraskar for this year. In the Hindi
language category, Suryanath Singh won the Bal
Sahitya Puraskar for his collection of short stories,
‘Kotuk App’. Renowned children’s author Sudha
Murty won Bal Sahitya Puraskar for her collection of
stories titled ‘Grandparents’ Bag of Stories’.
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Prominent among Yuva Puraskar awardees are
Anirudh Kanisetti for ‘Lords of the Deccan: Southern
India from Chalukyas to Cholas' and Atul Kumar Rai
for his novel ‘Chandpur ki Chanda’. The winners of
both awards will receive an engraved copper plaque
and a cheque of Rs 50,000 each. The Sahitya Akademi
will announce the Yuva Puraskar recipients for
Manipuri, Maithili and Sanskrit, and the Bal Sahitya
Puraskar for Manipuri later. It did not announce any
Yuva Puraskar winner for Odia and Bal Sahitya
Puraskar for Kashmiri.
The other winners of the Bal Sahitya Puraskar are:
Rothindranath Goswami (Assamese), Shyamalkanti
Das (Bengali), Pratima Nandi Narzaree (Bodo),
Balwan Singh Jamoria (Dogri), Rakshabahen
Prahladrao Dave (Gujarati), Vijayashree Haladi
(Kannada), Tukaram Rama Shet (Konkani), Akshay
Anand ‘Sunny’ (Maithili), Priya AS (Malayalam),
Eknath Avhad (Marathi). Madhusudan Bisht (Nepali),
Jugal Kishore Sarangi (Odia), Gurmeet Karyalvi
(Punjabi), Kiran Badal (Rajasthani), Radhavallabh
Tripathi (Sanskrit), Mansing Majhi (Santali), Dholan
Rahi (Sindhi), Udhayasankar (Tamil), DK Chaduvula
Babu (Telugu), and Mateen Achalpuri are the
remaining ten winners of the Bal Sahitya Puraskar.
The 18 other recipients of the Yuva Puraskar are:
Jintu Gitartha (Assamese), Hamiruddin Middya
(Bengali), Mainaosri Daimary (Bodo), Sagar Shah
(Gujarati), Manjunayak Challur (Kannada), Nighat
Nasreen (Kashmiri), Tanvi Kamat Bambolkar
(Konkani), Ganesh Puthu (Malayalam), Vishakha
Vishwanath (Marathi), Naina Adhikari (Nepali),
Sandeep (Punjabi), Devilal Mahiya (Rajasthani), Bapi
Tudu (Santali), Monika J Panjwani (Sindhi), Ram
Thangam (Tamil), Johny Takkedasila (Telugu),
Dheeraj Bismil (Dogri) and Tauseef Bareilvi who will
receive it for Urdu..
Sahitya Akademi Award:
 Awarded for: Literary award in India
 First awarded: 1954
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Sports
Sports
Team India clinch Emerging Women’s Asia Cup
title
The India U-23 women's team won the 2023 Women's
Emerging Asia Cup T20 title after defeating
Bangladesh in the final held at the Mission Round
Ground in Hong Kong. India has scored 127 for the
loss of seven wickets in 20 overs. India's Kanika
Ahuja was named the Player of the Match, who stayed
not out on 30 off 23 with four fours in the final. While
India's Shreyanka Patil was named the Player of the
Series, as she was the highest-wicket taker. The 2023
ACC Women's T20 Emerging Teams Asia Cup was
the inaugural edition of the ACC Women's T20
Emerging Teams Asia Cup played in Hong Kong in
June 2023.
Asian Cricket Council(ACC):
 Formation: 1983
 Headquarters: Colombo, Sri Lanka
 President: Jay Shah (India)
 Vice President: Pankaj Khimji (Oman)
Bhavani Devi wins bronze, becomes first Indian to
win Asian Fencing C’ship medal
Bhavani Devi has created history by defeating
reigning World Champion Misaki Emura in the Asian
Fencing Championship quarterfinal and securing India
its first-ever medal at the event.
Bhavani Devi:
 Full name: Chadalavada Anandha Sundhararaman
Bhavani Devi
 She was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
 Bhavani Devi is the first Indian fencer to qualify
for Olympics after qualifying for the 2020
Summer Olympics.
 Bhavani Devi honoured with Arjuna Award in
2021
Former World No. 1 Andy Murray wins
Nottingham Open
Former World No. 1 Andy Murray defeated
Frenchman Arthur Cazaux to clinch the trophy at the
Nottingham Open, here. It was a second consecutive
Challenger title for Murray, who also lifted the trophy
at the Surbiton Trophy a week ago. The 36-year-old
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has lifted eight tour-level titles on the surface,
including Wimbledon in 2013 and 2016. Murray is a
record five-time champion at the Queen’s Club.
2023 Champions:
 Men's singles: Andy Murray (United Kingdom)
 Women's singles: Katie Boulter (United
Kingdom)
 Men's doubles: Jacob Fearnley (United Kingdom)
/ Johannus Monday (United Kingdom)
 Women's doubles: Ulrikke Eikeri (Norway)/
Ingrid Neel (Estonia)
Indian archer Abhishek Verma clinch gold medal
in men's compound individual final at Archery
World Cup Stage 3 in Medellin, Colombia
Indian archer Abhishek Verma clinched gold medal in
the men's compound individual final at the Archery
World Cup Stage 3 in Medellin, Colombia. With this
medal, Abhishek became the third Indian compound
archer to book a spot in the 2023 Archery World Cup
Final which will be played on the 9th and 10th of
September in Hermosillo, Mexico. The 33-year-old
Abhishek defeated James Lutz of USA, adding the
second gold to the Indian medal tally. Abhishek is
multiple World Cup gold medalist including the
compound team gold and an individual silver in the
2014 Incheon Asian Games. The Indian contingent,
which has won two gold and three bronze medals so
far, has a chance to further increase its tally as the
recurve mixed team will compete for the bronze.
Indian Men's Senior Football Team beat Lebanon
to clinch Intercontinental Cup in Bhubaneshwar
Indian men's senior football team clinched the
Intercontinental Cup with a victory over Lebanon in
the final at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneshwar. This is
India's second title in the tournament, following their
win in the inaugural edition in 2018. Korea won in
2019. With two goals each, Lallianzuala Chhangte and
Sunil Chhetri of India were joint-top scorers of the
tournament. This is Chhetri's 87th international goals
in 137 appearances. Chhetri is continued to be the
third highest goal-scorer among active players in
international football, only behind Portuguese ace
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi of Argentina.
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2023 Hero Intercontinental Cup:
 Host country: India
 City: Bhubaneswar
 Teams: 4 (from 2 confederations)
 Champions: India (2nd title)
 Runners-up: Lebanon
 Third place: Vanuatu
 Fourth place: Mongolia
 Top scorer: India Lallianzuala Chhangte, India
Sunil Chhetri (2 goals each)
 Best player award: India Sandesh Jhingan
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty script
history by winning Men's doubles title of Indonesia
Open
India's shuttler duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and
Chirag Shetty defeated reigning world champions
Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik of Malaysia to clinch
the Indonesia Open Men's Double Title, in Jakarta.
Satwik and Chirag, who are ranked sixth in the world,
won their first Super 1000 title. With this feat, they
become India's first ever doubles pair to win the
prestigious tournament.
2023 Indonesia Open Champions:
 Men's singles: Viktor Axelsen (Denmark)
 Women's singles: Chen Yufei (China)
 Men's doubles: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (India),
Chirag Shetty (India)
 Women's doubles: Baek Ha-na (South Korea),
Lee So-hee (South Korea)
 Mixed doubles: Zheng Siwei (China), Huang
Yaqiong (China)
First Women's Kabaddi League Inaugurated in
Dubai
The inaugural edition of India's first-ever Women's
Kabaddi League (WKL) commenced in Dubai. The
league consists of eight teams, featuring a total of 96
players, each representing Indian states. These teams
bear the names of various states, including the Delhi
Dynamites, Gujarat Angels, Great Marathas, Haryana
Hustlers, Punjab Panthers, Rajasthan Riders, Uma
Kolkata, and Bengaluru Hawks. The victorious team
will be awarded a prize of approximately half a
million dirhams (equivalent to 1 crore INR).
United Arab Emirates:
 Capital: Abu Dhabi
 Largest city: Dubai
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 President: Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
 Prime Minister: Mohammed bin Rashid Al
Maktoum
 Currency: UAE dirham
Asia Cup 2023 to be held in Pakistan and Sri
Lanka
The Asia Cup 2023 will be take place in Pakistan and
Sri Lanka between August 31 and September 17,
2023. Earlier, the tournament was originally meant to
be held entirely in Pakistan. Recently, the Asian
Cricket Council has approved the hybrid model, in
which four of the 13 matches will be played in
Pakistan and the remaining nine in Sri Lanka. In
Pakistan, matches will be held in Lahore while the
games to be played in Sri Lanka will be held in Kandy
and Pallekele.
Mudit Dani first Indian to be named NCTTA Male
Athlete of the Year
Indian paddler Mudit Dani has become the first Indian
to win the National Collegiate Table Tennis
Association (NCTTA) Male Athlete of the Year award
for his performances in 2022-23. The NCTTA is a
national organisation member of USA Table Tennis
and the prestigious award is given to the best
performing male athlete across USA and Canadian
universities at the end of every season. The Mumbai-
based youngster, who recently completed his masters
degree from the Stern School of Business at New
York University, had clinched two gold medals to
guide his side to its second successive NCTTA
National Championships title. His exceptional
performance included an unbeaten 11-0 record in the
2022-23 season. The 24-year-old clinched his maiden
ITTF senior medal in 2019 at the US Open
Championships and also reached the doubles
quarterfinals at the WTT event in the USA last year.
Pakistan's Nahida Khan announces retirement
from international cricket
Nahida Khan, a well-known Pakistani cricketer, has
announced her retirement from international cricket,
concluding a spectacular 14-year career. On February
7, 2009, she made her One Day International (ODI)
debut against Sri Lanka at Bogra, Bangladesh. She
played in 120 international games over the course of
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her career, scoring an outstanding 2,014 runs and
grabbing one wicket while doing so, displaying her
talent and commitment to the game. She boasts the
record for the highest number of catches in a single
ODI inning, having caught four balls in Pakistan’s 94-
run triumph over Sri Lanka in Dambulla in 2018.
Gurbachan Singh Randhawa steps down as
chairman of Athletics Federation of India selection
committee
Two-time Olympian and 1962 Asian Games gold
medallist Gurbachan Singh Randhawa resigned as the
chairman of Athletics Federation of India Selection
Committee. Randhawa was the flag-bearer of the
Indian contingent at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, where
he bagged 5th position in the 110-metre hurdles event.
He won gold in Decathlon at the 1962 Jakarta Asia
Games and bestowed with the Best Athlete title. He
was bestowed Arjuna Award in 1961 and in 2005,
Randhawa was conferred with the Padma Shri award
in 2005.
Athletics Federation of India:
 Formation: 1946
 Headquarters: New Delhi, India
 Secretary General: Ravinder Chaudhry
 President: Adille Sumariwalla
 Treasurer: Madhukant Pathak
Atul Gaikwad becomes first Indian to get elite level
4 coaching certification from ECB
Renowned cricket coach Atul Gaikwad became the
first-ever Indian to be certified as a specialist Level 4
Elite Coach through England and Wales Cricket
Board's (ECB) flagship programme. The Pune resident
is currently the global head coach of Sachin
Tendulkar's SRT10 Global Academy. He is also the
most qualified coach at the Board of Control for
Cricket in India (BCCI). Gaikwad had earlier secured
Level 3 coaching certifications from BCCI and
Cricket Australia in 2004 and 2008 respectively,
becoming the only Indian to be certified by BCCI,
Cricket Australia and ECB. He completed the Level 4
coaching certification alongside some of the top
names from the cricketing world such as England's
Jonathan Trott and Ajmal Shahzad, Yasir Arafat of
Pakistan and Zimbabwe's Neil Johnson, working
under the tutelage of the best in their fields like Gary
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Kirsten, Mark Ramprakash, Paul Shaw and Glen
Chappel.
U-17 Asian Wrestling C'ships: Ankush wins gold
as India finishes with seven medals
India wrapped up their campaign in the U-17 Asian
Wrestling Championships with one gold, three silver
and three bronze medals on the final day in Bishkek.
Ankush won India's only gold medal of the day in the
freestyle 55kg weight category, defeating Iran's
Amirreza Ali Teymorizad by VPO1 (Winner with no
technical superiority but the loser scores at least 1
point in the bout). Dhanraj Bharat Shirke lost to Iran's
Ahora Farhad Khateri of Iran. Rupesh bagged the
other silver after losing to Iran's Sam Reza Sayar in
the freestyle 48kg final. Rohit went down to Leo
Akagi of Japan by VPO1, 7-6 and earned the silver
medal. Tushar (60kg freestyle), Vinay (92 kg
freestyle) and Jaspooran Singh (110kg freestyle)
claimed the three bronze medals for India. With this,
all 10 freestyle wrestlers won medals in the
competition as India finished second in the freestyle
team rankings behind Iran.
Ashmita Chaliha, Ravi lift titles at Maldives
International Challenge
Indian shuttlers Ashmita Chaliha and Ravi won the
women’s and men’s singles titles respectively in the
Maldives International Challenge 2023, registering
contrasting wins in the finals played in Male,
Maldives. The Indian women’s singles star Ashmita,
currently ranked 46 in the world defeated compatriot
Tasnim Mir. The title spree continued with Ravi
clinching the men’s singles title with a straight games
win over Malaysia’s Soong Joo Ven. The women’s
doubles pair of Ashwini Bhat and Shikha Gautam
finished runner’s up. While Thailand’s second seeds
Pharanyu Kaosamaang and Worrapol Thongsa-Nga
defeated Malaysia’s Yee Hang Lee and Cheong Eng
Ng in the final.
Note: The Maldives International is an open
international badminton tournament in Maldives
organized by the Badminton Association of Maldives
and sanctioned by the Badminton Asia Confederation
and Badminton World Federation.
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India overcome Korea to clinch maiden title in
Women's Junior Asia Cup
Indian women’s team defeated South Korea in the
final to lift its maiden Women’s Junior Asia Cup title
in Kakamigahara, Japan. The Hockey India has
declared a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh for each player,
while the support staff will receive Rs 1 lakh each as a
token of appreciation.
2023 Women's Junior Asia Cup
 Host country: Japan
 Teams: 10
 Champions: India (1st title)
 Runner-up: South Korea
 Third place: Japan
 Matches played: 29
 Top scorer(s): Annu (9 goals) (India)
Uruguay beat Italy to lift U-20 World Cup trophy
Forward Luciano Rodriguez scored late as Uruguay
secured their first Under-20 World Cup title with a 1-0
victory over Italy. Rodriguez struck with an 86th-
minute header as the Celeste ended a run of four
consecutive triumphs for European teams in the
tournament.
U-20 World Cup
 Organising body: FIFA
 Founded: 1977
 Number of teams: 24
 Current champions: Uruguay (1st title)
 Most successful team(s): Argentina (6 titles)
French Open: Djokovic wins title at Roland Garros
for historic 23rd major
Serbia's Novak Djokovic added to his legendary status
by winning a historic 23rd Major, quelled a tough
challenge from Casper Ruud to win the French Open
men's singles title, his third crown at Roland Garros
making him the oldest male player to bag the title on
Parisian clay. Djokovic, a 36-year-old from Serbia,
puts this one alongside the French Open titles he
earned in 2016 and 2021, making him the only man
with at least three from each major event. He has won
10 trophies at the Australian Open, seven at
Wimbledon and three at the U. S. Open.
French Open 2023
 Edition: 127th
 Prize money: €49,600,000
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 Location: Paris, France
 Venue: Roland Garros Stadium
 2023 Champions:
 Men's singles: Novak Djokovic
 Women's singles: Iga Świątek
 Men's doubles: Ivan Dodig / Austin Krajicek
 Women's doubles: Hsieh Su-wei / Wang Xinyu
 Mixed doubles: Miyu Kato / Tim Pütz
Junior Shooting World Cup: India finish on top of
medal tally
India finished on top of the International Shooting
Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup with an
overhaul haul of 15 medals, including six gold, six
silver and three bronze medals. India have now
finished on top of all the ISSF Junior World Cups and
World Championships held since 2019.
Indian medal winners:
1. Sainyam: Gold: Women’s 10m air pistol
2. Dhanush Srikanth: Gold: Men’s 10m air rifle
3. Amanpreet Singh: Gold: Men's 25m pistol
4. Gautami Bhanot/Abhinav Shaw: Gold: 10m air
rifle mixed team
5. Gautami Bhanot/Swati Chowdhury/ Sonam Uttam
Maskar: Gold: Women's 10m air rifle team
6. Megana Sadula/Payal Khatri/ Simranpreet Kaur
Brar: Gold: Women's 25m pistol team
7. Sameer: Silver: Men's 25m rapid fire pistol
8. Dhanush Srikanth/Abhinav Shaw/Saalim: Silver:
Men’s 10 air rifle team
9. Sainyam/Abhinav Choudhary: Silver: 10m air
pistol mixed team
10. Sainyam/Suruchi Inder Singh/Urva Chaudhary:
Silver: Women's 10m air pistol team
11. Abhinav Choudhary/Shubham Bisla/Amit
Sharma: Silver: Men's 10m air pistol team
12. Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu/Sameer/Jatin: Silver:
Men's 25m rapid fire pistol team
13. Suruchi Inder Singh/Shubham Bisla: Bronze: 10m
air pistol mixed team
14. Harmehar Singh Lally/Sanjana Sood: Bronze:
Skeet mixed team
15. Mahesh Pasupathy Anandakumar: Bronze: Men's
25m rapid fire pistol
ISSF Junior World Cup 2023 Suhl: Medals tally:
No. Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 India 6 6 3 15
2 Korea 6 5 1 12
3 USA 5 4 0 9
4 Italy 4 0 3 7
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5 France 3 2 2 7 Hockey India also announced a cash prize of Rs 2

lakh each for players and Rs 1 lakh each for support
French Open: Miyu Kato, Tim Puetz clinch mixed staff.
doubles title
Indian-origin 14-year-old boy Dev Shah wins US
Japan’s Miyu Kato and Germany’s Tim Puetz spelling bee, gets ₹41 lakh
clinched the French Open mixed doubles title
defeating Bianca Andreescu and Michael Venus in the Indian-origin 14-year-old boy Dev Shah has won the
final. The French Open is Kato’s first Grand Slam latest edition of the US' Scripps National Spelling Bee
title. It is the 127th edition of the French Open and the contest, taking away a $50,000 (around ₹41 lakh) cash
second Grand Slam event of 2023. prize by correctly spelling the word 'psammophile'.
2023 French Open: The word refers to an organism that prefers or thrives
 Prize money: €49,600,000 in sandy soils or areas. Charlotte Walsh, a 14-year-
 Location: Paris, France old from Virginia, was the runner-up.
 Venue: Roland Garros Stadium
2022 Champions: Which words were Spelling Bee's inner Dev asked
 Men's singles: Rafael Nadal (Spain) to spell:
 Women's singles: Iga Świątek (Poland) Dev Shah, the 14-year-old Indian-origin boy from
Largo in US' Florida, who won the 2023 Scripps
U-20 Asian Athletics Championships: India's National Spelling Bee, was asked to spell the words
Siddharth Choudhary clinches gold in men’s shot ardoise, cocomat, exhortation, perioeci, poliorcetics,
put schistorrhachis, aegagrus, rommack, tolsester,
bathypitotmeter and psammophile. Dev spelt all the
India showcased its dominance on the second day of 11 words correctly.
the Under 20 Asian Athletics Championships in
Yecheon, South Korea. India’s Siddharth Choudhary Chennai Super Kings win IPL 2023 beating
clinched gold in men’s shot put with a personal best defending champions Gujarat Titans
throw of 19. 52 metres. Further three other players
Sharuk Khan (3000 metre steeplechase), Shivam Chennai Super Kings won its 5th IPL title by
Lohakare (Javelin), and Susmita (Long Jump) claimed defeating defending champions Gujarat Titans by 5
silver medals in their respective events. Shakeel (800 wickets at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
metre) and the mixed relay team concluded the day by IPL 2023 Final Awards:
winning the bronze medal. With this India won six Award Name Award Winner Prize Money
medals on day 2 with the overall tally accounting to Electric Striker Ajinkya Rahane 1 Lakh
nine. of the Match
Game Changer Sai Sudharsan 1 Lakh
India break record for winning most Men's of the Match
Hockey Junior Asia Cup titles Most Valuable Sai Sudharsan 1 Lakh
Player
India defeated Pakistan 2-1 in final to win Men's Longest Six Sai Sudharsan 1 Lakh
Hockey Junior Asia Cup 2023 title. India broke the Active Catch MS Dhoni 1 Lakh
record for winning most number of Men's Hockey of the Match
Junior Asia Cup titles. Araijeet Singh Hundal and Player of the Devon Conway 1 Lakh
Angad Bir Singh scored for India in the final. This Match
was India’s fourth title at Men’s Junior Asia Cup, IPL 2023 Chennai Super 20 crore
having won it previously in 2004, 2008 and 2015. Winner Kings
Pakistan are the second-most successful team in the IPL 2023 Gujarat Titans 12. 5 Crore
tournament with three titles in 1988, 1992, 1996. Runners up
Owing to this win the Indian team also qualified for Orange Cap Shubman Gill 10 Lakh
the FIH Men’s Junior World Cup in Malaysia. (890 runs)

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Purple Cap Mohammed 10 Lakh by the NSC, eight nations participated in it. In the
Shami (28 competition, Kazakhstan became the runner-up, Nepal
wickets) third, Uzbekistan fourth, Sri Lanka fifth, Kyrgyzstan
Emerging Yashasvi Jaiswal 10 Lakh sixth, Maldives seventh, and Bangladesh eighth.
Player of the
Season Individual Awards(Only Indians)
Super Striker Glenn Maxwell 10 Lakh  Best Outside Hitter: K. P. Anushree
of the Season (183. 48 strike  Best Middle Blocker: Soorya S.
rate)  Best Setter: K. S. Jini
Most Valuable Shubman Gill 10 Lakh  Most Valuable Player: Nirmal
Player
Game Changer Shubman Gill 10 Lakh 2023 ITTF World Championships
of the Season
Most fours of Shubman Gill (85 10 Lakh Fan Zhendong of China retained the men's singles title
the Season fours) with a victory over compatriot Wang Chuqin at the
Longest Six of Faf du Plessis 10 Lakh ITTF World Table Tennis Championships (WTTC).
the Season (115 m) The 2023 World Table Tennis Championships was the
Catch of the Rashid Khan 10 Lakh 57th edition of World Table Tennis Championships
season and held in Durban, South Africa.
Fairplay Delhi Capitals
Award 2023 World Table Tennis Championships:
Best Pitch and Eden Gardens 50 Lakh  Men's singles: Fan Zhendong (China)
Ground of the and Wankhede  Women's singles: Sun Yingsha
Season Stadium  Men's doubles: Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong
 Women's doubles: Chen Meng, Wang Yidi
HS Prannoy wins his maiden BWF World Tour  Mixed doubles: Wang Chuqin, Sun Yingsha
title 2023
United States picked to host 2025 Club World Cup
India's world No. 9 shuttler, H. S. Prannoy has
clinched his maiden BWF World Tour title 2023, held The first edition of the new and revamped FIFA Club
at the Malaysia Masters Super 500 badminton World Cup is set to be played in the United States of
tournament. In finals, he beat Weng Hong Yang of America. FIFA had confirmed in March that the
China. He had previously clinched the title at the 2017 revamped Club World Cup will be played every four
US Open. years from June 2025. The United States will also host
BWF World Tour title 2023 champions: the 2024 Copa America while they are also co-hosts
 Women's singles: Akane Yamaguchi of the 2026 World Cup along with Mexico and
 Men's Double: Kang Min-hyuk and Seo Seung-jae Canada. Confederation champions from 2021-2024
 Women's doubles: Baek Ha-na and Lee So-hee will be eligible to play in the new Club World Cup.
 Mixed doubles: Dechapol Puavaranukroh and The current version of the FIFA Club World Cup, an
Sapsiree Taerattanachai annual competition with seven teams, will be
discontinued after 2023. FIFA also appointed
India clinches title of CAVA Women’s Challenge Indonesia as hosts for the Under-17 World Cup later
Cup 2023 this year.

India has won the title of NSC-CAVA Women’s FIFA:

Volleyball Challenge Cup held in Kathmandu. India
won the title by defeating Kazakhstan in the final at
the National Sports Council’s Covered Hall in
Tripureshwor, Kathmandu. The event was organised
by the Nepal Volleyball Association and is supported
 Founded: 1904
 Headquarters: Zürich, Switzerland
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Science & Technology
India’s first mRNA-based Omicron-specific
booster vaccine approved
Pune-based Gennova Biopharmaceuticals announced
that its mRNA COVID-19 booster vaccine,
GEMCOVAC-OM, against the Omicron variant of
SARS-CoV2 has received emergency use
authorisation from the Drugs Controller General of
India (DCGI). The vaccine, 'GEMCOVAC-OM' is
approved against the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-
2. It is delivered intradermally using a device called
Tropis, developed by PharmaJet, USA .
India to gift indigenously-built in-service Missile
Corvette INS Kirpan to Vietnam
Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh held bilateral talks with
Minister of National Defence of Vietnam General
Phan Van Giang in New Delhi. The Raksha Mantri
also announced the gifting of an indigenously-built in-
service Missile Corvette INS Kirpan which will be a
milestone in enhancing the capabilities of Vietnam
People’s Navy. Defence engagements between the
two nations have diversified to include wide-ranging
contacts between the services, military-to-military
exchanges, high-level visits, capacity building,
training programmes, cooperation in UN
Peacekeeping and bilateral exercises.
INS Kirpan:
 Builder: Garden Reach Shipbuilders and
Engineers
 Launched: 16 August 1988
 Commissioned: 12 January 1991
 Class and type: Khukri-class corvette
 Displacement: 1350 tons (full load)
 Propulsion: 2 diesel engines with 14,400hp, 2
shafts
 Speed: 25 knots (50 km/h)
 Aircraft carried: 1 helicopter (HAL Chetak)
Indian Naval Ship Kiltan arrives in Chattogram
for goodwill visit
Indian Naval Ship, INS KILTAN arrived at
Chattogram for a three day goodwill visit as part of
the ongoing close cooperation between the Navies of
Bangladesh and India.
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INS Kiltan :
INS Kiltan is the third ship of P28 class Anti
Submarine Warfare (ASW) corvettes, indigenously
built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers
(GRSE), Kolkata. At 110 m and displacing 3000 tons,
she is the Indian Navy’s largest corvette. The ship
incorporates advanced stealth features like
superstructure made of carbon fibre and has an
advanced suite of weapons and sensors which help her
in carrying out her role of a ‘submarine hunter’
effectively. She is also capable of carrying an ASW
role helicopter. The ship is named after the island of
‘Kiltan’ - a beautiful coral island among the
Lakshadweep Islands. The ship’s motto is derived
from the Sanskrit shloka ‘Shrir Vijayo Bhutir
Dhruva’, which means ‘Victory and Glory Always’.
INS 'Vagir' set to embark on operational visit to
Colombo
INS 'Vagir', has embarked on an operational visit to
Colombo from to commemorate the 9th edition of the
International Day of Yoga. The International Day of
Yoga 2023, themed 'Global Ocean Ring', aims to
connect individuals worldwide in their shared pursuit
of well-being, resonating with India's ongoing G20
presidency and the principle of Vasudhaiva
Kutumbakam, which emphasizes a united and
harmonious future for all.
INS Vagir:
INS Vagir (S25) is the fifth submarine of the first
batch of six Kalvari-class submarines for the Indian
Navy. It is a diesel-electric attack submarine based on
the Scorpène class, designed by French naval defence
and energy group Naval Group and manufactured by
Mazagon Dock Limited, an Indian shipyard in
Mumbai, Maharashtra.
 Launched: 12 November 2020
 Acquired: 20 December 2022
 Commissioned: 23 January 2023
 Speed: Surfaced- 11 kn (20 km/h), Submerged- 20
kn (37 km/h)
Defence Ministry approves MQ-9 Reaper drone
deal with US
The Defence Ministry has approved the deal for
acquiring the Predator (MQ-9 Reaper) drones from
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America for which the final decision would be taken
by the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS). The
deal for the Predator drones was approved by the
Defence Acquisition Council meeting. The acquisition
proposal will now have to follow a procedure after
which it will have to be cleared by the Cabinet
Committee on Security. The DAC is the highest body
in the Defence Ministry to take decisions on
acquisitions. All high value acquisitions are given
final approval by the CCS. The Indian Navy is the
lead agency for the deal in which 15 drones will be
going to the maritime force for surveillance operations
in its area of responsibility. Meanwhile, PM Modi is
scheduled to visit the US from June 21 to 24. This will
be PM Modi's first state visit to the US during his
nine-year reign as prime minister. PM Narendra Modi
during his visit will also become the first Indian PM to
address the Joint Meeting of the US Congress for the
second time.
'Agni Prime' ballistic missile successfully flight-
tested by DRDO
India successfully flight-tested the Agni Prime New
Generation Ballistic Missile off the coast of Odisha.
The ballistic missile was testfired by the Defence
Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island. This was the first
pre-induction night launch conducted by the Users
after three successful developmental trials of the Agni
Prime missile, validating the accuracy and reliability
of the system. Range Instrumentation like Radar,
Telemetry and Electro Optical Tracking Systems were
deployed at different locations, including two down-
range ships, at the terminal point to capture flight data
covering the entire trajectory of the vehicle.
DRDO:
 Formed: 1958
 Headquarters: DRDO Bhavan, New Delhi
 Minister of Defence: Rajnath Singh
 Chairman: Sameer V Kamath
Indian Navy successfully carries out underwater
test
The Indian Navy and Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO) have successfully
engaged and destroyed an underwater target using
'Varunastra' Heavy Weight Torpedo (HWT). It is a
significant milestone in the Indian Navy and DRDO
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for accurate delivery of ordnance on target in the
underwater domain. The Indian Navy and Naval
Science and Technology Laboratory (NSTL) of
DRDO developed 'Varunastra', an advanced Heavy
Weight anti-submarine torpedo. The Indian Navy last
achieved another significant milestone when its MH-
60 Romeo helicopter made a successful landing for
the first time on the indigenous aircraft carrier INS
Vikrant. Earlier in May, the Indian Navy successfully
fired a Brahmos Supersonic cruise missile, using its
frontline guided missile destroyer INS Mormugao.
Notably, it was the maiden Brahmos firing for the
destroyer and it successfully managed to hit the 'Bulls
Eye'.
Union Minister flags off maiden International
Cruise Vessel, MV Empress
Union Minister of Ports, Sarbananda Sonowal flagged
off the maiden International Cruise Vessel named 'MV
Empress' from Chennai to Sri Lanka in Chennai. It
was built at a cost of 17. 21 crore rupees. This marks
the beginning of the international cruise tourism
terminal in Chennai. The cruise service is the result of
an MoU signed during the first Incredible India
International Cruise Conference in 2022 between
Chennai Port and M/S Waterways Leisure Tourism
Pvt Ltd to start domestic and international cruise
service. The modern cruise terminal developed at
Chennai Port is spread over an area of 2,880 square
meters with an ability to host 3,000 passengers at a
time. The cruise service will sail to three Sri Lankan
ports; viz. Hanbantota, Trincomalee, and
Kankesanturei.
Tata Group to build ₹13,000-cr lithium-ion cell
factory in Gujarat
Tata Group subsidiary Agratas Energy Storage
Solutions has signed a memorandum of understanding
(MoU) with the Gujarat government to build a
lithium-ion cell manufacturing plant in the state. The
company will initially invest ₹13,000 crore in the
project. The plant, with an initial production capacity
of 20 GWh, is expected to create direct and indirect
jobs for over 13,000 people.
Tata Group:
 Founded: 1868
 Founder: Jamsetji Tata
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 Headquarters: Bombay House, Mumbai,
Maharashtra, India
 Chairman & Managing Director: Natarajan
Chandrasekaran
AIIMS Nagpur is the first AIIMS to receive NABH
accreditation
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
Nagpur has become the first of all AIIMS to receive
National Accreditation Board for Hospitals(NABH)
accreditation. The NABH accreditation is a globally
recognized standard for healthcare quality. It assesses
the performance of hospitals in various areas
including patient care, safety, and organizational
efficiency. AIIMS Nagpur achieved this accreditation
by demonstrating its commitment to excellence in all
areas. The NABH accreditation is a globally
recognized standard for healthcare quality. The
NABH accreditation process is rigorous and
comprehensive, and it assesses a hospital's
performance in a number of areas, including patient
care, safety, and organizational efficiency. AIIMS
Nagpur was able to achieve this accreditation by
demonstrating its commitment to excellence in all of
these areas.
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China successfully launches new manned spaceship
with first civilian on board
China successfully launched the Shenzhou-16 manned
spaceship, sending three astronauts, including the first
civilian to its space station combination for a five-
month mission. The spaceship, atop a Long March-2F
carrier rocket, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite
Launch Centre in northwest China. The astronauts are
expected to dock with the station's Tianhe core
module about 400km above the ground after a journey
of less than seven hours. For the first time, China has
included a civilian in its rotating crew for the space
station which otherwise remained a domain of the
military personnel. Gui Haichao, a professor at
Beihang University in Beijing regarded as a payload
specialist was among the three astronauts. The other
two are mission's commander Jing Haipeng, who is
also making history by becoming the first Chinese
astronaut to go into space for a record fourth time. The
astronaut flight engineer Zhu Yangzhu is also making
his first journey into space. The Shenzhou-16 will be
the first crew mission after China's space station
programme entered the stage of application and
development. China will be the only country to own a
space station as the International Space Station (ISS)
of Russia is a collaborative project of several
countries. The ISS station is also set to be
decommissioned by 2030.
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Obituary
Obituary

Daniel Ellsberg: Pentagon Papers whistleblower A novelist, Cormac McCarthy passed away at 89 in
dies aged 92 the USA. “All the Pretty Horses,” “The Road” and
“No Country for Old Men” were among his acclaimed
books that explore a bleak world of violence and
outsiders. He was awarded the National Book Award
in 1992 for his novel 'All the Pretty Horses'. He also
won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for 'The Road'. Other
novels includes Suttree, Blood Meridian, The Border
Trilogy, No Country for Old Men

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi

Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who exposed the
dies at 86
extent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, has
died, aged 92. The former US military analyst's 1971
Pentagon Papers leak led to him being dubbed "the
most dangerous man in America". Ellsberg let
Americans know that their government was capable of
misleading and even lying to them. In his later years,
Ellsberg would become an advocate for
whistleblowers and leakers and his "Pentagon Papers"
leak was portrayed in the 2017 movie "The Post.
"Ellsberg secretly went to the media in 1971 in hopes
Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian former PM who
of expediting the end of the Vietnam War. It made
overcame various scandals to hold office four times,
him the target of a smear campaign by the Nixon
has died at 86. The longest-serving prime minister in
White House. Henry Kissinger, who was then the
post-war Italy, he had bounced back from sex scandals
president's national security adviser, referred to him as
and corruption cases. After taking political office in
"the most dangerous man in America who must be
1994, the billionaire media tycoon led four
stopped at all costs. "Meanwhile, acting upon the
governments until 2011 - though not consecutively.
request of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara,
Italy:
officials at the Pentagon had been secretly compiling a
 Prime minister: Giorgia Meloni Trending
comprehensive 7,000-page report on U. S.
 Capital: Rome
involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. By 1969,
when the report was completed, only 15 copies were
published, and two of them were sent to the RAND Renowned Doordarshan news presenter Gitanjali
Corporation, where Ellsberg was working at the time. Aiyar passes away

Cormac McCarthy, novelist of a darker America,

passes away

Gitanjali Aiyar, a pioneer of English news

presentation on Doordarshan and a dedicated news
presenter for over three decades, passed away. Aiyar
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began her journey with Doordarshan in 1971 and Diageo after its formation through the merger of
received the prestigious accolade of Best Anchor Guinness and Grand Metropolitan in 1997.
Person four times throughout her illustrious career. Diageo:
She also presented the popular English songs request  Founded: 1997
programme 'A Date With You' on All India Radio.  Headquarters: London, England, UK
Gitanjali was cast in the Hindi TV soap ‘Khandaan’.  Chairman: Javier Ferrán
She took up corporate communication and marketing
after her successful stint with Doordarshan. She was Legendary stock speculator William O'Neil dies at
the advisor of CII for many years. She won the Indira 90
Gandhi Priyadarshini Award for Outstanding Women
in 1989 for her outstanding work, achievements and
contribution. She was the Head of Major Donors at
World Wide Fund, India.

Johnnie Walker maker's India-born CEO Ivan

Menezes passes away

Legendary stock speculator William O'Neil died at the

Ivan Menezes, the CEO of top alcohol manufacturer
Diageo which produces the popular Johnnie Walker
whisky, passed away at the age of 63. India-born
Menezes was set to retire at the end of June. Debra
Crew becomes first woman CEO at Johnnie Walker
maker Diageo. British-American national Menezes,
63, who was born in the Indian city of Pune, joined
age of 90. He founded the Los Angeles-based
investment-management firm William O'Neil+Co in
1963. He was a successful practitioner of computer-
aided stock analysis, who shared his strategy in a best-
selling book and Investor's Business Daily, which he
founded in 1984. “Everything O’Neil does with the
computer is his own invention,” Martin Mayer wrote
in his 1969 book, New Breed on Wall Street.

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Miscellaneous Events
Miscellaneous Events
Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca
announced his resignation
Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca on June 12
submitted his resignation as part of a scheduled plan
to swap premiers following the 2020 parliamentary
elections that left the two leading parties with near-
equal strength. Ciuca, of the National Liberal Party
(PNL), will step aside for coalition partner Marcel
Ciolacu of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), a move
delayed for three weeks due to the nation’s teacher
strike, which appeared to be settled on June 12.
Catalin Predoiu will serve as interim prime minister
until Ciolacu is able to form a government. Predoiu
was a former justice minister who had previously
served as an interim prime minister for three days in
February 2012.
Romania:
 Capital: Bucharest
 Prime minister: Nicolae Ciucă
Vienna named world's 'most liveable city' for 2023
The Global Liveability Index by the Economist
Intelligence Unit (EIU) has revealed that Vienna as
the most liveable city in the world. , Despite slipping
in the rankings during the pandemic in 2021, Vienna
bounced back and reclaimed the top spot in 2022,
maintaining its position in 2023. The city's
exceptional combination of stability, well-developed
infrastructure, quality education and healthcare
services, and rich cultural and entertainment offerings
contributed to its continued success. Austria, has
retained its position as the most liveable city in the
world. Denmark's Copenhagen, secured the second
spot, while Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, ranked
third and fourth, respectively. While Canada's
Vancouver occupied the fifth spot. The top ten also
includes three cities from Canada, two from
Switzerland, and two from Asia (one from New
Zealand and one from Japan), sharing the tenth
position. This year's index highlighted that the average
liveability score has increased from 73. 2 to 76. 2 out
of 100 compared to the previous year. The Global
Liveability Index quantifies the challenges presented
to an individual's lifestyle and quality of life in 173
cities.
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TikTok COO resigns after nearly five years
V. Pappas, TikTok's chief operating officer (COO),
has resigned after nearly five years at the Chinese
short-video making app to "refocus" on her
"entrepreneurial passions". TikTok, and its Chinese
counterpart Douyin is a short-form video hosting
service owned by ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted
videos, which can range in duration from 3 seconds to
10 minutes. Since their launches, TikTok and Douyin
have gained global popularity. In October 2020,
TikTok surpassed 2 billion mobile downloads
worldwide.
 Parent Company: ByteDance
 CEO: Shou Zi Chew
ByteDance
 Founded: 13 March 2012
 Founders Zhang Yiming & Liang Rubo
 Headquarters: Beijing, China
 CEO: Liang Rubo
India ranks 127 in Gender Gap Index 2023
According to a Gender Gap Index 2023, India has
been ranked 127 out of 146 countries in the Global
Gender Gap Report 2023, up by 8 positions from 135
in 2022. The report reflects an improvement of 1. 4%
points. Iceland is the most gender-equal country in the
world for the 14th consecutive year and the only one
to have closed more than 90 per cent of its gender gap
While Norway ranked 2nd, followed by Finland, and
Sweden. The Global Gender Gap Index was first
introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006 to
benchmark progress towards gender parity and
compare countries’ gender gaps across four
dimensions: economic opportunities, education, health
and political leadership.
Note: India's neighboring countries rank: Bangladesh
(59), Bhutan (103), China (107), and Pakistan (142)
World Economic Forum:
 Founder: Klaus Schwab
 Headquarters: Cologny, Switzerland
 Executive Chairman: Klaus Schwab
 President: Børge Brende
 Founded: January 1971
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Vistara only Indian airline among the top 20
globally; IndiGo bags 43rd spot
Vistara and IndiGo are the only two Indian airlines
featured in a list of top 100 airlines globally. While
Vistara has climbed four spots up from 2022’s 20th
spot to 16th this year, IndiGo climbed two spots to
43rd rank from the previous year’s 45th spot. The top
100 airlines were awarded by Skytrax. Vistara,
according to Skytrax’s World Airline Awards, also
featured among the ‘World's Best Airline Cabin Crew
2023’ list on the 19th spot out of 20 names. Vistara
also bagged the 8th spot on the list of top 10 airlines
in Asia. The airline has featured on Skytrax’s list of
top 20 airlines for the second time in a row. Vistara is
a 51:49 joint venture between Tata Sons and
Singapore Airlines Limited (SIA). Meanwhile, IndiGo
has been named the third best low-cost airline by
Skytrax. Air India was on the 9th spot on the list of
the 10 most improved airlines.
Top 5:
Singapore Airlines was named Airline of the Year for
2023, with Qatar Airways ranked second and ANA
All Nippon Airways in third place. Emirates claimed
fourth place, while Japan Airlines ranked No. 5,
according to Skytrax.
Realme co-founder Madhav Sheth quits
Smartphone company Realme co-founder Madhav
Sheth announced that he has resigned from the
company after five years of stint to start a new venture
related to exports. With Sheth's resignation, the
company's founder Sky Li will take additional charge
of its India business. Realme is a subsidiary of the
Chinese smart devices maker group BBK Electronics.
Sheth's exit comes at a time when smartphone sales
have been under pressure.
Realme :
 Founded: 4 May 2018
 Founder: Sky Li
 Headquarters: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
 Founder and Global CEO: Sky Li
NTPC climbs 52 positions to secure 433rd rank in
Forbes 'The Global 2000'- List for 2023
India's largest power generation company, National
Thermal Power Corporation Limited - NTPC, has
climbed 52 positions to secure the 433rd rank in
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Forbes' -The Global 2000- List for 2023. It was on
485th rank in the list last year. The Ministry of Power
said that the climb of 52 positions in just one year
demonstrates NTPC's emergence as a strong force in
the global market. 'The Global 2000' List recognizes
the world's largest companies based on four key
metrics- sales, profits, assets and market value.
Among the largest Indian companies, NTPC has
climbed one place to secure the 10th rank in 2023.
Top 5:
JPMorgan, America's biggest bank with USD 3. 7
trillion in assets, is at the top of the list for the first
time since 2011. Saudi oil behemoth Aramco is at 2nd
position followed by three giant-sized state-owned
Chinese banks (ICBC, China Construction Bank,
Agricultural Bank of China). Technology giants
Alphabet and Apple are at 7th and 10th place,
respectively.
Health ministry unveils food safety index, Kerala
secures top ranking
Union Minister for Health, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya
has unveiled the 5th State Food Safety Index on the
occasion of World Food Safety Day 2023. Among the
larger states, Kerala secured the top ranking, followed
by Punjab and Tamil Nadu Among the smaller states,
Goa emerged as the leader, followed Manipur and
Sikkim Additionally, Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi and
Chandigarh secured the first, second, and third ranks
respectively among the union territories. The index
has evaluated the performance of states and UTs
across six different aspects of food safety. He has also
unveiled Rapid Food Testing Kit (RAFT) portal. This
portal aims to streamline the operations of the RAFT
Scheme, ensuring transparency and accountability.
This digitalization promotes a paperless operation of
the RAFT scheme, which was launched in 2019 to
encourage the adoption of advanced technologies for
food testing, screening, and surveillance purposes.
Kerala:
 Chief minister: Pinarayi Vijayan
 Capital: Thiruvananthapuram
 Governor: Arif Mohammed Khan
List of world's most expensive cities for expats in
2023 released, New York on top
New York has emerged at the top of the list of the
world's most expensive cities for expats in 2023, as
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per ECA International's Cost of Living Rankings.
Hong Kong is in the second spot, while Geneva,
London, Singapore are also among the top five.
Zurich, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Seoul, Tokyo are
among the top 10 most expensive cities. The biggest
riser of the year was Istanbul, which climbed 95 spots
to 108th place. ECA International analyzes the cost of
consumer goods and services, factoring in rental costs
in areas typically inhabited by expats, to rank 207
cities in 120 countries and territories around the
world.
Telangana ranks top on overall environmental
performance
A non-profit Centre for Science and Environment
(CSE) released its annual compendium, titled 'State of
India's Environment 2023. It is based on four
parameters i. e. environment, agriculture, public
health, and infrastructure. Telangana was ranked at the
top in terms of overall environmental performance and
in terms of increasing forest cover. Gujarat, Goa and
Maharashtra follow Telangana, in that order.
Rajasthan, Nagaland and Bihar occupy the bottom
rung. In agriculture, Madhya Pradesh takes the top
slot for the highest share of net value added, and its
jump in foodgrain production. Andhra Pradesh,
Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh feature on the second,
third and fourth spots. Delhi leads in public health – it
has allocated the highest share of its budget to health
and boasts of a robust network of healthcare facilities.
Sikkim, Goa and Mizoram follow Delhi. In public
infrastructure and human development, Gujarat leads
the rankings – it makes the cut for its performance in
providing employment and tap water connections.
Jharkhand occupies the bottom spot, and is preceded
by Nagaland, Rajasthan and Arunachal Pradesh.
AI supercomputer 'AIRAWAT' ranked 75th in
Global Supercomputing list
India's AI supercomputer AIRAWAT has been ranked
75th in the Top 500 Global Supercomputing List. The
rankings were announced at the 61st edition of the
International Supercomputing Conference (ISC 2023)
held in Germany. Airawat PSAI, stands as India’s
largest and fastest AI supercomputing system, with a
remarkable speed of 13,170 teraflops (Rpeak).
According to C-DAC, AIRAWAT works on the
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operating system Ubuntu 20. 04. 2 LTS and was
installed earlier this year at the centre.
Besides AIRAWAT, India's three other
supercomputers have made it to the Top 500
Global Supercomputing List:
These include the PARAM Siddhi-AI supercomputer
which has been ranked 131st on the list. It is also
installed at the C-DAC, Pune. The Pratyush
supercomputer at the Indian Institute of Tropical
Meteorology has secured the 169th position. The
Mihir supercomputer at the National Centre for
Medium-Range Weather Forecasting has been ranked
316th on the list.
TOP 3 on the list:
Rank System Country
1 Frontier US
2 Supercomputer Fugaku Japan
3 LUMI Finland
Bank of Maharashtra tops PSU lenders chart in
profit and loan growth
Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has emerged as the top
performer among public sector lenders in terms of
loan and deposit growth in percentage terms during
2022-23. BoM has also recorded the highest growth in
profitability with the bottom line growing almost
126% to Rs 2,602 crore during the year. In terms of
percentage increase in gross advances, BoM recorded
29. 4 per cent jump in loans at ₹1,75,120 crore as of
March 2023. It was followed by Indian Overseas
Bank and UCO Bank with 21. 2 per cent and 20. 6 per
cent growth, respectively. BoM retained the top
position in terms of garnering low-cost Current
Account and Savings Account (CASA) deposits with
53. 38 per cent followed by Central Bank of India (50.
18 per cent). Total business growth of BoM was also
the highest at 21. 2 per cent at ₹4,09,202 crore
followed by Bank of Baroda at 14. 3 per cent
(₹18,42,935 crore) at the end of FY23. In terms of
Retail-Agriculture-MSME (RAM) loans, BoM
registered the highest growth of 24. 06 per cent
followed by Punjab National Bank at 20. 85 per cent
and Punjab & Sind Bank at 20. 70 per cent on an
annual basis.
Bank of Maharashtra:
 Founded: 16 September 1935
 Headquarters: Pune, Maharashtra
 MD & CEO: A. S. Rajeev
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Exemption for leave encashment raised to ₹25 lakh
The Central Board of Direct Taxes has raised the tax
exemption on leave encashment on the retirement of
non-government salaried employees from ₹3 lakh to
₹25 lakh, effective from 1 April 2023. It was
announced in the union budget 2023. It applies to the
period of earned leave in the credit of the employee at
the time of retirement whether on superannuation or
otherwise. In the case of government employees, the
entire leave encashment amount received is tax-
exempt. In the case of private sector employees, the
benefit is subject the conditions listed under section
10 of the Income Tax Act, which deals with incomes
exempt from taxation. The earlier limit of ₹3 lakh for
tax exemption on leave encashment on retirement or
resignation of private sector employees was fixed in
year 2002, when the highest basic pay in the
government was ₹30,000 per month.
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Intel India head Nivruti Rai steps down after 29
years at company
Intel India head Nivruti Rai has stepped down after
spending 29 years with the chip-maker. In her most
recent role, she was the India country head and VP of
Intel Foundry Services. Rai began at Intel as a design
engineer in 1994, and went on to serve various posts
over the span of 29 years. Nivruti was also felicitated
with Nari Shakti Puraskar in 2022 for her exceptional
work in empowering women.
Intel:
It is one of the world's largest semiconductor chip
manufacturer.
 Founded: July 18, 1968
 Founders: Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, Arthur
Rock
 Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, U.S.
 Chairman Frank D. Yeary
 CEO: Pat Gelsinger
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Defence
DefenceExercise ofthe
Exercise of themonth
Month

Ex Khaan Quest 2023 Mongolia:

 Capital: Ulaanbaatar
 President: Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh
 Prime Minister: Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene
 Currency: Tögrög

Ekuverein

The Indian Army Contingent is participating in the

multinational peacekeeping Joint Exercise Ex Khaan
Quest 2023 in Mongolia. Military contingents and
observers from over 20 countries are participating in
this exercise. President of Mongolia Ukhnaagiin
Khurelsukh inaugurated the Exercise. The Indian
Army is represented by a contingent from the Garhwal The 12th edition of joint military exercise “Ex
Rifles. The 14-day exercise is aimed at enhancing Ekuverin” between the Indian Army & the Maldives
interoperability of the participating nations, sharing National Defence Force has commenced at Chaubatia,
experience, and training uniformed personnel for the Uttarakhand. Ekuverin meaning ‘Friends’ is a bilateral
United Nations Peacekeeping Operations. The annual exercise conducted alternatively in India and
exercise will prepare participants for future UN Maldives. The 11th edition of the exercise was held in
Peacekeeping missions, develop peace operations Maldives in December 2021. ‘Ex Ekuverin’ will assist
capabilities and enhance military readiness. The in further bolstering of these ties between the two
exercise includes Command Post Exercise, Field nations.
Training Exercises, combat discussions, lectures, and
demonstration.

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Important
ImportantDays ofthe
Days of theMonth
Month

Day Observed/Celebrated As Motto/Importance

To mark the Birth Anniversary of Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, the

July 1 Doctor's Day legendary physician and the second Chief Minister of West
Bengal.

It commemorates the date on which the famous Roswell incident

July 2 World UFO Day
was exposed to the public.

To commemorate the discovery of 1st vaccination against a

July 6 World Zoonoses Day
zoonotic disease that can be spread between humans and animals.

To focus attention on the urgency and importance of population

July 11 World Population Day
issues.

July 12 National Simplicity Day To mark the birth anniversary of Henry David Thoreau in 1817.

World Day for International To mark the adoption of the Rome Statute in 1998. With the help
July 17
Justice of this treaty, International Criminal Court (ICC) was established.

International Nelson Mandela To recognise the former South African President, Nelson
July 18
Day Mandela's contribution to the culture of peace and freedom.

To commemorate India's victory over Pakistan in the conflict that

July 26 Kargil Vijay Diwas
took place in the mountains above Kargil

July 28 World Hepatitis Day Don't miss the target

This day was established in 2010 at Saint Petersburg Tiger

July 29 International Tiger Day Summit in Russia to raise awareness about the decline of wild
tiger numbers.

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Trending Topic of the Month

Indian Parliament Building: New Vs Old
Indian Parliament Building: New Vs Old

History: Blueprint for the Council House

The power of the Indian democratic system manifests in
our Parliament, which weathered the Indian freedom
struggle from colonial rule and witnessed many
historical milestones. An icon of India’s democratic
spirit, the Parliament building sits at the heart of the
Central Vista. India’s present Parliament House is a
colonial-era building designed by British architects Sir
Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker, which took six years
to construct (1921-1927). Originally called the Council
After initial deliberations about the shape of the
House, the building housed the Imperial Legislative
building, a circular shape was finalised by both the
Council. The Parliament building witnessed the addition
architects, Herbert Baker and Sir Edwin Lutyens as that
of two floors in 1956 to address the demand for more
would give the feel of a colosseum design for the
space. In 2006, the Parliament Museum was added to
Council House. It is popularly believed that the unique
showcase the 2,500 years of rich democratic heritage of
circular shape of the Chausath Yogini temple in Morena,
India. The building had to be modified to a large extent
(Madhya Pradesh) had inspired the design of the
to suit the purpose of a modern Parliament.
Council House, though there are no historical proofs for
this.

Need for the New Parliament Building

The Parliament House building construction was started
in 1921 and commissioned in 1927. It is almost 100
years old and a Heritage Grade-I building. Over the
years, the parliamentary activities and the number of
people working therein and visitors have increased
manifold. Therefore, the new constructions and
modifications have been done in an ad-hoc manner.
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 Narrow Seating Space for MPs: The present
building was never designed to accommodate a
bicameral legislature for a full-fledged democracy.
The number of Lok Sabha seats has remained
unaltered at 545 based on the delimitation carried
out on the basis of 1971 Census. It is likely to
increase substantially after 2026 as the freeze on
total number of seats is only till 2026.
 Distressed Infrastructure: Over the period
addition in services like water supply lines, sewer
lines, air conditioning, fire-fighting, CCTV, Audio
Video system, which were not originally planned,
have led to seepages and destroyed the overall
aesthetics of the building.
 Obsolete Communication Structures: In the
present Parliament House, the communications
infrastructure and technology is antiquated. The
acoustics of all the halls need major improvement.
 Safety Concerns: There are structural safety
concerns of the building. The current Parliament
building was built when Delhi was in Seismic Zone-
II, currently it is in Seismic Zone-IV.
 Inadequate Workspace for Employees: With
increasing demand for workspaces, inner service
corridors were converted into offices which resulted
in poor quality and narrow workspaces.
10 key features that distinguish the old and new
Parliament buildings
1. Enhanced Seating Capacity: The new building
will accommodate 888 Members of Parliament
(MPs) in the Lok Sabha, three times the capacity of
the current Lok Sabha. Similarly, the new Rajya
Sabha will have provision for 384 seats.
2. Enhanced Committee Room Facilities: The new
Parliament House will include a significantly higher
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number of committee rooms equipped with
sophisticated audio-visual systems.
3. National Flower & Bird based Theme: The Lok
Sabha and Rajya Sabha in the new Parliament
House will showcase distinct themes. The Lok
Sabha will incorporate the national bird, the
Peacock, while the Rajya Sabha will feature the
national flower, the Lotus, in their respective
structures.
4. Architectural Design and Construction: The
construction of the new Parliament building is being
undertaken by Tata Projects Limited, with the
design by HCP Design Planning and Management
Private Limited. The total area for construction is
64,500 sqm, creating a modern architectural marvel
in the heart of Delhi.
5. Platinum-Rated Green Building: The new
Parliament building prioritizes sustainability and
eco-friendliness. It will use green construction
materials and incorporate devices to save 30 percent
electricity consumption.
6. Absence of Central Hall: Unlike the old
Parliament House, the new building will not feature
a Central Hall. Instead, the Lok Sabha Hall in the
new Parliament House is being designed to
accommodate joint sessions, eliminating the need
for additional chairs during such sessions.
7. Earthquake-Proof Building: Considering Delhi’s
increased seismic activity, the new Parliament
building is being constructed to withstand
earthquakes.
8. Technology ensemble Facilities: To enhance the
technological capabilities of the House, each MP’s
seat in the new Parliament House will have a
multimedia display in front of it.
9. Media Facilities: Special facilities for the media
will be provided in the new Parliament House. A
total of 530 seats will be arranged for media
personnel.
10. Public-Friendly Design: The new Parliament
House aims to be more accessible to the public.
Preparations are underway to make it a public
parliament house, with easier entry for children,
elderly individuals, and disabled individuals.
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Bimal Patel: The man behind new Parliament
design
A distinguished architect with more than three decades
of expertise, Bimal Hasmukh Patel has has not only
crafted the nation’s new parliament but also associated
his name with several prestigious building projects,
including the Sabarmati Riverfront development
project; the Aga Khan Academy, Hyderabad; the Indian
Institute of Management, Hyderabad; the Kashi
Vishwanath Corridor; and the Mumbai Port Trust
Development Project. Bimal Patel’s firm, HCP Designs,
won the consulting bid for the Central Vista Project,
under which the new parliament building has been built.
Patel's firm will get Rs 229.75 crore for consultancy
services, which include preparing the master plan for the
project, encompassing designs, landscape, cost
estimation, and plans to integrate traffic as well as
parking facilities.
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Imp. Points to remember:
 PM Narendra Modi inaugurated India's new
parliament building, a modern complex which is
part of the government's grand plan to give a
makeover to the British colonial-era architecture in
the nation's capital.
 PM Modi installed the sacred 'Sengol' in the Lok
Sabha chamber, right next to the Speaker's chair,
which was handed over to him by the Adheenams
(Priests) earlier.
 The sacred sceptre 'Sengol' is the symbol of the
transfer of power from the British to India, reffered
as a national symbol of the Amrit Kaal.
 The new Parliament building, with a seating
capacity of 1,272 (Lok Sabha: 888 & Rajya Sabha:
384) provides more space and incorporates
advanced technology.
 It is built at an estimated cost of Rs 970 crore, the
newly constructed four-storey building covers a
vast area of 64,500 square metre and will showcase
an impressive collection of almost 5,000 art pieces.
 The Lok Sabha will incorporate the national bird,
the Peacock, while the Rajya Sabha will feature the
national flower, the Lotus, in their respective
structures.
 Bimal Hasmukh Patel is the architect of the
triangular structure of the newly built Parliament,
while Tata Projects Ltd.is the main contractor
behind.
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Unequal before the law: The case of Brij Bhushan Singh
Unequal before the law: The case of Brij Bhushan Singh
It has been over 10 years since the enactment of the
Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012
(the POCSO Act) and nearly a decade since the Criminal
Law (Amendment) Act 2013, which amended the Indian
Penal Code (IPC), Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) and
the Indian Evidence Act, after the December 2012 Delhi
rape and murder case. The POCSO Act and the
amendments to criminal law portrayed the legislature’s
intent to safeguard women and children from sexual
offences. Moreover, the Crime in India 2021 report,
shows that 89,200 cases were registered in the country
under Section 354 of the IPC and 16,401 cases under
Sections 8 and 10 of the POCSO Act. These figures may
reflect the efficacy of this legislation. But is that the
picture on the ground?
The current wrestlers’ agitation makes it clear that what
matters is not just the enactment of legislation and the
number of cases registered – the application of the law
is also vital. The wrestlers’ demands and the state
machinery’s reaction to them indicate that Brij Bhushan
Sharan Singh, a six-time member of Parliament,
currently holding a BJP seat in Uttar Pradesh, appears
exempt from the application of the POCSO Act or the
IPC.
The complaints made by the wrestlers against Singh,
who is also the president of the Wrestling Federation of
India, are of a serious nature – groping, demanding
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sexual favours in lieu of professional assistance,
stalking, etc. But it took four months of agitation for an
FIR to be registered against him. FIRs were registered
only when the Supreme Court issued notice on the
wrestlers’ plea.
Belatedly the Delhi Police has filed a chargesheet
against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and
BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh under sections 354,
354A, and 354D of the Indian Penal Code, which deal
with the criminal force for outraging a woman’s
modesty, sexual harassment, and stalking respectively.
WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar has also been
accused of abetting an offence and criminal intimidation
under sections 109 and 506, respectively, in addition to
accusations of sexual harassment and outraging a
woman’s modesty.
Note: Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has been charged
under several sections of the IPC, but is not facing
charges under the POCSO Act.
Initially Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh was charged under
Section 8 of the POCSO Act (punishment for sexual
assault, that is punishable with imprisonment from three
years to five years); however Child rights practitioners
would say that it is not Section 8 of the POCSO Act, but
Section 10 (punishment for aggravated sexual assault,
that is punishable with imprisonment for five years to
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seven years) that should have been invoked as Singh is
“in a position of trust or authority” vis-à-vis the minor
wrestler.
of the Haryana Lawn Tennis Association, who was also
the then Inspector General of Police (Haryana), and the
mental/physical torture faced by her family on
registration of FIR, which ultimately resulted in
Ruchika taking her own life. Ruchika Girhotra’s case
led to the demand for stronger legislation to combat
child sexual offences. Thirty-three years after Ruchika’s
death and several years after the enactment of the
POCSO Act and an amendment to the IPC, the hounding
of women and children who have the courage to raise
their voices against the powerful, continues.

The law must be applied equally to all, irrespective of

What do these charges mean?
the accused or offender’s rank or influence.
The common charges against Singh and Tomar, under
sections 354 and 354A of the IPC, are usually classified
as “offences against women.”
1. Section 354: assault or criminal force to woman
with intent to outrage her modesty, that is
punishable with imprisonment from one to five
years
2. Section 354A: sexual harassment and punishment
for sexual harassment, that is punishable with
imprisonment that may extend to one year
3. Section 354D: stalking, that is punishable with
imprisonment that may extend to one year

On the other hand if a common man was accused, the

wheels of criminal law would have immediately been
set into motion — an FIR would forthwith be registered,
the accused would be arrested, and his bail application
would be strongly opposed. But, the same yardstick
does not apply to Singh, who has friends in powerful
places. The paradox also is that instead of arresting
Singh for the sexual offences committed, the agitating
wrestlers were detained on May 28 as they attempted to
march to the new Parliament building.

This incident takes one back to 1990 and the Ruchika

Girhotra case, where a 14-year-old budding tennis
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MythsMyths of Indian history created by the Macaulayian-Leftist historians
of Indian history created by the Macaulayian-Leftist historians
Nations are created on the basis of shared past
experiences and common struggles. The most gluing
emotion which binds a nation-state is its cherished
historical past. It is said that the nation which forgets its
true past is doomed for the future. Historical facts are
narrated to the present generation with a view to
weaving a feeling of commonness on the basis of past
events. We are one, because we have a common past.
What is Macaulayism?
Macaulayism refers to the policy of introducing the
English education system to British colonies. The term
is derived from the name of British politician Thomas
Babington Macaulay (1800–1859), who served on the
Governor-General's Council and was instrumental in
making English the medium of instruction for higher
education in India.
Ironically, the true historical past of India has been
concocted, doctored and distorted to suit a particular
political and ideological leaning. In the pre-
independence era, this work was done by a coterie of
Evangelist-Macaulayian historians which was further
evolved by the Nehruvian-Leftist historians who
distorted the rich Indian history to suit their own
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prejudices in post-independence India. Since these
historians were well-financed and supported by the then
prevailing regime, they dominated the official versions
of history, be it through NCERT or UGC or through
standard history books.
Let us take an incident where we can conclude how
this was potrayed as the main picture behind.
In 1948, soon after India gained Independence, Ramesh
Chandra Majumdar, India’s foremost historian,
submitted a proposal to the government to write an
“authentic” and “truthful” history of the freedom
struggle. His proposal was duly accepted. And in 1952,
the Ministry of Education appointed a Board of Editors
under Majumdar, and the first volume of the series was
published in no time. But in 1955, the board was
dissolved. A year later, when the project was revived,
Majumdar found himself removed and his place was
given to a bureaucrat named Tara Chand.
Why was India’s foremost historian treated so
disdainfully?
Majumdar threatened to take the lid off the myth that
India’s Independence was solely the handiwork of
Mahatma Gandhi’s ahimsa and satyagraha. According
to him, the role played by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
and his Indian National Army (INA) was paramount in
the British leaving India.
Let us examine what myths were propagated
and served to the nation by these historians.
India was never a nation
The Communist historian eco-system claims that India
was not a nation ever. Instead, it was a geographical
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entity of different communities, sub-regions and sub-
nationalities. India could not be a nation, they claim.
There was no idea of ‘India’ prior to India emerging as
a nation state. They contently eschew the fact that India
might not be a nation-state by the modern standard.
India has always faced defeats at the hands of the
invaders
Read the history plated by these historians, in which
they have portrayed that India lost all its battles fought
with the foreign invaders who invaded and defeated the
kings. As Indians, we lost all the battles with the
foreigners. Nothing is further from the facts. Had we lost
all the battles, all the civilisational values of the country
would have disappeared. India as a country would not
have even existed. India would have been a complete
Islamic nation as happened in Arab and other central
Asian countries.
In 326 BC, the army of Alexander retreated from
Hyphasis (modern Beas) after being chased away by the
army of the Nanda Empire. They also underplayed the
victories of Samduragupta. They hardly taught us the
legendary Sikh general Hari Singh Nalwa, known as the
“most feared Sikh warrior” and the only ruler in the
world to subdue the unruly Afghans.
India is a patriarchal society
Indian society has been a patriarchal society where a
woman is treated as an object and asset of a male who
dominates her in all her spheres. This is a lie which is
very well concocted by these historians. They forget
Ghosha, Lopamudra, Maitreyi and Gargi and other great
women who, with their education and intellect, were
well versed with the religious culture of ancient India
and even argue with their male counterparts on the issue
of religion, philosophy and morality in those days of the
Vedic-era.
Indian history is a conflict-driven history
As the leftist perspective makes us believe that there has
been a conflict-based relationship between the rich and
the poor, have and haves-nots and so on. In India, it is
between the upper caste and the lower castes. The
history of India has been a history of exploitation of the
lower caste by the rich through the use of religion. They
tend to eschew the fact that Indian culture and people
have been one of the most tolerant, absorbing and
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inclusive cultures in the world. Instead of conflict, it is
cooperation which has the dominating ethos epitomised
in Sarve Bhawantoo Sukhina (let all be happy).
1857 was Not the First War of Independence
India fought its first battle of Independence in 1857. But
these historians will make us believe that, since India
was not a nation, how can there be a sense of
independence? They branded it as a sepoy mutiny. The
fact of the matter remains that it was a fight to free the
nation from the yoke of the East India Company, which
was the representative of British colonialism. This war
was fought in Pan-India, where major regions, religions
and sub-nationalities led by these sepoys sacrificed their
lives and were killed.
The Britishers gave us modernity
Blind in their following of the western view of
modernity, they confuse modernity with material
prosperity alone. They could not even think of
modernity in terms of happiness and prosperity. The
Britishers might have given us some modern
infrastructure, but it was meant for their colonial
exploitation. Rather, at the advent of the Britishers,
India had the highest GDP with the highest share in
world trade at that point of time. It was a progression in
regression which saw one of the worst famines on Indian
soil.
Hence It is in this backdrop that Sanjeev Sanyal’s book,
Revolutionaries: The Other Side of How India Won Its
Independence, must be acknowledged and appreciated.
For, as the title of the book suggests, it aims to correct
the most fundamental distortion in the history of India’s
Independence: That Gandhi’s ahimsa and satyagraha
alone got India its freedom. The fact is that the
revolutionaries played an equally important, if not
bigger, role in this endeavour.
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GS
GSQuestion Bank
Question Bank (250 250
(Includes QueQuestions)
include)
Statement- Based Current Affairs
1. Recently, the chairman of the Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO), S Somanath,
addressed students and scientists during the
"User Meet of XPoSat" at the ISRO 4.
headquarters in Bengaluru.
Which of the following pairs is/are correctly
matched? (2014)
Spacecraft - Purpose
(1) Cassini-Huygens - Orbiting the Venus and
transmitting data to the Earth
(2) Messenger - Mapping and investigating the
Mercury
(3) Voyager 1 and 2 - Exploring the outer solar
system
Which of the above is/are correct?
(A) Only (1) and (3) (B) Only (2) and (1)
(C) Only (3) and (2) (D) None of the above
2. For the second time in a decade, Global Alliance
of National Human Rights Institutions
(GANHRI) deferred the accreditation of 5.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC),
citing objections like political interference in
appointments among others.
In context to the same, Other than the
Fundamental Rights, which of the following
parts of the Constitution of India reflect/reflects
the principles and provisions of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (1948)?
(1) Preamble, (2) Directive Principles of State
Policy, (3) Fundamental Duties
Which of the above is/are correct?
(A) Only (1) and (2) (B) Only (2) and (3)
(C) Only (3) and (1) (D) All are correct
3. For the second time in a decade, Global Alliance
of National Human Rights Institutions 6.
(GANHRI) deferred the accreditation of
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC),
citing objections like political interference in
appointments among others.
Consider the following -
(1) Right to education
(2) Right to equal access to public service
(3) Right to food.
Which of the above is/are Human Right/Human
Rights under “Universal Declaration of Human
Rights”?
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(A) Only (1) and (2) (B) Only (2) and (3)
(C) Only (3) and (1) (D) All are correct
The yield on the benchmark 10-year government
security (G-sec) in India has witnessed a decline,
posing a question to retail investors about their
investment strategy.
Consider the following statements -
(1) The Reserve Bank of India manages and
services Government of India Securities but not
any State Government Securities.
(2) Treasury bills are issued by the Government
of India and there are no treasury bills issued by
the State Governments.
(3) Treasury bills offer are issued at a discount
from the par value.
Which of the above is/are correct?
(A) Only (1) and (3) (B) Only (2) and (1)
(C) Only (3) and (2) (D) None of the above
A “contemporised” version of Dancing Girl
figurine of Mohenjodaro, was used as a mascot
for the International Museum Expo 2023 in
Delhi.
Which of the following
characterises/characterises the people of Indus
Civilization?
(1) They possessed great palaces and temples.
(2) They worshipped both male and female
deities.
(3) They employed horse-drawn chariots in
warfare.
Which of the above is/are correct?
(A) Only (1) (B) Only (2) and (3)
(C) Only (2) (D) All are correct
The Insurance Regulatory and Development
Authority of India (IRDAI), as part of its Vision
Insurance for all’ by 2047, has allotted states and
union territories to every insurer to increase
insurance penetration in India.
Consider the following statements regarding
IRDAI -
(1) Regulatory body IRDAI was founded in
1999.
(2) It regulates and sees to the development of
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(3) The powers and functions of the Authority
are laid down in the IRDAI Act, 1999 and
Insurance Act, 1938.
Which of the above is/are correct?
(A) Only (1) and (2) (B) Only (2) and (3)
(C) Only (3) and (1) (D) All are correct
7. The NVS-01 satellite was successfully launched
by the Indian Space Research Organisation 10.
(ISRO) using the GSLV-F12, and after a 19-
minute flight, it was accurately placed into a
Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit.
With reference to the Indian Regional
Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), consider
the following statements -
(1) IRNSS has three satellites in geostationary
and four satellites in geosynchronous orbits.
(2) IRNSS covers entire India and about 5500 sq.
Km beyond its borders.
(3) India will have its own satellite navigation
system with full global coverage by the middle
of 2019.
Which of the above is/are correct?
(A) Only (1) (B) Only (2) and (1)
(C) Only (3) (D) None of the above
11.
8. In recent times, there has been increasing
attention on the health benefits of South Indian
coffee blend, particularly highlighting the role of
chicory and coffee with milk.
Though coffee and tea both are cultivated on hill
slopes, there is some difference between them
regarding their cultivation. In this context,
consider the following statements -
(1) Coffee plant requires a hot and humid
climate of tropical areas whereas tea can be
cultivated in both tropical and subtropical areas.
(2) Coffee is propagated by seeds but tea is 12.
propagated by stem cuttings only.
Which of the above is/are correct?
(A) Only (1) (B) (2) and (1)
(C) Only (2) (D) None of these
9. In a response to the recent wave of criticism
surrounding the distribution of iron fortified
rice, the Union Food Ministry has released an
official statement dismissing the allegations
levelled against the iron fortified rice.
Consider the following statements -
(1) Vitamin B12 is also known as
cyanocobalamin.
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(2) It is is synthesized by most bacteria and
algae.
(3) Deficiency of Vitamin B12 causes Intestinal
diseases such as celiac disease.
Which of the above is/are correct?
(A) Only (1) and (2) (B) Only (2) and (3)
(C) Only (3) and (1) (D) All are correct
The Union Education Minister of India recently
embarked on a three-day visit to Singapore with
the aim of strengthening existing ties and
exploring opportunities for widening bilateral
engagement in education and skill development.
Consider the following pairs -
Organization Location of Headquarters
(1) Asian Development : Tokyo Bank
(2) Asia-Pacific : Singapore Economic
Cooperation
(3) Association of South East Asian Nations:
Bangkok
Which of the above pairs is/are correctly
matched?
(A) Only (1) (B) Only (2) and (3)
(C) Only (2) (D) None of the above
Several cities in Southeast Asia experienced
sweltering temperatures over the weekend.
What is the correct sequence of occurrence of
the following cities in South-East Asia as one
proceeds from south to north?
(1) Bangkok, (2) Hanoi, (3) Jakarta, (4)
Singapore
Select the correct answer using the code given
below -
(A) 4 – 2 – 1 – 3 (B) 3 – 2 – 4 – 1
(C) 3 – 4 – 1 – 2 (D) 4 – 3 – 2 – 1
The Indian judiciary play a crucial role in
upholding the rule of law and ensuring justice
for all citizens. Despite recent advancements in
technology, the Indian judiciary continues to
grapple with various loopholes.
Consider the following statements -
(1) The 44th Amendment to the Constitution of
India introduced an Article placing the election
of the Prime Minister beyond judicial review.
(2) The Supreme Court of India struck down the
99th Amendment to the Constitution of India as
being violative of the independence of judiciary.
Which of the above is/are correct?
(A) Only (1) (B) Only (2) and (1)
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(C) Only (2) (D) None of the above
13. Many politicians of the Southern States are
raising voices over Delimitation of
constituencies based on population, which they
consider to be unfair.
With reference to the Delimitation Commission
consider the following statements - 16.
(1) The orders of the Delimitation Commission
cannot be challenged in a Court of Law.
(2) When the orders of the Delimitation
Commission are laid before the Lok Sabha or
State Legislative Assembly, they cannot effect
any modification in the orders.
Which of the above is/are correct?
(A) Only (1) (B) Only (2) and (1)
(C) Only (2) (D) None of the above
14. According to a recent Report by Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World
Food Program (WFP) Hunger Hotspots – FAO-
WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity,
India’s neighbors, Pakistan, Afghanistan and
Myanmar, are among the hunger hotspots in the
world
The FAO accords the status of ‘Globally
Important Agricultural Heritage System
(GIAHS)’ to traditional agricultural systems.
What is the overall goal of this initiative? 17.
(1) To identify and safeguard eco-friendly
traditional farm practices and their associated
landscapes, agricultural biodiversity and
knowledge systems of the local communities.
(2) To provide Geographical Indication status to
all the varieties of agricultural produce in such
identified GIAHS.
Which of the above is/are correct?
(A) Only (1) (B) Only (2) and (1)
(C) Only (2) (D) None of the above
15. The Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
(RBI), recently addressed bank boards and
expressed concerns about banks adopting over-
aggressive growth strategies and engaging in the
ever greening of loans.
With reference to the governance of public
sector banking in India, consider the following
statements - 18.
(1) Capital infusion into public sector banks by
the Government of India has steadily increased
in the last decade.
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(2) To put the public sector banks in order, the
merger of associate banks with the parent State
Bank of India has been affected.
Which of the above is/are correct?
(A) Only (1) (B) Only (2) and (1)
(C) Only (2) (D) None of the above
The aim of recently introduced Forest
(Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023 is to
build forest carbon stock by raising plantations.
The Bill also seeks to make land available for
compensatory afforestation.
Consider the following statements -
(1) As per recent amendment to the Indian Forest
Act, 1927, forest dwellers have the right to fell
the bamboos grown on forest areas.
(2) As per the Scheduled Tribes and Other
Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of
Forest Rights) Act, 2006, bamboo is a minor
forest produce.
(3) The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional
Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights)
Act, 2006 allows ownership of minor forest
produce to forest dwellers.
Which of the above is/are correct?
(A) Only (1) and (3) (B) Only (2) and (1)
(C) Only (3) and (2) (D) None of the above
The Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of
Science and Technology has sequenced close to
7,000 genomes and 3,000 of these are already
available for public access.
With reference to agriculture in India, how can
the technique of ‘genome sequencing’, often
seen in the news, be used in the immediate
future?
(1) Genome sequencing can be used to identify
genetic markers for disease resistance and
drought tolerance in various crop plants.
(2) This technique helps in reducing the time
required to develop new varieties of crop plants.
(3) It can be used to decipher the host-pathogen
relationships in crops.
Which of the above is/are correct?
(A) Only (1) and (2) (B) Only (2) and (3)
(C) Only (3) and (1) (D) All are correct
The Great Nicobar Island (GNI) project includes
an international container transshipment
terminal, a greenfield international airport,
township development, and a 450 MVA gas and
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solar based power plant over an extent of 16,610 21.
hectares in the island.
In context to the same tell us, which of the
following have coral reefs?
(1) Gulf of Kachchh, (2) Gulf of Mannar, (3)
Sunderbans
Which of the above is/are correct?
(A) Only (1) and (2) (B) Only (2) and (3)
(C) Only (3) and (1) (D) All are correct
19. Recently, the European Space Agency is set to
launch the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice)
mission to explore Jupiter and its icy moons,
namely Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa.
Consider the following pairs -
Spacecraft - Purpose
(1) Cassini-Huygens : Orbiting the Venus and 22.
transmitting data to the Earth
(2) Messenger : Mapping and investigating the
Mercury
(3) Voyager 1 and 2 : Exploring the outer solar
system
Which of the above pairs is/are correctly
matched?
(A) Only (1) and (3) (B) Only (2) and (1)
(C) Only (3) and (2) (D) None of the above
20. The Delhi High Court has restrained Khadi
Designing Council of India and Miss India 23.
Khadi Foundation from using the 'KHADI'
Trademark after the Khadi and Village
Industries Commission (KVIC) filed a
Trademark Infringement Lawsuit.
In order to comply with TRIPS Agreement,
India enacted the Geographical Indications of
Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999.
The difference/differences between a "Trade
Mark" and a Geographical Indications is/are -
(1) A Trade Mark is an individual or company is
right whereas a Geographical Indication is a
community’s right. 24.
(2) A Trade Mark can be licensed whereas a
Geographical Indication cannot be licensed.
(3) A Trade Mark is assigned to the
manufactured goods whereas the Geographical
Indication is assigned to the agricultural
goods/products and handicrafts only.
Which of the above is/are correct?
(A) Only (1) and (2) (B) Only (2) and (3)
(C) Only (3) and (1) (D) All are correct
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According to the National Tiger Conservation
Authority's (NTCA) fifth cycle of Management
Effectiveness Evaluation for 2022, the Periyar
Tiger Reserve (PTR) ranked first, Satpura and
Bandipur came second while Nagarhole was
ranked third (92.42%) in the 2022 cycle of MEE.
Consider the following statements regarding
Periyar Tiger Reserve -
(1) Periyar Tiger Reserve located in the Western
Ghats of Kerala.
(2) It was declared a Tiger Reserve in 1965.
(3) Two main rivers, Pamba and Periyar drain
the reserve.
Which of the above is/are correct?
(A) Only (1) and (2) (B) Only (2) and (3)
(C) Only (3) and (1) (D) All are correct
The Chief Justice of India recently addressed the
18th meeting of the Chief Justices/Chairpersons
of the Supreme Courts of the SCO member
states.
Consider the following -
(1) Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
(2) Missile Technology Control Regime
(3) Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
India is a member of which of the above?
(A) Only (1) and (3) (B) Only (2) and (1)
(C) Only (3) and (2) (D) All are correct
The year 2023 marks the 30th anniversary of the
73rd and 74th Amendment to the Indian
Constitution.
The fundamental object of the Panchayati Raj
system is to ensure which among the following?
(1) People’s participation in development
(2) Political accountability
(3) Democratic decentralisation
Which of the above is/are correct?
(A) Only (1) and (2) (B) Only (2) and (3)
(C) Only (3) and (1) (D) None of the above
A study conducted in Gorakhpur district, India,
involving 266 children vaccinated with the
Chinese SA-14-14-2 vaccine (a live, attenuated
vaccine) for Japanese encephalitis.
Consider the following statements -
(1) In tropical regions, Zika virus disease is
transmitted by the same mosquito that transmits
dengue.
(2) Sexual transmission of Zika virus disease is
possible.
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Which of the above is/are correct? (1) Carbon dioxide, (2) Carbon monoxide, (3)
(A) Only (1) (B) (2) and (3) Nitrogen dioxide, (4) Sulphur dioxide, (5)
(C) Only (2) (D) None are correct Methane
Select the correct answer using the code given
25. According to the World Air Quality Report below:
prepared by IQAir, Delhi ranked 4th out of 50 in (A) Only 1, 2 & 3 (B) Only 2, 3 & 4
the world. (C) Only 1, 4 & 5 (D) 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
In the cities of our country, which among the
following atmospheric gases are normally
considered in calculating the value of the Air
Quality Index?
Statement Based General Awareness
1. Which of the following statements is true? I. Buddhism is the world's third-largest
I. Lala Lajpat Rai is considered to be the religion.
"Father of the Indian Renaissance" by many II. Buddhism is a faith that was founded by
historians. Siddhartha Gautama (“the Buddha”) more
II. Lala Lajpat Rai was given the title of Raja than 2,500 years ago in India.
by Akbar II, the Mughal emperor. Select the correct option
Select the correct option (A) Only I (B) Only II
(A) Only I (B) Only II (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
5. Which of the following statements is true?
2. Which of the following statements is true? I. The Cardamom Hills or Yela Mala are
I. Tuzuk-i-Baburi (Baburanamah) is the mountain range of northern India.
autobiography of Zahiruddin Muhammad II. The Anaimalai or Anamala Hills, also
babur, the founder of the Mughal empire in known as the Elephant Mountains.
India. Select the correct option.
II. Babur wrote it in Turkish language; (A) Only I (B) Only II
Mughal imperial officer, Abdur Rahim Khan (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
Khan-i-Khanan, son of Bairam Khan Khan-i-
Khanan, translated it into Persian. Well 6. Which of the following statements is true?
received by European scholars, the book has I. Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which
been translated into various European metallic iron can be economically extracted.
languages. II. Bauxite is a polymer made up of the
Select the correct option monomers phenol and formaldehyde.
(A) Only I (B) Only II Select the correct option.
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II (A) Only I (B) Only II
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
3. Which of the following statements is true?
I. Lord Lytton is known as father of Local 7. Which of the following statements is true?
Self-government. I. Deforestation can involve conversion of
II. Ripon was born at London, the second son forest land to farms.
of Prime Minister F. J. Robinson. II. Intensive farming is a kind of agriculture
Select the correct option where a lot of money and labour are used to
(A) Only I (B) Only II increase the yield.
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II Select the correct option
(A) Only I (B) Only II
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8. Which of the following statements is true? I. A capital gain refers to profit that results
I. The Himalayas show a gradual elevation from a sale of a capital asset.
towards the Dhauladhar and Zaskar ranges. II. Gift tax is the direct tax.
II. Uttrakhand is famous for terrace cultivation. Select the correct option.
Select the correct option. (A) Only I (B) Only II
(A) Only I (B) Only II (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
14. Which of the following statements is true?
9. Which of the following statement (s) is true? I. Inflation is a seemingly contradictory
I. Two times a person can be elected as the condition described by slow economic
President of India. growth.
II. Article 32 was referred to as the 'the heart II. United Nations Conference on Trade and
and soul' of the constitution by Dr. B. R. Development publishes World Investment
Ambedkar. Report.
Select the correct option. Select the correct option.
(A) Only I (B) Only II (A) Only I (B) Only II
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II

10. Which of the following statement (s) is true? 15. Which of the following statements is true?
I. There are total 7 parliamentary seats (Rajya I. NHB Residex was launched in 2007.
Sabha constituency) in Punjab. II. Income tax is a Progressive Tax.
II. Constituent Assembly of India was Select the correct option.
founded in the year 1946. (A) Only I (B) Only II
Select the correct option. (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
(A) Only I (B) Only II
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II 16. Which of the following statements is true?
I. The Mercator projection is a cylindrical
11. Which of the following statement (s) is true? map projection.
I. The members of the Panchayat are the II. The money market is a component of the
electorates of the respective territorial economy which provides short-term funds.
constituencies. Select the correct option.
II. Nagaland was created as a separate state in (A) Only I (B) Only II
the year 1963. (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
Select the correct option.
(A) Only I (B) Only II 17. Which of the following statement (s) is true?
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II I. Soap bubble attains spherical shape due to
surface tension.
12. Which of the following statement (s) is true? II. The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its
I. One fourth of the total number of members of resistance.
the House is considered quorum for the meeting Select the correct option.
of the House under Article 100 (3). (A) Only I (B) Only II
II. The Speaker holds office till the first sitting (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
of the next Lok Sabha after the dissolution of the
Parliament in which he was elected from the date 18. Which of the following statement (s) is true?
of his election. I. Grey is formed when Red and Green are
Select the correct option. mixed.
(A) Only I (B) Only II II. Electric Motor converts sound energy to
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II mechanical energy.
Select the correct option.
13. Which of the following statements is true? (A) Only I (B) Only II
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
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19. Which of the following statement (s) is true? (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
I. Dr. Homi J. Bhabha developed the technology
of underground nuclear explosion. 23. Which of the following statements is/are true?
II. For oscillation Diode is used. I. The most electronegative element is the
Select the correct option. bromine.
(A) Only I (B) Only II II. Selenium non-metal is not a poor
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II conductor of electricity.
Select the correct option.
20. Which of the following statement (s) is true? (A) Only I (B) Only II
I. Charge is the basic property of matter carried (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
by some elementary particles.
II. Capacitance, property of an electric 24. Which of the following statements is/are true?
conductor, or set of conductors, that is measured I. The metal used to recover copper from a
by the amount of separated electric charge. solution of copper sulphate is Fe.
Select the correct option. II. The metallurgical process in which metal
(A) Only I (B) Only II is obtained in a fused state is called
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II calcinations.
Select the correct option.
21. Which of the following statements is true? (A) Only I (B) Only II
I. Polyester is a synthetic fiber derived from (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
coal.
II. Vinegar is an aqueous solution of acetic 25. Consider the following Correct statements.
acid. 1. Tetanus, acute infectious disease of humans
Select the correct option. and other animals, caused by toxins produced by
(A) Only I (B) Only II the bacillus Clostridium tetani
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II 2. Hepatitis : It is a viral disease, causes hepatic
anorexia resulting in liver damage (liver cancer)
22. Which of the following statements is/are true? or jaundice.
I. The purest form of iron is wrought iron. (A) only 1 (B) Only 2
II. The number of moles of solute present in 1 (C) Both 1 and 2 (D) Neither 1 nor 2
kg of a solvent is called its normality.
Select the correct option.
(A) Only I (B) Only II

Current Affairs
1. In BR Chopra’s Mahabharata, Name the person 3. Which town of Jammu & Kashmir has emerged
who played Shakuni Mama's character, who as the Lavender capital of India and Agri
passed away recently? StartUp destination?
(A) Puneet Issar (B) Pankaj Dheer (A) Bhaderwah (B) Kishtwar
(C) Gufi Paintal (D) Kunal Bakshi (C) Srinagar (D) Sonamarg

2. Which Indian Institute of Technology has got 4. Name the two Indian shooters who have won
the top spot in the eighth edition of National gold at the ISSF World Cup Junior in 10 meter
Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF), 2023? Air Rifle?
(A) IIT Roorkee (B) IIT Madras (A) Abhinav Bindra and Anita Devi
(C) IIT Kharagpur (D) IIT Bombay (B) Gagan Narang and Abha Dhillan
(C) Abhinav Shaw and Gautami Bhanot
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5. Indian Naval Ship Satpura has arrived Indonesia 12. Who has become the first Indian to be honoured
to participate in which Multilateral Naval with the Grand Order of the Chain of the Yellow
Exercise? Star, the highest civilian award in Suriname?
(A) Exercise Sea Vigil (A) Droupadi Murmu
(B) Exercise La Perouse (B) Narendra Modi
(C) Exercise Komodo (C) Jagdeep Dhankhar
(D) Exercise Zair-Al-Bahr (D) D Y Chandrachud

6. The second Mt Everest International Yoga 13. What is the name of India’s first international
Championship has scheduled to be held in which cruise vessel which has recently flagged off?
country in June 2023? (A) MV Mahabaahu (B) MV Costa Neo
(A) Bhutan (B) Nepal (C) MV Empress (D) MV Backwater
(C) China (D) India
14. World Bank Cuts India’s GDP Growth Forecast
7. On World Environment Day, Prime Minister for FY24 to what percent?
Narendra Modi has launched which two (A) 6.3% (B) 9.7%
schemes for Wetland and Mangrove (C) 8.7% (D) 5.6%
Conservation?
(A) Nagar Van and Vanshakti 15. Which bank has introduced UPI cash withdrawal
(B) Amrit Dharohar and MISHTI facility at its ATMs?
(C) GAGAN and Amrit Dharohar (A) State Bank of India (B) Bank of India
(D) Vanshakti and Greenpeace (C) Bank of Baroda (D) HDFC Bank

8. Which university has emerged as the overall 16. Which multinational company has signs 1.6
champion 3rd Khelo India University Games, Billion dollar EV Battery Plant Deal in Gujarat?
concluded recently at IIT BHU Varanasi? (A) Adani Group (B) Tata Group
(A) Lucknow University (C) Reliance Group (D) Birla Group
(B) Jain University
(C) Punjab University 17. India has conducted Asia’s first demonstration
(D) Delhi University of performance-based navigation for Helicopters
using which satellite technology?
9. What is the name of the financial inclusion (A) GAGAN satellite (B) EGNOS satellite
dashboard launched by RBI Governor (C) JATAN satellite (D) WAAS satellite
Shaktikanta Das?
(A) Antardrishti (B) RBI Retail 18. Which AIIMS has obtained the prestigious
(C) Abhigupti (D) RBI Shakha accreditation from the National Board for
Hospitals (NABH) in June 2023?
10. Who has been appointed as the chairperson of (A) AIIMS Mumbai (B) AIIMS Delhi
"The Hindu Group Publishing Private Limited" (C) AIIMS Bengaluru (D) AIIMS Nagpur
(THGPPL)?
(A) G Narasimhan (B) Garima Kasturi 19. What is the theme of World Food Safety Day
(C) S Parthasarathy (D) Nirmala Lakshman 2023?
(A) Safer food, better health.
11. Which country has won the FIBA 3×3 World (B) Food safety, everyone's business
Cup 2023 in men’s category, which took place (C) Change the future of migration
in Vienna, Austria? (D) Food standards save lives
(A) Serbia (B) USA
(C) Russia (D) UAE 20. Who has been authored the recently published
book "The Power of One Thought: Master Your
Mind, Master Your Life"?
(A) Vishal Verma (B) Suresh Oberoi
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(C) Gaur Gopal Das (D) BK Shivani (A) Tata Group (B) Larsen & Toubro
(C) Taj Group (D) Reliance Group
21. Who has authored the book new book
"Nalanda", delves into the history of the ancient 24. Recently, Janardan Prasad has been appointed as
of learning in Bihar? the new Director-General of which government
(A) Abhijit Banerjee agency?
(B) Nirmala Sitharaman (A) Archaeological Survey of India
(C) Abhay Kumar (B) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
(D) Palagummi Sainath (C) Geological Survey of India
(D) Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
22. What is the theme of World Oceans Day 2023?
(A) Revitalization: Collective Action for the 25. What is the name of the Director General of the
Ocean Competition Commission of India, who has got
(B) Planet Ocean: The Tides are changing extension for a period of three months?
(C) The Ocean: Life and Livelihoods (A) Ravneet Kaur (B) Sanjay Sood
(D) Revitalization: Gender and Oceans (C) Pawan Kumar (D) Atul Verma

23. In the recent Brand Finance report which

company has become India's most valuable
brand?
History
1. Which of the following was obtained from the (B) Jalaluddin
remains of the Cro-Magnon human? (C) Muhammad Tughlaq
(A) Australia (B) France (D) Krishnadevaraya
(C) Germany (D) Britain
7. Ralph Fisch came to India during whose reign?
2. The relic of Homo sapiens human beings find (A) Jahangir (B) Akbar
from which place? (C) Humayun (D) Shah jahan
(A) Central Asia (B) Eastern Europe
(C) Australia (D) East Africa 8. Peter Mundy came to India during whose reign?
(A) Jahangir (B) Akbar
3. Which mughal ruler is known to have installed a (C) Humayun (D) Shah jahan
‘Bell of Justice’ to facilitate his subjects in
getting their cries for justice to be heard? 9. People who discover historical facts by
(A) Akbar (B) Jahangir Excavation is called -
(C) Aurangzeb (D) Humayun (A) Scientist (B) Historian
(C) Archaeologist (D) Geologist
4. Whose reign was called the Golden age of
Mughal Era? 10. Mesopotamian civilization was flourished on-
(A) Akbar (B) Jahangir (A) Along the banks of the river Nile
(C) Shahjahan (D) Humayun (B) Along the bank of river Indus
(C) Along the bank of dajla farat river
5. Who wrote Panchatantra? (D) The edge of Yangtisiviyang river valley
(A) Sudraka (B) Vishnu Gupta
(C) Vishnu Sharma (D) Bharata Muni 11. The Kathopanishad captures the conversation
between a young boy named Nachiketas and a
6. Ibn Battuta came to India during reign of the god. Which of the following gods is talking to
following? Nachiketas?
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(C) Lord Indra (D) Lord Shiva 21. Which of the following statements is true?
I. In 1615, Thomas Roe arrived at the Surat port
12. The earliest reference to sati custom is made in as the ambassador of the English King, James I
which of the following inscriptions? to Mughal Emperor Jahangir's court.
(A) Allahabad Pillar inscription II. The first factory of british east india company
(B) Eran inscription of Bhanugupta was established in Masulipatnam, East coast of
(C) Aihole inscription of Pulkesin II India in 1611.
(D) Bhitan inscription of Skandgupta Select the correct option
(A) Only I (B) Only II
13. The famous Dilwara temples of Mount Abu are (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
a sacred pilgrimage place for the ______.
(A) Buddhists (B) Jains 22. Which of the following statements is true?
(C) Sikhs (D) Parsis I. Ramanand went to many religious places in
Puri and South India and preached Rambhakti.
14. Which dynasty was ruling in Vijaynagar empire II. Bhakti movement was a revolution started
at the time of the Battle of Talikota? by the Hindu saints.
(A) Sangam (B) Aniridu Select the correct option
(C) Tuluva (D) Saluva (A) Only I (B) Only II
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
15. Ustad Mansur was a famous painter of which
Mughal ruler's regime? 23. Which of the following statements is true?
(A) Akbar (B) Jahangir I. The Mansabdari system was the
(C) Shah Jahan (D) Aurangzeb administrative system of the Mughal Empire
introduced by Akbar.
16. All India Kisan Sabha was founded in which II. Mansabdari system was the base of civil
year? and military administration.
(A) 1936 (B) 1946 Select the correct option
(C) 1956 (D) 1966 (A) Only I (B) Only II
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
17. Who gave the slogan Inquilab Zindabad?
(A) Hasrat Mohani 24. Which of the following statements is true?
(B) Ashfaqulla Khan I. The Taj Mahal in Agra, often cited as one
(C) Bhagat Singh of the Wonders of the World.
(D) Chandrashekhar Azad II. The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble
mausoleum on the north bank of the Yamuna
18. The Sarvodaya Movement was started by river in the Indian city of Agra.
(A) Vinoba Bhave Select the correct option
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (A) Only I (B) Only II
(C) Mahatma Gandhi (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
(D) Vivekananda
25. Which of the following statements is true?
19. Who conquered Sind in 712 AD? I. Akbar was succeeded by his son Salim.
(A) Arabs (B) French II. Salim took the title of Jahangir, meaning
(C) Greeks (D) Mongols Conqueror of the World.
Select the correct option
20. The Shiites believed that the Umayyad (A) Only I (B) Only II
(A) Should pray more (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
(B) Should not be in power
(C) Got special treatment
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Geography
1. Which three continents of the world are called 11. Tehri Dam is situated at which river, and in
new worlds? which state?
(A) Australia (B) South America (A) Ganga, Uttar Pradesh
(C) Europe (D) North America (B) Bhagirathi, Uttarakhand
(C) Krishna, Maharashtra
2. Which of the following ocean is triangular in (D) Jhelum, Jammu and Kashmir
shape?
(A) Indian Ocean (B) Pacific Ocean 12. Bhakra Nangal Dam is situated at which river,
(C) Atlantic Ocean (D) Arctic Ocean and in which state?
(A) Sutlej, Himachal Pradesh
3. The world's busiest ocean is which of the (B) Ramganga, Uttarakhand
following? (C) Yamuna, Uttar Pradesh
(A) Pacific Ocean (B) Atlantic Ocean (D) Kaveri, Andhra Pradesh
(C) Indian Ocean (D) Arctic Ocean
13. Sardar sarovar dam is situated at which river, and
4. Which of the following is not a Rabi crop? in which state?
(A) Mustard (B) Gram (A) Chambal, Rajasthan
(C) Wheat (D) Peanut (B) Shipra, Maharashtra
(C) Gomti, Uttar Pradesh
5. Which of the following is not a kharif crop? (D) Narmada, Gujarat
(A) Grain (B) Barley
(C) Maize (D) Cotton 14. Hirakud dam is situated at which river, and in
which state?
6. Who is the head of the solar system? (A) Mahanadi, Orissa
(A) Earth (B) Saturn (B) Beas, Jammu and Kashmir
(C) Moon (D) The sun (C) Godavari, Maharashtra
(D) Periyar, Kerala
7. What is the latitude of the tropic of cancer line?
(A) 00 latitude 15. Nagarjuna sagar dam is situated at which river,
(B) 23 1/20 South latitude and in which state?
(C) 23 1/20 northern latitude (A) Beas, Jammu and Kashmir
(D) 66 1/20 Northern latitude (B) Godavari, Maharashtra
(C) Krishna, Telangana
8. What is the shape of the earth? (D) Kaveri, Tamilnadu
(A) Oval (B) Sphere
(C) Geoids (D) None of these 16. Koderma in Jharkhand is the leading producer
of-
9. “Incredible India” is the tagline of which (A) Bauxite (B) Mica
organization? (C) Iron ore (D) Copper
(A) Indian Railways
(B) Swachh Bharat Abhiyan 17. Kakrapar atomic power plant is situated at?
(C) Indian Tourism (A) Rajasthan (B) West Bengal
(D) Air India (C) Gujarat (D) Karnataka

10. The festival of ‘Bihu’ is traditionally celebrated 18. The Shivanasamudra waterfall form in which of
in which state? these rivers?
(A) Bihar (B) Panjab (A) Narmada (B) Vaigai
(C) Keral (D) None of these (C) Damodar (D) Kauvery

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19. Kaziranga wildlife sanctuary is in which state? I. The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest
(A) Assam (B) Bihar of Earth's oceanic divisions.
(C) Madhya Pradesh (D) Uttar Pradesh II. The Maikale Hills are range of hills in the
state of Chandigarh India.
20. What makes the Ankleshwar famous? Select the correct option.
(A) Coal mining (A) Only I (B) Only II
(B) Exploration of oil and natural gas (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
(C) Iron and steel industries
(D) Cotton textile industries 24. Which of the following statements is true?
I. Sinkhole is a phenomenon of Tundra
21. Which of the following statements is true? topography.
I. Energy in a form of heat needed to convert II. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon
the water into gaseous form known as latent passes directly behind Earth and into its
heat. shadow.
II. Normal Lapse rate is increase of Select the correct option.
temperature with increasing height. (A) Only I (B) Only II
Select the correct option. (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
(A) Only I (B) Only II
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II 25. Which of the following statements is true?
I. Red soil is normally found in India in eastern
22. Which of the following statements is true? Region only.
I. Frontal fog forms near a front when II. Jet streams are usually found in the
raindrops, falling from relatively warm air. Ionosphere.
II. Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed Select the correct option.
of sand-size grains of mineral. (A) Only I (B) Only II
Select the correct option. (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
(A) Only I (B) Only II
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II

23. Which of the following statements is true?

Polity
1. Which one of the following articles/Schedules in (C) 243 -C (D) 243 -B
the Constitution of India deals with Autonomous
District Councils? 4. Which of the following fundamental right is
(A) Eighth Schedule (B) Article 370 given in Article 21?
(C) Sixth Schedule (D) Article 250 (A) Right to property (B) Right to equality
(C) Right to speech (D) Right to life
2. Quorum for the meeting of Rajya Sabha is-
(A) One tenths of the total members of Lok 5. Which among the following article states that
sabha. there should be no discrimination on grounds of
(B) One tenth of the total members of the house. caste, religion, race, sex, place of birth?
(C) 50 members of Rajyasabha. (A) Article 15 (B) Article 21
(D) 30 members of Rajyasabha. (C) Article 25 (D) Article 30

3. Which Article provides that all the Panchayats 6. The authorization for the withdrawal of funds
seat would be reserved for scheduled casted and from the consolidated fund of India must come
scheduled tribes in proportion to their from?
population? (A) President of India
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(C) Prime minister of India
(D) Union finance minister
7. The 42nd Constitutional Amendment Act
amended the Preamble for the first time in 1976
and added some terms to it. Select the correct
sequence of the terms introduced in the
Preamble by this Amendment:
(A) Secular, Socialist and Integrity
(B) Integrity, Socialist and Secular
(C) Socialist, Secular and Integrity
(D) Secular, Integrity and Socialist
8. The 79th Amendment of the Indian Constitution
is related to:
(A) Centre-State relations.
(B) Establishment of two political parties.
(C) Fundamental Rights. 15.
(D) Reservation of SCs and STs in the Lok
Sabha and State Assemblies.
9. According to the Constitution of the National
Human Rights Commission of India, how many
full-time Members does the Commission consist
of? 16.
(A) Four (B) Eleven
(C) Nine (D) Seven
10. Who among the following is collectively
responsible to the Lok Sabha and is obliged to
resign on losing the confidence of the Lok
Sabha?
(A) Chief Ministers of different states
(B) Council of Ministers
(C) Cabinet Ministers
(D) MP's of Rajya Sabha
11. In which of the following Union Territories there 18.
are administrators, where there is no post of
Lieutenant Governor?
(A) Delhi (B) Puducherry
(C) Lakshadweep (D) Andaman Nicobar
12. 74th Amendment Act (1992) is related to 19.
_________.
(A) Function of the Kaveri water Authority
(B) The function of the state Finance
commission.
(C) Structure of the NITI aayog of India
(D) Nagarpalika 20.
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13. By which among the following amendments of
the constitution, the territories of Goa, Daman
and Diu were incorporated in the Indian
constitution?
(A) 10th Constitution Amendment Act, 1961
(B) 12th Constitution Amendment Act, 1962
(C) 14th Constitution Amendment Act, 1962
(D) All of the above
14. The Partition of Bengal made by Lord Curzon in
1905 lasted until
(A) The Second World War
(B) King George V abrogated Curzon's Act at
the Royal Durbar in Delhi in 1911
(C) Gandhiji launched his Quit India Movement
(D) the Partition of India in 1947
Who is the second-highest rank for a law officer
In India?
(A) Solicitor General
(B) Attorney General
(C) Advocate General
(D) Law Minister
Under the direct rule of the British Government,
the first law for the rule of India was.
(A) Government of India Act, 1935
(B) Government of India Act, 1952
(C) Government of India Act, 1892
(D) Government of India Act, 1915
17. Under which article of the Constitution, can each
state introduce the spread and instruction of the
mother tongue in primary education?
(A) Article-349 (B) Article -350
(C) Article -350A (D) Article-351
In which article of the Constitution, the
instructions for the development of Hindi
language have been given?
(A) Article 330 (B) Article -336
(C) Article-343(1) (D) Article-351
In which article of Indian Constitution, the state
government directs the organization of Gram
Panchayat?
(A) Article-32 (B) Article-40
(C) Article -48 (D) Article -78
President of India can dissolve the Lok Sabha
under which Article of the Constitution?
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(A) Article-85 (B) Article-95 II. 12 members of upper house (Rajya Sabha)
(C) Article-356 (D) Article-365 can be nominated by President of India.
Select the correct option.
21. Which of the following statement (s) is true? (A) Only I (B) Only II
I. The Governor of each state is appointed by (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
the President on the recommendation of the
Union Cabinet of the country and it functions 24. Which of the following statement (s) is true?
on the advice of the Chief Minister of the I. When the posts of both the Speaker and the
state. Deputy Speaker are vacant, the responsibility
II. The Governor of each state is appointed by of the office of the Speaker by such member is
the Prime Minister on the recommendation of discharged by a member of the Lok Sabha
the Union Cabinet of the country and it appointed by the President for this purpose.
functions on the advice of the Chief Minister II. The Member of Parliament has another
of the state. tool available in the form of a half-hour
Select the correct option. discussion to raise issues of public
(A) Only I (B) Only II importance.
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II Select the correct option.
(A) Only I (B) Only II
22. Which of the following statement (s) is true? (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
I. Article 352 of Indian constitution has the
provision for National Emergency. 25. Which of the following statement (s) is true?
II. The Right to Freedom is covered in I. United Kingdom doesn't have a written
Articles 16 to article 22. Constitution.
Select the correct option. II. The International Labour Organization
(A) Only I (B) Only II (ILO) is a United Nations agency.
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II Select the correct option.
(A) Only I (B) Only II
23. Which of the following statement (s) is true? (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
I. Article 369, President of India can proclaim
constitutional emergency.

Economics
1. What is the record of all economic transactions 3. Which is India's place in the Human
of a country in a particular period called? Development Index released in 2019 by
(A) Balance of Payment U.N.D.P.?
(B) Fiscal Deficit (A) 129 (B) 133
(C) Current Account Deficit (C) 135 (D) 138
(D) Balance of trade
4. The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral
2. The government proposed the merger of which Technical and Economic Cooperation is a
of the three banks aimed at creating the country’s subregional grouping comprising seven
third-biggest lender? countries of South Asia and South East Asia.
(A) Bank of Baroda, Vijaya Bank and Dena Where is its headquarters?
Bank (A) Dhaka (B) New Delhi
(B) Bank of India, Axis bank and Syndicate bank (C) Kathmandu (D) Mumbai
(C) Bank of Maharashtra, HDFC bank and ICICI
bank 5. NEFT is used for Electronic Transfer of Funds
(D) Panjab national bank, Bank of India and between any bank branch to any individual
Vijaya bank having an account with any other bank branch.
What is the full form of NEFT?
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(A) Networked Electronic Funds Transfer, 12. Why was 'Tendulkar Committee' constituted?
MICR Code. (A) To measure unemployment
(B) Networked Electronic Funds Transfer, IFS (B) To measure growth rate
Code. (C) To measure poverty
(C) National Electronic Funds Transfer, MICR (D) To measure agricultural produce
Code.
(D) National Electronic Funds Transfer, IFS 13. Who recently launched 'Jan Dhan Darshak'
Code. Mobile App?
(A) Narendra Modi
6. Which one of the following issues the 'Global (B) Ramnath Kovind
Economic Prospects' report periodically? (C) Rajnath Singh
(A) The Asian Development Bank (D) Arun Jaitley
(B) The European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development 14. Which state has the highest average per capita
(C) The US Federal Reserve Bank income in India?
(D) The World Bank (A) Kerala (B) Maharashtra
(C) Goa (D) Rajasthan
7. When the Reserve Bank of India reduces the
Statutory Liquidity Ratio by 50 basis points, 15. Which state has the lowest average per capita
which of the following is likely to happen? income in India?
(A) India's GDP growth rate increases drastically (A) Chhattisgarh (B) Bihar
(B) Foreign Institutional Investors may bring (C) Uttar Pradesh (D) Odisha
more capital into our country
(C) Scheduled Commercial Banks may cut their 16. In which of the following years was the first
lending rates radio program broadcast?
(D) It may drastically reduce the liquidity to the (A) 1911 (B) 1927
banking system (C) 1936 (D) 1923

8. Which of the following is the maximum 17. Economics is the science of human activities
population density in the continent? considered as an Endeavour to reach the stage of
(A) Africa (B) Europe wantlessness.
(C) North America (D) Asia (A) J.K. Mehta (B) Adam Smith
(C) Marshall (D) Samuelson
9. Rourkela steel plant was developed in
collaboration with which of the following 18. Which of the following is the method of
countries? calculating national income?
(A) Russia (A) Production calculation method
(B) Japan (B) Income calculation method
(C) Germany (C) Expenditure calculation method
(D) United Kingdom (D) All of the above

10. Rourkela steel plant is located in which state? 19. In which of the following years was the
(A) Maharashtra (B) Odisha Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) launched?
(C) Jharkhand (D) Karnataka (A) 2000 (B) 2005
(C) 2010 (D) 2015
11. Who among the following suggested the 'Rolling
Plan'? 20. Which fibre is called the ‘Golden Fibre’?
(A) John W. Miller (A) Cotton (B) Jute
(B) D. T. Lakdawala (C) Rayon (D) Wool
(C) Gunnar Myrdal
(D) Sukhmay Chakarborty 21. Which of the following statements is true?
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I. The law of demand states that a higher price Select the correct option.
leads to a lower quantity. (A) Only I (B) Only II
II. A savings account is a basic type of bank (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
account that allows you to deposit money.
Select the correct option. 24. Which of the following statements is true?
(A) Only I (B) Only II I. COFEPOSA was enacted in 1979.
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II II. Duty Entitlement Pass Book (DEPS) is an
scheme of Indian Government provided to
22. Which of the following statements is true? exporters.
I. Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) is an Select the correct option.
economic theory that compares different (A) Only I (B) Only II
countries' currencies through a "basket of (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
goods" approach.
II. A direct tax (VAT) is a consumption tax 25. Which of the following statements is true?
placed on a product whenever value is added I. Bombay Stock Exchange was established in
at each stage of the supply chain. 1875.
Select the correct option. II. Central Food Technological Research
(A) Only I (B) Only II Institute is located at Lucknow.
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II Select the correct option.
(A) Only I (B) Only II
23. Which of the following statements is true? (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
I. Shankar-6 is a variety of cotton.
II. Export of services is an Invisible Export.

Physics
1. Which of the following is not an Output device? (C) Knot (D) Mph
(A) Monitor (B) Projector
(C) Keyboard (D) Mother board 6. A body has a mass of 6 kg on the earth, when
measured on the moon, its mass would be.
2. Which one among the following given processes (A) Nearly 1 kg (B) Less than 1 kg
cannot be demonstrated with the sound wave? (C) Less than 6 kg (D) 6 kg
(A) Refraction (B) Polarization
(C) Interference (D) Transmission 7. The minority charge carriers in N-type
semiconductor is?
3. Energy-mass relation is related to. (A) Electron (B) Hole
(A) Quantum theory (C) Proton (D) Neutron
(B) Theory of relativity
(C) Law of motion 8. During cold weather, touch the iron cube and the
(D) Law of gravitation wooden cube in the morning, then the iron cube
is colder because.
4. Sound of frequency greater than 20000 Hz (A) The temperature of the iron cube is less than
known as ..... the wood cube.
(A) Sonic (B) Iron is a good conductor of heat than wood
(B) Infrasonic cube.
(C) Ultrasonic (C) Iron cube is a poor conductor of heat
(D) None of the above compared to wood cube.
(D) The iron cube is heavier than the wood cube.
5. The unit to measure the speed of ships is-
(A) Mile (B) Meter 9. What is a transformer?

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(A) Converts DC into AC. (B) Security Embedded in Organization

(B) Used to reduce and increase AC voltage. (C) Search Embedded Optimization
(C) Converts AC voltage to DC voltage. (D) Site Engine Optimization
(D) Converts electrical energy into mechanical
energy. 18. What is the unit of Magnetic flux density?
(A) Tesla (B) Weber
10. Who invented Velcro? (C) Farad (D) None of these
(A) Thomas Edison (B) William Harvey
(C) George de Mestral (D) Robert Boyles 19. Name the physicist awarded Nobel Prize for
Quantum Theory in 1918?
11. The thickness of the ozone layer is measured? (A) Albert Einstein (B) Niels Bohr
(A) Dobson (B) Barrel (C) Max Planck (D) Burry
(C) Bar (D) Decibel
20. Communication satellites are used to:
12. Nuclear reactor is a discovered by _____. (A) To transmit communication signals
(A) K. Onnes (B) H. Devi (B) To receive and redirect communication
(C) Fermi (D) L. D Forest signals
(C) To only receive the communication signal
13. Which of the following device converts (D) To provide information on national sources
chemical energy in to electrical energy? only
(A) Battery (B) Loud Speaker
(C) Solar Cell (D) Electric Motor 21. Which of the following statement (s) is true?
I. The phenomena of raising the outer edge of the
14. Which lens are used to correct the Myopia (Near curved roads above the inner edge to provide
sightedness) defect? necessary centripetal force to the vehicles to take
(A) Concave Lens (B) Convex Lens a safe turn is called banking of roads.
(C) Bipolar Lens (D) None of the above II. The slope of a velocity-time graph represents
acceleration.
15. Astronauts use radios to communicate, because Select the correct option
____. (A) Only I (B) Only II
(A) Sound travels at very high speed in vacuum (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
(B) Sound does not travel in vacuum
(C) Sound in the vacuum may burst 22. Which of the following statement (s) is true?
(D) Sound turns into light in vacuum I. The bending of light when it passes around a
corner or a slit is due to diffraction.
16. What is the goal of LOON project of Google X II. The filament of a bulb is made up of Zinc
– an R&D facility founded by Google? Select the correct option.
(A) Expanding coverage of Internet connectivity (A) Only I (B) Only II
with stratospheric balloons (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
(B) To create kites that harness wind energy to
generate electricity efficiently from wind 23. Which of the following statement (s) is true?
(C) An autonomous delivery drone service I. Speed of light is maximum in light.
aiming to increase access to goods, reduce traffic II. Hertz is the SI unit of frequency.
congestion in cities, and help ease the CO2 Select the correct option.
emissions (A) Only I (B) Only II
(D) Transforming mobility with self-driving cars (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II

17. A popular form of activity for businesses and 24.
individuals to increase hits on their websites is
SEO. What is the full form of SEO?
(A) Search Engine Optimization
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II. Anthracite of coal produces most heat per II. If objects appear enlarged and inverted in a
unit. rear-view mirror, then concave type of mirror is
Select the correct option. used.
(A) Only I (B) Only II Select the correct option.
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II (A) Only I (B) Only II
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
25. Which of the following statement (s) is true?
I. Newton is the SI unit of electric current.

Chemistry
1. Vinegar contains acetic acid (A) Nitric acid
(A) 5-20% (B) 100% (B) Hydrochloric acid
(C) 7-8% (D) 25% (C) Caronic acid
(D) Sulphuric acid
2. The chemical formula of the plaster of Paris is
_______. 9. Which of the following statement is false?
(A) CaS04.5H2O (B) CaS04. 1/2H2O (A) Polystyrene was discovered in 1839 by
(C) (CaS04)2. 2H2O (D) CaSO4. MgO Edward Simon.
(B) It is used for making plastics and CD cases.
3. The maximum penetration power of which of the (C) It is not bio-degradable.
following invisible radiations emitting from the (D) None of these.
nucleus ___.
(A) Alpha rays (B) Beta rays 10. Which of the following does the Nucleus of an
(C) Gamma rays (D) None of these atom consist of?
(A) Protons and neutrons
4. Which of the following is not the isotope of (B) Protons and electrons
hydrogen? (C) Electrons
(A) Protium (B) Deuterium (D) Protons
(C) Tritium (D) Iterium
11. Who gives the modern classification of periodic
5. How many is the number of isotopes in the table?
hydrogen? (A) Rutherford (B) D.I. Mendeleev
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) Moseley (D) Bronsted and Lowry
(C) 4 (D) 5
12. Which element in the periodic table is les atomic
6. Electroplating does not help ________. number than Sulphur?
(A) In giving shining appearance. (A) Chlorine (B) Aluminum
(B) In protecting the metal against corrosion. (C) Carbon (D) Magnesium
(C) In making the metal hard.
(D) In giving fine finish to the surface. 13. Which of the following elements are commonly
found in most fertilizers?
7. There are two gases that used in industrial (A) Sodium, Potassium, Phosphorus
production of sulfuric acid: (B) Sodium, Potassium, Calcium
(A) Carbon dioxide and oxygen (C) Nitrogen, Potassium, Phosphorus
(B) Sulfr dioxide and hydrogen (D) Nitrogen, Potassium, Calcium
(C) Sulfur dioxide and oxygen
(D) Sulfur dioxide and chlorine 14. Which of the following is used as moderator in
atomic reactor?
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(C) Graphite (D) Magnesium Select the correct option.

(A) Only I (B) Only II
15. 'Oil of vitriol' is the common name of which of (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
the following?
(A) Picric Acid (B) Citric Acid 22. Which of the following statements is true?
(C) Acetic Acid (D) Sulphuric Acid I. Plaster of paris, quick-setting gypsum plaster
consisting of a fine white powder.
16. Which one of the following metals is less II. Fly ash or flue ash, is a coal combustion
reactive than hydrogen? product.
(A) Barium (B) Copper Select the correct option.
(C) Lead (D) Magnesium (A) Only I (B) Only II
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
17. The bonds formed by the partnership between
the electrons couples between the atoms are 23. Which of the following statements is true?
called - I. Potassium cannot be beaten into Sheets.
(A) Ionic bond (B) Covalent bond II. Aluminum is a chemical element with the
(C) Co-ordinate bond (D) None of the above symbol Al and atomic number 13.
Select the correct option.
18. The substance made with Iron is protected from (A) Only I (B) Only II
rusting by galvanization. The protecting metal (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
used is
(A) Silver (B) Copper 24. Which of the following statements is true?
(C) Zinc (D) Nickel I. Magnesium hydroxide base is present in
milk of magnesia.
19. Which among the following is known as Quick II. Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye and
Lime? caustic soda.
(A) CaO (B) CaCO2 Select the correct option.
(C) Ca(OH)2 (D) CaCl2 (A) Only I (B) Only II
(C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
20. Which one of the following elements exhibits
the greatest tendency to lose electrons? 25. Which of the following statements is true?
(A) Fluorine (B) Lithium I. Lactic acid is an inorganic acid.
(C) Oxygen (D) Zinc II. Tartaric acid, also called dihydroxybutane
dioic acid.
21. Which of the following statements is true? Select the correct option.
I. Copper and Zinc are the main components (A) Only I (B) Only II
of Brass Alloy. (C) Both I & II (D) Neither I nor II
II. Hydrochloric acid or muriatic acid is a
colorless inorganic chemical system.

Biology

1. The rate at which the heart beats per minute in 3. Which of the following decease is spread
an adult average- through Protozoa?
(A) 60 (B) 72 (A) Rinderpest (B) Blue tounge
(C) 84 (D) 96 (C) Tricomoniasis (D) Rabies

2. What is the scientific name of Cucumber? 4. Which of the following decease is spread
(A) Cucumis sativus (B) Cucumis melon through Virus?
(C) Pyrus malus (D) Cocos nucifera (A) Thelariosis
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(B) Anaplasmosis 14. A disease which, after a short period of time,

(C) Histoplasmosis destroys crops in a wide area, it is called-
(D) Ephermeral Fever (A) Endemic (B) Epiphytotic
(C) Extensive (D) Sporadic
5. Bleeding and rupturing of blood vessels is
prevented by- 15. Which of the following diseases is caused by
(A) Vitamin A (B) Vitamin C bacteria?
(C) Vitamin E (D) Vitamin K (A) AIDS 415(B) Influenza
(C) Jaundice (D) Small pox
6. Which of the following is a chronic disease of
the Xerophthalmia? 16. Saxually transmitted disease is-
(A) Protein (A) Leukemia (B) Gonorrhoea
(B) Vitamin A (C) Colour blindness (D) Astigmatism
(C) Vitamin K
(D) Unsaturated fatty acids 17. Primarily, which one of the following systems of
the body is attacked by the HIV?
7. Which of the following is not a part of the (A) Cardiovascular (B) Immune
digestive system? (C) Respiratory (D) Reproductive
(A) Small Intestine (B) Rectum
(C) Pharynx (D) Spleen 18. Which one of the following is the richest source
of Vitamin C?
8. Where is the Central Drug Research Institute (A) Guava (B) Pineapple
located in India? (C) Orange (D) Tomato
(A) Delhi (B) Ranchi
(C) Chennai (D) Lucknow 19. In the human body, the blood enters the aorta of
the circulatory system from the-
9. Which of the following defense of the human (A) Left atrium (B) Left ventricle
body against bacteria? (C) Right atrium (C) Right ventricle
(A) Hemoglobin (B) Phagocytes
(C) Red blood cells (D) Blood platelets 20. Lifesaving hormone is secreted by which gland?
(A) Adrenal gland
10. How many bones of adult human skeleton? (B) Hypothalamus gland
(A) 204 bones (B) 206 bones (C) Pituitary gland
(C) 208 bones (D) 300 bones (D) Thyroid gland

11. From whom is Antibiotic Teramysin Received? 21. Consider the following Correct statements.
(A) Bacillus subtilis 1. Mitosis involves four basic phases – prophase,
(B) Bacillus Polimaija metaphase, anaphase and telophase.
(C) Straptomaisin Raimoss 2. prophase is the fifth and final phase of mitosis,
(D) Traponema palladium the process that separates the duplicated genetic
material carried in the nucleus of a parent cell
12. Moon jelly related with which phylum? into two identical daughter cells.
(A) Phylum Platyhelminthes (A) only 1 (B) Only 2
(B) Phylum Annelida (C) Both 1 and 2 (D) Neither 1 nor 2
(C) phylum Porifera
(D) Phylum Coelenterata 22. Consider the following Correct statements.
1. Fauna is a collective term for a group of plant
13. H1N1 virus is often referred to in the context of life found in a particular region.
which disease? 2. Flora is all of the animal life present in a
(A) AIDS (B) Bird flu particular region or time.
(C) Dengue (D) Swine flu (A) only 1 (B) Only 2
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(C) Both 1 and 2 (D) Neither 1 nor 2 (C) Both 1 and 2 (D) Neither 1 nor 2

23. Consider the following Correct statements. 25. Consider the following Correct statements.
1. Insulin allows the body to use glucose for 1. Red blood cells also called Leucocytes, are
energy and it leaks from the liver. cells that circulate in the blood and carry oxygen
2. Diabetes occurs due to excess secretion of throughout the body.
insulin. 2. White blood cells are the cells of the immune
(A) only 1 (B) Only 2 system that are involved in protecting the body
(C) Both 1 and 2 (D) Neither 1 nor 2 against both infectious disease and foreign
invaders.
24. Consider the following Correct statements. 3. The lifespan of RBC is 100-120 days. When
1. The right atrium receives blood from the veins their lifespan is completed, they are eliminated
and pumps it to the right ventricle. through the circulatory system.
2. The left atrium receives oxygenated blood (A) only 1 (B) Only 2
from the lungs and pumps it to the left ventricle. (C) Only 3 (D) Both 2 and 3
(A) only 1 (B) Only 2

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Answer key
Answer Key

Statement Based Current Affairs Polity

1-(C) 2-(D) 3-(D) 4-(C) 5-(C) 1-(C) 2-(B) 3-(B) 4-(D) 5-(A)
6-(D) 7-(A) 8-(A) 9-(A) 10-(C) 6-(B) 7-(C) 8-(D) 9-(A) 10-(B)
11-(C) 12-(C) 13-(B) 14-(A) 15-(C) 11-(C) 12-(D) 13-(B) 14-(B) 15-(A)
16-(C) 17-(D) 18-(A) 19-(C) 20-(A) 16-(D) 17-(C) 18-(C) 19-(B) 20-(A)
21-(C) 22-(D) 23-(C) 24-(B) 25-(B) 21-(B) 22-(A) 23-(B) 24-(C) 25-(C)

Statement Based General Awareness Economics

1-(D) 2-(C) 3-(B) 4-(B) 5-(B) 1-(A) 2-(A) 3-(A) 4-(A) 5-(D)
6-(A) 7-(C) 8-(B) 9-(C) 10-(C) 6-(D) 7-(C) 8-(D) 9-(C) 10-(B)
11-(C) 12-(B) 13-(A) 14-(B) 15-(C) 11-(C) 12-(C) 13-(D) 14-(C) 15-(B)
16-(C) 17-(C) 18-(D) 19-(A) 20-(B) 16-(D) 17-(A) 18-(A) 19-(A) 20-(B)
21-(C) 22-(A) 23-(B) 24-(C) 25-(C) 21-(C) 22-(A) 23-(C) 24-(B) 25-(A)

Current Affairs Physics

1-(C) 2-(B) 3-(A) 4-(C) 5-(C) 1-(C) 2-(A) 3-(B) 4-(C) 5-(C)
6-(B) 7-(B) 8-(C) 9-(A) 10-(D) 6-(A) 7-(A) 8-(B) 9-(B) 10-(C)
11-(A) 12-(A) 13-(C) 14-(A) 15-(C) 11-(A) 12-(C) 13-(A) 14-(A) 15-(B)
16-(B) 17-(A) 18-(D) 19-(D) 20-(D) 16-(A) 17-(A) 18-(A) 19-(C) 20-(B)
21-(C) 22-(B) 23-(A) 24-(C) 25-(D) 21-(C) 22-(A) 23-(B) 24-(A) 25-(B)

History Chemistry
1-(B) 2-(D) 3-(B) 4-(C) 5-(C) 1-(A) 2-(B) 3-(C) 4-(D) 5-(B)
6-(C) 7-(B) 8-(D) 9-(C) 10-(C) 6-(B) 7-(C) 8-(D) 9-(D) 10-(A)
11-(A) 12-(B) 13-(B) 14-(C) 15-(B) 11-(B) 12-(C) 13-(C) 14-(C) 15-(D)
16-(A) 17-(A) 18-(A) 19-(A) 20-(A) 16-(B) 17-(A) 18-(C) 19-(A) 20-(B)
21-(A) 22-(B) 23-(C) 24-(A) 25-(C) 21-(C) 22-(C) 23-(C) 24-(C) 25-(B)

Geography Biology
1-(D) 2-(B) 3-(B) 4-(D) 5-(B) 1-(B) 2-(A) 3-(C) 4-(D) 5-(D)
6-(D) 7-(C) 8-(B) 9-(C) 10-(D) 6-(B) 7-(D) 8-(D) 9-(B) 10-(B)
11-(B) 12-(A) 13-(D) 14-(A) 15-(C) 11-(C) 12-(D) 13-(D) 14-(B) 15-(C)
16-(B) 17-(C) 18-(D) 19-(A) 20-(B) 16-(B) 17-(B) 18-(D) 19-(B) 20-(A)
21-(A) 22-(C) 23-(A) 24-(B) 25-(A) 21-(A) 22-(D) 23-(B) 24-(C) 25-(D)

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IBPS ClerkIBPS
Prelims Solved Paper
Clerk Prelims

English Language 6. Biodiversity __________ so much of the

Direction (01-04): In the following question, one part functioning of the natural world - from the food
of the sentence may have an error. Find out we eat to the air we breathe and the water we
which part of the sentence has an error and drink.
select the appropriate option. If the sentence is (A) nuances (B) pounces
free from error, select 'No Error'. (C) underpins (D) trails
(E) cultivate
1. (A) From 1970 onward, major mineral
discoveries 7. Observing how creatures respond to urban life
(B) transformed the economy of Tanzania from also may help to plan cities with functioning
(C) one dependent on tropical crops to one ecosystems that are environmentally more
(D) based at minerals for most of its exports. ______ and better places for people to live.
(E) No error (A) frail (B) insipid
(C) ardent (D) robust
2. (A) Despite the fact that scientists have long (E) archaic
(B) known that behaviour is caused by complex
interactions Direction (08-11): In the question below, a sentence is
(C) between genes and environment, the debate given with four words highlighted in bold. One
(D) still persist in the culture today. of these four words may either be wrongly spelt
(E) No error or inappropriate in the context of the sentence.
Find out the word, which is wrongly spelt or
3. (A) The USA provided assist inappropriate, if any. If all the words are
(B) in the form of an emergency airlift of correctly spelled and appropriate in the context
(C) food and other essentials of the sentence, mark (E) as your answer.
(D) known as Operation Provide Relief.
(E) No error 8. As the world’s need for large amounts of
portable energy grows at an ever-
4. (A) The first snapshot of the increasing peace, many innovators
(B) supermassive black hole have sought to replace current battery
(C) at the centre of the Milky Way technology with something better.
(D) show a placid gentle giant. (A) need (B) peace
(E) No error (C) sought (D) replace
(E) All are correct
Direction (5-7): In the question given below, a
sentence is given with one blank, followed by 9. The H5N1 version of bird flu has hit the poultry
five options, each having a word which may or industry hard, with culls and indoor housing
may not fit in the blank. From the given measures being ensconced by the authorities.
options, choose the one that gives the correct (A) hard (B) culls
word that fits in the blank. (C) measures (D) ensconced
(E) All are correct
5. Revlon Inc. has filed for bankruptcy after the
cosmetics firm _______ under debts it built up 10. Voltaire, who had been imprisoned and
in efforts to compete with online-focused maltreated by the French government,
upstarts. was eager to accept Frederick's invitation
(A) buckled (B) implied to recite at his palace.
(C) prevailed (D) estimated (A) imprisoned (B) maltreated
(E) turbid (C) eager (D) recite
(E) All are correct
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11. The recent spike in cases of 16. To pragmatists in Britain, brokering peace in
sudden, sever hepatitis in children around the Ukraine presents a rare opportunity for
world has been widely reported. China to neglect its deteriorating relationship
(A) spike (B) sever with the U.S. and Europe.
(C) widely (D) reported 1. To resuscitate
(E) All are correct 2. To mend
3. To rusticate
Direction (12-15): In the question given below, (A) Only 1 (B) Only 2
rearrange the parts of the sentence in the correct (C) Only 1 and 2 (D) Only 1 and 3
order, and choose the correct option. (E) No improvement

12. the organism’s pragmatic attempt (A)/ to get 17.
maximum grip on (B) imagination is part of
(C)/ its changing environment (D)
(A) ADBC (B) BCAD
(C) CABD (D) DABC
(E) No rearrangement required
13. that we can achieve our collective goals (A)/ so
as to pick ourselves off (B)/ the sofa to work
together (C) each of us needs to believe (D)
(A) ADBC (B) BCAD
(C) DBAC (D) DABC
(E) No rearrangement required
14. the theory that the acquisition of the
mitochondrion (A)/ some don’t see a reason to
abandon (B)/ the rapid evolution of eukaryotes
(C)/ was the spark that ignited (D)
(A) ADCB (B) BCDA
(C) BADC (D) ADBC
(E) No rearrangement required
15. when researchers took advantage of today’s
cheap gene (A) / the mystery genes turned up in
the last decade (B)/ sequencing technology to
explore the genomes (C)/ of a wide range of
eukaryotes (D)
(A) ACDB (B) BCAD
(C) BACD (D) ACBD
(E) No rearrangement required
Direction (16-18): Which of the following phrases (1),
(2), and (3) given below the sentence should
replace the phrase printed in bold letters to
make the sentence grammatically correct?
Choose the best option among the five given
alternatives that reflects the correct use of the
phrase in the context sentence. If the sentence is
correct as it is, mark (e) i.e., ‘No Improvement’
as the answer.
Economic retaliation could harm vulnerable
people around the world and create lasting
damage to the global economy if it is not
crafting carefully.
1. It is not framed
2. Not drafted
3. If they are not prepared
(A) Only 1 (B) Only 2
(C) Only 1 and 2 (D) Only 2 and 3
(E) No improvement
18. Economists argue that the new policies will
benefit the rich at the conservation of the
poor.
1. At the expense of
2. In the cost of
3. On the expense of
(A) Only 1 (B) Only 3
(C) Only 1 and 3 (D) Only 2 and 3
(E) No improvement
Direction (19-23): In the following passage, some of
the words have been left out and replaced by a
blank represented by a letter. First read the
passage and try to understand what it is about.
Then fill in the blanks as per the questions
given.
India’s imports of Russian coal are expected to
be the highest in at least seven and a half years.
This comes alongside Russia displacing Saudi
Arabia to become India’s second-largest oil
supplier after Iraq. Neither of these are
unwelcome developments, nor the fact that
India has, for the first time, bought a large urea
___(19)___ from the US. With Russian traders
offering discounts of 25-30 percent for thermal
coal and accepting payment in rupees, it isn’t
surprising that bulk purchases by Indian cement
and steel companies have ___(20)___ in recent
weeks. The share of Russian crude processed in
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Reliance Industries’ Jamnagar refinery has, orthodox caste practices of his time: child-
similarly, risen to 27 from less than 5 percent a marriage, polygamy and dowry were prevalent
month before. Why should any firm among the higher castes and he had himself
___(21)___ the opportunity of sourcing oil at been married more than once in his childhood.
significant discounts to international prices? It The family’s affluence had also made the best
has, likewise, become economical now to in education accessible to him. A polyglot, Roy
import urea from the US, which is ___(22)___ knew Bengali and Persian, but also Arabic,
$55-75 per tonne cheaper than that from the Sanskrit, and later, English. His exposure to the
Middle East, notwithstanding higher literature and culture of each of these languages
___(23)___ costs and longer voyage time. But bred in him a scepticism towards religious
it is not just about profit calculations of dogmas and social strictures. In particular, he
companies. Diversifying supply sources and chafed at practices such as Sati, that compelled
buying at the lowest price for equivalent quality widows to be immolated on their husband’s
is also in national interest. funeral pyre. Roy’s sister-in-law had been one
such victim after his elder brother’s death, and
19. (A) inclement (B) consignment it was a wound that stayed with him.
(C) sentient (D) predicament The waning of the Mughals and the ascendancy
(E) reticent of the East India Company in Bengal towards
the end of the 18th century was also the time
20. (A) spiked (B) embarked when Roy was slowly coming into his own. His
(C) nosedive (D) engrossed education had whetted his appetite for
(E) thwarted philosophy and theology, and he spent
considerable time studying the Vedas and the
21. (A) aforementioned (B) enrapture Upanishads, but also religious texts of Islam
(C) forgo (D) unfetter and Christianity. He wrote extensive tracts on
(E) debunk various matters of theology, polity and human
rights, and translated and made accessible
22. (A) depicting (B) guzzling Sanskrit texts into Bengali. Rabindranath
(C) censuring (D) quoting Tagore called him a ‘Bharatpathik’ by which he
(E) taming meant to say that Rammohan combined in his
person the underlying spirit of Indic
23. (A) diligent (B) zesty civilisation, its spirit of pluralism, tolerance and
(C) relic (D) freight a cosmic respect for all forms. In 1814, he
(E) vitality started the Atmiya Sabha (Society of Friends),
to nurture philosophical discussions on the idea
Direction (24-30): Read the following passage of monotheism in Vedanta and to campaign
carefully and answer the questions that follow. against idolatry, casteism, child marriage and
other social ills. The Atmiya Sabha would
One of the most influential social and religious make way for the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, set
reformers of the 19th century, Ram Mohan up with Debendranath Tagore, Rabindranath
Roy, born on May 22, 1772 in what was then Tagore’s father. His Brahmo Sabha, that later
Bengal Presidency’s Radhanagar in Hooghly became the Brahmo Samaj, evolved as a
district, would have turned 250 years this year. reaction against the upper-caste stranglehold on
As India grapples increasingly with changing social customs and rituals. During the Bengal
social and religious circumstances, Roy’s work Renaissance, it ushered in sweeping social
in the sphere of women’s emancipation, changes and birthed the Brahmo religion, a
modernising education and seeking changes to reformed spiritual Hinduism that believes in
religious orthodoxy finds new relevance in this monotheism and the uniformity of all men,
time. irrespective of caste, class or creed.
Born into a prosperous upper-caste Brahmin During the course of his time in Kolkata
family, Roy grew up within the framework of (formerly Calcutta), a period of about 15 years,
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Roy became a prominent public intellectual. In
1817, he collaborated with Scottish
philanthropist David Hare to set up the Hindu
College (now, Presidency University). He 26.
followed it up with the Anglo-Hindu School in
1822 and, in 1830, assisted Alexander Duff to
set up the General Assembly’s Institution,
which later became the Scottish Church
College. It was his relentless advocacy
alongside contemporaries such as Ishwar
Chandra Vidyasagar that finally led to the
abolition of Sati under the governor generalship
of William Bentinck in 1829. Roy argued for
the property rights of women, and petitioned
the British for freedom of the press (in 1829
and 1830).
As many modern liberals discover to their peril,
non-conformism brings with it its own share of
infamy. Roy, who was given the title of Raja by
the Mughal emperor Akbar II, was no
exception to this. Among the first Indians to
gain recognition in the UK and in America for
his radical thoughts, in his lifetime, Roy was
also often attacked by his own countrymen who
felt threatened by his reformist agenda, and by
British reformers and functionaries, whose
views differed from his.
24. As per the passage, which of the following
statements is TRUE?
(A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy set up the Hindu
College by collaborating with Ishwar Chandra
Bidyasagar.
(B) The Atmiya Sabha was set up by Raja Ram 29.
and Rabidranath Tagore.
(C) Rabindranath Tagore was called
‘Bharaprathik’.
(D) Alexander Duff assisted Roy in setting up
the Scottish Church College.
(E) Sati was abolished under the governor 30.
generalship of William Bentinck in 1830.
25. What was the reason behind the formation of
Brahmo Samaj?
(A) To initiate the abolition of Sati.
(B) To fight against the upper caste’s influence
on social customs and rituals.
(C) To argue for the property rights of women. 31.
(D) To petition the British for the freedom of
press.
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(E) To usher in a reformed Hinduism that
believes in monotheism.
What made Raja Ram Mohan Roy sceptical
about religious dogmas and social strictures?
(A) His exposure to literature and culture of
different languages.
(B) His birth in a prosperous upper caste
family.
(C) His exposure to the culture of different
languages
(D) Because of the sweeping social changes
brought in by the Bengal Renaissance.
(E) Both (A) and (B)
27. According to the passage, which of the
following is NOT TRUE regarding Raja Ram
Mohan Roy?
(A) He had access to the best education.
(B) He knew five languages.
(C) His reformist agendas were supported by
his country men.
(D) HIs relentless advocacy alongside his
contemporaries led to the abolition of Sati.
(E) None of the above
28. What did the Brahmo religion believe in?
(A) There is only one God
(B) Equal rights for women
(C) Uniformity of all men
(D) Both (A) and (C)
(E) Freedom from British hold
Which of the following is closest in meaning to
the word ‘whetted’ as used in the passage?
(A) polished (B) smoothed
(C) soothed (D) honed
(E) burnished
Which of the following is opposite in meaning
to the word ‘emancipation’ as used in the
passage?
(A) liberation (B) abdication
(C) enslavement (D) aberration
(E) abomination
Quantitative Aptitude
A showroom contains shirts of three sizes i.e.
‘M’, ‘L’ and ‘XL’, in the ratio 4:6:9,
respectively. If the total number of shirts in the
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showroom in 380 and the ratio of number of (A) 5:7 (B) 4:1
black and blue XL size shirts are 2:1, (C) 3:2 (D) 5:9
respectively, then what is the number of black (E) 5:1
XL size shirts in the showroom given that ‘XL’
size shirts are either black or blue? 37. A dog alone can eat a chicken in 24 hours. A
(A) 120 (B) 140 dog and a cat together can eat the same chicken
(C) 90 (D) 100 in 15 hours. What is the time taken (in hours)
(E) 125 by 3 dogs and a cat together to eat the chicken?
(A) 22/3 (B) 6.5
32. The sum of present ages of ‘C’ and ‘E’ is 50 (C) 7 (D) 20/3
years. Eight years ago, sum of their ages was 32 (E) 7.5
years more than the age of ‘C’ at that time. The
present ages of ‘C’ and ‘E’, respectively is: 38. The length of a rectangle is equal to the
(A) 10 years and 40 years perimeter of a square of side 8 cm. If the width
(B) 15 years and 40 years of the rectangle is equal to 60% of its length,
(C) 40 years and 20 years then find the perimeter of the rectangle.
(D) 20 years and 30 years (A) 104.4 cm (B) 96.4 cm
(E) 50 years and 60 years (C) 108.4 cm (D) 102.4 cm
(E) 105.4 cm
33. The only expenses of Arjun are rent and travel. 39. A 108 litre of mixture (milk + water) contains
He spends 60% of his income on rent while his 24 litres more water than milk in it. After
travel expenses equals 45% of his rent replacing 36 litres of this mixture with ‘y’ litres
expenses. If Arjun saves ₹1950, then what is of milk, the ratio of quantity of milk to water in
his income? the resultant mixture becomes 5:4. What is the
(A) ₹15,000 (B) ₹12,000 value of ‘y’?
(C) ₹16,000 (D) ₹18,000 (A) 24 (B) 30
(E) ₹20,000 (C) 35 (D) 27
(E) 32
34. Amit sold an article for ₹1500 and made a
profit of 25%. Find the marked price of the 40. ‘A’ alone can complete a work in 14 days. ‘B’
article if the article had been sold at a discount alone can complete the same work in 20 days.
of 25%. If ‘A’ and ‘B’ work together for 5 days, then
(A) ₹3000 (B) ₹2500 the remaining work can be completed by ‘A’
(C) ₹2000 (D) ₹1500 alone in how many days?
(E) ₹2200 (A) 6.5 days (B) 5.5 days
(C) 7 days (D) 6 days
35. ₹‘Y’ when invested in scheme ‘A’ which offers (E) 5.75 days
simple interest of 12% p.a. gives an interest of
₹1800 after 2 years. If ₹(Y – 500) is invested 41. ‘A’ started a business by investing ₹6,000.
for 2 years in scheme ‘B’ offering compound After 10 months, ‘B’ joined the business by
interest (compounded annually) of 10% p.a. investing ₹4,000 and after 10 more months, ‘C’
then what will be the amount received from joined them by investing ₹5,000. If total profit
scheme ‘B’? earned by ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ together at the end
(A) ₹7920 (B) ₹8560 of 5 years is ₹19,000, then what is the profit
(C) ₹8470 (D) ₹8250 share of ‘A’?
(E) ₹7550 (A) ₹10,000 (B) ₹12,000
(C) ₹9,000 (D) ₹7,500
36. In what ratio must a shopkeeper mix two (E) ₹8,000
varieties of sugar worth ₹60 per kg and ₹65 per
kg so that by selling the mixture at ₹73.20 per
kg, he earns a profit of 20%?
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Direction (42-43): What approximate value will come 50. 20% of 200 – 23 + 17 = ?2
in place of the question mark (?) in the (A) 7 (B) 5
following question? (C) 9 (D) 8
(Note: You are not expected to calculate the (E) 2
exact value.)
Direction (51-53): The following numbers form a
42. (151.86 ÷ 4.12 + 74.78% of 95.87) × ?1/2 = series. Find the odd one out.
550.18
(A) 121 (B) 25 51. 32, 16, 16, 24, 46, 120, 360
(C) 81 (D) 64 (A) 32 (B) 46
(E) 100 (C) 16 (D) 24
(E) 360
43. (3132.32 ÷ 8.94 + 64.21) = ? + 131.86
(A) 225 (B) 180 52. 25, 38, 51, 62, 77, 90
(C) 250 (D) 280 (A) 38 (B) 51
(E) 320 (C) 62 (D) 77
(E) 90
Direction (44-50): What will come in the place of
question mark (?) in the given expression? 53. 12, 18, 28, 44, 60, 82
(A) 18 (B) 28
44. 222 + ? – 122 = 500 (C) 44 (D) 60
(A) 240 (B) 200 (E) 82
(C) 160 (D) 120
(E) 164 Direction (54-55): In the questions, two equations I and
II are given. You have to solve both the
45.
2 1
3 + 2 − 1 =?
13 equations to establish the correct relation
5 4 20
between x and y and choose the correct option.
(A) 6 (B) 8
(C) 10 (D) 4
54. I. x2 + 23x + 132 = 0 II. y2 + 19y + 90 = 0
(E) 5
(A) x > y (B) x < y
2 3 (C) x = y or the relationship cannot be
46. (? + 129) ÷ 7 + 4 = 94
established
(A) 11 (B) 8
(D) x ≥ y (E) x ≤ y
(C) 7 (D) ± 9
(E) None of these
55. I. x = √225 II. y2 – 28y + 196 = 0
(A) x < y (B) x > y
47. ∛1728 + 344 ÷ 8 + ∛2744 = ?
(C) x = y or the relationship cannot be
(A) 65 (B) 67
established
(C) 68 (D) 69
(D) x ≥ y (E) x ≤ y
(E) None of these
Direction (56-60): Answer the questions based on the
48. 25% of 800 - √256 × 5 = ?2 – 76
information given below.
(A) 14 (B) 18
(C) 8 (D) 12
Manohar stationeries (MS) deals in two types
(E) 20
of products only: pens and notebooks. The
following line graph shows the total number of
49. 12 × 15 + ? – 10 = 200
products sold and number of notebooks sold by
(A) 20 (B) 35
MS on four different days.
(C) 25 (D) 30
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The bar graph given below gives the

information regarding the total number of staff
(teaching + non-teaching) and the number of
non-teaching staff as percentage of total
number of staff, in five different universities.

56. What is the difference between number of pens

sold on Thursday and number of notebooks
sold on Monday?
(A) 40 (B) 45
(C) 30 (D) 25
(E) 36

57. Find the ratio between number of notebooks

61. The number of teaching staff in Chennai
sold on Wednesday and number of pens sold on
University is how much percent of total number
Tuesday, respectively.
of staff in Patna University?
(A) 6:5 (B) 5:6
(A) 50% (B) 40%
(C) 7:8 (D) 8:7
(C) 45% (D) 60%
(E) 2:3
(E) 30%
58. Sum of number of pens sold on Monday and
62. What is the sum of number of non-teaching
Tuesday is how much more or less than the
staff in Patna University and Delhi University?
average of number of pens and number of
(A) 1480 (B) 1620
notebooks sold on Wednesday?
(C) 1660 (D) 1560
(A) 90 (B) 100
(E) 1700
(C) 80 (D) 75
(E) 60
63. What is the ratio between the number of non-
teaching staff in Guwahati University and the
59. The difference between number of notebooks
number of teaching staff in Shillong University,
sold on Thursday and total number of products
respectively?
sold on Tuesday is how much percent of total
(A) 8:9 (B) 9:11
number of products sold on Wednesday?
(C) 8:7 (D) 7:9
(A) 200% (B) 75%
(E) 5:7
(C) 100% (D) 50%
(E) 60%
64. Total number of staff in Chennai University is
how much percent more than the number of
60. What is the ratio between average number of
teaching staff in Delhi University?
notebooks sold on Monday and Tuesday and
(A) 50% (B) 70%
average of number of pens sold on Tuesday and
(C) 80% (D) 60%
Thursday, respectively?
(E) 75%
(A) 13:5 (B) 18:13
(C) 5:13 (D) 13:18 65. What is the average number of teaching staff in
(E) 18:5 Patna and Guwahati universities together?
(A) 605 (B) 480
Direction (61-65): Answer the questions based on the (C) 550 (D) 675
information given below. (E) 625
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Reasoning Aptitude sittingin a linear row, such that all are facing in
the north direction. The distance between two
Direction (66-70): Answer the questions based on the adjacent people is 3m.
information given below: Red is sitting immediately left of Green. Cream
is at a distance of 12m from Green. The
In a school, seven teachers Arti, Arun, Ani, distance between Purple and Violet is a perfect
Aruhi, Arjun, Anu and Ankit are assigned to square such thatneither is sitting at any extreme
teach different subjects (English, Chemistry, ends. Orange is sitting second to the right of
Physics, Maths, Hindi, Computer and History) Pink and to the left of Cream. Blue is not sitting
in different classes (I - VII) but not necessarily at any extreme ends. Purple is not sitting
in same order. adjacent to Blue.
Ankit teaches Hindi. Arti teaches in Class VII
but doesn’t teach English. The one, who 71. How many people are sitting to the right of
teaches in class V, teaches Maths. Aruhi Blue?
teaches in class IV but teaches neither English (A) One (B) Two
nor History. Arun teaches Physics in Class III. (C) Four (D) Five
Ani teaches neither Computer nor Maths. The (E) None
one, who teaches computer, teaches in class VI.
The one, who teaches Hindi doesn’t teach in 72. How many people are sitting between Blue and
Class II. Pink?
(A) Five (B) Four
66. Who teaches in Class II? (C) Three (D) Two
(A) Arun (B) Ankit (E) None of the above
(C) Ani (D) Anu
(E) None of the above. 73. What is the distance between Cream and Pink?
(A) 6m (B) 9m
67. ________ teaches Computer. (C) 12m (D) 15m
(A) Arjun (B) Anu (E) 18m
(C) Aruhi (D) Either (a) or (B)
(E) None of the above 74. How many people are sitting to the left of
Orange?
68. Arti teaches which subject? (A) Four (B) Three
(A) Maths (B) English (C) Two (D) One
(C) Chemistry (D) History (E) None
(E) None of the above.
75. Which of the following statement is not true?
69. The one, who teaches chemistry, teaches in (A) The distance between Violet and Purple is
which class? 9m.
(A) III (B) IV (B) Blue is sitting immediate left of Red.
(C) I (D) II (C) Green is sitting at one of the extreme ends
(E) None of the above (D) Pink is sitting third to right of Cream.
(E) None of the statement is correct.
70. Find the odd one out.
(A) Arti - Computer (B) Aruhi - Physics Direction (76-80): Answer the following question
(C) Ani - Chemistry (D) Ankit - Hindi based on the information given below.
(E) Arun – English
Seven people Vishal, Prem, Hazel, Rima,
Direction (71-75): Answer the following question Mohit, Nikhil, Sam, have exam on different
based on the information given below. days of the same week starting from Monday.
Eight people namely Red, Orange, Purple, Vishal has exam after Prem but not
Blue, Green, Pink, Violet and Cream are immediately after Prem. Hazel has exam before
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Prem, but not immediately before Prem. Rima (A) are (B) bird
has exam two days after Sam. Mohit has exam (C) high (D) deep
immediately after Nikhil. Nikhil has exam (E) None of the above
before Hazel.
83. What is the code for ‘fish and high’?
76. Who has exam on Wednesday? (A) mok das lup (B) rts jhr mok
(A) Nikhil (B) Hazel (C) mok vot das (D) Cannot be
(C) Mohit (D) Sam determined
(E) None of the above (E) None of the above

77. How many people have exam after Sam? 84. ___ is coded as ‘mus’.
(A) One (B) Two (A) deep (B) birds
(C) Three (D) Four (C) fly (D) are
(E) None (E) None of the above

78. Who has exam immediately before Vishal? 85. Which of the following statement is incorrect?
(A) Rima (B) Nikhil (A) ‘and’ is coded as ‘das’.
(C) Hazel (D) Sam (B) ‘bjk’ is the code for ‘deep’.
(E) None of the above (C) ‘some birds’ is coded as ‘rop rts’.
(D) ‘some fish’ is coded as ‘mok jhr’
79. Which of the following statement is correct? (E) All statements are incorrect.
(A) Prem has exam on Wednesday.
(B) One person has exam before Nikhil. Direction (86-87): Answer the following question
(C) One person has exam between Prem and based on te information given below.
Vishal.
(D) Three people have exam between Nikhil Seven friends Hina, Abhay, Julia, Arnav,
and Sam. Riddhi, Diksha and Bhuwan have different
(E) None of the statement is correct. heights. Abhay is taller than neither Julia nor
Arnav. Hina is taller than only Bhuwan and
80. ___ has exam on Friday. Diksha. Julia is not second tallest person.
(A) Rima (B) Prem Diksha is not second shortest. Riddhi is the
(C) Sam (D) Hazel tallest person.
(E) None of the above
86. If the height of third shortest and second tallest
Direction (81-85): Answer the following question are 141 cm and 162 cm respectively, then what
based on the information given below. is the possible height of Abhay?
(A) 138 cm (B) 165 cm
In a certain code language, (C) 152 cm (D) 170 cm
I. ‘some birds fly high’ is written as ‘rop, lup, (E) None of the above
rts, mus’
II. ‘some fish swim deep’ is written as ‘rop, jhr, 87. How many people are taller than Julia?
bjk, mok ’. (A) One (B) Two
III. ‘birds are high’ is written as ‘vot, rts, lup’. (C) Three (D) Five
IV. ‘high and deep’ is written as ‘bjk, lup, das’. (E) None of the above

81. What is the code for ‘deep’? Direction (88-92): Study the following arrangement of
(A) jhr (B) bjk numbers and alphabets carefully and answer the
(C) mok (D) das following question.
(E) None of the above
5AU3B6GXNMTUT7E2UP2I
82. Which of the following is coded as ‘vot’?
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88. In the given arrangement, how many alphabets 94. In the question below there are three statements
are immediately preceded by numbers? followed by three conclusions I, II and III. You
(A) Five (B) Two have to take the three given statements to be
(C) Three (D) Six true even if they seem to be at variance from
(E) Four commonly known facts and then decide which
of the given conclusions logically follows from
89. In the given arrangement, how many vowel(s) the three statements disregarding commonly
is/are immediately preceded by a number and known facts.
immediately succeeded by a consonant? Statement: All Cat are Pet.
(A) Four (B) Three No Cat is Obedient.
(C) Two (D) One No Rat is Pet.
(E) None Conclusion: I. No Pet is Obedient.
90. What is the sum of all the prime numbers, II. Some Cat can be Rat.
which are preceded by a letter? III. No Rat is Obedient.
(A) 12 (B) 9 (A) Only conclusion I follows.
(C) 14 (D) 19 (B) Only conclusion I and II follows.
(E) 25 (C) Only conclusion I and III follows.
(D) None of the conclusion follows.
91. How many even number(s) is/are succeeded by (E) Only conclusion II follows.
vowels?
(A) One (B) Two 95. In the question, assuming the given statements
(C) Three (D) None to be true, find which of the conclusion (s)
(E) None of the above among given three conclusions is/are definitely
true and then give your answer accordingly.
92. Which of the following is the 7th element to the Statements: S = D ≥ E ≥ F ≥ Z; P = V < R < Z
right of 8th letter from the left end? =W
(A) P (B) U Conclusions: I. W ≤ S II. D > P
(C) 7 (D) E III. Z < P
(E) 2 (A) Only Conclusion I is true
(B) Only Conclusions I and II are true
93. In the question below there are three statements (C) Only Conclusion III is true
followed by three conclusions I, II and III. You (D) Only Conclusion II is true
have to take the three given statements to be (E) Only Conclusions I and III are true
true even if they seem to be at variance from
commonly known facts and then decide which Direction (96-98): Answer the following question
of the given conclusions logically follows from based on the information given below.
the three statements disregarding commonly
known facts. Eight people (P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W) are
Statement: Only a few Apple are Bat. sitting in a certain manner in playground. V is
Some Bat are Coat. sitting 3m to the east of W. T is sitting 2m to
No Coat is Doll. the north of S. W is sitting to the south of S. U
Conclusion: I. All Bat can be Apple. is sitting 2m to the north of V. Q is sitting 12m
II. Some Bat can never be Doll. to the west of P. R is sitting 5m to the north of
III. All Apple can be Bat. Q. R is sitting to the west of S at a distance
(A) Only conclusion I follows equal to the distance between S and U. U is to
(B) Only conclusion II and III follow the east of R.
(C) Only conclusion III follows
(D) Only conclusion I and II follow 96. What is the direction of T with respect to V?
(E) None of the conclusion follows (A) North (B) South-east
(C) North-west (D) East
(E) None of the above
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97. What is the shortest distance between P and R? between them in the word as in the English
(A) 13m (B) 15m Alphabetical series?
(C) 17m (D) 21m (A) Two (B) Three
(E) None of the above (C) Four (D) Five
(E) None of the above
98. P is to the _____ of U.
(A) North-east (B) South 100. How many pairs of letters are there in the word
(C) North (D) South-east “CREATION” which has as many letters
(E) South-west between them in the word as in the English
Alphabetical series?
99. How many pairs of letters are there in the word (A) Five (B) Three
“ALGORITHM” which has as many letters (C) Four (D) Two
(E) None of the above
Solution
English Language Nuances (noun) - subtle differences in meaning.
1. Answer: (D) Pounces - jumps to attack. Trails - follows.
(d) is the right answer. We need to replace at Cultivate (plural verb) - nurture.
with on. Thus, (d) is the right answer. 7. Answer: (D)
2. Answer: (D) We need an adjective to modify the noun
(d) is the right answer. We need to replace the ECOSYSTEMS. ROBUST (strong) will fit
plural verb PERSIST with the singular verb here contextually as the sentence talks about
PERSISTS so that it agrees with the singular how the response of creatures to urban life
subject DEBATE. The sentence talks about the helps in planning cities that are stronger and
ongoing debate among the scientists regarding better in terms of livelihood. Thus, (d) is the
whether behaviour is caused by complex right answer.
interactions between genes and environment. Frail/ Insipid - weak. Ardent - showing strong
3. Answer: (A) feelings. Archaic - extremely old.
In A, replace the verb ASSIST with the noun 8. Answer: (B)
ASSISTANCE as it forms the object of the The sentence tells us how, as the world’s
verb PROVIDED. Thus, (a) is the right answer. NEED (requirement) for large amounts of
4. Answer: (D) portable energy grows at an ever-increasing
In D, replace the plural verb SHOW with the speed, many innovators have SOUGHT
singular verb SHOWS so that it agrees with the (attempted) to REPLACE (substitute) current
singular subject SNAPSHOT. Thus, (d) is the battery technology. PEACE (calmness) will be
right answer. inapt here. PACE (noun) means speed and will
5. Answer: (A) be more suitable here, making B the right
We need a second form verb as this part of the answer.
sentence is in past indefinite tense. BUCKLED 9. Answer: (D)
(collapsed) will fit here as the sentence tells us The sentence tells us how the virus has hit the
how the cosmetics firm failed due to debts. poultry industry hard (sharply), with culls
Thus, (a) is the right answer. (killing selective animals) and indoor housing
Implied - meant. Prevailed - won. Estimated - measures (laws) being imposed by the
calculated. Turbid (adjective) - unclear. authorities. ENSCONCED (settled in a
6. Answer: (C) comfortable space) is inappropriate in this
We need a verb to agree with the singular context and should be replaced with
subject BIODIVERSITY. UNDERPINS ENFORCED (implemented). Thus, (d) is the
(supports) will fit here as the sentence tells us right answer.
how biodiversity forms the basis for the 10. Answer: (D)
functioning of the natural world. Thus, (c) is The sentence tells us how Voltaire, who had
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treated) by the French government, was eager
(keen) to accept Frederick’s invitation to live at
his palace. RECITE (narrate) will not be
suitable in this context. RESIDE (live) will be
more apt. Thus, (d) is the right answer.
11. Answer: (B)
The sentence tells us how the recent spike (rise)
in cases of sudden, serious hepatitis in children
around the world has been widely (extensively)
reported (accounted). SEVER (cut) will not be
contextually apt here, and should be replaced
with SEVERE (serious). Thus, B is the right
answer.
12. Answer: (C)
(c) is the right answer. CABD is the correct
sequence. C begins the passage by establishing
the subject - IMAGINATION. It talks about
imagination being a part of something. A
follows by telling us that it is a part of the
organism’s practical attempt. B comes next as it
talks about the benefit of imagination - to get
maximum hold on something. D concludes the
sentence by mentioning that something - its
changing environment.
13. Answer: (D)
(d) is the right answer. DABC is the correct
sequence. D begins the sentence by telling us
that every one of us needs to believe in
something. A follows by telling us what - we
can achieve our collective goals. BC follows as
a pair by mentioning why it is necessary: to get
up from the sofa and work together.
14. Answer: (C)
(c) is the right answer. BADC is the correct
sequence. B begins the sentence by telling us
that some people don’t see a reason to abandon
something. AD follow as a pair. A mentions
what that thing is - a theory regarding the
acquisition of the mitochondrion. D follows
with the verb stem and tells us how the
acquisition of the mitochondrion triggered
something. C elaborates on what was starte(D)
rapid evolution of eukaryotes.
15. Answer: (C)
(c) is the right answer. BACD is the correct
sequence. B begins the sentence by establishing
the subject - MYSTERY GENES. It tells us
when the mystery genes showed up - in the last
decade. AC follow as a pair by mentioning that
it showed up when researchers took advantage
of today’s cheap gene sequencing technology.
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D follows C. It elaborates on that technology -
it explores the genomes of a wide range of
eukaryotes.
16. Answer: (C)
The sentence talks about China getting an
opportunity to repair its deteriorating
relationship with the U.S. and Europe as per the
pragmatists in Britain. Both 1 and 2 can replace
the highlighted portion to provide the requisite
meaning, which makes C the right answer.
Option 3 is incorrect as RUSTICATE means to
suspend a student.
The highlighted phrase is incorrect as
NEGLECT means to ignore something.
17. Answer: (C)
The sentence talks about the possibility of
economic retaliation harming vulnerable people
if it is not crafted carefully. Both 1 and 2 can
replace the highlighted portion to provide the
requisite meaning, which makes C the right
answer.
Option 3 is incorrect as we need to use the third
person singular pronoun IT instead of third
person plural pronoun THEY to agree with
singular subject RETALIATION.
The highlighted phrase is incorrect as the
present participle form verb CRAFTING
should be replaced with the past participle form
verb CRAFTED as this part of the sentence is
in passive voice.
18. Answer: (A)
The sentence talks about how economists argue
that the new policies will be beneficial for the
rich while compromising the poor. Only 1 can
replace the highlighted portion to convey the
requisite meaning. Thus, (a) is the right answer.
The highlighted phrase is incorrect as
conservation means the act of protecting and
saving something, which makes no sense here.
2 is incorrect as the preposition IN should be
replaced with AT.
3 is incorrect as it uses the preposition ON in
place of AT.
19. Answer: (B)
We need a noun to be modified by the adjective
UREA. CONSIGNMENT (a batch of goods to
be delivered to someone) will fit here as the
sentence tells us how India has bought a large
urea batch from the US. Thus, (b) is the right
answer.
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Inclement (adjective) - stormy. Sentient - able
to perceive or feel things. Predicament - a
difficult situation. Reticent - unwilling to
express one’s feelings.
20. Answer: (A)
We need a past participle form verb to fit in the
present perfect tense construction HAVE +
VERB. SPIKED (elevated) will fit here as the
sentence tells us how bulk purchases by
companies have risen in recent weeks. Thus, (a)
is the right answer.
Embarked - started. Nosedive (base form verb)
- drop. Engrossed - completely preoccupied
with something. Thwarted - blocked or
derailed.
21. Answer: (C)
We need a base form verb as the modal verb
SHOULD will take the form of the verb
following it. FORGO (go without something)
will fit here as the sentence asks us why should
any firm give up the opportunity of purchasing
oil at low prices. Thus, (c) is the right answer.
Aforementioned (adjective) - previously 25.
mentioned. Enrapture - give joy to someone.
Unfetter - release. Debunk - expose the
falseness of an idea.
22. Answer: (D)
We need a present participle form verb to fit in
the present continuous tense construction IS +
VERB. QUOTING (giving an estimated price
for something) will fit here as the sentence tells
us how the US is stating $55-75 per tonne
cheaper than that from the Middle East. Thus,
(d) is the right answer.
Depicting - describing or showing. Guzzling -
drinking greedily. Censuring - criticising.
Taming - controlling.
23. Answer: (D)
We need an adjective to modify the noun
COSTS. FREIGHT (transportation of goods)
will fit here as the sentence tells us how the US
is asking for a lower price despite higher
transportation costs and longer voyage time.
Thus, (d) is the right answer.
Diligent - hard-working. Zesty - full of energy
and enthusiasm. Relic - an object surviving
from an earlier time. Vitality - liveliness.
24. Answer: (D)
(d) is the right answer. Refer to the line: “He
followed it up with the Anglo-Hindu School in
1822 and, in 1830, assisted Alexander Duff to
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set up the General Assembly’s Institution,
which later became the Scottish Church
College.”
(a) is not true. Refer to the line: “In 1817, he
collaborated with Scottish philanthropist David
Hare to set up the Hindu College (now,
Presidency University).”
(b) is not true. Refer to the line: “The Atmiya
Sabha would make way for the Brahmo Sabha
in 1828, set up with Debendranath Tagore,
Rabindranath Tagore’s father.”
(c) is not true. Refer to the line: “Rabindranath
Tagore called him a ‘Bharatpathik’ by which he
meant to say that Rammohun combined in his
person the underlying spirit of Indic
civilisation, its spirit of pluralism, tolerance and
a cosmic respect for all forms.”
(e) is not true. Refer to the line: “It was his
relentless advocacy alongside contemporaries
such as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar that finally
led to the abolition of Sati under the governor
generalship of William Bentinck in 1829.”
Answer: (B)
(b) is the right answer. Refer to the lines: “His
Brahmo Sabha, that later became the Brahmo
Samaj, evolved as a reaction against the upper-
caste stranglehold on social customs and
rituals.”
Thus, Brahmo Samaj was formed to fight
against upper-caste influential hold on social
customs and traditions.
None of the other options are true as per the
information given in the passage.
26. Answer: (A)
(a) is the right answer. Refer to the lines: “His
exposure to the literature and culture of each of
these languages bred in him a scepticism
towards religious dogmas and social strictures.”
Thus, Roy’s exposure to the literature and
culture of Bengali, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian,
English made him sceptical about religious
dogmas and social beliefs and social
constraints.
27. Answer: (C)
(c) is the right answer as it is not true according
to the passage. Refer to the lines: “…in his
lifetime, Roy was also often attacked by his
own countrymen who felt threatened by his
reformist agenda, and by British reformers and
functionaries, whose views differed from
his.“ It is evident from the above lines that
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Roy’s reformist agendas were not supported by Therefore, present age of ‘E’ = (50 – x) years
all his countrymen. 8 years ago,
None of the other options are correct as they are Age of ‘C’ = (x – 8) years
true as per the passage. Age of ‘E’ = (50 – x – 8) = (42 – x) years
For (a), refer to the lines: “The family’s According to the question,
affluence had also made the best in education (x – 8 + 42 – x) = x – 8 + 32
accessible to him.” Or, x = 34 – 24 = 10
For (b), refer to the lines: “A polyglot, Roy Therefore,
knew Bengali and Persian, but also Arabic, Present age of ‘C’ = x = 10 years
Sanskrit, and later, English.” Present age of ‘E’ = 50 – x = 40 years
For (d), refer to the lines: “It was his relentless 33. Answer: (A)
advocacy alongside contemporaries such as Let the income of Arjun = ₹100x
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar that finally led to Then, rent expense of Arjun = 0.60 × 100x =
the abolition of Sati under the governor ₹60x
generalship of William Bentinck in 1829.” Travel expense of Arjun = 60x × (45/100) =
28. Answer: (D) ₹27x
(d) is the right answer. (a) and (c) both are Therefore, savings of Arjun = 100x – 60x – 27x
correct. Refer to the lines: “…birthed the = ₹13x
Brahmo religion, a reformed spiritual Hinduism So, 13x = 1950
that believes in monotheism and the uniformity Or, x = 1950/13 = 150
of all men, irrespective of caste, class or creed.” Therefore, income of Arjun = 100x = 100 × 150
It is explicitly stated in the above lines that = ₹15,000
Brahmo religion believed in monotheism (only 34. Answer: (C)
one God) and equality of all men. According to the question,
29. Answer: (D) Marked price of the article = 1500/0.75 =
(d) is the right answer. WHETTED means ₹2000
sharpened. HONED also carries the same 35. Answer: (C)
meaning, thus, will be its synonym. According to the question,
Polished - made smooth and glossy. Smoothed (Y × 0.12 × 2) = 1800
- made the surface free of roughness or Or, Y = 1800/0.24 = 7500
unevenness. Soothed - calmed. Burnished - Therefore, (Y – 500) = 7500 – 500 = ₹7000
made shiny. Required amount received = 7500(1 + 10/100)2
30. Answer: (C) = 7000 × 1.21 = ₹8470
(c) is the right answer. EMANCIPATION 36. Answer: (B)
means the act of being freed from bondage. Cost price (CP) of the mixture = (100/120) ×
ENSLAVEMENT (act of being subjected to 73.20
servitude) will be its antonym. = ₹61 per kg
Liberation - freedom. Abdication - act of
renouncing one’s claim. Aberration -
abnormality. Abomination - act of being
disgusted.

Quantitative Aptitude
31. Answer: (A)
Required ratio = 4:1
Number of XL size shirts = 380 × (9/19) = 180
37. Answer: (D)
Number of black XL size shirts = 180 × (2/3) =
Let the total work taken to eat a chicken = 120
120
units
32. Answer: (A)
Then, efficiency of a dog = 120/24 = 5
Let present age ‘C’ be ‘x’ years
units/hour
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Combined efficiency of a dog and a cat Ratio of investments of ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’,
= 120/15 = 8 units/hour respectively
Efficiency of a cat = 8 – 5 = 3 units/hour = 6000:4000:5000 = 6:4:5
So, combined efficiency of 3 dogs and a cat Ratio of time period of investments of ‘A’, ‘B’
= 3 × 5 + 3 = 18 units/hour and ‘C’, respectively = 60:50:40 = 6:5:4
Time taken by 3 dogs and a cat to eat the So, ratio of profit shares of ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’
chicken respectively = (6 × 6):(4 × 5):(5 × 4) =
= (120/18) = 20/3 hours 36:20:20 = 9:5:5
38. Answer: (D) Hence, profit share of ‘A’ out of ₹19000
Length of the rectangle = perimeter of square = 19000 × (9/19) = ₹9,000
= 4 × 8 = 32 cm 42. Answer: (B)
Width of the rectangle = 0.60 × 32 = 19.2 cm (151.86 ÷ 4.12 + 74.78% of 95.87) × ?1/2 =
Perimeter of the rectangle = 2 × (length + 550.18
breadth) (152 ÷ 4 + 75% of 96) × ?1/2 ~ 550
= 2 × (19.2 + 32) = 2 × (51.2) = 102.4 cm (38 + 72) × ?1/2 ~ 550
39. Answer: (D) 110 × ?1/2 ~ 550
Let the quantity of milk in the mixture = ‘x’ ?1/2 ~ 550/110
liters ?1/2 ~ 5
Then, quantity of water in the mixture = ‘x + ? ~ 25
24’ liters 43. Answer: (D)
ATQ; (3132.32 ÷ 8.94 + 64.21) = ? + 131.86
x + x + 24 = 2x + 24 = 108 (3132 ÷ 9 + 64) ~ ? + 132
Or, x = (108 – 24)/2 = 42 (348 + 64) ~ ? + 132
So, ratio of quantity of milk to water 412 ~ ? + 132
= 42:(42 + 24) = 42:66 = 7:11 ? ~ 412 – 132
After removing 36 liters of this mixture, ? ~ 280
quantity of milk remaining = 42 – {36 × 44. Answer: (C)
(7/18)} 222 + ? – 122 = 500
= 42 – 14 = 28 liters 484 + ? – 144 = 500
After removing 36 liters of this mixture, ? = 160
quantity of water remaining = 66 – {36 × 45. Answer: (D)
(11/18)} 2 1
3 + 2 − 1 =?
13
5 4 20
= 66 – 22 = 44 liters
? = (17/5) + (9/4) – (33/20)
Given that,
? = (17 × 4 + 9 × 5 – 33) ÷ 20
(28 + y):44 = 5:4
? = (68 + 45 – 33) ÷ 20
So, (28 + y) × 4 = 5 × 44
? = (80/20)
Or, 112 + 4y = 220
?=4
Or, y = (220 – 112)/4 = 27
46. Answer: (D)
40. Answer: (B)
(?2 + 129) ÷ 7 + 43 = 94
Let the total amount of work = 140 units {LCM
(?2 + 129) ÷ 7 + 64 = 94
of 14 and 20}
(?2 + 129) ÷ 7 = 94 – 64 = 30
Then, efficiency of ‘A’ = 140/14 = 10 units/day
(?2 + 129) = 30 ×7 = 210
Efficiency of ‘B’ = 140/20 = 7 units/day
?2 = 210 – 129
Combined efficiency of ‘A’ and ‘B’
?2 = 81
= 10 + 7 = 17 units/day
?=±9
Work completed by ‘A’ and ‘B’ together in 5
47. Answer: (D)
days = 17 × 5 = 85 units
∛1728 + 344 ÷ 8 + ∛2744 = ?
Remaining work = 140 – 85 = 55 units
? = 12 + 43 + 14
Time taken by ‘A’ alone to complete the
? = 69
remaining work = 55/10 = 5.5 days
48. Answer: (A)
41. Answer: (C)
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25% of 800 - √256 × 5 = ?2 – 76 -11 < -9

200 – 16 × 5 = ?2 – 76 -11 < -10
?2 = 200 – 80 + 76 -12 < -9
?2 = 196 -12 < -10
? = ±14 So, x < y
49. Answer: (D) 55. Answer: (B)
12 × 15 + ? – 10 = 200 From I:
180 + ? – 10 = 200 x = √225
? = 30 So, x = 15
50. Answer: (A) From II:
20% of 200 – 23 + 17 = ?2 y2 – 28y + 196 = 0
40 – 8 + 17 = ?2 Or, y2 – 14y – 14y + 196 = 0
?2 = 49 Or, y(y – 14) – 14(y – 14) = 0
? = ±7 Or, (y – 14)(y – 14) = 0
51. Answer: (B) So, y = 14
32 × 0.5 = 16 X Relation y
16 × 1 = 16 15 > 14
16 × 1.5 = 24 So, x > y
24 × 2 = 48 Direction (56-60):
48 × 2.5 = 120 For Monday,
120 × 3 = 360 Total number of products sold = 140
Therefore, 48 should come in place of 46. Number of notebooks sold = 60
52. Answer: (C) Number of pens sold = 140 – 60 = 80
12 × 2 + 1 = 25 Similarly,
12 × 3 + 2 = 38 Day Total Number Number
12 × 4 + 3 = 51 number of of pens
12 × 5 + 4 = 64 of notebooks sold
12 × 6 + 5 = 77 products sold
12 × 7 + 6 = 90 sold
Therefore, 64 should come in place of 62.
Monday 140 60 80
53. Answer: (C)
Tuesday 160 70 90
12 + 2 × 3 = 18
Wednesday 160 75 85
18 + 2 × 5 = 28
28 + 2 × 7 = 42 Thursday 170 80 90
42 + 2 × 9 = 60 56. Answer: (C)
60 + 2 × 11 = 82 Required difference = 90 – 60 = 30
Therefore, 42 should come in place of 44. 57. Answer: (B)
54. Answer: (B) Required ratio = 75:90 = 5:6
From I: 58. Answer: (A)
x2 + 23x + 132 = 0 Sum of number of pens sold on Monday and
Or, x2 + 12x + 11x + 132 = 0 Tuesday = 80 + 90 = 170
Or, x(x + 12) + 11(x + 12) = 0 Average of number of pens and number of
Or, (x + 12)(x + 11) = 0 notebooks sold on Wednesday = 160/2 = 80
x = -12 or x = -11 Required difference = 170 – 80 = 90
From II: 59. Answer: (D)
y2 + 19y + 90 = 0 Required percentage = {(160 – 80)/160} × 100
Or, y2 + 9y + 10y + 90 = 0 = 50%
Or, y(y + 9) + 10(y + 9) = 0 60. Answer: (D)
Or, (y + 9)(y + 10) = 0 Average of number of notebooks sold on
y = -10 or y = -9 Monday and Tuesday = {(60 + 70)/2} = 65
x Relationship Y
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Average of number of pens sold on Tuesday Aruhi, who teaches Chemistry, teaches in class
and Thursday = {(90 + 90)/2} = 90 IV.
Required ratio = 65:90 = 13:18 70. Answer: (D)
Direction (61-65): Among the given options, only option (d) is
In Patna university, correctly matched.
Number of non-teaching staff = 1800 × 0.45 = Direction (71-75):
810 The arrangement is as follows:
Number of teaching staff = 1800 – 810 = 990
Similarly,
Name of Total Number Number 71. Answer: (B)
University number of non- of Two people are sitting to the right of Blue.
of staff teaching teaching 72. Answer: (B)
staff staff Four people are sitting between Blue and Pink.
Patna 1800 810 990 73. Answer: (B)
Chennai 1200 480 720 Cream is at a distance of 9m from Pink.
Guwahati 1100 880 220 74. Answer: (C)
Shillong 1320 330 990 Two people are sitting to the left of Orange.
Delhi 1500 750 750 75. Answer: (D)
61. Answer: (B) Option (a): Correct (The distance between
Required percentage = (720/1800) × 100 = 40% Violet and Purple is 9m.)
62. Answer: (D) Option (b): Correct (Blue is sitting immediate
Required sum = 810 + 750 = 1560 left of Red.)
63. Answer: (A) Option (c): Correct (Green is sitting at one of
Required ratio = 880:990 = 8:9 the extreme ends.)
64. Answer: (D) Option (d): Incorrect (Pink is sitting third to left
Required percentage = (1200 – 750) ÷ 750 × of Cream.)
100 Direction (76-80):
= 60% The final arrangement is as follows:
65. Answer: (A) Days Persons
Required average = (990 + 220) ÷ 2 = 605 Monday Nikhil
Tuesday Mohit
Reasoning Aptitude
Wednesday Hazel
Direction (66-70): Thursday Sam
final table is given below: Friday Prem
Class Teacher Subject Saturday Rima
VII Arti History Sunday Vishal
VI Arjun/Anu Computer 76. Answer: (B)
V Anu/Arjun Maths Hazel has exam on Wednesday.
IV Aruhi Chemistry 77. Answer: (C)
III Arun Physics Three people have exam after Sam.
II Ani English 78. Answer: (A)
I Ankit Hindi Rima has exam immediately before Vishal.
66. Answer: (C) 79. Answer: (C)
Ani teaches in Class II. Option (a): Incorrect (Prem has exam on
67. Answer: (D) Friday).
Either Arjun or Anu teaches computer. Option (b): Incorrect (No person has exam
68. Answer: (D) before Nikhil).
Arti teaches history. Option (c): Correct (One person, Rima, has
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Option (d): Incorrect (Two people have exam shorter than Arnav, so, height of Abhay can be
between Nikhil and Sam). 152 cm.
80. Answer: (B) 87. Answer: (B)
Prem has exam on Friday. Two people are taller than Julia.
Direction (81-85): Direction (88-92):
From statement I, III and IV, ‘high’ is coded as Given series:
‘lup’. 5AU3B6GXNMTUT7E2UP2I
From statement I and II, ‘some’ is coded as 88. Answer: (D)
‘rop’. There are six alphabets, which are immediately
From statement I and III, ‘birds’ is coded as preceded by a number.
‘rts’. 89. Answer: (D)
From statement I alone, ‘fly’ is coded as ‘mus’. There is one such vowel, which is immediately
From statement II and IV, ‘deep’ is coded as preceded by a number and immediately
‘bjk’. succeeded by a consonant.
From statement III alone, ‘are’ is coded as 90. Answer: (C)
‘vot’. 3, 7, 2 and 2 are such prime numbers, which are
From statement IV alone, ‘and’ is coded as preceded by a letter.
‘das’. Sum = (3 + 7 + 2 + 2) =14
From statement II, ‘fish’ and ‘swim’ is coded as 91. Answer: (B)
‘jhr’ and ‘mok’. There are two such even numbers, which are
W H so bi fl d a a fis swi succeeded by vowels.
or ig m rd y ee n r h m 92. Answer: (A)
d h e s p d e 8th letter from the left end is T.
C lu ro rt m bj d v mo jhr/ 7th element to the right of T is P.
od p p s u k a o k/j mo 93. Answer: (D)
e s s t hr k The following Venn diagram can be drawn
81. Answer: (B) from the given statements,
The code for ‘deep’ is ‘bjk’.
82. Answer: (A)
‘are’ is coded as ‘vot’.
83. Answer: (D)
Code for ‘fish and high’ can be ‘mok das lup’
or ‘jhr das lup’.
84. Answer: (C)
‘fly’ is coded as ‘mus’.
85. Answer: (D)
Option (a): Correct (‘and’ is coded as ‘das’.) Part of Bat, which are Coat can never be Doll.
Option (b): Correct (‘bjk’ is the code for So, conclusion II follows.
From the above Venn diagram conclusion I
‘deep’.)
follows.
Option (c): Correct (‘some birds’ is coded as
‘rop rts’.) 94. Answer: (D)
Option (d): Incorrect (‘some fish’ is coded as The following Venn diagram can be drawn
‘rop mok’ or ‘rop jhr’) from the given statements,
Direction (86-87):
The arrangement is as follows:
Riddhi > Arnav > Julia > Abhay > Hina >
Bhuwan > Diksha
86. Answer: (C)
Hina is third shortest and Arnav is second
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From the above Venn diagram, none of the

conclusion follows.
95. Answer: (B) 96. Answer: (C)
Given Statement: S = D ≥ E ≥ F ≥ Z; P = V < R T is to the north-west of V.
<Z=W 97. Answer: (A)
On combining, we get, Applying Pythagoras theorem,
S=D≥E≥F≥Z=W>R>V=P PR2=PQ2+QR2
Conclusions: PR2=122+52
I. W ≤ S: True (As, S = D ≥ E ≥ F ≥ Z = W, so, PR2=144+25=169
S ≥ W) PR=13m
II. D > P: True (As, D ≥ E ≥ F ≥ Z = W > R > 98. Answer: (D)
V = P, so, D > P) P is to the south-east of U.
III. Z < P: False (As, Z = W > R > V = P, so, Z 99. Answer: (B)
> P) AH, GM and RT are the three pairs which have
Direction (96-98): as many letters between them as in the English
Following arrangement can be drawn from the Alphabetical Series.
given statements, 100. Answer: (D)
CREATION
CE and NO are the two such pairs which have
as many letters between them as in the English
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SSC CGL SSC

Prelims Solved Paper
CGL Prelims

Quantitative Aptitude 7. Find the average of number of male employees

in offices ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’.
1. 3 numbers are in A.P. such that their sum is 24 (A) 645 (B) 612
and sum of their squares is 224. Find the 1st (C) 705 (D) 663
term of A.P.
(A) 8 (B) 4 8. Find the difference between number female
(C) 12 (D) None of these employees in offices ‘B’ and ‘D’, together and
total employees in office ‘B’.
2. Find the remainder obtained when 145n + 7n + 9 (A) 412 (B) 479
is divisible by 7 where n is an integer. (C) 507 (D) 465
(A) 1 (B) 2
(C) 3 (D) 4 9. The ratio of the incomes of ‘A’ and ‘B’ is 7:5,
respectively. ‘A’ spends 60% of his income
3. Find the unit digit of the product (1597)593 × such that his savings is 40% more than the
(241)156 savings of ‘B’. Find the ratio of their
(A) 7 (B) 9 expenditures.
(C) 3 (D) 4 (A) 5:4 (B) 2:1
(C) 4:3 (D) 7:5
4. For what values of ‘a’ is x + √x/16 + a2 is a
perfect square? 10. Average marks obtained in mathematics by 40
(A) 1/64 (B) 1/48 students of sections ‘A’ and ‘B’ together of
(C) 1/32 (D) ±1/16 class 4 was 67.2. The numbers of students in
section ‘A’ were 8 more than number of
Direction (05-08): The given table shows the total students in section ‘B’. The average score of
employees and ratio of male and females in students in section ‘A’ was 20% more than that
four different offices. Study the table carefully of students in section ‘B’. The average score of
and answer the question given below. students in section ‘B’ was:
Total Number of (A) 40 (B) 72
employees (males : females) (C) 60 (D) 48
A 1200 7:8 11. A certain sum of money is divided among ‘P’,
B 1640 19:21 ‘Q’ and ‘R’ such that ‘P’ got 30% of total sum,
C 1560 5:7 ‘Q’ received 45% of the total sum and ‘R’
D 1500 4:1 received the rest sum. If ‘Q’ had got ₹800 less,
‘R’ had got ₹800 more and amount received by
5. Find the ratio of number of female employees P remains unchanged, then the sum received by
in offices ‘A’ and ‘C’, together to total ‘P’ and ‘R’ would have been equal. Find the
employees in office ‘A’. actual sum received by ‘Q’.
(A) 25:14 (B) 35:23 (A) ₹8000 (B) ₹6400
(C) 31:24 (D) 17:12 (C) ₹7200 (D) ₹5600

6. The total number of employees in office ‘C’ is 12. An article is sold at 40% profit on the cost
how much percent more/less than the number price. Find the profit percentage (upto 2
of male employees in office ‘D? decimal points) of the same article against the
(A) 15% (B) 30% selling price.
(C) 24% (D) 40% (A) 20.48% (B) 24.44%
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13. ₹P is invested at R% p.a. simple interest and the 18. In ∆PQR right angled at Q, PQ = 18 cm, QR =
same sum is invested at R% p.a. compound 24 cm. M is the midpoint of QR such that MN
interest, compounded annually. If the ratio of is perpendicular on PR. Find the area of
the difference between compound interest and ∆MNR.
simple interest of 3 years to that of 2 years is (A) 48.12 cm2 (B) 34.56 cm2
2
25:8. Find the value of ‘R’. (C) 28.72 cm (D) 42.44 cm2
(A) 15 (B) 14.44
(C) 20 (D) 12.5 19. If a4 + a2b2 + b4 = 484, a2 + ab + b2 = 22, then
find the value of a2 + b2.
14. A shopkeeper sold an article after giving two (A) 20 (B) 22
successive discounts of x% and (x + 8)% (C) 11 (D) 24
respectively. If marked price and selling price 20. Find the value of (2sin53o/cos37o) –
of the article is ₹1600 and ₹1126.4, (cos80o/sin10o).
respectively, then find the value of ‘x’. (A) 1 (B) 0
(A) 20 (B) 12 (C) -2 (D) -1
(C) 16 (D) 10
21. The ratio of two of the angles of a triangle is
15. ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ can complete a piece of work 3:5, respectively. If the third angle of the
in 70 days, 112 days and 80 days respectively. triangle is 25% more than the sum of the given
‘A’ and ‘B’ started the work together but ‘A’ two angles of the triangle, then find the largest
left the work after 20 days. Now ‘C’ joined the angle of the triangle.
work and then after 8 days ‘B’ is replaced by (A) 100o (B) 96o
o
‘A’. Find the time taken to complete the rest of (C) 120 (D) 80o
the work by ‘A’ and ‘C’ together.
(A) 15.2 days (B) 13.6 days 22. The radius and height of a right circular cone
(C) 14.4 days (D) 16.2 days are in the ratio of 4:3 respectively. If its curved
surface area is 320π cm2, then its volume (in
16. Train ‘A’ takes 2 hour 30 minutes more than cm3) is:
train ‘B’ to cover a certain distance. If speed of (A) 720π (B) 1024π
train ‘B’ is 6 km/h more than speed of train ‘A’, (C) 512π (D) 2048π
then find the time taken by train ‘A’ to cover a
distance of 60 km if it increases its speed by 23. The ratio of the curved surface area to the area
25%, given that distance travelled by each of one of the bases of a cylinder is 0.1428. If
trains is 90 km. the radius of the cylinder is 28 cm then find the
(A) 5 hours (B) 4 hours approximate height (in cm) of the cylinder.
(C) 4.5 hours (D) 5.5 hours (A) 8 (B) 4
(C) 2 (D) 12
17. A tank can be filled by a cold pipe in 15
minutes and by a hot pipe in 10 minutes. A man 24. If cosx = 2a/(1 + a2), then find the value of
opens both the taps at 9 a.m. and leaves the tanx.
room. He returns at the time when the tank is (A) (1 + a2)/(1 – a2) (B) (1 – a2)/2a
expected to be full, but he observes that the (C) 2a/(1 + a2) (D) (1 + a2)/2a
waste pipe in the bottom was open and the tank
is not full. He now closes it, and it takes 4 more 25. If a2 + a + 1 = 0, then find the 5a4 + 3a3 – 4a2 +
minutes to fill the tank. When the tank is full, 7
both hot and cold pipes are closed and after 10 (A) 16 (B) 9
minutes he again opens the waste pipe. At what (C) 25 (D) 11
time will the tank be empty?
(A) 9:23 a.m. (B) 9:19 a.m.
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Reasoning Aptitude 33. From the given alternatives select the word
which cannot be formed using the letters of the
26. From the given alternatives, select the one in given word.
which the set of numbers is most like the set of SYNCHRONISATION
numbers given in the questions: (A) NATION (B) NORTH
(313, 322, 340) (C) ROASTER (D) SANCTION
(A) (109, 118, 127) (B) (576, 234, 217)
(C) (90, 99, 117) (D) (26, 28, 30) 34. Arrange the following words in dictionary
order.
27. In the given question, select the odd word from 1. Ultimately 2. Umpires
the given alternatives. 3. Unaffected 4. Unfortunately
(A) VWXZ (B) JKLN 5. Ultraplus 6. Unapproved
(C) PQRT (D) BCDE (A) 1 5 2 4 3 6 (B) 1 5 2 3 6 4
(C) 1 3 4 5 6 2 (D) 1 2 5 6 4 3
28. In a certain code language, ‘CRAMPS’ is
coded as ‘698528’, ‘MINOR’ is coded as 35. Select the correct option that represents the
‘59439’ then how will ‘DANGER’ be coded as given Venn diagram.
in that language?
(A) 410815 (B) 511951
(C) 584249 (D) 912456

29. Which number will replace the question mark

(?) in the following series?
10, 23, 44, 73, ?
(A) Laptop, Mobile, Gadgets
(A) 102 (B) 115
(B) Cricket, Hockey, Badminton/
(C) 110 (D) 105
(C) bankers, students, athlete
(D) Crop, Paddy, Mango
30. Select the combination of letters that when
sequentially placed in the gaps of the given
36. Mukul’s birthday is on Saturday 29thAugust.
letter series will complete the series.
On what day of the week will be Rahul’s
rp_qpq_ps_pq_ps_pq
birthday in the same year if Rahul was born on
(A) rpqsr (B) srqrq
odd number date of December after 29?
(C) rpsqr (D) srqpr
(A) Thursday (B) Tuesday
(C) Monday (D) Sunday
31. Find the value of a and c from the given
alternatives.
37. Two positions of the same dice are given,
11 9 17
which of the following number will be opposite
8 6 5
to 4?
3 c 2
91 60 a
(A) a = 18, c = 4 (B) a = 85, c = 6
(C) a = 87, c = 6 (D) a = 78, c = 2

32. If ‘D’ denotes ‘multiplied by’, ‘G’ denotes (A) 3 (B) 5

‘subtracted from’, ‘N’ denotes ‘added to’ and (C) 1
‘K’ denotes ‘divided by’, then (D) Cannot be determined
10 G 12 N 96 K 6 D 4 = ?
(A) 62 (B) 64 38. Five persons A, B, C, D and E have different
(C) 70 (D) 54 heights. Who among the following is tallest?
I. E is taller than B and C. D is taller than A,
who is not shorter than E.
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II. Number of persons taller than A is equal to 42. Select the option in which will complete the
number of persons shorter than B. E is taller following figure.
than C.
(A) The data in statement I alone are sufficient
to answer the question, while the data in
statement II alone are not sufficient to answer
the question
(B) The data in statement II alone are sufficient
to answer the question, while the data in
statement I alone are not sufficient to answer
the question
(C) The data either in statement I alone or in
statement II alone are sufficient to answer the
question (A) (B)
(D) The data given in both statements I and II
together is sufficient to answer the question

39. If
(C) (D)
P + Q means P is the brother of Q.
P × Q means P is the father of Q
43. What are the minimum lines required to form
P – Q means P is the mother of Q
the figure?
Then, which of the given would means “G is
the son of J”?
(A) J × X × G (B) J + G × X
(C) J – G – X (D) J × G + X

40. Six boxes A, B, C, D, E and F are kept one

above another such that bottommost box is
numbered as 1 while the topmost as 6. Box B is
just above box F. Box C is just above box A.
Box E is above box D. Box F is three boxes
above box D. Which box is the topmost box?
(A) E (B) F 44.
(C) A (D) C
41. Two statements are given followed by three
conclusions numbered I, II, and III assuming
the statements to be true, even if they seem to
be at variance with commonly known facts.
Decide which of conclusion logically follow(s)
from the statement.
Statements: Some crust is start
All first is crust
Conclusions: I. No first is start
II. Some crust is first
III. Some first being start is a possibility
(A) All conclusions follow
(B) Only conclusion II follows
(C) Only conclusion I and III follow
(D) Only conclusion II and III follow
103
(A) 8 (B) 5
(C) 7 (D) 9
In the question given below, a passage is given
followed by statements which may or may not
be inferred from the passage. Select the correct
combination of statements that can be inferred.
Humans typically do things to get pleasure or
avoid pain. For most of us, hurting others
causes us to feel their pain. And we don’t like
this feeling. This suggests two reasons people
may harm the harmless – either they don’t feel
the others’ pain or they enjoy feeling it.
Another reason people harm the harmless is
because they nonetheless see a threat. Someone
who doesn’t imperil your body or wallet can
still threaten your social status. This helps
explain otherwise puzzling actions, such as
when people harm others who help them
financially.
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2. Some people enjoy others’ pain. 50. Which of the given term follows the trend of
3. Usually, people like to avoid pain and get the given series?
pleasure. wRPQPQPQPQ, PwRQPQPQPQ,
(A) Only 1 and 2 (B) Only 2 and 3 PQwRPQPQPQ, PQPwRQPQPQ,
(C) Only 1 and 3 (D) All 1, 2 and 3 PQPQwRPQPQ, _________?
(A) PQPQPQwRPQ (B) PQPQPwRQPQ
45. Select the option in which the given figure is (C) RwPQPQPQPQ (D) PwRQPQPQPQ
embedded.
General Studies
51. ‘Safari' is a type of _________.
(A) Operating system (B) Browser
(C) Printer (D) Input device

52. Plants which grow in salty water near sea shore

are called as ________.
(A) Halophytes (B) Xerophytes
(C) Heliophytes (D) Saprophytes

(A) (B) 53. What is Marble Cancer?

(A) Disease in animals due to marble mines
(B) Soil degradation due to marble mines
(C) Cancer in human due to working in mines
(D) Corrosion of marble due to acid rain

(C) (D) 54. During the occurrence of thunder and lightning

_________.
46. Select the related word/letters/number from the (A) Whether lightning is seen first or thunder is
given alternatives. heard first will depend upon the distance and
Week: 7 days :: Silver Jubilee: ____ angle of the clouds vis-a-vis earth
(A) 30 years (B) 25 years
(C) 26 years (D) 31 years (B) Lightning is seen at the same time as
thunder is heard
47. In the given question, select the related word (C) Thunder is heard before lightning is seen
numbers/letters from the given alternatives.
FLOP : 50 : : TURN : 74 : : DRAMA : ? (D) Lightning is seen before thunder is heard
(A) 58 (B) 38
(C) 78 (D) 21 55. In Indian economy, the sectors are divided into
Private and Public on what basis?
48. Three of the following four cities are alike in a (A) Ownership of enterprises
certain way and one is different. Pick the odd (B) Usage of raw materials
word out. (C) Nature of economic activities
(A) Rose (B) Lily (D) Employment policies
(C) Mango (D) Marigold
56. Rotational axis of which of the following planet
49. Series is given with one word missing. Choose is highly tilted?
the correct alternative from the given ones that (A) Earth (B) Uranus
will complete the series: (C) Neptune (D) Jupiter
Nature, Underground, Manchester, Mainstream,
Train, ?
(A) Terminal (B) Struck
(C) Straight (D) Transmission
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57. What is the maximum period for which the vice 67. Ninth Schedule was added in Indian
president can act as the President in case of Constitution by which amendment act?
vacancy in the president's office? (A) 1st (B) 2nd
th
(A) 3 months (B) 6 months (C) 15 (D) 35th
(C) 1 year (D) 2 years
68. The Almatti dam project on the Krishna River
58. Lord Macaulay is generally associated for was an issue between which states?
bringing ________ in India. (A) Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh
(A) Unity in Army (B) Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu
(B) Economic reforms (C) Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
(C) English Education (D) Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra
(D) Modern Technologies
69. _______ Constitution Amendment Act, 2002
59. Where is the tomb of Sher Shah Suri located? provided for free and compulsory elementary
(A) Rohtasgarh (B) Sasaram education to all children.
(C) Chausa (D) Delhi (A) 84th (B) 85th
(C) 86th (D) 87th
60. Magical charms and spells are given in which
of the following Vedas? 70. Which among the following is not an account
(A) Rig Veda (B) Sama Veda under Balance of Payment?
(C) Yajurveda Veda (D) Atharva Veda (A) Current Account
(B) Capital Account
61. Who is the head of a Municipal Corporation? (C) Official Reserves Account
(A) MLA (B) Sarpanch (D) Financial Account
(C) Governor (D) Mayor
71. During their rule the British persuaded or
62. The Mosque with "shaking minarets" is situated forced cultivators in Madras to grow _____.
in which Indian city? (A) Jute (B) Tea
(A) Kanpur (B) Ahmedabad (C) Sugarcane (D) Rice
(C) Jaipur (D) Ranchi
72. Which among the following is a 'Modifier key'?
63. World Day of Social Justice is observed on (A) Control (B) Shift
which date? (C) Alt (D) All correct
(A) 14 October (B) 16 January
(C) 20 February (D) 28 March 73. Where was the 'Azad Hind Fauj' founded?
(A) Singapore (B) Thailand
64. __________ is a folk dance of indigenous Bodo (C) Britain (D) Italy
tribe in Assam and Northeast India.
(A) Shondol (B) Bagurumba 74. In view of the efforts to control tobacco
(C) Karagam (D) Chhau consumption in which state, the World Health
Organization has selected the state for the
65. As per the 2011 census, Hindi has retained ts 'World No Tobacco Day Award-2022'?
position as a predominant language spoken by (A) Jharkhand (B) Bihar
about ______ percent of the population. (C) Punjab (D) Tamil Nadu
(A) 39.36 (B) 46.25
(C) 37 (D) 43.63 75. Which of the following team won the IPL-2022
title?
66. Surma River, also known as the Barak River, (A) Rajasthan Royals
originates in the: (B) Gujarat Titans
(A) Manipur Hills (B) Mizo Hills (C) Royal Challengers Bangalore
(C) Patkai Boom Hills (D) Naga Hills (D) Chennai Super Kings
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English Language Direction (83-87): In the following passage some

words have been deleted. Fill in the blank with
76. Select the most appropriate word to fill in the the help of the alternatives given. Select the
blank. most appropriate option for each blank.
Our ultimate goal was to _________ whether
barley was domesticated to pinpoint the region The ______ of Abu Camp was its remoteness
where it was. in the delta, the uniqueness of an elephant-back
(A) deduct (B) destroy safari and the luxury of its accommodations.
(C) determine (D) disturb One of the boasts of the camp was that the
purring refrigeration of its extensive wine cellar
77. Select the most appropriate word to fill in the was inaudible outside the kitchen compound. It
blank. was also eco-friendly, _______ on solar panels
Both Houses normally _________ their for electricity and for reducing all its kitchen
business in public, and there are galleries where waste into compost to fertilize its extensive
visitors may sit. vegetable gardens. The staff quarters amounted
(A) convene (B) conduct to a ______, rather prim village, with its own
(C) comply (D) concur dining hall and recreation room—nearly all the
workers had permanent homes in Maun, the
78. Out of the following choose the word which Okavango’s ______ town and only substantial
expresses the word opposite in meaning to the airport, at the southeastern edge of the delta.
given word. Most guests ______ flown from Maun to bush
Intrepid airstrips in small planes over startled herds of
(A) profitable (B) moderate zebra and wildebeest.
(C) fearful (D) incessant
83. The ______ of Abu Camp was its
79. Select the most appropriate antonym of the (A) applaud (B) avert
given word. (C) appeal (D) attune
Treacherous
(A) trivial (B) lively 84. also eco-friendly, _______ on solar panels
(C) forthright (D) boisterous
(A) diverting (B) failing
80. Select the most appropriate synonym of the (C) changing (D) depending
given word.
Abolish 85. amounted to a ______, rather prim village
(A) counsel (B) annul (A) small (B) rare
(C) pardon (D) flourish (C) brave (D) wary
81. Select the most appropriate synonym of the 86. the Okavango’s ______ town and
given word. (A) firm (B) certain
Persist (C) main (D) moral
(A) pervade (B) endure
(C) ensure (D) perish 87. Most guests ______ flown from
(A) was (B) were
82. Select the correct passive form of the given (C) are (D) is
sentence.
I took a shower last night. 88. Select the correct indirect form of the given
(A) A shower is taken by me last night. sentence.
(B) A shower has been taken by me last night. "You are looking tired," he said to his son.
(C) A shower was taken by me last night. (A) He told his son that you are looking tired.
(D) A shower had been taken by me last night. (B) He told his son that he is looking tired.
(C) He told his son that he was looking tired.
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(D) He told his son that he had been looking S. But when the Portuguese arrived in 1500,
tired. roughly 900,000 Native Americans inhabited
the Atlantic shores of present-day Brazil.
89. Select the word which means the same as the 6. But these languages are not spoken anymore.
group of words given. (A) QRPS (B) QRSP
A backward view or look into the past (C) PQRS (D) PSQR
(A) prospect (B) retrograde
(C) retrospect (D) circumspect 94. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Out of
the given option pick the one that gives their
90. Select the word which means the same as the correct order.
group of words given. P. These coffins remain in the cliffs, still
A false idea or belief viewable today from the river, though it
(A) farce (B) fallacy remains unclear how the Ba managed to hoist
(C) felony (D) expletive the coffins to such dangerous heights.
Q. The placement of the body is said to signify
91. Select the most appropriate option to substitute honor and bring the dead closer to heaven.
the underlined segment in the given sentence. If R. The Ba, a Chinese ethnic minority who lived
there is no need to substitute it, select No in the Three Gorges area for 3,000 years before
improvement. dying out some four centuries ago, never buried
The town hall was retained by the council as a their dead.
base for officers to carry on their day-to-day S. Instead, they placed the body into a wooden
work. coffin and transported it to a small cave at the
(A) carry off (B) carry out height of a cliff.
(C) carry along (D) No Improvement (A) SQRP (B) RSQP
(C) RPSQ (D) SPQR
92. Select the most appropriate option to substitute
the underlined segment in the given sentence. If 95. Select the most appropriate meaning of the
there is no need to substitute it, select No given idiom.
improvement. Swing for the fences
The first round tie kicked off 25 minutes late (A) to be undecided about something
when the appointed referee failed to turn up. (B) to aim for the highest achievement possible
(A) turn on (B) turn out (C) to react angrily
(C) turn down (D) No Improvement (D) to get violent in an argument

93. The 1st and the last sentence of the passage (or 96. Select the most appropriate meaning of the
parts of a sentence) are numbered 1 and 6. The given idiom.
rest is split into four parts and named P, Q, R In a nutshell
and S. These four parts are not given in their (A) contrary to popular belief
proper order. Read the sentence and find out (B) expressed in a few words
which of the four combinations is correct and (C) in the best way possible
indicate it. (D) different from all others
1. Archaeologists don’t know who exactly built
the 500-to-700-year-old site. 97. Select the wrongly spelled word.
P. Most groups, like the Tupinambá, spoke (A) trickery (B) enthusiasm
Tupí languages. (C) surrender (D) negligent
Q. Today, few Indigenous communities remain
on the coast on the site. 98. Select the correct spelling of the word.
R. This is because European colonizers killed (A) mediocer (B) mideocre
or forced most Native groups farther inland. (C) mideocer (D) mediocre

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These mobile charges should make (A)/ the 100. In the sentence, identify the segment which
surfaces conductive, but past experiments (B)/ contains the grammatical error.
have fail to show any conductivity. (C)/ No Raymond's forces occupied an (A)/ old
error (D) promontory fort at Baginbun (B)/ and plunder
(A) A (B) B the (C)/ surrounding countryside. (D)
(C) C (D) D (A) A (B) B
(C) C (D) D

Solution
Quantitative Aptitude (5/12) = 650 = 910
650
1. Answer: (D)
D 1500 1500 × 1500 –
Let the numbers be (a – d), a and (a + d)
(4/5) = 1200 =
According to the question,
1200 300
(a – d + a + a + d) = 24
Required ratio = (640 + 910):1200
Or, a = 24/3 = 8
= 1550:1200 = 31:24
Therefore, (8 – d)2 + 82 + (8 + d)2 = 224
6. Answer: (B)
Or, 2d2 + 192 = 224
Total Number of Number of
Or, d2 = 16
employees male female
Or, d = ±4
employees employees
Therefore, numbers are 4, 8, 12 of 12, 8, 4
A 1200 1200 × 1200 –
Since, the 1st term cannot be determined.
(7/15) = 560 = 640
2. Answer: (B)
560
In the given expression, only 9 is not
completely divisible by 7 B 1640 1640 × 1640 –
Therefore, remainder obtained = 9 – 7 = 2 (19/40) = 779 = 861
3. Answer: (A) 779
7 has cyclicity of 4 C 1560 1560 × 1560 –
When 593 is divided by 4, it leaves remainder (5/12) = 650 = 910
equal to 1 650
Therefore, unit digit = 71 × 1 = 7 D 1500 1500 × 1500 –
4. Answer: (C) (4/5) = 1200 =
Expanding the given expression in the form of 1200 300
a2 + 2ab + b2, we get Required percentage = {(1560 – 1200)/1200}
x + √x/16 + a2 = (√x)2 + 2 × √x × (1/32) + ×100 = 30%
(1/32)2 – (1/32)2 + (a)2 7. Answer: (D)
For the above expression to be perfect square, Total Number of Number of
(a2) – (1/32)2 = 0 employees male female
Or, a2 = (1/32)2 employees employees
Or, a = 1/32 A 1200 1200 × 1200 – 560
5. Answer: (C) (7/15) = 560 = 640
Total Number of Number of B 1640 1640 × 1640 – 779
employees male female (19/40) = = 861
employees employees 779
A 1200 1200 × 1200 – C 1560 1560 × 1560 – 650
(7/15) = 560 = 640 (5/12) = 650 = 910
560 D 1500 1500 × (4/5) 1500 – 1200
B 1640 1640 × 1640 – = 1200 = 300
(19/40) = 779 = 861 Required average = (560 + 779 + 650)/3 = 663
779 8. Answer: (B)
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employees male female Required profit percentage = (40x/140x) × 100

employees employees = 28.57%
A 1200 1200 × 1200 – 560 = 13. Answer: (D)
(7/15) = 560 640 According to the question,
B 1640 1640 × 1640 – 779 = (Difference between S.I. and C.I. for 3 years/
(19/40) = 861 Difference between C.I. and S.I. for 2 years)
779 = 25/8
𝑅𝑅 2 300+𝑅𝑅
C 1560 1560 × 1560 – 650 = 𝑃𝑃(
100
) ×
100 25
(5/12) = 650 910 𝑅𝑅 2
=
𝑃𝑃( ) 8
D 1500 1500 × (4/5) 1500 – 1200 100
Or, {(300 + R)/100} = 25/8
= 1200 = 300
Or, 2400 + 8R = 2500
Required difference = 1640 – (861 + 300) =
Or, 8R = 100
479
Or, R = 12.5
9. Answer: (D)
14. Answer: (B)
Let the incomes of ‘A’ and ‘B’ be ₹7x and ₹5x
Discount percentage = [(1600 – 1126.4)/1600]
Therefore, expenditure of ‘A’ = 0.6 × 7x =
× 100 = 29.6%
₹4.2x
So, x + x + 8 – x(x + 8)/100 = 29.6
Savings of ‘A’ = 7x – 4.2x = 2.8x
Or, 200x + 800 – x2 – 8x = 2960
Therefore, savings of ‘B’ = 2.8x/1.4 = 2x
Or, x2 – 192x + 2160 = 0
Expenditure of ‘B’ = 5x – 2x = ₹3x
Or, x2 – 180x – 12x + 2160 = 0
Required ratio = 4.2x:3x = 7:5
Or, x(x – 180) – 12(x – 180) = 0
10. Answer: (C)
Or, (x – 12)(x – 180) = 0
Number of students in section ‘A’ = (40 + 8)/2
Or, x = 12 or x = 180 {not possible}
= 24
15. Answer: (B)
Number of students in section ‘B’ = 40 – 24 =
Let total amount of work = 560 units (LCM of
16
70, 112 and 80)
Let average score of students in section ‘B’ was
Amount of work done by ‘A’ in one day =
‘x’
560/70 = 8 units
Average score of students in section ‘A’ = 1.2x
Amount of work done by ‘B’ in one day =
So, 24 × 1.2x + 16 × x = 67.2 × 40
560/112 = 5 units
Or, 44.8x = 67.2 × 40
Amount of work done by ‘C’ in one day =
Or, x = 60
560/80 = 7 units
11. Answer: (C)
Amount of work done by ‘A’ and ‘B’ together
Let the total sum divided among ‘P’, ‘Q’ and
in 20 days = 20 × 13 = 260 units
‘R’ be ₹100x
Amount of work done by ‘B’ and ‘C’ together
Therefore, sum received by ‘P’ = ₹30x
in 8 days = 8 × 12 = 96 units
Sum received by ‘Q’ = ₹45x
Remaining work = 560 – 260 – 96 = 204 units
Sum received by ‘R’ = 100x – (45x + 30x) =
Time taken by ‘A’ and ‘C’ together to complete
₹25x
the remaining work = 204/15 = 13.6 days
According to the question,
16. Answer: (B)
30x = 25x + 800
Let speed of train ‘A’ be ‘x’ km/h and time
Or, 5x = 800
taken by it is ‘t + 2.5’ hours.
Or, x = 160
So, speed of train ‘B’ = ‘x + 6’ km/h
Therefore, actual sum received by ‘Q’ = 45x =
And, time taken by train ‘B’ = ‘t’ hours.
₹7200
So, x(t + 2.5) = (x + 6)t
12. Answer: (D)
Or, xt + 2.5x = xt + 6t
Let the cost price of the article be ₹100x
Or, 2.5x = 6t
Therefore, selling price of the article = 1.4 ×
Or, x = 2.4t
100x
So, x(t + 2.5) = 90
= ₹140x
Or, 2.4t × (t + 2.5) = 90
Therefore, profit earned = 140x – 100x = ₹40x
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Or, t2 + 2.5t – 37.5 = 0 Therefore, ∆RNM is similar to ∆RQP by AAA

Or, 10t2 + 25t – 375 = 0 similarity
Or, 2t2 + 5t – 75 = 0 Therefore, ratio of the area of the triangles RQP
Or, 2t2 – 10t + 15t – 75 = 0 and RNM = ratio of the square of the
Or, 2t(t – 5) + 15(t – 5) = 0 corresponding sides
Or, (2t + 15)(t – 5) = 0 Therefore, ratio of the area of triangles RQP
Or, t = 5 and RNM = (12:30)2 = 4:25
So, x = 2.4 × 5 = 12 km/h Therefore, area of the triangle RQP = (18 ×
Desired time = 60/(1.25 × 12) = 4 hours 24)/2 = 216 cm2
17. Answer: (D) Therefore, area of triangle RNM = 216 × (4/25)
Let capacity of the tank = 30 litres (LCM of 15 = 34.56 cm2
and 10) 19. Answer: (B)
Quantity of water filled by cold pipe in one Since, a2 + ab + b2 = 22 …..(1)
minute = 30/15 = 2 litres So, (a2)2 + (ab)2 + (b2)2 = 484
Quantity of water filled by hot pipe in one Or, (a2 + b2)2 – (ab)2 = 484
minute = 30/10 = 3 litres Or, a2 – ab + b2 = 484/22 = 22 …….(2)
Time taken by both pipes to fill the tank = 30/(3 Equation (1) + Equation (2)
+ 2) = 6 minutes So, 2(a2 + b2) = 22 + 22 = 44
Since, both pipes take 4 minutes more to fill the So, a2 + b2 = 22
tank due to the waste pipe opened at the 20. Answer: (A)
bottom. (2sin53o/cos37o) – (cos80o/sin10o)
So, quantity of water emptied by waste pipe in 2sin⁡(90∘ − 37∘ ) cos(90∘ − 10∘ )
6 minutes = 4 × (3 + 2) = 20 litres −{ }
cos 37∘ sin 10∘
Time taken by waste pipe to empty 10 litres of Since, sin(90o – x) = cosx and vice versa
water = 3 minutes Therefore, (2cos37o/cos37o) – (sin10o/sin10o) =
So, total time taken by the waste pipe to empty 2–1=1
the whole tank = 6 + 3 = 9 minutes 21. Answer: (A)
Desired time = 9:29 a.m. Let the two angles of the triangle be 3x and 5x,
18. Answer: (B) respectively
According to the question, Therefore, third angle = 1.25(3x + 5x) = 10x
Therefore, 3x + 5x + 10x = 180o (sum of the
interior angles of a triangle is 180o)
Or, 18x = 180o
Or, x = 10o
Therefore, largest angle = 10x = 100o
22. Answer: (B)
Let radius and height of the cone is ‘3x’ cm and
‘4x’ cm, respectively
So, slant height of the cone = √{(3x)2 + (4x)2}
Using Pythagoras theorem, = 5x cm
PR2 = PQ2 + QR2 So, π × 4x × 5x = 320 π
Or, PR2 = 182 + 242 Or, x2 = 16
Or, PR = √900 = 30 cm Or, x = 4
Let ∠R = x Desired volume = 1/3 × π × 16 × 16 × 12 =
1024π cm3
Therefore, in ∆MNR, ∠MNR = 90o 23. Answer: (C)
o
Hence, ∠NMR = (90 – x) (sum of interiors Let the radius and height of the cylinder be ‘r’
angles of a triangle is 180o) cm and ‘h’ cm, respectively
Similarly, ∠P = (90o – x) Also, QM = MR = According to the question,
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Or, 2h/r = 0.1428 A = opposite letter is Z (26) = 2+6 = 8

Or, r/h ~ 14 N = opposite letter is M (13) = 1+3 = 4
Or, h ~ 2 G = opposite letter is T (20) = 2+0 = 2
24. Answer: (B) E = opposite letter is V (22) = 2+2 = 4
(1 – a2), 2a and (1 + a2) are Pythagorean triplet R = opposite letter is I (9) = 9
Therefore, cosx = b/h = 2a/(1 + a2) Therefore, p So, DANGER is coded as 584249.
= (1 – a2) Therefore, tanx = p/b = (1 – a2)/2a 29. Answer: (C)
25. Answer: (D) 6 + 22 = 10
a3 – 1 = (a – 1)(a2 + 1 + a) 7 + 42 = 23
(a3 – 1) = 0 8 + 62 = 44
Or, a3 = 1 9 + 82 = 73
Or, a = 1 10 + 102 = 110
Therefore, 5a4 + 3a3 – 4a2 + 7 = 5 + 3 – 4 + 7 = 30. Answer: (B)
11 Given series,
rp_qpq_ps_pq_ps_pq
Reasoning Aptitude The complete series must be – r p s q p q / r p
26. Answer: (C) sqpq/ rpsqpq
Given set: So, the letter series (srqrq) is the correct
(313, 322, 340) sequence.
31. Answer: (C)
Given,
So, 313 + 9 = 322 and 322 + 18 = 340. 11 9 17
Now, from the given alternatives only numbers 8 6 5
given in option (c) follows the same pattern i.e., 3 c 2
90 + 9 91 60 a
= 99 + 18 = 117. So, 11 × 8 + 3 = 91
27. Answer: (D) 9 × 6 + c = 60, so c = 6
The pattern here is, 17 × 5 + 2 = 87
Option (a): V + 1 = W; W + 1 = X; X + 2 = Z 32. Answer: (A)
Option (b): J + 1 = K; K + 1 = L; L + 2 = N Given,
Option (c): P + 1 = Q; Q + 1 = R; R + 2 = T 10 G 12 N 96 K 6 D 4
Option (d): B + 1 = C; C + 1 = D; D + 1 = E After placing the signs in place of alphabets we
28. Answer: (C) get,
Given that, 10 – 12 + 96 ÷ 6 × 4
‘CRAMPS’ is coded as ‘698528’ and ‘MINOR’ 10 – 12 + 16 × 4
is coded as ‘59439’. 10 – 12 + 64 = 62
Logic: The place value of the opposite letter of 33. Answer: (C)
the given letters within the word is considered Given word,
and if these place values have 2 digits then the SYCHRONISATION
sum of these 2 digits is considered otherwise From the given options, word ‘ROASTER’
place value of opposite letter is considered as cannot be formed as there is no ‘E’ in the word
the number code. So, the pattern will be: ‘SYCHRONISATION’.
C = opposite letter is X (24) = 2+4 = 6 34. Answer: (B)
R = opposite letter is I (09) = 09 In dictionary order these words can be arranged
A = opposite letter is Z (26) = 2+6 = 8 in following manner:
M = opposite letter is N (14) = 1+4 = 5
P = opposite letter is K (11) = 1+1 = 2 1. Ultimately, 5. Ultraplus, 2. Umpires, 3.
S = opposite letter is H (08) = 8 Unaffected, 6. Unapproved, 4. Unfortunately.
Similarly, DANGER will be coded as, 35. Answer: (C)
D = opposite letter is W (23) = 2+3 = 5 Since, Laptop and Mobile are different entities
of gadgets so, option (a) cannot be our answer.
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Cricket, Hockey and Badminton are different Clues: Box B is just above box F. Box C is just
entities from the each other so, option (b) above box A. Box E is above box D. Box F is
cannot be our answer. three boxes above box D.
Paddy is a crop so, option (d) cannot be our Inference: So, box C is just below box F. And,
answer. box D must be the bottommost box.
So, option (c) i.e., bankers, students, athlete Box Boxes
because some students can be both athlete and Number
bankers and vice versa. 6 E
5 B
4 F
3 C
2 A
1 D
So, box E is the topmost box.
41. Answer: (D)
Following figure can be formed from the
statements.
36. Answer: (A)
Mukul was born on 31st December as he was
born on odd number date after 29.
Number of days between the two dates
29thAugust – 30th December = 3 + 30 + 31+
30 + 31 = 125
Number of odd days = 125/7 = 5 remainder.
So, day on which Rahul’s birthday i.e., =
Saturday + 5 = Thursday.
37. Answer: (A)
The number opposite to 4 is 3.
38. Answer: (A)
From statement I alone, E is taller than B and So, conclusion I, does not follow as some start
C. D is taller than A, who is not shorter than E. can be first and some crust is first is true so,
So, we have, conclusion II and III follow.
D > A > E > B/C > C/B 42. Answer: (B)
From statement II alone, Number of persons
taller than A is equal to number of persons
shorter than B. E is taller than C. So, we cannot
determine the tallest person.
39. Answer: (D)
After checking each of the given options we 43. Answer: (A)
get, Figure:
a. J × X × G – means J is the father of X, who
is the father of G (hence, not valid).
b. J + G × X – means J is the brother of G
(hence not valid)
c. J – G – X – means J is the mother of G
(hence not valid)
d. J × G + X – means J is the father of G, who
is the brother of X (true)
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So, there are minimum 8 lines required to form released on desktop in 2003 with Mac OS X
the figure. Panther, a mobile version has been bundled
44. Answer: (B) with iOS devices since the iPhone's
The passage tells us that there are people who introduction in 2007. Safari is the default
either don’t feel others’ pain or they enjoy browser on Apple devices.
feeling it. 2 follows. It also tells us that humans 52. Answer: (A)
typically do things to get pleasure or avoid A halophyte is a salt-tolerant plant that grows
pain. 3 follows. Thus, (b) is the right answer. in soil or waters of high salinity, coming into
1 is incorrect. The passage does suggest two contact with saline water through its roots or by
reasons why people may want to harm the salt spray.
harmless and does not claim that psychologists 53. Answer: (D)
haven’t been able to explain the phenomenon. The marble cancer refers to the corrosion of
45. Answer: (A) building and statues made up of marbles by
The embedded figure is shown below, action of sulfuric acid and nitric acid. The SO2
and NOx present in pollution get deposited on
these buildings. These oxides absorb moisture
from the air and get converted into respective
acids and cause corrosion.
54. Answer: (D)
During the occurrence of thunder and lightning,
lightning is seen before thunder is heard.
46. Answer: (B) When a lightning bolt travels from the cloud to
As, a week contains 7 days. Similarly, Silver the ground it actually opens up a little hole in
Jubilee contains 25 years. the air, called a channel. Once then light is gone
47. Answer: (B) the air collapses back in and creates a sound
Given, wave that we hear as thunder. The reason we
FLOP : 50 see lightning before we hear thunder is because
As, F (6) + L (12) + O (15) + P (16) = 49 + 1 = light travels faster than sound.
50 55. Answer: (A)
T(20)+ U(21) + R(18) + N(14) = 73 + 1 = 74 The industrial sectors are classified into public
Similarly, and private sectors on the basis of ownership
D (4) + R (18) + A (1) + M (13) + A (1) = 37 + of enterprises.
1 = 38 56. Answer: (B)
48. Answer: (C) Uranus is a real oddball in our solar system. Its
All are flowers except Mango, which is a fruit. spin axis is tilted by a whopping 98 degrees,
49. Answer: (A) meaning it essentially spins on its side. No
Position of letter ‘N’ in every word shifts to the other planet has anywhere near such a tilt.
right. 57. Answer: (B)
50. Answer: (B) However, when the President dies in office and
Given series, Vice President takes over as President, he can
wRPQPQPQPQ, PwRQPQPQPQ, continue serving as the President for a
PQwRPQPQPQ, PQPwRQPQPQ, maximum of 6 months within which a new
PQPQwRPQPQ President shall be elected.
So, shifting of ‘wR’ by one place forward. 58. Answer: (C)
So, the next term must be PQPQPwRQPQ. In 1835, the education policy of Lord Macaulay
was published titled “Minute on Indian
General Studies Education” in which he advocated educating
51. Answer: (B) Indians through English and also enrich
Safari is a graphical web browser developed Indian Languages' so that they become the
by Apple, based on the WebKit engine. First vehicles of European scientific, historical and
literary expression.
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59. Answer: (B)
The tomb of Sher Shah Suri is in the Sasaram
town of Bihar state, India. The tomb was built
in memory of Emperor Sher Shah Suri, a
Pathan from Bihar who defeated the Mughal
Empire and founded the Suri Empire in
northern India.
60. Answer: (D)
Artharvaveda contains mantras on three topics -
gnana (Knowledge), Karma (deeds), and
Upasana (invocation). It is important from the
point of view of knowing the history of science
in India. It is also collection of spells and
charms which are popular among the people.
61. Answer: (D)
The Mayor is the head of the municipal
corporation, but in most states and territories of
India the role is largely ceremonial as executive
powers are vested in the Municipal
Commissioner.
62. Answer: (B)
Sidi Bashir Mosque is a former mosque in the
city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Only the central
gateway and two minarets survive; they are
known as the Jhulta Minar or Shaking
Minarets.
63. Answer: (C)
World Day of Social Justice is observed
annually on February 20. The day creates
awareness against social injustice regarding
gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture or
disability.
64. Answer: (B)
Bagurumba is a folk dance of indigenous Bodo
tribe in Assam and Northeast India. It is a
traditional dance which is traditionally inherent
to one generation to another generations. The
Bodo women perform the Bagurumba dance
with their colourful dokhna, jwmgra and aronai.
65. Answer: (D)
As per the 2011 census, 43.63 percent of
Indians speak Hindi as their mother tongue.
Bengali, with 8.03 percent speakers, is second
in the list, followed by Marathi at 3rd with 6.86
percent speakers, Telugu at 4th with 6.7 percent
speakers and Tamil at 5th with 5.7 percent
speakers.
66. Answer: (A)
Surma River, also called Barak, river in
northeastern India and eastern Bangladesh, 560
miles (900 km) in length. It rises in the
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Manipur Hills in northern Manipur state, India,
where it is called the Barak, and flows west and
then southwest into Mizoram state.
67. Answer: (A)
The first amendment to the Indian
Constitution added the Ninth Schedule to it. It
was introduced to address judicial decisions
and pronouncements especially about the
chapter on fundamental rights.
68. Answer: (A)
The Krishna River conflict between Andhra
Pradesh, Karnataka, and Maharashtra was
resolved by the Brijesh Kumar Tribunal and the
dam was authorized to be raised to the height of
524 meters MSL with nearly 200 TMC gross
storage capacity.
69. Answer: (C)
The 86th amendment to the constitution of India
in 2002, provided Right to Education as a
fundamental right in part-III of the
Constitution. The same amendment inserted
Article 21A which made Right to Education a
fundamental right for children between 6-14
years.
70. Answer: (C)
The Balance of Payment (BOP) consists of
three main accounts: the current account, the
capital account, and the financial
account. The current account is meant to
balance against the sum of the financial and
capital account but rarely does. Globalization in
the late 20th-century led to BOP liberalization
in many emerging market economies.
71. Answer: (D)
To increase their revenue the British decided
that they could use Indian villages to grow
crops like Rice, Wheat, Tea and Jute that were
in demand in Britain. The forced the farmers to
grow Jute in Bengal, Tea in Assam, Sugarcane
in Uttar Pradesh, Wheat in Punjab, Cotton in
Maharashtra & Punjab, and Rice in Madras.
72. Answer: (D)
A modifier key modifies the action of another
key when the keys are pressed at the same time.
Common modifier keys include Shift,
Function, Control, Alt, Command, and
Option.
73. Answer: (A)
Azad Hind Fauj, the army organisations was
founded by Mohan Singh and comprised
Indian prisoners of war in Singapore.
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74. Answer: (A)
In view of efforts to control tobacco consumption
in Jharkhand, the World Health Organization has 80.
selected the state for the 'World No Tobacco Day
Award-2022'. According to the Global Adult
Tobacco Survey (GATS)-1 report in the year
2012, when NTCP was implemented in
Jharkhand, the rate of tobacco consumption in the 81.
state was 51.1 percent in which 48 percent people
used it through non-smoking methods. The
GATS-2 report was published in the year 2018,
according to which the number of tobacco users
in Jharkhand came down to 38.9 percent, out of 82.
which 35.4 percent people used it in non-smoking
ways.
75. Answer: (B)
Gujarat Titans won the title by defeating
Rajasthan Royals in the final of IPL 2022. In this
match, after winning the toss, Rajasthan Royals
scored 130 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs. In
reply, Gujarat Titans achieved the target in 18.1
overs for the loss of 3 wickets. Gujarat captured
the title in the first season itself. Gujarat Titans is
the sixth team to win the Indian Premier League
title.
English Language
76. Answer: (C)
We need a base form verb to fit in the TO + 83.
VERB infinitive construction. DETERMINE
(ascertain) will fit here as the sentence tells us
how the speaker’s goal was the ascertain where
barley was domesticated. Thus, (c) is the right
answer.
Deduct - subtract. Destroy - ruin; spoil. Disturb
cause a commotion.
77. Answer: (B) 84.
We need a verb here to agree with the subject
HOUSES. CONDUCT (carry out) will fit here as
the sentence tells us where the Houses carry out
their business.
Convene - summon. Comply - abide by. Concur -
agree.
78. Answer: (C)
INTREPID means bold or brave, and FEARFUL 85.
is its antonym. Thus, (c) is the right answer.
Profitable - lucrative. Moderate - average.
Incessant - frequent.
79. Answer: (C)
TREACHEROUS means dishonest, and
FORTHRIGHT (reliable; truthful) is its antonym. 86.
Thus, (c) is the right answer.
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Trivial - small; insignificant. Lively - energetic.
Boisterous - rowdy.
Answer: (B)
ABOLISH means to abrogate, and ANNUL is its
synonym. Thus, (b) is the right answer.
Counsel - advise. Pardon - forgive. Flourish -
thrive.
Answer: (B)
PERSIST means to survive, and ENDURE is its
synonym. Thus, (b) is the right answer.
Pervade - spread through an area. Ensure - make
certain about something. Perish - die.
Answer: (C)
The sentence is in active voice and in simple past
tense (TOOK). Follow the rules below to convert
a sentence in the indicative mood to passive
voice:
1. The subject clause will become the object
clause. Here, the subject pronoun I will change to
the object of the verb and assume the object form
ME, and the object A SHOWER will change into
the subject and begin the sentence.
2. Replace TOOK with WAS TAKEN. The
passive voice construction for simple past tense is
"was/ were + past participle".
3. Add the conjunction BY before ME to link the
verb with its object.
Option (c) is the right answer.
Answer: (C)
We need a noun here to be modified by the
definite article THE. APPEAL (attraction) will fit
here as the sentence tells us how the attraction of
Abu Camp was its remoteness in the delta. Thus,
(c) is the right answer.
Applaud - express appreciation for. Avert -
prevent. Attune - become used to.
Answer: (D)
We need a verb here in the present participle form
to link the two clauses together. DEPENDING
(relying) will fit here as the sentence tells us how
the camp was relying on solar panels for
electricity. Thus, (d) is the right answer.
Diverting - causing to change direction. Failing -
not being successful. Changing - modifying.
Answer: (A)
We need an adjective here to modify the noun
VILLAGE. SMALL (tiny) will fit here as the
sentence tells us how the staff quarters were in a
small village. Thus, (a) is the right answer.
Rare - unique. Brave - courageous. Wary - alert.
Answer: (C)
We need an adjective to describe the noun
TOWN. MAIN (primary) will fit here as the
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sentence tells us how Maun was the primary town
in Okavango. Thus, (c) is the right answer.
Firm - strict. Certain - sure. Moral - ethical.
87. Answer: (B)
We need a past tense plural verb to agree with the
plural noun GUESTS and since the sentence is in
past tense. Thus, (b) is the right answer.
WAS and IS are singular verbs. ARE is a plural
verb but in the present tense.
88. Answer: (C)
Option (c) is the right answer.
The sentence is in direct speech and in present
continuous tense. To convert this sentence to the
indirect speech, follow these rules:
1. Remove the comma and the inverted commas.
2. In the quoted part of the speech, change the
second person subjective pronoun YOU to the
third person subjective pronoun HE.
3. Change the reporting verb SAID to TOLD and
begin the indirect speech sentence with the
reporting speech clause HE TOLD HIS SON.
4. Put THAT between the reporting and reported
speeches.
5. Change the present continuous tense of the
verb ARE LOOKING to the past continuous
WAS LOOKING.
89. Answer: (C)
RETROSPECT refers to a backward view into the
past. Thus, (c) is the right answer.
Prospect - likelihood. Retrograde - reverting to an
earlier and inferior condition. Circumspect - wary
and unwilling to take risks.
90. Answer: (B)
A FALLACY refers to a false idea or belief.
Thus, (b) is the right answer.
Farce - a light, humorous play. Felony - a crime.
Expletive - a meaningless word often used to
swear.
91. Answer: (B)
CARRY OUT (execute) will fit here as the
sentence tells us how the town hall was kept as a
base for officers to execute their work. Thus, (b)
is the right answer.
Carry off - to take something away. Carry on -
continue. CARRY ALONG is grammatically
incorrect.
92. Answer: (D)
TURN UP (arrive) will fit here as the sentence
tells us how the referee arrived late. Thus, (d) is
the right answer.
Turn on - switch on. Turn out - result. Turn down
- reject.
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93. Answer: (B)
QRSP is the final order. 1 begins the passage by
introducing the idea that it is not known who built
the site. S follows by telling us who inhabits the
site currently - very few indigenous communities.
R follows by telling us how the other groups have
been forced inland. S follows by telling us how
many indigenous communities earlier occupied
the region. P follows by telling us the languages
spoken by them. 6 concludes by telling us how
these languages are not spoken anymore. Thus,
(b) is the right answer.
94. Answer: (B)
RSQP is the final order. R begins the passage by
introducing the community whose rituals are
being discussed the Ba. It tells us how this
community never buried their dead. S tells us how
they instead transported their dead in a wooden
coffin to a cave. Q follows by telling us why they
did so. P concludes by telling us how these
coffins remain in the cliffs. Thus, (b) is the right
answer.
95. Answer: (B)
The idiom SWING FOR THE FENCES means to
aim for the highest achievement possible. Thus,
(b) is the right answer.
96. Answer: (B)
The idiom IN A NUTSHELL means summarized
in a few words. Thus, (b) is the right answer.
97. Answer: (D)
D is incorrectly spelled. NEGLIGENT (careless)
is the correctly spelled word. Thus, (d) is the right
answer.
Trickery - manipulation. Surrender - the act of
giving up or admitting defeat. Enthusiasm -
eagerness.
98. Answer: (D)
The correct spelling of the word is MEDIOCRE
and it means average in quality. Thus, (d) is the
right answer.
99. Answer: (C)
In C, replace the base form verb FAIL with
FAILED as we need a past participle form of the
verb to fit in the present perfect tense construction
HAVE + VERB. Thus, (c) is the right answer.
100. Answer: (C)
In C, replace the base form verb PLUNDER with
PLUNDERED as we need a verb to be parallel in
form to the verb OCCUPIED. Thus, (c) is the
right answer.
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RRB NTPC Prelims

NTPC Solved Paper

General Studies (D) Lord Wellesley

1. Which state government has recently launched
'Mukhyamantri Mahila Utkarsh Yojana'? 10. Thang Ta folk is a special dance form is of
(A) Maharashtra (B) Rajasthan which state?
(C) Gujarat (D) Punjab (A) Mizoram (B) Nagaland
(C) Meghalaya (D) Manipur
2. Which article of the Indian constitution states
that the Prime Minister shall be 11. Where was the first Buddhist Council held?
appointed by the President of India? (A) Pataliputra (B) Vaishali
(A) Article 74 (B) Article 81 (C) Kashmir (D) Rajgriha
(C) Article 164 (D) Article 75
12. The Slogan ‘Swaraj is my birth right and I shall
3. ‘Uber cup’ is related to which of the following have it’ was given by whom among the
sport? following?
(A) Badminton (B) Basketball (A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(C) Table-tennis (D) Shooting (B) Bhagat Singh
(C) BR Ambedkar
4. ‘Great Indian Bustard Sanctuary ‘is located in? (D) Chandra Shekhar Azad
(A) Madhya Pradesh (B) Kerala
(C) Mizoram (D) Maharashtra 13. What is the capital of Netherlands?
(A) Malahide (B) Amsterdam
5. When is 'World Alzheimer's Day' celebrated (C) Hobart (D) Dublin
every year?
(A) On 21 September (B) On 25 September 14. Who among the following is the chairperson of
(C) On 19 September (D) On 23 September NITI Aayog?
(A) President (B) Vice President
6. Which of the following plant hormone is also (C) Finance Minister (D) Prime Minister
called ‘Flowering Hormone’?
(A) Ethylene (B) Cytokinin 15. Which of the following law states that electric
(C) Florigen (D) Auxin current is proportional to voltage and inversely
proportional to resistance?
7. Decibel unit is related to which of the (A) Ohm’s Law (B) Stefan Law
following? (C) Coulomb’s Law (D) Boyle’s Law
(A) Heat (B) Air
(C) Sound (D) Light 16. Diskit monastery, in Ladakh lies the banks of
which river?
8. ____ is an economic system based on private (A) Nubra River (B) Shyok river
ownership of the means of production and their (C) Indus River (D) Ravi River
operation for profit.
(A) State economy (B) Capital economy 17. Who is the Chief Minister of Meghalaya?
(C) Mixed economy (D) Revenue economy (A) HD Kumaraswamy (B) Neiphiu Rio
(C) PA Sangama (D) Conrad Sangama
9. Which Governor General abolished Sati Pratha
in India? 18. Which of the following statement is/are correct
(A) Lord Cornwallis in relation to Lok Sabha:
(B) Warren Hastings i. President can nominate two members of the
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community is not adequately represented in the 26. The minimum age of joining Atal Pension
House. Yojana is ______ years.
ii. The term of Lok Sabha is for five years. (A) 16 (B) 21
iii. The minimum age for becoming a candidate (C) 40 (D) 18
for Lok Sabha election is 28 years.
(A) only iii (B) Both i and ii 27. Hindenburg Line is the boundary dividing
(C) Both ii and iii (D) All are correct Germany and ________.
(A) Poland (B) France
19. ____ majority refers to the majority of more (C) Spain (D) Portugal
than 50% of the total strength of the house.
(A) Special (B) Effective 28. _______ lake is the first of its kind floating
(C) Absolute (D) Simple elementary school.
(A) Dal (B) Loktak
20. ALU and CU jointly form? (C) Wular (D) Chilika
(A) Monitor (B) UPS
(C) Motherboard (D) CPU 29. Mohenjo-Daro was located on the bank of
which of the following river?
21. Which of the following soil is most suitable for (A) Ravi (B) Indus
production of cotton? (C) Sutlej (D) Narmada
(A) Alluvial soil (B) Black soil
(C) Laterite soil (D) Red soil 30. _______ are tissues in which the cells remain
forever young and divide actively throughout
22. The Sundarbans National Park is located in the life of the plant.
which of the following states? (A) Permanent (B) Mersitematic
(A) Jharkhand (B) Maharashtra (C) Systematic (D) Complex
(C) Madhya Pradesh (D) West Bengal
31. What is the scientific name of Walnut?
23. Who is the current UPSC chairman? (A) Pyrus malus (B) Pisum Sativum
(A) David Reid Syiemlieh (C) Juglans regia (D) Cocos nucifera
(B) Asheem Khurana
(C) Bhim Sain Bassi 32. What was the main goal of the Wahabi
(D) Pradeep Kumar Joshi movement?
(A) Re-establishment of Muslim power in India
24. Which of the following statement is/are true (B) Strengthening Hindu Muslim Unity in India
about magnets? (C) Encourage modern education in India's
i. The magnetic strength is the strongest at the Muslim
poles of the magnet. (D) All of the above
ii. Magnets attract magnetic materials such as
iron, steel, cobalt and nickel. 33. Which of the following is matched correctly?
iii. Unlike poles attract each other and like List- I List- II
poles repel each other. 1. Battle of Khanwa - 1527
(A) Only i (B) Both ii and iii 2. Battle of Chanderi - 1529
(C) Both i and ii (D) All are correct 3. Battle of Kalinjar - 1531
(A) 1 and 2 (B) 2 and 3
25. Article 170 of Indian constitution deals with (C) 1 and 3 (D) 1, 2 and 3
which of the following?
(A) Panchayat (B) Financial Bill 34. India’s growth projected at -4.5% for FY21, by
(C) Legislative Assembly (D) Fundamental RBI, so when was RBI set up?
Duties (A) 1934 (B) 1935
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35. Which of the following region is covered by (A) 1 kg (B) 3kg

tropical evergreen forest? (C) 4kg (D) 2 kg
(A) Eastern Ghat (B) Vindhyanchal
(C) Aravalli (D) Western Ghat 43. Two equal chords intersect each other at right
angle at the circumference of a circle. If length
36. The final boundary between the Earth and the of one of the equal chords is 8√2 cm, then find
outer space is called _____. the radius of the circle.
(A) Magnetosphere (B) Ionosphere (A) 16 cm (B) 8√2 cm
(C) Mesopause (D) Magnetopause (C) 8 cm (D) 16√2 cm

37. Which plateau part does Maharashtra occupied? 44. In the following figure, O is the center of the
(A) Vindhya Range given circle and angle PRX = 45o and angle
(B) Chota Nagpur Plateau QRY = 35o. Find the measure of angle OQP.
(C) Deccan Plateau
(D) Maikal Hills

38. Who among the following is not a member of

any of the two houses of our country?
(A) Prime Minister (B) Finance Minister
(C) President (D) Defense minister

39. Who selects the Social Audit Committee under (A) 15o (B) 10o
MGNREGA scheme? (C) 20o (D) 17o
(A) Chief Minister (B) Gram Sabha
(C) Mayor (D) B.D.O. 45. The difference between the amounts obtained
by investing a sum at compound interest of 8%
40. Which of the following pairs is incorrect? p.a. for two years and the same amount at
I. Gama Rays- 10-14 to 10-10 meter simple interest of 5% p.a. for three years is Rs.
II. X rays - 10-8 to 10-7meter 574. Find the total sum invested in both.
III. Ultraviolet rays- 10-10 to 10-8 meter (A) Rs. 70000 (B) Rs. 42000
(A) Only I (B) Only II (C) Rs. 35000 (D) Rs. 21000
(C) Only I and II (D) Neither I or II
46. If an article is marked up at 25% and then a
discount of 12% is offered, a profit of Rs. 108
Quantitative Aptitude is made. What is the amount of discount
41. After two successive discounts of 10% and offered?
12%, an article is sold for Rs. 6732. What is the (A) Rs. 252 (B) Rs. 162
marked price of the article? (C) Rs. 238 (D) Rs. 324
(A) Rs. 8500 (B) Rs. 8600
(C) Rs. 8400 (D) Rs. 8250 47. A and B together can complete a job in 27 days.
B alone takes 81 days to complete the job. In
42. The weight of seven packets of wheat flour, how many days shall A take, if he has to
nine packets of corn flour and four packets of complete the job all alone?
cereal flour is 11.8 kg. The weight of six (A) 29 days (B) 54 days
packets of wheat flour, five packets of corn (C) 40.5 days (D) 48 days
flour and three packets of cereal flour is 8.6 kg.
The weight of one packet of wheat flour, eight 48. A toy which is in the form of hemispheres
packets of corn flour and two packets of cereal mounted on both ends of a hollow cylinder
flour is 5.8 kg. What is the sum of weight of such that their bases coincide. If the length of
one packet of wheat flour, one packet of corn the toy is 20 cm and the total curved surface
flour and one packet of cereal flour?
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area of the toy is 572 cm2, then find the height of 45 minutes less than 20 hours, then find his
of the cylinder. initial speed.
(A) 8.8 cm (B) 10.9 cm (A) 30 km/hr (B) 45 km/hr
(C) 9.1 cm (D) 9 cm (C) 25 km/hr (D) 50 km/hr

49. Find the area of a sector of a circle of radius 14 55. If (p – q) = 8, then what is the value of q3 - p3 +
cm with central angle 45o. 24pq?
(A) 77 cm2 (B) 11 cm2 (A) 729 (B) 512
(C) 44 cm 2
(D) 84 cm2 (C) -512 (D) -343

50. The ratio of present ages of Salma and Shipra is 56. A point M, lying on the line joining the centers
8:9 respectively. If the sum of their ages after 7 of two circles of different radii, is distant from
years shall become 116 years, what are their their circumferences by 3 cm and 4 cm. The
present ages? transverse common tangents of the two circles
(A) 24 years and 27 years passing through point M intersect each other at
(B) 40 years and 45 years 90o. Find the length of the transverse tangent.
(C) 56 years and 63 years (A) 7(√2 + 1)
(D) 48 years and 54 years (B) 7(√2 – 1)
(C) 105 (√2 -1)
51. Sushil had certain number of toffees. He gave (D) Can’t be determined
one more than half of his toffees to his first
friend. He then gave one more than half of the 57. A work was assigned to me, my sister and my
remaining toffees to his second friend and then brother. I did 10% of the work, my sister did
gave one more than half of the remaining 20% of the remaining work and then my
toffees to his third friend. If he still has thirteen brother did 25% of the still remaining. What
toffees left with him, find the total number of percentage of the work is yet to be completed?
toffees he had initially. (A) 45% (B) 54%
(A) 126 (B) 118 (C) 48% (D) 55%
(C) 124 (D) 132
58. A number when divided by 114 leaves
52. By investing a certain amount at simple interest remainder 39. When the same number is
of 6% for two years, Ram got Rs. 79520. What divided by 19, what shall be the remainder?
more/less would he have got if he had invested (A) 1 (B) 2
the same sum at 5% p.a. compound interest for (C) 3 (D) 4
the same period?
(A) Rs. 1242.50 less (B) Rs. 1040 more 59. Compute the value of (cot 15o + cot 75o)/ (1 –
(C) Rs. 1242.50 more (D) Rs. 784. 50 less cot 15o× cot 75o).
(A) 0 (B) 1
53. A product is listed for Rs. 1620 in the market. (C) 2 (D) Not defined
If the product is marked up at 66.67% and the
profit percentage earned on selling it is 37.5%, 60. What is the simplified value for {(1 – sin
then what is the selling price of the product? 2x)/(sin x – cos x)} – {(1 + sin 2x)/(sin x + cos
(A) Rs. 1565 (B) Rs. 1336.50 x)}.
(C) Rs. 1452 (D) Rs. 1425.5 (A) sin x (B) cos x
(C) -2cos x (D) -2sin x
54. A man has to cover a total distance of 900km.
He plans to cover the entire distance in four 61. If a + (1 / a) = 8, find the value of a3 + (1 / a3).
equal parts. If he increases his speed by 15 (A) 488 (B) 288
km/hr in each part with respect to the previous (C) 512 (D) 496
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Directions (62-65): Answer the questions based on the (A) 45 (B) 41

information given below. (C) 49 (D) 51
The following table shows the family incomes
and family expenditures of six different 69. The radius of a circle is increased by 2.5%.
families i.e. A, B, C, D, E and F for the year How much doses the area of the circle
2017. (Assume negative savings for the year if increase?
expenditure > income implying previous (A) 05.0625 (B) 162 (C) 196 (D) 195
savings have been utilized).
70 Find the value of 3025  4225  6525
(A) 175 (B) 162 (C) 196 (D) 195

Reasoning Aptitude
71. In the following question, select the odd word
pair from the given alternatives.
(A) Red : Violet (B) Yellow : Violet
(C) Blue : Green (D) Red : Orange
62. Which family had the highest amount of 72. Find the odd letters from the given alternatives.
savings for the year 2017? (A) RMHC (B) TOJE
(A) A (B) B (C) JPUZ (D) VQLG
(C) C (D) D
73. Find the odd number pair from the given
63. What is the difference between average income alternatives.
and average expenditure of all six persons? (A) 72, 64 (B) 46, 58
(A) Rs. 1066.67 (B) Rs. 1211.11 (C) 44, 66 (D) 60, 76
(C) Rs. 1350 (D) Rs. 999.99
74. Arrange the following words as per reverse
64. Which family had the third highest proportion dictionary order.
of its income as savings? 1. Recent 2. Recall
(A) A (B) D 3. Record 4. Regime
(C) E (D) B (A) 4, 3, 1, 2 (B) 4, 1, 3, 2
(C) 2, 1, 3, 4 (D) 3, 1, 2, 4
65. Which family had the least proportion of its
income as expenditure? Directions (75-77): In the following question, select
(A) B (B) C the related word from the given alternatives.
(C) D (D) E
75. Usual : Strange :: Silent : ?
66. The sum of the (9 + 0.6 + 0.06 + 0.007 + (A) Loquacious (B) Inaudible
0.0006 ) is (C) Tranquil (D) Serene
(A) 9.6676 (B) 9.0676
(C) 9.6666 (D) 9.5676 76. HDFB : WSUQ :: JECK : ?
(A) TRYZ (B) YRTZ
67. The ratio of 252.5 : 52 is same as (C) YTRZ (D) YRZT
(A) 105:1 (B) 125:1
(C) 125:7 (D) 125:3 77. 215 : 342 :: 728 : ?
(A) 989 (B) 859
68. The average of six numbers is 42. If each of the (C) 987 (D) 999
first three numbers is increased by 3 and each
of the remining three numbers is decreased by
5, then the new average
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Directions (78-79): A series is given, with one term 86. Select the missing number from the given
missing. Choose the correct alternative from the responses.
given ones that will complete the series.

78. 4, 23, 122, 621, ?

(A) 1874 (B) 3120
(C) 3624 (D) 3125 (A) 14 (B) 21
(C) 26 (D) 29
79. Castle, Length, Threat, Attire, ?
(A) Rescue (B) Range 87. From the given options, which figure can be
(C) Easter (D) Eagle formed by folding the figure given in the
question?
80. From the given alternative words, select the
word which cannot be formed using the letters
of the given word:
AMALGAMATIONS
(A) AMMONIA (B) MAILMAN
(C) ANIMALS (D) STALE

81. If ADVICE is written as DAYFFB, then how

will MODULE be written as?
(A) PRGXOH (B) PLGROB (A) (B)
(C) JLARIB (D) BORGLP

82. You are required to choose that alternative

whose constituents when taken in the same (C) (D)
sequence shall fill the equation correctly.
_+_÷_×_-_=_ 88. Atif starts walking from his home towards the
(A) 14, 15, 3, 4, 6, 30 (B) 5, 18, 4, 6, 7, 25 temple which is 35 m to the south. From there
(C) 7, 14, 2, 1, 6, 10 (D) 5, 20, 10, 4, 7, 12 he turns right and walks for 12 m to reach his
school. What is the shortest distance between
83. If 18 & 48 = 144 and 27 & 60 = 540, then what his home and school?
is the value of 24 & 44? (A) 47 m (B) 35 m
(A) 264 (B) 312 (C) 12 m (D) 37 m
(C) 528 (D) 294
89. If a mirror is placed on the line PQ, then which
84. Introducing a boy, a lady said, “He is the of the answer figure is the right image of the
grandson of the father of the husband of my given figure?
sister-in-law.” If the lady’s spouse has no sister,
how does the lady relate herself with the
introduced boy?
(A) Paternal aunt (B) Maternal aunt
(C) Cousin (D) Nephew

85. The age of Prachi is twice of that of Arun. If

Shweta, who is 36 years old, is as much elder to
Arun as she is younger to Prachi, the find the
age of the eldest amongst the three.
(A) 28 years (B) 36 years
(C) 48 years (D) 54 years
(A) (B)
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(C) (D)

90. In the following question below are given some

statements followed by some conclusions.
Taking the given statements to be true even if
they seem to be at variance from commonly
known facts, read all the conclusions and then
decide which of the given conclusion logically (A) (B)
follows the given statements.
Statements: I. Some reptiles are snakes.
II. All turtles are reptiles.
Conclusions: I. No snake is a turtle is a
possibility.
II. All snakes are turtles. (C) (D)
(A) Only conclusion (I) follows.
(B) Only conclusion (II) follows. 93. How many triangles are there in the given
(C) Neither conclusion (I) nor conclusion (II) figure?
follows.
(D) Both conclusions (I) and (II) follows.
91. A piece of paper is folded and punched as
shown below in the question figures. From the
given answer figures, indicate how it will
appear when opened.
(A) 20 (B) 24
(C) 22 (D) 18

94. From the given answer figures, select the one in

which the question figure is hidden/embedded.

(A) (B)

(C) (D) (A) (B)

92. Which answer figure will complete the pattern

in the question figure?

(C) (D)

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95. A word is represented by only one set of Kudankulam, Tarapur, Narora

numbers as given in any one of the alternatives. (A) They are steel plants.
The sets of numbers given in the alternatives (B) They are coal mines.
are represented by two classes of alphabets as (C) They are ports.
shown in the given two matrices. The columns (D) They are nuclear power plants
and rows of Matrix I are numbered from 0 to 4
and that of Matrix II are numbered from 5 to 9. 98. Find the water image of the following image?
A letter from these matrices can be represented
first by its row and next by its column, for
example, 'T' can be represented by 31, etc., and
'K’ can be represented by 30, etc. Similarly you
have to identify the set for the word
'AVENUE'.
Matrix I
(A) (B)

(C) (D)
Matrix II
99. Find the missing alphanumeric term in the
series?
A/25 , C/21, E/17 , G/13 , I /9,?
(A) L/6 (B) K/5
(C) K/11 (D) M/7

100. Select the most appropriate alternative as the

(A) 22, 11, 20, 24, 03, 21 answer
(B) 67, 87, 79, 06, 96, 79 Your best friend has not came to your marriage
(C) 67, 11, 79, 24, 96, 79 ceremony. What will you do? You will
(D) 22, 17, 20, 24, 04, 20 (A) Hold it against him.
(B) You will not attend the his marriage
96. If A+B means ‘A is son of B’, A − B means ‘A ceremony
is wife of B’, A ÷ B means ‘A is mother of B’ (C) Ask him the reason and try to understand
then what does M + N − O mean? the situation
(A) O is son of M (B) O is brother of M (D) Ignore the whole affair
(C) O is father of M (D) O is Mother of M

97. Find the similarity of the following

Solution

General Studies appointed by the President on the advice of

Ans.1(C) The Government of Gujarat State has Ans.3(A)
launched the "Mukhyamantri Mahila Ans.4(D)
Utkarsh Yojana".
Ans.2(D) Article 75 states that the Prime Minister
shall be appointed by the President of India
while the other ministers shall be
the Prime minister.
Great Indian bustard sanctuary was
established in 1979. It is wildlife sanctuary
for the great Indian bustard at Solapur,
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India where great Indian bustard is still
seen.
Ans.5(A) World Alzheimer's Day is celebrated every
year on September 21 to spread awareness
about Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
Ans.6(C) Florigen (or flowering hormone) is the
hypothesized hormone-like molecule
responsible for controlling and/or
triggering flowering in plants.
Ans.7(C) Decibel, (dB) is the unit for expressing the
ratio between two amounts of electric or
acoustic power or for measuring the
relative loudness of sounds.
Ans.8(B) A Capitalist economic system is one
characterized by free markets and the
absence of government intervention in
the economy.
Ans.9(C) The Bengal Sati Regulation which banned
the Sati practice in all jurisdictions of
British India was passed on December 4,
1829 by the then Governor-General
Lord William Bentinck.
Ans.10(D) Thang Ta - is an ancient Manipuri Martial
Art developed from the war
environment of Manipur
Ans.11(D) According to the scriptures of all Buddhist
schools, the first Buddhist Council was
held soon after the death of the Buddha,
dated by the majority of recent scholars
around 400 BCE, under the patronage of
king Ajatashatru with the monk
Mahakasyapa presiding, at Sattapanni
caves Rajgriha (now Rajgir).
Ans.12(A) Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was one
of the first and strongest advocates of
Swaraj (self- rule) and a strong radical in
Indian consciousness. His famous
quote, “Swaraj is my birth right, and I
shall have it!” is well remembered in
Indian.
Ans.13(B) Amsterdam is the Netherlands’ capital,
known for its artistic heritage, elaborate
canal system and narrow houses with
gabled facades, legacies of the city’s 17th-
century Golden Age.
Ans.14(D) The Prime Minister serves as the Ex-
officio chairman of NITI Aayog.
Ans.15(A) Ohm’s Law deals with the relationship
between voltage and current in an ideal
conductor. This relationship states that:
The potential difference (voltage) across
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an ideal conductor is proportional to the
current through it. The constant of
proportionality is called the “resistance”,
R. Ohm’s Law is given by: V = I R where
V is the potential difference between two
points which include a resistance R. I is
the current flowing through the
resistance.
Ans.16(B) Close to the oldest monastery of Nubra
valley in Ladakh, Diskit monastery, lies
the impressive statue of Jampa Buddha.
Along the other attractions of Nubra, this
mighty Buddha statue surmounted on top
of a monastery, is one of the prime and is
deeply appreciated for its architecture.
Facing the Shyok river, the statue sits
tall with a height of 32 meters and was
constructed with the help of the natives of
the valley.
Ans.17(D) Conrad Kongkal Sangma is the 12th and
current Chief Minister of the State of
Meghalaya.
Ans.18(B) Minimum age for becoming a candidate
for Lok Sabha election is 25 years.
Ans.19(C) It refers to a majority of more than 50% of
the total membership of the house. For
example, as the total membership of Lok
Sabha is 545, absolute majority in Lok
Sabha means – 50% of 545 plus 1, i.e.
273.
Ans.20(D) A typical CPU has a number of
components. The first is the arithmetic
logic unit (ALU), which performs simple
arithmetic and logical operations. Second
is the control unit (CU), which manages
the various components of the computer.
Ans.21(B) Loamy soil mixed with lime and potash is
good for cotton. Cotton grows well in
Black Cotton Soil which is sticky in
nature and has water retentive capacity.
Ans.22(D) The Sundarbans National Park is a
National Park, Tiger Reserve, and a
Biosphere Reserve in West Bengal, India.
It is part of the Sundarbans on the Ganges
Delta, and adjacent to the Sundarbans
Reserve Forest in Bangladesh.
Ans.23(D) Professor Pradeep Kumar Joshi has been
appointed the new chairman of UPSC.
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Ans.24(D) Properties of Magnets: 1. Magnets attract
ferromagnetic objects. 2. The magnetic
field at the poles of a magnet is greater
than at the middle of magnet. 3. The like
poles of magnet repel each other while the
opposite poles attract each other. 4. The
magnet has a property that when it is
suspended freely it’s South Pole and
North Pole moves to the earth’s North and
South Pole, respectively.
Ans.25(C) Article 170 in The Indian Constitution
deals with the composition of the
Legislative Assemblies.
Ans.26(D) Atal Pension Yojana (APY) is open to all
bank account holders who are not
members of any statutory social
security scheme. Age of joining and
contribution period: The minimum age of
joining APY is 18 years and maximum age
is 40 years.
Ans.27(A) Hindenburg Line is the boundary dividing
Germany and Poland. The Germans
retreated to this line in 1917 during
World War I
Ans.28(B) Manipur is now home to a unique school
that will be seen floating on the largest
freshwater lake in the northeast, the
Loktak Lake.
Ans.29(B) Mohenjo-Daro is probably the best-known
Indus site. Mohenjo-Daro is in Sindh,
Pakistan, next to the Indus River, not far
from the very early human flint mining
quarries at Rohri.
Ans.30(B) Meristematic tissue is group of immature
cells that has capacity of division and
redivision.
Ans.31(C) Juglans regia
Ans.32(A) Re-establishment of Muslim power in Indi
Ans.33(C)
Ans.34(B) The RBI carries out India's monetary
policy and exercises supervision and
control over banks and non-banking
finance companies in India. RBI was set up
in 1935 under the Reserve Bank of India
Act,1934.
Ans.35(D) Western Ghat
Ans.36(D) Magnetopause
Ans.37(C) Maharashtra is a state in the western
peninsular region of India occupying a
substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.
Maharashtra is the second-most populous
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India.
Ans.38(C) Presiden
Ans.39(B) Gram Sabha
Ans.40(D) Neither 1 nor 2
Quantitative Aptitude
Ans.41(A) The effective discount on giving
successive discounts of 10% and 12%
can be calculated as-
10 + 12 – (10 x 12)/100 = 20.80%
Let the marked price of the article be Rs.
‘x’.
0.792x = 6732
x = Rs. 8500
So, the marked price of the article is Rs.
8500.
Ans.42(D) Let the weight of one packet of wheat
flour, one packet of corn flour and one
packet of cereal flour be ‘x’ kg, ‘y’ kg and
‘z’ kg, respectively.
According to question,
7x + 9y + 4z = 11.8 ----(1)
6x + 5y + 3z = 8.6 ------(2)
x + 8y + 2z = 5.8 ----(3)
On solving the above equations, we get
x = 0.6, y = 0.4 and z = 1.
Therefore, the weight of one packet of
wheat flour, one packet of corn flour and
one packet of cereal flour = 1 × 0.6 + 1
× 0.4 + 1 × 1 = 2kg.
Ans.43(C) Let the diameter of the circle be ‘d’ cm.
Since two equal chords intersect each other
at right angle at the circumference of the
circle, there shall be a circum-circle around
a right angled triangle whose
hypotenuse shall be the diameter of the
circle.
Since the chords are equal, the other two
angles measure 450 each (angle sum
property) and thus,
Sin (450) = 8√2/d
1 / √2 = 8√2/d
d = 8√2 × √2 = 16 cm
So, diameter of the circle = 16 cm
So, Radius of the circle = 8 cm
Ans.44(B) Angle PRX + Angle PRQ + Angle QRY
= 1800 (Linear angles)
450+ Angle PRQ + 350 = 1800
Angle PRQ = 1000
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segment of the circle = 1800 – 1000 = 800
Then, angle POQ = 1600.
Then, angle OPQ + angle OQP + angle
POQ
= 1800 (Angle sum property).
Since, OP and OQ are the radii of the same
circle,
Angle OPQ = Angle OQP = 100.
Ans.45(A) Let the principal amount deposited on one
be Rs. ‘P’.
According to question,
(P × (1 + (R/100))t) – (P + ((P × r × t) /
100))
= 574
(P × (1.08)2) –(P + (P × 0.05 × 3)) = 574
On solving the above equation, we get P
= Rs. 35000.
Total sum invested in both
= 2 × 35000 = Rs. 70000.
Ans.46(B) Let the cost price of the article be Rs. ‘P’.
Mark-up price = 1.25× P
When discount of 12% is offered,
Discount = (0.12) × (1.25P) -----(1)
Selling price of the article = (0.88)×
(1.25P)
Profit = Selling price – Cost price
108 = (0.88) × (1.25P) – P
On solving the above equation, we get-
P = Rs. 1080
Thus, discount offered = (0.12) × (1.25P)
= (0.12) × (1.25 × 1080) = Rs. 162
Ans.47(C) (1 / A) + (1 / B) = 1 / 27
(1 / A) + (1 / 81) = 1 / 27
(1 / A) = 2 / 81
A = 81 / 2
Thus, A alone can complete the job in 40.5
days.
Ans.48(B) Let the radius of the cylinder (or
hemisphere) be ‘r’ cm and the height of
the cylinder be ‘h’ cm.
Then, 2r + h = 20
h = 20 – 2r.
Also, Total CSA of the toy = 572 cm2
2 × π × r2 + 2 × π × r × h + 2 × π × r2 = 572
4 × π × r2 + 2 × π × r × (20 – 2r) = 572
4 × π × r2 + 40 × π × r – 4 × π × r2 = 572
r = 4.55 cm
Thus, height of the cylinder
= 20 – 2 × 4.55 = 10.9 cm
Ans.49(A) Required area of the sector
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= (π × (14)2× 450) / 3600
= 77 cm2
Ans.50(D) Let the present ages of Salma and Shipra
be ‘8x’ and ‘9x’ years, respectively.
According to question,
8x + 7 + 9x + 7 = 116
Thus, x = 6 years
So, present age of Salma = 8 × 6 = 48
years
Present age of Shipra = 9 × 6 = 54 years
Ans.51(B) Let the number of toffees Sushil initially
hadbe ‘t’.
Then, (1 / 2) × ((1 / 2) × ((t / 2) – 1) – 1) –
1 = 13
On solving the above equation, we get t =
118
Ans.52(A) Let the principal amount invested be Rs.
‘P’.
P + (P ×0.06 × 2) = 79520
Thus, P = Rs. 71000
If he had invested the same corpus at
compound interest of 5% p.a. for two
years, he would have got-
71000 × (1 + 0.05)2 = Rs. 78277.50
Thus, he would have got Rs. 1242.50 less.
Ans.53(B) Since, the product is marked up at 66.67%
or is 5/3 times of the cost price.
Cost price of the product
= (3 / 5) × 1620 = Rs. 972
Since, profit percentage earned = 37.5%,
Selling price of the product
= 1.375 × 972 = Rs. 1336.50
Ans.54(A) Let the initial speed be ‘x’ km/hr.
Distance to cover in each of the four parts
= 900/4 = 225 km
Then, (225/x) + (225/(x + 15)) + (225/(x +
30)) + (225/(x + 45)) = 19.25
On solving the above equation, we get
x = 30
So, the required initial speed is 30 km/hr.
Ans.55(C) p3 – q3 = (p – q)3 + 3pq × (p – q)
p3 – q3 = 83 + 3pq × 8
p3 – q3 – 24pq = 512
q3 – p3 + 24pq = -512
Ans.56(A)
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∠AMD = 90°; ∠AMO = ∠AOM = 45° Ans.63(A) Average income - Average expenditure
Then, sin45° = 1/√2 = AO/ (OR + RM) = Average savings
(OR + RM)/AO = √2 Average savings
OR/AO + RM/AO = √2 = (900 + 1500 + 1450 + 2250 + 700+ (-
1 + 3/AO = √2 (since OR = OA = Radius) 400)) / 6
Thus, CP = 4/(√2 – 1) = Rs. 1066.67
Thus, distance between their centers Ans.64(C) Family E had the third highest proportion
= OR + RM + Qm + PQ = 3/ (√2 – 1) + 3 of its income as savings.
+ 4 + 4/(√2 – 1) = 14 + 7√2 Ans.65(C) Family D had the least proportion of its
Length of the transverse tangent income as expenditure.
= √[𝑑𝑑 2 − (𝑟𝑟1 + 𝑟𝑟2 )2 Ans.66(A) (9 + 0.6 + 0.06 + 0.007 + 0.0006)=9.6676
= 7(√2 +1) Ans.67(B) 252.5 : 52
Ans.57(D) 52×2.5 : 52
Ans.58(A) Let N be the number and Q be the quotient 55:52 = 125:1
when the number is divided by 114. Ans.68(B) Sum of the numbers = 42×6= 252
N = 114Q + 39 ATQ
= 19 × 2 × 3 × Q + 19 × 2 + 1 3×3-3×5=9-15= - 6
= 38 × (3Q + 1) + 1 Now
When 38 × Q1 + 38 + 1 is divided by 19, (252-6) /6 =41
the remainder will be 1. Ans.69(A) Effect on area
Ans.59(D) (cot 15 + cot 75 )/ (1 – cot 15 × cot 75 )
0 0 0 0
2.5+.25+ 2.5  2.5 = 5+0.0625 = 05.0625
- {(cot 15 + cot 75 )/ (cot 15 × cot 75 –
0 0 0 0 100
1)} Ans.70(D) 3025  4225  6525 =55+65+75=195
-1 /(cot (750 + 150))
-1/cot 900, which is not defined. Reasoning Aptitude
Ans.60(C) {(1 – sin 2x)/(sin x – cos x)} – {(1 + sin Ans.71(B) In all the given pairs except option (b),
2x)/(sin x + cos x)} first is a primary color used to make the
{(sin2x + cos2x – 2sin x cos x)/(sin x – cos secondary color given second.
x)} – {(sin2x + cos2x + 2 sin x cos x)/(sin Ans.72(C) The sequence of letters in option (a) can be
x + cos x)} observed as follows-
(sin x – cos x)2/(sin x – cos x)} – (sin x + 18 (R) – 5 =13 (M)
cos x)2/(sin x + cos x)} 13 (M) – 5 = 8 (H)
(sin x – cos x) – (sin x + cos x) 8 (H) – 5 = 3 (C)
- 2cos x This pattern is followed in option (b) as
Ans.61(A) (a + (1 / a))3 = a3 + (1 / a3) + 3 × a × (1 / well as in option (d).
a)× (a + (1 / a)) Ans.73(C) 72 – 64 = 8 (multiple of 4)
83 = a3 + (1 / a3) + 3 × 1 × 8 58 – 46 = 12 (multiple of 4)
a3 + (1 / a3) = 512 – 24 = 488 66 – 44 = 22 (Not a multiple of 4)
Ans.(62-65): 76 – 60 = 16 (multiple of 4)
Ans.74(A) The given words will be arranged as
follows as per reverse dictionary order-
4. Regime 3. Record 1. Recent 2.
Recall
Ans.75(A) As strange is the antonym of usual,
loquacious is the antonym of silent.
Ans.76(C) 8 (H) + 15 = 23 (W)
4 (D) + 15 = 19 (S)
6 (F) + 15 = 21 (U)
Ans.62(D) Family D had the highest amount of 2 (B) + 15 = 17 (Q)
savings in the year 2017. Thus, HDFB : WSUQ.

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Similarly, As Shweta, who is 36 years old, is as much

10 (J) + 15 = 25 (Y) elder to Arun as she is younger to Prachi,
5 (E) + 15 = 20 (T) (x + 2x)/2 = 36
3 (C) + 15 = 18 (R) (3x)/2 = 36
11(K) + 15 = 26 (Z) 3x = 72
So, JECK : YTRZ. x = 24
Ans.77(D) 63 – 1 = 215 Thus, ages of Arun and Prachi are 24 years
73 – 1 = 342 and 48 years, respectively.
93 – 1 = 728 Ans.86(A) H.C.F. of 84 and 105 is 21
103 – 1 = 999 H.C.F. of 145 and 232 = 29
Ans.78(B) The given series follows the pattern- Similarly, H.C.F. of 280 and 126 = 14
51 – 1 = 4, Ans.87(A)
52 – 2 = 23,
53 – 3 = 122,
54 – 4 = 621,
Ans.79(A) The given series can be analyzed as
Ans.88(D)
follows-
Cast (le), (Le) ng (th), (Th) re (at), (At) ti
(re), (Re) scue
Ans.80(D) The word “STALE” cannot be formed
using the letters of the given word.
Ans.81(B)
Shortest Distance from home to school
= √352 + 122 = 37 𝑚𝑚
Ans.89(D)

Ans.90(A)

Ans.82(B) Only constituents of the second alternative

when taken in the same sequence shall fill
the equation correctly as follows:
5 + 18 ÷ 4 × 6 – 7 = 25
Ans.83(A) LCM of 18 and 48 = 144 Ans.91(A)
LCM of 27 and 60 = 540
Similarly,
LCM of 24 and 44 = 264
Ans.84(A) The husband of the sister-in-law of the
lady is the brother of the lady whose
father will also be the father of the lady. Ans.92(D)
Thus, the boy introduced, who is the
grandson of the lady’s father, is the
nephew of the lady.
Ans.85(C) Let, the age of Arun be ‘x’ years.
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E can be coded as 20, 79.

Ans.93(B) Ans.96(C)

Ans.97(D) Kudankulam , Tarapur , Narora are the

name of nuclear power plant in India.
Ans.98(A)
Triangle in the above section of the picture
= HEG, JKP, JLK, JLP, EGF, ACD, ABC,
ABD, IEF, QMO, QMN, QON
The bottom part is the same as above, so
the total number of triangles = 24
Ans.94(A)
Ans.99(B)

Ans.100(C) The best thing to do in this situation is to

ask him the reason why did he not come to
Ans.95(C) From matrices 1 and 2, marriage. May be there is some issue
A can be coded as 22, 67; which is more important and understand
V can be coded as 11, 87; the situation.
E can be coded as 20, 79;
N can be coded as 24, 58;
U can be coded as 03, 96;

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