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MONTH own life as part of a deadly online social media game called The Blue Whale challenge, has raised many questions.  Why are teenagers drawn to such a game that allegedly goads players into committing suicide? How does one identify those who are most vulnerable to the vicious designs of the game? And what roles can teachers and parents play in 1. THE GAME ON : preventing such tragedies?  Even as Mumbai police investigates Manpreet’s death on July 30 and its link to the game, it has BLUE WHALE reportedly claimed the lives of over 130 boys and girls across the world so far. The challenge has CHALLENGE reportedly spread to countries including Spain, Portugal, Ukraine, Britain and France, according to The Telegraph. Amidst growing panic about the penetration of the game, there have been reports of teens committing suicide in the USA as part of the challenge.  The Blue Whale challenge, reportedly created by a former convict in Russia, is said to psychologically provoke players to indulge in daring, self- destructive tasks for 50 days before finally taking the “winning” step of killing themselves — and each task must be filmed and shared as “proof”. The Blue Whale challenge is an alleged ‘internet/social media  According to experts, teenagers are more vulnerable game’ wherein the participants are given a series of tasks to because the virtual world allows them to act freely complete over a period of time. The alleged final task is — without the restrictions prevalent in the real suicide. The game which is seemingly prevalent in many parts world — which seems to give them an adrenaline of the world is said to have originated from Russia. boost. The game asks its participants to perform 50 tasks, starting  Teenagers generally take these risks because they from mundane ones and culminating in taking one’s life. The are vulnerable and prone to seek validation. Also, it participants are told to record all their tasks, which include makes them feel like they are a part of something waking up at odd hours, inflicting harm on one’s body, that is bigger than them. listening to psychedelic rock and so on. There is still no  It has been observed that some teenagers have very clarity as to how participants ‘play this game’. While some low self-esteem, and rely significantly on peer say it might be an app, there are rumours that it can be done approval. For them, the external environment via social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram etc. The becomes a source of inspiration, which is why they game also allegedly involves carving out shapes on one’s are willing to do anything to (project) a certain skin and other forms of self-mutilation. image.  The death of 14-year old Mumbai schoolboy Manpreet Singh Sahani, who reportedly took his

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 According to a report in The Sun on July 31, the providing psychological and emotional support in game has been linked to the deaths of around 130 a non-judgemental way will go a long way in helping teenagers across Russia alone. them get out of it.  During the course of the game, the participants could be asked to watch horror and psychic movies, cut their hands with blades and needles. 2. NATIONAL SPORTS  People who are drawn to play such games may themselves be going through psychological issues like lack of focus, interest, feeling inadequate or AWARDS - 2017 incompetent.  Such individuals are lured towards challenges which give them a sense of purpose while defying the socially accepted norms which they may have failed.  The victims may have got involved with the game out of curiosity, but find themselves being psychologically manipulated into continuing with the tasks, according to the experts.  Unable to recognise the harm it was causing, or scared to share the details of such games, either On August 22, Government of India announced the National due to fear of judgment or lack of support, the Sports Award list including Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, victims could become easy targets for continuing Dronacharya Award, Arjuna Award and Dhyan Chand Award. the process. The awards will recognise and reward excellence in sports. A  According to media reports, 22-year-old Philipp total of 29 players have been selected to receive the honours Budeikin — who is believed to be the creator of the from President Ram Nath Kovind at a specially organised deadly game — said in an interview in St Petersburg function at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on August 29, 2017. that his purpose was to cleanse society by A large number of nominations were received for National provoking people who think they are not worthy of Sports Awards-2017 this year, which were considered by the being alive to commit suicide. selection committees consisting of former Olympian, Arjuna  Developers of such games are well aware of the Awardees, Dronacharya Awardees, Dhyan Chand Awardees, vulnerabilities of the teenagers and know that they Sport Journalists/ Experts/ Commentators and sports succumb to peer pressure easily. They are also well administrators. aware of the fact that teenagers nowadays are The selection committee for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award finding themselves unhappy, directionless and and Arjuna Awards was headed by Justice C K Thakkar. The lacking goals. selection committee for Dronacharya Awards and Dhyan  In order to understand what their child is going Chand Awards was headed by Pullela Gopichand. through, parents and schools have a vital role to More about the National Sports Awards: play. They need to spend more time with kids and  Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is given for keep an eye of their routine. outstanding performance in the field of sports by a  If the teenagers are seemingly lost, lonely and sportsperson over a period of four year depressed, parents and school managements must  Arjuna Award is for consistency outstanding take serious and immediate action to get them performance for four years involved socially in the real world and divert their  Dronacharya Award is for coaches for producing mind by providing activities or giving them medal winners at International sports events something new to learn.  Dhyan Chand Award is for lifetime contribution to  The internet is an uncontrolled and uncensored sports development entity, which makes it hard to control all activities  Apart from a medal and a citation, Rajiv Gandhi Khel that young adults may indulge in. Ratna Awardee will receive a cash prize of Rs 7.5  Being available to talk to children and students lakh when they go through vulnerable times, making them aware of the dangers of such games and

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 Arjuna, Dronacharya and Dhyan Chand Awardees Sher Bahadur Deuba, the Prime Minister of , will received statuettes, certificates and cash prize accompanied by his spouse Arzu Deuba visited to India from of Rs 5 lakh each 23-27 August 2017 at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Here’s the list of awardees this year : Modi. This is his first visit abroad after assuming the office of Prime Minister of Nepal in June 2017. A high-level Category Name of the Awardee Discipline delegation had accompained the Prime Minister of Nepal. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Devendra Para Athlete During the visit, Sher Bahadur Deuba called-on President Ratna, 2017 Sardar Singh Hockey Ram Nath Kovind and Vice President Venkaiah Naidu and Late R Gandhi Athletics Heera Nand Karatia Kabaddi hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. During the GSSV Prasad Badminton (Lifetime) visit, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and other Dronacharya Brij Bhushan Mohanty Boxing (Lifetime) Award, 2017 Ministers called on Prime Minister Deuba. Apart from official PA Raphel Hockey (Lifetime) Sanjoy Chakraverthy Shooting (Lifetime) engagements in New Delhi, PM Deuba also visited Roshan Lal Wrestling (Lifetime) Hyderabad, Tirupati and Bodh Gaya. VJ Surekha Archery India and Nepal signed eight memorandums of Khushbir Kaur Athletics understanding (MoUs) Arokia Rajiv Athletics Prasanthi Singh Basketball 1. Modalities for utilization of India’s housing grant Sub Laishram Debendro Boxing component to support reconstruction of 50,000 Singh houses: Cheteshwar Pujara Cricket (Male) Harmanpreet Kaur Cricket (Female) During former PM’s visit US$100 Assistance Arjun Award, Oinam Bembem Devi Football package for Post-earthquake reconstruction 2017 SSP Chawrasia Golf assistance was given by GOI to reconstruct houses SV Sunil Hockey in Nepal. Jasvir Singh Kabaddi PN Prakash Shooting 2. Implementation of the grant component of India’s A Amalraj Table Tennis post-earthquake reconstruction package in Saketh Myneni Tennis the education sector in Nepal. Satyawart Kadian Wrestling Mariyappan Para-Athlete 3. Implementation of the grant component of India’s Varun Singh Bhati Para-Athlete post-earthquake reconstruction package in the Bhupender Singh Athletics Dhyan Chand cultural heritage sector in Nepal. Syed Shahid Hakim Football Award, 2017 4. Sumarai Tete Hockey Implementation of the grant component of India’s post-earthquake reconstruction package in the health sector in Nepal. 5. Implementation arrangement on cost sharing, schedules and safeguard issues for construction 3. NEPAL PM SHER of Mechi Bridge under ADB’s SASEC Road Connectivity Programme (Tranche 2), funded by BAHADUR DEUBA ON 5- India: It improves India’s connectivity with Nepal .The DAY VISIT TO INDIA Mechi bridge is part of the Asian Development Bank’s South Asian Sub-Regional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) road connectivity programme, It counteracts China’s ambitious ‘One Belt One Road’ initiative aimed at connecting around 60 countries across Asia, Africa and Europe. 6. MOU on drug demand reduction and prevention of illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursor chemical and related matters. This MOU will reduce drug trafficking in

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Nepal ther by curbing the spillover effect in India for accessing social benefits and government particularly in North east . welfare scheme. 7. Agreement on cooperation in the field of  National programmes like Aadhaar, NATGRID, standardisation and conformity assessment. CCTNS, RSYB, DNA profiling, reproductive rights 8. An MoU was signed between the Institute of of women, privileged communications and brain Chartered Accountants of India and the Institute of mapping involve collection of personal data, Chartered Accountants of Nepal. including fingerprints, iris scans, bodily samples, Nepal PM Sher Bahadur Deuba Visits Infosys,T-Hub and Taj and their storage in electronic form. The Law Falaknuma Palace in Hyderabad. Commission has recently forwarded a Bill on Human He visited the famous Gachibowli Infosys campus, T-Hub (a DNA profiling. All this adds to the danger of data start up incubator at Telangana) ,here he was informed about leakage. the steps taken by state govts. to promote start ups and he was served royal cuisine at Taj Falaknuma hotel. This visit may bring more investments to India In recent years, India-Nepal partnership has witnessed significant growth in all areas of cooperation. The recent visit provided an opportunity to both the sides for holding wide-ranging discussions on issues of mutual interest and advancing age old, specialties of friendship between our two countries. The recent Doklamstand off is troubling Nepal . Raising voices emphasise that Nepal must involve in Doklam issue because it is a buffer state to both India and China . Nepal is discussing about this issue in their parliament about taking a balanced approach.

4. SUPREME COURT RULES RIGHT TO PRIVACY AS FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT The Supreme Court (SC) ruled that privacy is a fundamental right because it is essential to the right to life.  A nine-judge Supreme Court bench declared privacy is a fundamental right that may impact everything from the government’s signature Aadhaar programme to civil liberties, rights to collection and use of personal data by Internet and financial firms. The decision can also impact restrictions on right to convert and choice of food.  Chief Justice JS Khehar informed that privacy was part of the fundamental right to life and personal liberty guaranteed to all citizens under Article 21 of the Constitution.  The judgment will have a crucial bearing on the government’s Aadhaar scheme that collects personal details, biometrics to identify beneficiaries 6 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2017

Questioning the proposal to link Aadhaar  A bunch of petitions were filed in the Supreme Court in 2015 challenging Aadhaar as a breach of privacy, informational self-determination and bodily integrity.  Petitioners are expressing fear towards the data being collected for Aadhar card by private agencies may be misused, and questioning the proposal to link Aadhaar with PAN cards and phone numbers, and making the unique ID numbermandatory for availing government benefits.  Former attorney-general Mukul Rohatgi had first raised this issue to challenge the opponents, but new A-G KK Venugopal has since clarified that not all aspects of privacy were fundamental rights. Explanation of Right to privacy New Rs. 200 otesn entered the banking system. The central  It had the reason for collection and use of personal data of citizens for Aadhaar become a law under the bank, while announcing the move, said that the Rs. 200 notes Aadhaar Act of 2016.The government claimed will act as a ”missing link” and make it easier for people to Aadhaar was a solution to end corruption in public transact in lower denomination currency, thereby bringing distribution, money laundering and terror funding. greater efficiency into the system.  Supreme Court also concerned about collection and The bright yellow coloured Rs. 200 notes was launched just use of data where there is the risk of personal a day after the finance minister gave go-ahead to the Reserve information falling in the hands of private players Bank of India or RBI to issue the new currency bill. This is and service providers. the fourth new note to be announced since November, when  Both the government and service providers collect the Narendra Modi government announced a ban on Rs. 1,000 personal data like mobile phone numbers, bank and Rs. 500 notes to choke tax evaders. details, addresses, date of birth, sexual identities, Following the demonetisation of Rs. 1,000 and Rs. 500 notes health records, ownership of property and taxes last November, the had introduced Rs. 2,000 without providing safeguards from third parties. notes and new Rs. 500 notes. The phasing out of the high-  The Supreme Court often demanded the value notes led to severe cash shortage in the economy and government whether it has plans to set up a ”robust put pressure on low value notes. data protection mechanism”.  The government informed the Bench a committee The on August 25, 2017 issued Rs. 200 of experts led by former Supreme Court judge, Justice denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi (new) Series, B.N. Srikrishna, has already been constituted on July bearing signature of Urjit R. Patel, Governor, Reserve Bank 31, 2017 to identify “key data protection issues” and of India from select RBI offices, and some banks. suggest a draft data protection Bill. As per the new policy on theme-based currency notes, the Rs. 200 bill bears motif of Sanchi Stupa to depict India’s cultural heritage. 5. RS. 200 NOTES AND India has currency denominations of Rs. 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 2,000. As such, in the lower end of the RS. 50 NOTE LAUNCHED denomination series, Rs. 200 has been the missing link. The RBI had recently introduced Rs. 50 note with a new look and : ALL YOU NEED TO additional security features. KNOW

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Key Specifications of the Note, as detailed by the RBI  Windowed demetalised security thread with  See through register with denominational numeral inscriptions ‘ ’ and RBI 200.  Guarantee Clause, Governor’s signature with Promise Clause and RBI emblem towards right of  Latent image with denominational numeral 200. Mahatma Gandhi portrait  Denominational numeral 200 in Devnagari.  Ashoka Pillar emblem on the right  Portrait of Mahatma Gandhi at the centre.  Mahatma Gandhi portrait and electrotype (50)  Micro letters ‘RBI’, ‘Bharat’ (in Hindi), ‘India’ and watermarks ‘200’.  Number panel with numerals growing from small to  Windowed security thread with inscriptions Bharat in Hindi and RBI with colour shift. Colour of the big on the top left side and bottom right side. thread changes from green to blue when the note is Back Side of the Note: tilted.  Year of printing of the note on the left  Swachh Bharat logo with slogan  Denominational numeral with rupee symbol, Rs 200 in colour changing ink (green to blue) on bottom  Language panel right.  Motif of Hampi with Chariot  Denominational numeral in Devnagari For visually impaired Intaglio or raised printing of Mahatma Gandhi portrait, Ashoka Pillar emblem, raised Identification mark H with micro-  text Rs 200, four angular bleed lines with two circles in between the lines both on the right and left sides. VANIK’S KNOWLEDGE GARDEN On the reverse side Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojna (a) Year of printing of the note on the left.  Eligibility:18 to 70 years of age (b) Swachh Bharat logo with slogan  It has an annual premium of Rs12 (c) Language panel  In case of accidental death or full disability, the (d) Motif of Sanchi Stupa payment to the nominee will be Rs 2 lakh and in (e) Denominational numeral 200 in Devnagari case of partial Permanent disability Rs 1 lakh Dimension  As of 24th April 2017, 10 crore people have already enrolled for this scheme. Dimension of the banknote will be 66 mm × 146 mm. Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Yojana About Rs 50 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma  Eligibility18 to 50 years of age Gandhi (New) Series:  It has an annual premium of Rs 330  The base colour of the new note is fluorescent blue.  In case of death due to any cause, the payment to It has a motif of Hampi with Chariot on the reverse, the nominee will be Rs 2 lakh. depicting the country’s cultural heritage.  As of 24 April 2017, 3.11 crore people have already  The note has geometric patterns aligning with the enrolled for this scheme. overall colour scheme, both at the obverse and reverse. Dimension of the banknote will be 66 mm x 135 mm. Design & Security Features Rs 50 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series: Front Side of the Note:  See through register with denominational numeral 50  Denominational numeral in Devnagari  Portrait of Mahatma Gandhi at the centre  Micro letters ‘RBI’, ‘ ’, ‘INDIA’ and ‘50’

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6. Dr. Ravindra H. Dholakia, Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad S S Mundra retires; NS Vishwanathan ECONOMY to head supervisory depts at RBI  With the retirement of Deputy governor S.S. Mundra ,the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) redistributed portfolios among the remaining three deputy governors under which N.S. Vishwanathan will be in-charge of RBI’s department of banking supervision, department of non-banking supervision and department of cooperative banking supervision.  The consumer education and protection department, financial inclusion and development department and the right to information division will be overseen by BP Kanungo. RBI IN NEWS  Deputy governor will be handling the central security cell, the Rajbhasha department and Third Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement, the human resources function. 2017-18  Mundra, who was heading the state-run Bank of The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank Baroda before his superannuation, had a three-year of India (RBI) has cut its key policy rate by 25 basis points term as deputy governor and his tenure ended on (bps), citing a sharp fall in consumer price inflation 31st July 2017. MPC reduced the repo rate—at which the central bank infuses liquidity in the banking system—to 6%, the lowest RBI constituted Internal Study Group to study since November 2010, from 6.25%. various aspects of MCLR System New Rates:  The RBI constituted an Internal Study Group to  Policy Repo Rate – 6.00% study various aspects of the MCLR system from  Reverse Repo Rate – 5.75% the perspective of improving the Monetary  Marginal Standing Facility Rate – 6.25% Transmission and exploring linking of the Bank  Bank Rate – 6.25% Lending Rates directly to Market Determined  Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) – 4.00% Unchanged Benchmarks.  Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) – 20.00%  The Marginal Cost of Funds Based Lending Rate Unchanged (MCLR) system introduced in April 2016 for  Growth forecast unchanged at 7.3 percent for the improving the Monetary Transmission and an current fiscal. advance over the Base Rate system.  Forex reserves at $392.9 billion as on 28 July.  The MCLR is applicable to all Scheduled  Next MPC meeting on 3 and 4 October, 2017. Commercial Banks only for a short term borrowing Note: of tenor less than one year and Bank calculates all Member of MPC operating cost as a percentage of Marginal Cost of 1. Urjit Patel(Governor of the RBI) – Chairperson Funds for computing MCLR. 2. Viral A Acharya- Deputy Governor of RBI  The Group will submit the report by 31 September 3. Michael Patra- One officer of the RBI to be 2017. nominated by the Central Board RBI imposed Rs. 10 million Penalties on Union 4. Shri Chetan Ghate- Professor, Indian Statistical Bank of India for Non-Compliance of KYC Institute (ISI)  The RBI imposed a Monetary Penalty of Rs. 10 5. Professor Pami Dua, Director, Delhi School of million (1 crore Rupees) on Union Bank for Non- Economics

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Compliance with the directions issued by the RBI  The base colour of the new notes will be Fluorescent on Know Your Customers (KYC) norms. Blue and its dimension will be 66 mm x 135 mm.  This Penalty has been imposed in Exercise of Powers  It will have a Motif of Hampi with Chariot on the vested in RBI under the provisions of Section 47A reverse, depicting the Country’s Cultural heritage (1) (c) read in conjunction with Section 46 (4) (i) of along with the Swachh Bharat Logo, Year of Printing, the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, taking into Numeral 50 in Devanagari and the Language Panel. account on “Failure of the Bank” to adhere to certain  It will have Mahatma Gandhi’s portrait at the Centre directions issued by RBI with regards to KYC- and a see through register with denominational Compliance. numeral 50. Micro letters ‘RBI’, ‘Bharat’, ‘INDIA’  It is to note that, the RBI had received a complaint and ‘50’ and Ashoka Pillar emblem on the right will regarding huge Cash Withdrawals from few also feature on the front side. accounts maintained with the Union Bank of India  The security thread will have inscriptions ‘Bharat’ and following the examination of documentary and RBI. The number panel will have numerals evidence, the Union Bank of India was issued a growing from small to big on the top left side and Show Cause Notice as to “why penalty should not bottom right side. be imposed for Non-Compliance with directions  Further, the RBI has clarified that all banknotes in issued by RBI”. After considering the Bank’s reply, Rs. 50 denomination issued in the earlier series will RBI came to the conclusion that the aforesaid continue to be Legal Tender. charge of Non-Compliance with RBI directions was RBI to transfer Rs 30,659 crore surplus to substantiated and warranted imposition of government Monetary Penalty. The Reserve Bank of India said it will transfer Rs 30,659 crore RBI launched Rs. 200 notes surplus to the government for the year ended June 30, 2017.  The RBI issued new Rs. 200 Bank Notes of MG SBI IN NEWS Series in accordance with the Section 24 (1) of the RBI Act, 1934 with an aim of reducing the burden SBI slashes interest rate on the Rs. 100 notes. State Bank of India has cut the interest rate on savings  The Base Colour of the Rs. 200 note is Bright Yellow accounts with up to Rs1 crore to 3.5% from 4%. and is Reminiscent of the old discontinued Rs. 2 The decline in the rate of inflation and high real interest rates note. are the primary considerations warranting a revision in the  The new Rs. 200 currency note will carry Advanced rate of interest on savings bank deposits. Security features to prevent counterfeiting and has Motif of Sanchi Stupa on the reverse depicting the SBI topped the Share of Wilful Defaulters with 27 Country’s Cultural Heritage of Madhya Pradesh. %, PNB stands Second  The dimension of the Bank Note will be 66mm x 146  According to Finance Ministry Data, Country’s mm and height of the note is same as new Rs. 500 largest Lender SBI accounts for over 27 % of the notes which were issued Post-Demonetisation. total amount owed to Public Sector Banks by Willful  This is the 4th new Note after Rs. 2000, Rs. 500 and Defaulters. Rs. 50 announced since November 2016 after the  As per the Balance Sheet as on 31 Mar 2017, more Demonetisation of Rs. 1000 and Rs. 50. than 1762 willful defaulters owed to Rs. 25,104 crore  The Printing of Currency Notes in India is done in to SBI. Printing Units run by the Government-run Security  The Punjab National Bank stands next to the SBI Printing and Minting Corporation of India Ltd with 1120 willful defaulters having outstanding (SPMCIL) located in Salboni (West ) and NPAs of Rs. 12,278 crore. Mysore (Karnataka) and managed by the RBI-  These two banks together have accounted for Rs. owned Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran 37,383 crore or 40 % of the total outstanding loans. Private Ltd (BRBNMP).  It is to note that, as per Finance Ministry data, Total Outstanding loans due to Public Sector Banks by RBI launched new Rs. 50 Currency Note willful defaulters amounted to Rs. 92,376 crore.  RBI has issued new banknotes of Rs. 50 denomination in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series.

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 The final scheme will be notified by Central note that usually matures (is paid back) in 5–10 Government in consultation with the Reserve Bank years. of India. · Bond sale will be drawn through London branch of Canara Bank. The bonds will be listed on the Two RRBs Record Over Rs 150-cr Profit in FY17: Singapore Stock Exchange. RBI · T N Manoharan is the current Chairman of Canara  Of the 56 regional rural banks (RRBs), Karnataka Bank and Rakesh Sharma is the current MD & CEO. Vikas Grameena Bank and Andhra Pragathi Grameena Bank recorded net profit of more than Rs PNB customers to pay higher charges for non- 150 crore during 2016-17. These are among the 49 credit services RRBs that recorded a profit in 2016-17. · PNB customers will have to pay charges for  According to the Reserve Bank of India’s ‘Report depositing cash above Rs. 5,000 in a non-base on Trend and Progress of Banking in India’, 45 of branch even if it is located in the same city. Currently, the 56 RRBs earned profits without carrying any the customers of Punjab National Bank have levied accumulated losses during 2015-16. charges only for depositing cash over Rs. 25,000 at a non-base branch within the same city. HDFC Bank Launches All-in-one PoS Machine · It has been decided to revise the non-credit related · HDFC Bank announced a software upgrade to create charges (exclusive of GST) with effect from a single point-of-sale (PoS) machine which will September 1, 2017, for cash deposit above Rs. 5,000 accept payments through Unified Payments at other than base branch within the same city. Interface (UPI), BharatQR, SMS Pay and the bank’s · Sunil Mehta is Managing Director and CEO of PNB mobile wallet, in addition to the traditional mode of having Headquarter in New Delhi. swiping cards. · HDFC Bank Limited is headquartered in Mumbai, NEWS IN BRIEF Maharashtra. · Union Bank of India entered into a corporate agency · MD of HDFC Bank is Aditya Puri. agreement with Bajaj Allianz General Insurance and Cholamandalam MS General Insurance for Banks to Pay 3% IGST on Gold Imports distribution of its insurance products. · Banks importing gold and precious metals will have · Power Grid Corp has announced that it will get a to pay 3 per cent tax under the GST which can be loan of USD 500 million from the Asian Development claimed as input tax credit. Bank (ADB) for its different development projects. · Under GST 3% Integrated-GST is payable on all · HDFC Ergo General Insurance has completed the imports of precious metals in addition to the basic merger with L&T General Insurance, marking the customs duty. IGST paid can be taken as input tax first amalgamation in the country’s non-life credit by the banks. insurance sector. 100 villages roped in for digital banking by Vijaya OTHER FINANCIAL NEWS Bank Vijaya Bank has launched ‘100 Digital Villages’ initiative in Parliament passes bill on action against loan an effort to bring residents of these villages under the formal defaulters banking system. The 100 villages were chosen from among · Rajya Sabha passed the Banking Regulation 15 states across the country. (Amendment) Bill, 2017. The Bill seeks to amend the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 by inserting Canara Bank hits overseas bond market with $ provisions for handling cases related to stressed 400-million issue assets. · The Bangalore-based Canara Bank has hit the · The Bill replaces the Banking Regulation international debt market with a benchmark dollar (Amendment) Ordinance, that was passed in May bond issue that will have a tenor of 5 years. 2017, after the Budget session of the Parliament. · Through this issue, Canara Bank will raise $400 Is there any difference between NPA and stressed assets? million as part of its $2 billion medium-term note NPA: Non-performing assets (NPAs), are those loans which programme. A medium-term note (MTN) is a debt have not been repaid within 90 days of expiry of loan

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multiple payment modes and providing Instant · Bajaj Auto and Triumph Motorcycles UK have Confirmation. announced a global partnership. This non-equity First regional centre of NDB opens in South Africa tie-up between Bajaj and Triumph will enable the former to build a range of mid-capacity motorcycles, · The first regional centre of the New Development building on the collective strengths of both Bank was officially opened in Johannesburg by companies. South African by President Jacob Zuma and the · Shri Kamalnayan Bajaj was the founder of Bajaj bank’s Indian head K V Kamath. Auto. Rahul Bajaj is the Chairman of Bajaj Auto. · The New Development Bank (NDB), formerly referred to as the BRICS Development Bank with an Netflix Made its ‘First Ever’ Acquisition initial authorised capital of the bank is USD 100 Online entertainment platform Netflix announced that it has billion. acquired Millarworld, a comic book company. The acquisition · The idea for setting up NDB was proposed by India was the first ever by Netflix. at the 4th BRICS summit in 2012 held in New Delhi. Home Credit in pact with Paytm to ease loan ‘5%, 18% GST applicable on selling payments advertisement space in print’ Home Credit India Finance, a non-banking financial company The government has clarified that selling of space for (NBFC), has partnered with mobile payments and m- advertisements in print media would attract 5 and 18 per cent commerce platform Paytm to enable customers to pay their Goods and Services Tax (GST), depending on the terms of loan EMIs (Equated Monthly Installments). the contract between the newspaper, advertisement agency and the client. PayPal to acquire online lender Swift Financial Headquartered in San Jose, Northern California, PayPal, one IRDAI Launches Central Database of Insurance of the world’s largest Internet payment companies would Sales Persons acquire Swift Financial, an online lender for small businesses · The Insurance Regulatory and Development in the US. Authority of India (IRDAI) has launched a Central Database of all Insurance Sales Persons in the Hike Messenger acquires tech startup Creo country called ‘Envoy’. Homegrown messaging and social media technology · The database will ensure that all licensed insurance company Hike Messenger has acquired Bengaluru-based sales persons working for insurers and tech startup Creo for an undisclosed amount. intermediaries including entities such as insurance Nestle and Amazon tie up agents, broker qualified persons, specified persons · Nestle India has tied up with Amazon India for the of corporate agents do not work with multiple launch of its new Nutrilicious range of Maggi insurers and intermediaries in the same business Noodles. category. · New Maggi Nutritious Noodles are in line with · IRDAI chairman is T.S.Vijayan. Nestle’s “Simply Good” initiative. MERGER AND ACQUISITION · Jeffrey Preston Bezos is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon.com. MobiKwik, Bajaj Finance join hands for India’s · Mark Schneider is the Chief Executive Officer of first debit-credit wallet Nestle. Indian wallet major, MobiKwik entered into a strategic tie-up with non-banking financial company, Bajaj Finance Ltd, to Dhanlaxmi Bank, DHFL Pramerica Tie up for launch India’s first debit and credit wallet, which will enable Bancassurance the consumer to avail instant purchases and payment option · DHFL Pramerica Life Insurance Company has signed via a credit facility through the app. Bipin Preet Singh is the on Kerala-based Dhanlaxmi Bank as its C.E.O. and founder of Digital Payment app Mobikwik. bancassurance partner. · Under the agreement, the latter will distribute retail Bajaj Ties Up With Triumph to Make Mid- and group life insurance products to its customers Capacity Motorcycles across 260 branches in India. · G Sreeram is the Managing Director and CEO of Dhanlaxmi Bank.

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Infosys to acquire Brilliant Basics the State under the Rural Infrastructure Infosys has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Brilliant Development Fund (RIDF). Basics, a London-based product design and customer · The Loan Amount includes Assistance for experience (CX) innovator known for its world-class design Construction of two Rural Drinking Water Supply thinking-led approach and experience in executing global Projects, strengthening and Rehabilitation of 1614 programmes. Rural Roads at a cost of Rs. 599.84 crore and Rs. 469.54 crore respectively and Modernisation of INVESTMENT & ALLOCATION three major Irrigation Projects against at a cost of Investment on Infrastructure Projects by ADB Rs. 280.17 crore in the State. · As part of its forthcoming Country Partnership Union Cabinet approved NABARD to raise Rs. Strategy for the period 2018-22, Asian Development 9020 crore Long Term Irrigation Fund (LTIF) Bank (ADB) has proposed an overall annual lending · The Union Cabinet chaired by PM Narendra Modi of US$ 3 billion to US$ 4 billion for their Indian has given its approval for raising Extra Budgetary Operations including support for infrastructure Resources (EBR) of up to Rs. 9020 crore as per the projects. However, these figures are indicative in requirement during 2017-18 by NABARD through nature at this stage. Issuance of Bonds with lending rate of 6 % per · This was stated by Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, annum Minister of State for Finance in written reply to a · These funds will be spent for implementation of question in Rajya Sabha. Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP) · Asian Development Bank- Headquarters: (Manila) works of 99 ongoing Prioritized Irrigation Projects Philippines, President: Takehiko Nakao, along with their Command Area Development (CAD) Membership: 67 countries works under Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana World Bank pledged $ 24.64 million to Enhance (PMKSY). India’s Forest Ecosystem Services · It is to note that, Union Finance Minister during his · Ministry of Finance and World Bank signed Global Budget Speech 2016-17 had announced creation of Environment Facility (GEF) Grant Agreement for $ Dedicated Long Term Irrigation Fund (LTIF) in 24.64 million for “Ecosystems Service Improvement NABARD with an Initial Corpus of Rs. 20,000 crore Project”. for funding of Central and State share for the · The total Project Cost will be financed by the World identified ongoing Projects under PMKSY such as Bank out of its GEF Trust Fund with the duration of AIBP and CAD. Implementation for five years. India signs USD 329 million loan pact with AIIB · It is to note that, the Ministry of Environment, for Gujarat road project Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) will · India has signed a loan agreement with Asian implement the Project in the States of Chhattisgarh Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for the and Madhya Pradesh through Indian Council of financing of 329 million US dollar for Gujarat Rural Forestry Research & Education (ICFRE) under the Roads Project. National Mission for Green India. · The agreement was signed by Sameer Kumar Khare · The objective of the Project is to strengthen the (Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Finance) and Vice Institutional Capacity of the Departments of President & Chief Investment Officer, AIIB, D J Forestry and Community Organisations to enhance Pandian. Forest Ecosystem Services and improve the · Headquarters of AIIB is located in Beijing, China. livelihoods of Forest Dependent Communities in Jin Liqun is the current President of AIIB. Central Indian Highlands. NABARD sanctioned Rs. 1350 crore Loan to Rajasthan  · The National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned a Loan Assistance of Rs. 1,349.55 crore to the Rajasthan Government for creation of Rural Infrastructure in

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The US submits official withdrawal from Paris climate pact The United States has officially informed the United Nations (UN) that it will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. In June 2017, President Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris deal. Earlier, Former US President Barack Obama had pledged as part of the Paris accord to cut US greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 28% from 2005 levels by 2025 to help slow global warming. US Army stops use of Chinese-made drones US Army has ordered its members to stop using drones made by Chinese manufacturer SZ DJI Technology because of “cyber vulnerabilities” in the products. Army was ordered to “cease US issues ban on tourist travel to North Korea all use, uninstall all DJI applications, remove The United States has issued a ban prohibiting its citizens all batteries/storage media from devices. DJI is estimated to traveling to North Korea, a move triggered by the death of a have secured around 70 percent of the global and consumer US student imprisoned by Pyongyang during a tourist visit. market for drones. China opens first overseas base Qatar to offer permanent residency · China has officially opened its first overseas naval Qatar’s Cabinet has approved a draft law making permanent base in Djibouti, a major step for the country’s residency available to some non-citizens, marking a shift from expansion of its military presence abroad. its reliance on its longstanding visa-sponsorship system. · The event was timed to coincide with the Permits could be granted to children of Qatari women married celebration of the 90th anniversary of the to foreigners, people who “offered valuable services to the establishment of China’s military, the People’s country” and those with special skills. This move is first of Liberation Army, on August 1. its kind among Gulf Arab states. · China’s agreement with Djibouti ensures its military India, China home to 39% of young Internet presence in the country up until 2026, with a users: UN report contingent of up to 10,000 soldiers. India and China are home to 39 per cent of the 830 million · Djibouti a country situted in the east of Africa. young people worldwide who use the Internet, according to Capital: Djibouti Currency:franc a UN report. The data released by the International US slaps sanctions on Venezuelan President Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations Nicolas Maduro specialised agency for Information and Communication · US govt has imposed sanctions on Venezuelan Technologies (ICTs), shows that of the 830 million young President Nicolas Maduro, following sham election people online worldwide, 320 million, or 39 per cent, are in of a new legislative body to redraft the constitution. China and India · Maduro’s assets under US jurisdiction are now Iran signs its biggest-ever car deal with France’s frozen & all American citizens are banned having Renault an economic dealings with him. · Iran’s official news agency says two Iranian · New constituent assembly will have the power to companies have signed the country’s biggest-ever rewrite constitution & disband opposition- car deal with French multinational automobile controlled National Assembly. manufacturer Group Renault to produce 150,000 cars, beginning in 2018.

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· France-Capital: Paris , Currencies: Euro, CFP franc, Pakistan hoisted largest flag in its history at Attari—Wagah President: Emmanuel Macron border near Lahore to mark country’s 70th Independence · Iran- Capital: Tehran, Currency: Iranian rial, Day on 14th august. The flag is reported to be the highest President: Hassan Rouhani one in South Asia and the 8th highest in the world. Israel imposes new travel restrictions on INDEX Palestinians India topped the list of Digital Evolution Index, · Israel has imposed new travel restrictions on 2017 Palestinians, preventing them from leaving · India has been ranked first among the 60 countries blockaded Gaza with laptops. Israel and Egypt have in the Digital Evolution Index, 2017 released by Tufts enforced severe Gaza travel restrictions since the University in partnership with MasterCard. 2007 takeover of the territory by the Islamic militant · Norway has been ranked as 2nd followed by Sweden Hamas. and Switzerland. · Israel- Capital: Jerusalem, Currency: shekel, Prime · The ranking of countries was prepared based on minister: Benjamin Netanyahu potential of Digital Payments based on four Shahid Khaqan Abbasi appointed as new Prime parameters such as Supply, Consumer Demand, Minister of Pakistan Institutional Environment and Innovation. · The Pakistan National Assembly elected Pakistan India ranked 43rd in 2017 Global Retirement Muslim League – Nawaz’s (PML-N) Nominee Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the new Prime Minister Index – Norway topped the Index · India has been ranked 43rd position in the 2017 of Pakistan. edition of Global retirement Index released by the · Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has succeeded Nawaz Sharif, French Asset Management Company Natixis Global. who was ousted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan · The Index was prepared taking 43 Countries after found Guilty of Corruption Charges in the worldwide on the basis of four factors such as Panama Papers Case and was removed from his post Material Well-being, Finances, Health and Quality on 28 July 2017. of Life. · The Panama Papers Case or the Panama Gate Case · The Global retirement Index, 2017 has been topped was a Legal Case under hearing before the Supreme by Norway followed by Switzerland and Iceland in Court of Pakistan on 11.5 million leaked documents second and third positions respectively. involving Nawaz Sharif, his family and eight Offshore Companies for the charges of Money Norway has world’s Fastest Mobile Internet Laundering, Fraud, Tax Evasion and Corruption According to global leader in broadband testing Ookla, which was leaked in 2015 by an anonymous source. Norway has the fastest mobile Internet in the world. The The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared development has been specially noticed after Telenor’s Somalia free of polio network, a major operator in Norway, had an average download speed of 58.6 megabits per second. The · The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Netherlands and Hungary are ranked number two and three Somalia free of polio. The UN health agency announced that it had not recorded any case of on the list of the world’s fastest mobile networks. polio disease in Somalia in the last three years. Three Indians in the Forbes list of highest paid · Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile actors paralysis, is an infectious disease caused by the The Top 10 Highest Paid Actors in the List are: poliovirus. 1. Mark Wahlberg ($68 million) · Somalia- Capital: Mogadishu, Currency: Somali 2. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson ($65 million) shilling, President: Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed 3. Vin Diesel ($54.5 million) · World Health Organization- Headquarters: Geneva, 4. Adam Sandler ($50.5 million) Switzerland, Head: Tedros Adhanom 5. Jackie Chan ($49 million) 6. Robert Downey, Jr. ($48 million) Pakistan hoisted ‘Largest Flag in Its History’ at Attari-Wagah Border 7. Tom Cruise ($43 million) 8. Shah Rukh Khan ($38 million)

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9. Salman Khan ($37 million) price. Jack Ma is worth $37.4 billion, according to the Forbes 10. Akshay Kumar ($35.5 million). real-time billionaires list. In the latest rankings, Chinese Internet billionaire- Tencent Chairman Ma Huateng, the latter Mukesh Ambani becomes Asia’s second richest has slipped to No. 2, with a fortune worth $36.7 billion. Jack man Ma currently ranks as the world’s No. 18 richest man and is · According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index No. 1 in Asia. Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma is currently the richest person in Asia with a net worth of $43.7 Melbourne ranked top as World’s most Liveable billion. City for the 7th consecutive year · Reliance Industries Ltd chairman Mukesh Ambani · Australian City Melbourne has been ranked first in is now the second-wealthiest person in Asia after the 2017 Global Liveability Report compiled by the adding $12.5 billion (around Rs 80,000 crore) to his London, UK based Economist Intelligence Unit. wealth this year. · The EIU Liveability Index was prepared taking 140 · Mukesh Ambani has surpassed Hong Kong cities of the World in to account based on various business tycoon Li Ka-shing to become Asia’s parameters such as Healthcare, Education, Stability, second richest man. Culture, Environment and Infrastructure etc. · Vienna and Vancouver has been ranked 2nd and Alibaba’s Jack Ma is Asia’s Richest Man: Forbes 3rd most Liveable city in the world. Alibaba Group’s Jack Ma is back on top as Asia’s richest man following gains in the company’s earnings and share 

into account status of rural sanitation in all State and UTs. · Under the Swachh Survekshan Gramin 2017 QCI surveyed 1.4 lakh rural house hold across 4626 village and found the overall toilet coverage to be 63.73 %. 91.29% of the people who had access to a toilet also used it. · Over 4.54 crore household toilets have been constructed since the launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin. · 160 districts, 2,20,104 villages and 5 States declared have been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF).( Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh and KeralaUttarakhand and Haryana · Top performing states: Northeastern States of Sikkim, Nagaland and Manipur with 95% rural households covered by toilets were top performers. · Worst performing States: (30% Govt. launches Swachh Survekshan Gramin to coverage) and Uttar Pradesh (37%), Jharkhand improve sanitation coverage (37%) were among the worst performers in terms of · The Union Ministry of Drinking Water and rural sanitation. Sanitation Narendra Singh Tomar has released Aadhaar now mandatory to identify deceased while Swachh Survekshan Gramin 2017, third party survey registering death report to assess the progress Swacha Bharat According to the latest guidelines, the families of a deceased Mission in rural India. will now have to produce his/her Aadhaar number for · The survey was undertaken by the Quality Council establishing his/her identity in order to register the death of India (QCI) between May and June 2017 to take and proceed with the norms to obtain a death certificate. The new rule is said to be applicable starting October 1, 2017. 18 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2017

August 15 celebrated as ‘Sankalp Parva’: the payment using cash as well. You can also pay Government using a debit or credit card. You will receive your · The Centre has observed this 70th Independence tatkal ticket within 24 hours. However, this also Day on August 15 as ‘Sankalp Parva’ and asked the means that tatkal tickets for the same day cannot be people to dedicate themselves to social causes and booked using this option. You can only book tatkal share their ideas to make a new India. tickets for the next day. · As the nation would be observing 75th anniversary · For tatkal bookings people had to pay first via the of the Quit India Movement this year, five years standard online payment gateways before the from now i.e. in August 2022, we will complete 75 IRCTC portal confirmed their ticket. years as an independent nation, it said. · The new feature eliminates the transaction failures · This five-year period, from 2017-2022, gives us an as often the money gets debited and the ticket is unique opportunity of ‘Sankalp’ to ‘Siddhi’ towards not issued due to multiple reasons. The refund cycle a new India. Hence, August 15, 2017 be celebrated is of about seven to 15 days. as the ‘Sankalp Parva’ or the Day of Resolve, and in · Bookings can be held only if customer makes the 2022 our nation will transform that resolve into payment within 72 hours of booking. If customer ‘Siddhi’ or attainment, the order said. fails to make the payment, the ticket will be cancelled. · The Quit India Movement (India August · The service is available across 600 towns serving Movement) was a movement launched at the more than 4500 pin codes across the country. Bombay session of the All-India Congress · Initially “Pay on Delivery” can be availed up to 5 Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, days prior to the departure of the train. demanding an end to British Rule of India. Cabinet approved renaming of SAMPADA CCEA approves rail connectivity projects Scheme as Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana · The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has · The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved three railway connectivity projects worth has approved renaming of SAMPADA (Scheme for Rs3,940 crore in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Agro-Marine Processing and Development of Agro- · These projects would not only speed up the Processing Clusters) as Pradhan Mantri Kisan operation of goods and passenger trains, but also Sampada Yojana (PMKSY). provide additional capacity for meeting increases · The SAMPADA scheme was approved by the in traffic in the future. CCEA in May 2017 for the period of 2016-20 in lines · All the three projects are expected to be completed with the 14th Finance Commission with an objective by the year 2020-2021. to supplement Agriculture, Modernize Processing and Decreasing Agricultural Waste. IRCTC launches ‘Book Now-Pay Later’ service for tatkal · PMKSY is an umbrella scheme which incorporates tickets all ongoing schemes of the Union Ministry of Food · Railways has announced that people can now book Processing Industries (MoFPI) such as Mega Food their ticket under the tatkal quota on IRCTC website Park, Food Safety and Quality Assurance & can pay later. Infrastructure, Integrated Cold Chain and Value · The IRCTC’s new initiative - Book Now, Pay Later- Addition Infrastructure. by ‘ePaylater’ and ‘Pay-on-Delivery’ schemes · The PMKSY will have a Budgetary Allocation of provides passengers the option to pay for tatkal Rs. 6000 crore and is expected to leverage tickets only after the tickets are confirmed. Investment of Rs. 31400 crore benefiting 2 million · While the e-Paylater facility is powered by farmers and generating 5 lakh direct and indirect Arthashastra Fintech, the ‘Pay-on-Delivery’ service employment in India by 2019-20. is provided by Anduril Technologies. · IRCTC ePaylater: When you choose this option, NITI Aayog partners with 6 states to transform you will receive a payment link via SMS or email. Health & Education sectors. You have the option of making the payment for the · The NITI (National Institution for Transforming ticket for up to 14 days. India) Aayog has announced partnership with three · IRCTC Pay-On-Delivery: The Pay-On-Delivery states each to radically transform their Health and option has the advantage of allowing you to make

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and Education sectors under its Sustainable Action · The nation has celebrated the 75th anniversary of for Transforming Human Capital (SATH) initiative. the Quit India Movement also known as “August · The shortlisted states for transforming their health Kranti” on 9th august 2017. This year’s theme is sector are Uttar Pradesh, and Karnataka. “Sankalp se Siddhi- the attainment through resolve. · Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Odisha were · As the nation would be observing 75th anniversary selected for transforming their education sector. of the Quit India Movement this year, five years · NITI Aayog has launched SATH-‘Sustainable from now i.e. in August 2022, we will complete 75 Action for Transforming Human capital’ with the years as an independent nation. State Governments for furthering the agenda of · This five-year period, from 2017-2022, gives us an cooperative federalism. unique opportunity of ‘Sankalp’ to ‘Siddhi’ towards · SATH program will be implemented by NITI Aayog a new India. Hence, August 15, 2017 be celebrated along with McKinsey & Company and IPE Global as the ‘Sankalp Parva’ or the Day of Resolve, and in consortium. 2022 our nation will transform that resolve into NITI aayog ‘Siddhi’ or attainment. · Chairperson-Prime Minister N.Modi · The National Archives of India has organised a · Vice Chairperson: Rajiv Kumar (succeed Arvind special exhibition “Quit India 75-Chalo Dilli” in New Panagariya) Delhi to mark the significant of the day and also · Chief Executive Officer (CEO): Amitabh Kant pay tribute to Azad Hind Fauz. · Ex-Officio Members: Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, · “Quit India-75-Chalo Dilli” will be thrown open to Suresh Prabhu and Radha Mohan Singh public after inauguration till 1st of September. · Special Invitees: Nitin Gadkari, Smriti Zubin Irani · Quit-India movement on August 9, 1942 and on and Thawar Chand Gehlot August 15, 1947 India became independent. · Full-time Members: Bibek Debroy , V. K. Saraswat, Railways earned Rs.540 crore through flexi fare Vinod Paul and Ramesh Chand . scheme · Governing Council: All Chief Ministers of States · The Railways has earned an additional revenue of (and Delhi and Puducherry) and Lieutenant Rs 540 crore in less than a year through the flexi Governors of remaining Union Territories. fare scheme and there is no plan to discontinue it. India Ratifies 2nd Commitment Period of Kyoto · The scheme, launched on 09th September 2016, is Protocol applicable in Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto trains, · India has ratified the second commitment period of allowing 10 per cent of the seats to be sold at the the Kyoto Protocol that commits countries to normal fare and thereafter increasing it by 10 per contain the emission of greenhouse gases, cent with every 10 per cent of berths sold with a reaffirming its stand on climate action. With this, ceiling of 50 per cent. India became the 80th country to accept the amendment relating to the second commitment SDMC launches ‘terminator train’ period of the Kyoto Protocol, the international A train called ‘mosquito terminator’ was launched by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC), in collaboration emissions reduction treaty. with the Northern Railway, to spray anti-larval chemicals along · The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, the tracks in order to control mosquito breeding. The in December 1997 and entered into force in February Mosquito Terminator will pass through Sarai Rohilla, Patel 2005. Nagar, Delhi Cantonment, Palam, Safdarjung, Kishanganj, Govt merges NCRB with BPRD Lajpat Nagar, Nizamuddin, Adarsh Nagar, Shahdara and Union Home Ministry passed an order to merge the three- Gurgaon in Delhi-NCR. decade old National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) with Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD). The NITI Aayog to launch “Mentor India” Campaign · NITI Aayog will launch the Mentor India Campaign BPRD Director General (DG) will be the head of the merged on, a strategic nation building initiative to engage new entity. leaders who can guide and mentor students at more Nation observed 75th anniversary of Quit India than 900 Atal Tinkering Labs, established across Movement the country as a part of the Atal Innovation Mission.

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· It will maximize the impact of Atal Tinkering Labs, launched Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U) possibly the biggest disruption in formal education Project under which it was projected to build 1.8 crore Pucca globally. houses to every Urban Poor in the Country by 2022. · The idea is to engage leaders who will nurture and guide students in the Atal Tinkering Labs. These Union Finance Ministry extended the deadline for labs are non-prescriptive by nature, and mentors Linking Aadhaar with PAN to 31 August are expected to be enablers rather than instructors. · The Union Finance Ministry has extended the Supreme Court declared Right to Privacy as deadline for Tax Payers for linking Aadhaar Number Fundamental Right under Indian Constitution with the PAN Card till 31 August 2017. Earlier, the · The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Privacy deadline was till 31 July 2017. is a Fundamental Rights under the Indian · The Union Ministry also extended the deadline for Constitution. Filling of Income Tax Return till 5 August 2017 · The Bench ruled that Privacy is Intrinsic to Freedom instead the standard procedure of 31 July 2017. of Life and Personal Liberty guaranteed under · Further, it has said that the Returns will not be Article 21 of the Constitution. processed until these two numbers are linked. · The question about Right to Privacy was first raised · As per earlier guidelines, the linking of Aadhaar before a Supreme Court Bench, which was hearing Number with the Permanent Account Number of a taxpayer was made mandatory for the filing of an a Clutch of Petitions challenging the Centre’s move to make Aadhaar Mandatory to benefit from Social ITR beginning 01 July 2017. and Welfare Schemes. LPG Prices to increase Rs. 4 every Month and · The nine Judges bench was headed by Chief Justice Subsidies to be stopped by March 2018 of India JS Khehar. · The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has Supreme Court strike down Instant Triple Talaq authorised the PSU Oil Marketing Companies · The Supreme Court banned the Controversial (OMCs) to continue the effective price of Practice of Instant Triple Talaq (referred as “Talaq- Subsidised Domestic LPG by Rs. 4 per Cylinder per e-Biddat”) as Arbitrary, Unconstitutional, not part month excluding VAT/GST effecting from 01 June of Islam and is against the basic tenets of Quran 2017 in order to finally eliminate subsidies by March and hence is unacceptable. 2018. However, Post-GST, a 5 % Tax was levied on · The act of Triple Talaq also violates the subsidised LPG. Constitutions and Fundamental Rights under Article · Further, the Ministry has also asked State Oil 14 which defines “Equality before Law”. Companies to increase the prices of subsidised · The five Judge Bench headed by CJI JS Khehar Kerosene by 25 paise every month to completely argued that the practice of saying “Talaq” or do away with the subsidy on the fuel. Divorce, three times in one go sometimes even over Email and WhatsApp violate Women’s Right to EPFO organizes Tiranga Yatra – Commemoration Equality and was not Integral to Islam and the of 75th anniversary of the Quit India Movement government was asked to bring a Law to regulate in Mumbai the practice within six months. Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation, participated in the · The verdict was given by five members Multi- celebrations of 75th anniversary of Quit India Movement by Religion Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court organizing Tiranga Yatra all the stakeholders i.e. workers from comprising of Chief Justice JS Khehar (Sikh), Justice different industries, employers from different sectors and Kurian Joseph (Christian), Justice UU Lalit (Hindu), staff & officers of Ministry of Labour and Employment Justice Rohington F Nariman (Parsi) and Justice S including EPFO participated in the Tiranga Yatra organized Abdul Nazeer (Muslim). in Mumbai on 23rd August 2017. Union Government revised Housing Targets for UIDAI Launches Door Step Aadhar Enrolment in Urban Poor Delhi The Union Ministry for Housing and Urban Poverty UIDAI has joined hands with CSC India for launching door Alleviation has revised downwards its targets for building step enrolment facility in the national capital for the elderly, Affordable Houses for Urban Poor to 1.2 crore as against 1.8 patients and others who cannot travel the Aadhar centers. crore estimated earlier. Earlier, the Union Government had 

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and criminals, was launched by Home Minister Rajnath Singh. · The digital police portal will provide the citizen, facility for online complaint registration and request for antecedent verification. · The Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems Project (CCTNS) has enabled 13,775 out of 15,398 police stations to enter 100 per cent data into the software. Maharashtra Chief Minister launches Namo Yuva Rojgar Kendra Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis launched Namo Yuva Rojgar Kendra an initiative providing job opportunities to unemployed youth in Mumbai. Environment Minister Launches ‘Gaj Govt launches portal e-RaKAM Yatra’ to Mark World Elephant Day · Govt has launched a portal e-Rashtriya Kisan Agri 2017 Mandi which will provide a platform to sell Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister, agricultural produce. Dr. Harsh Vardhan, launched ‘Gaj Yatra’ in Karnataka, a · It is developed by MSTC Limited & supported by nationwide campaign to protect elephants on the occasion marketing & logistics partner CRWC Limited. of World Elephant Day (12 August). The campaign is planned · It was launched by Steel Minister Chaudhary to cover 12 elephant range states.The Environment Minister Birender Singh and Consumer Affairs, Food & released the All India Census 2017 Report on elephants. The Public Distribution Minister Ram Vilas Paswan ‘Gaju’ mascot, which was released by the Ministry in 2012, will be helm the campaign. The campaign will be led by the Government to launch new scheme to boost Wildlife Trust of India. Actor and wildlife enthusiast, Ms. agriculture start-ups Dia Mirza, participated in the walk and run event organised In an attempt to promote innovation and entrepreneurship on the occasion. in agriculture, the government was launched a new AGRI- UDAAN programme that will mentor startups and help them Govt launches new video of national anthem in connect with potential investors. The programme was sign language launched by the Hyderabad-based ICAR-National Academy Minister of State for HRD (Human Resource Development), of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM). Mahendra Nath Pandey has launched a video of the National Anthem in sign language and said the government addressed Swasth Bachche, Swasth Bharat launched by the physically challenged as “divyang” and not “viklang” Health ministry to ensure there was no distinction. The 3.35-minute video, Swasth Bachche, Swasth Bharat Programme is launched to directed by Govind Nihalani, stars Bollywood star Amitabh prepare a physical Health and Fitness Profile Card for more Bachchan, along with physically challenged children than 12 lakhs of Kendriya Vidyalaya students was launched performing the anthem in sign language, with the Red Fort in in Kochi. It is an initiative by the Kendriya Vidyalaya the background. Sanghathan. Rajnath Singh launches digital police portal · A digital police portal under the CCTNS project,  which aims to create a national database of crimes

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· India and Somalia signed a bilateral agreement for the transfer of sentenced persons, thus deepening humanitarian cooperation between the two countries. · The agreement was signed between External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia Yusuf Garaad Omar. · Somalia-Capital: Mogadishu, Currency: Somali shilling, President: Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Govt stops $1.3bn Chinese bid The Centre has stalled a $1.3-billion bid by Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group (SFP) to acquire an 86% stake in Hyderabad-based Gland Pharma, citing “genuine concerns” over proprietary technology developed by the India joined South Korea based International Indian company going over to a Chinese Vaccine Institute for Vaccine Research pharma major. · The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister India and Japan join hands for big infrastructure Narendra Modi has given its approval to the push in Northeast proposal for India’s taking full membership of the · Japan has joined hands with India to aggressively International Vaccine Institute (IVI) Governing develop infrastructure projects in India’s Council. northeastern states. · The move involves Payment of Annual Contribution · An India-Japan Coordination Forum for of US $ 5 lakh to the International Vaccine Institute, Development of North East is being set up to focus Seoul, South Korea. on strategic projects such as connectivity, road · International Vaccine Institute was established in network development, electricity & disaster 1997 on the initiatives of the UNDP, is an management. International Organization devoted to Developing · Japan has been helping India with projects such as and Introducing new and improved Vaccines to Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed corridor. protect the People, especially children against · Jitendra Singh-minister of development of north- Deadly Infectious Diseases. eastern region (DONER) World Bank Permitted India to Construct US, Japan To Boost Defence Cooperation With Kishanganga, Ratle Projects India, S Korea, Australia · World Bank allowed India to construct hydroelectric · The US and Japan have agreed to advance their power facilities on tributaries of the Jhelum and multilateral safety and defence cooperation with Chenab rivers with certain restrictions under the nations like India, South Korea and Australia, amidst 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT). China’s growing assertiveness in the Asia Pacific · In 2016, Pakistan had raised objections to region. construction of two hydropower projects named ‘Kishanganga’ – on Indian side of River Jhelum’s India, US to start new dialogue to boost stability tributary and ‘Rattle’ – on Indian side of River across Indo-Pacific region Chenab. · India and United States will start a new ministerial dialogue to enhance “peace and stability across India and Somalia sign agreement on transfer of the Indo-Pacific region”. sentenced persons · The two ministers in the new two-by-two dialogue will be External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and

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Defence Minister Arun Jaitley from India’s end, and MOU their US counterparts Rex Tillerson and James Mattis. Government approves MoU for BRICS agriculture research platform United States and India To Co-Host the Global · The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad, India, gave ex-post facto approval for an MoU signed by November 28-30 India and other BRICS nations for setting up of an India and US will co-host the Global Entrepreneurship Summit agriculture research platform. at Hyderabad from 28-30 November 2017. Ivanka Trump, · In October last year, a memorandum of daughter of President of United States of America Donald understanding (MoU) for setting up agriculture Trump, will be leading the US delegation. The theme of the research platform (ARP) was signed by foreign Summit will be “Women First, Prosperity for All”, highlighting ministers of BRICS countries in the 8th BRICS the critical role women play in fostering global growth and Summit held at Goa prosperity. NITI Aayog, is taking the lead in organising this · Establishment of BRICS Agriculture Research Summit for the Government of India. Platform was proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Indian Oil Corp buys first shale oil from U.S. Modi during the 7th BRICS Summit held on July 9, 2015 at Ufa in Russia. State-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has bought the country’s first shale oil from the US and is looking to step up MOU between India and Spain imports from America as part of its crude diversification Union Cabinet has been apprised of the pact signed b/w strategy. IOC bought 1.9 million barrels of US crude in its India & Spain on cooperation in the renewable energy sector. second import tender seeking oil from the Americas. MoU will help in strengthening bilateral cooperation between India pacts with Nepal on Drug Matters and bridge the 2 countries with the exchange of expertise and networking construction of information. The pact envisages establishing a Joint Working Committee in order to review, monitor and discuss · The Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra matters related to areas of cooperation. Modi, gave its approval for signing of an MoU between India and Nepal on Drug Demand AAI-Ola partnership to facilitate smart mobility Reduction and Prevention of Illicit Trafficking in service across airports Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and Transport aggregator Ola has entered into a strategic alliance precursor chemicals, and related matters. with the Airport Authority of India (AAI) to extend its range · The Cabinet has approved a Memorandum of of mobility offering to commuters, through designated Ola Understanding to be signed between India and Zones and kiosks at four of the busiest airports in the Nepal for starting construction of a new Bridge over country- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, Mechi River at Indo-Nepal border. Kolkata; Chennai International Airport; Pune International · The estimated cost of construction of the bridge is Airport, and Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport, 158.65 crore rupees, which would be funded by Lucknow. Government of India through ADB loan. Walmart and Google partner on voice-based Bilateral Meeting Between India and Uzbekistan shopping Held in New Delhi Walmart and Google have announced a new partnership that The Commerce and Industries Minister, Mrs. Nirmala will enable voice shopping through Google Assistant, Sitharaman and Mr. Abdulaziz Kamilov, Minister of Foreign Google’s virtual assistant that lives on devices like its smart Affairs and Mr. Elyor Ganiev, Minister of Foreign Trade held speaker, Google Home. Specifically, consumers will now be detailed discussions on deepening trade and economic ties able to take advantage of Walmart’s “Easy Reorder” feature between India and Uzbekistan in a bilateral meeting in New through an integration with Google’s shopping service, Delhi. Commerce Minister expressed happiness on the Google Express. formation of an Uzbek India Trading House at Delhi as a Joint Venture Company. Karnataka signs MOU with Microsoft Karnataka Agriculture Department has signed an MoU with Microsoft India to develop a unique “farm price forecasting model” using latest IT tools in a bid to help farmers,

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· Expanding the DBT ambit from MGNREGA wages, old age pension, gas and food grain subsidies, the MahaDBT portal will enable direct transfer of benefits for over 40 schemes. · MahaVASTU portal is an online building permission management system, through which construction approvals will be sanctioned with full transparency. Jharkhand Assembly passes Religious Freedom Bill · Jharkhand’s BJP-led government headed by chief minister Raghubar Das cleared the draft of an anti-conversion bill with provisions of jail term up to four years and fine up to Rs 1 lakh for those converting anyone’s religion through force or allurement. · It aims for tougher action on forced PM Modi announced Rs 2350 cr flood relief for conversions of minor girls & women from North-East states scheduled tribes. · Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a total · The law already exists in MP, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, package of Rs 2,350 crore for all north eastern states Gujarat, Maharashtra & Himachal Pradesh. for mitigating the impact of floods in short and long UP CM begins cleanliness drive ‘Swachata Ka term basis, and an immediate release of Rs 250 crore Shankhnad’ for flood-hit Assam Taking a cue from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Swachh · An additional Rs.100 crore was announced to Bharat Abhiyan’, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi institute a high-powered committee with scientists, Adityanath has initiated a cleanliness drive ‘Swachata Ka technocrats and bureaucrats from Central and state Shankhnad’ in the state. He started the cleanliness drive by governments to study the course of the taking a pledge along with actor Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Brahmaputra. Pednekar in Lucknow for promoting the Prime Minister’s Maharashtra Government launches two online mission of ‘Swachh Bharat’. portals MahaDBT, MahaVASTU Delhi Police ties up with Uber for women safety · Maharashtra Government has launched two online Uber has collaborated with Delhi Police’s women safety app portals MahaDBT and MahaVASTU to streamline ‘Himmat’ for ensuring better safety to women across the the process of direct benefit transfer (DBT) and city. Passengers can now access the Delhi Police’s women bring in more transparency in construction sector. safety mobile application ‘Himmat’ via cab aggregator Uber’s · With this, Maharashtra became first state in the application while traveling in taxis. In addition to the country to launch such a system that will provide emergency button in the Uber app, riders will now have one direct benefits with Aadhaar authentication. more touch point to access the police helpline in case of an emergency.

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Microsoft ties up with Telengana to use AI to The Goa Legislative Assembly has passed a bill which screen kids for eye issues reclassifies coconut as a tree ensuring legal protection for it. · Microsoft is tying up with the state of Telangana to The previous Laxmikant Parsekar-led government had use its artificial intelligence-based MINE platform changed the classification of the coconut tree to a palm. to screen children for eye problems and prevent avoidable blindness. India’s first micro forest being built in Chhattisgarh · The government of Telangana and Microsoft had Nineteen acres of land which housed around 70 government signed an MoU in November 2016 to use office buildings in Chattisgarh’s Raipur is being converted Microsoft’s cloud technology to drive citizen services and digital inclusion. into India’s first micro forest in order to create an oxy-zone. The micro forest will provide fresh air to Raipur which is the · The latest tie up is the result of an initial pilot to seventh most polluted city in the world. It will reportedly be understand the health screening programme open to the public in the next 8 months. conducted under the National Health Mission. · MINE -Microsoft Intelligent Network for Eyecare - FMCG Britannia to set up largest plant in is a global consortium of eyecare providers, research Maharashtra and academic institutions that will apply artificial India’s leading FMCG Britannia Industries would set up its intelligence to help in eyecare delivery. largest plant in Maharashtra in a food park at Ranjangaon. Maharashtra to raise $270 m from Green Climate There will be an investment of Rs 1000 crore at the Ranjangaon Fund food park over a period of four to five years with an employment potential for 3000 people. · Maharashtra Government to raise $270 million from the Green Climate Fund which will be invested in Amazon India, Telangana Handloom dept ink pact integrated watershed programmes such as Jalyukt · Amazon India has signed a memorandum of Shivar Yojana. understanding (MoU) with the Telangana · The 2030 Water Resources Group (2030WRG) will Department of Handloom and Textiles, to educate, help the Maharashtra Government to achieve this train and enable weavers and artisans to directly target. sell their products to Amazon customers across the · The 2030WRG is hosted by the International country. Finance Corporation and Its ultimate aim is to close · According to a statement issued by the e— the gap between water demand and supply by the commerce giant, with over 17,000 handlooms in the year 2030. state, this association will further help elevate · The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is a new fund under popular handloom products from clusters such as the UN and is guided by the principles and are Pochampally, Warangal, Gadwal, Narayanpet provisions of the UN Framework Convention on and Siddipet which have a tremendous potential Climate Change. and demand in urban areas. · Jeff Bezos is the Chief Executive Officer of Amazon Govt declares entire Assam as ‘disturbed’ area under AFSPA while Gopal Pillai, Director and GM, Seller Services, for another month Amazon India. · The Centre has declared entire Assam as a · Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao is the 1st and the “disturbed” area under the controversial Armed current Chief Minister of Telangana Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) for one more month, citing various violent activities by insurgent Odisha partners with Facebook to train 25k groups ULFA, NDFB, and others. women entrepreneurs in Odisha · The Union home ministry also declared · Odisha government in collaboration with social ’s border areas adjoining Assam, and media giant Facebook would organize workshops three districts in Arunachal Pradesh as “disturbed” for micro, small and medium women entrepreneurs under the AFSPA for two more months with effect (MSMEs) and women self-help groups on digital from August 03rd, 2017. marketing skills. Coconut regains tree status in Goa as Assembly · Around 25,000 MSMEs and women SHGs would passes bill be trained in next one year as part of the “Digital Marketing Skills”initiative.

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· Facebook founded on 2004. Mark Zuckerberg is the N-E Centre for Ethno Medicinal Research founder of face book. inaugurated in Manipur · Kalraj Mishra is the minster of MSME. A North East Centre for Ethno Medicinal Research has been · Odisha government and Facebook launch inaugurated at Hengbung village in Kangpokpi district of ‘SheMeansBusiness’ programme to train women Manipur. entrepreneurs in Odisha Meghshala app for teachers of Karnataka Namami Gange Jagriti Yatra campaign launched Bengaluru-based social education start-up Meghshala Trust, by UP government supported by Tata Trusts, launched Meghshala (‘School on · The Uttar Pradesh Government led by Chief Minister the Cloud’) offline mobile app for the teachers for Karnataka. Yogi Adityanath has flagged off a new awareness The app empowers teachers with the necessary tools and drive called Namami Gange Jagriti Yatra in the state resources to create classroom learning experiences. capital Lucknow. Rs 1,350-cr loan to Rajasthan govt · The drive will be focusing on cleanliness along the Rajasthan government to receive Rs 1,350cr loan from banks of Ganga river and maintain hygiene. NABARD to create rural infrastructure in the state under the · The drive will be covering a total area of around Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF). 1,025 kms including 25 districts situated on the banks of river Ganga in the state. Samsung India partners with Karnataka · The drive has been organised by Uttar Pradesh Government to donate stationery Homeguard volunteers. Samsung India and Karnataka has joined hands with each J&K govt. to spend Rs. 1 lakh Cr on education other to distribute notebook in the schools to support and road connectivity students from government schools across Bengaluru, Kolar and Mulbaghal districts in the state. · Jammu and Kashmir govt. has announced that it would be spending around Rs 1 lakh Cr on Odisha launches ‘Antara’ programme development works with special emphasis on Odisha Government has launched free Injectable education and road connectivity over the next five Contraceptive programme to strengthen family planning in years. the state. Antara programme, the drive was launched by the · Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed is the CM of J& K and state’s Health and Family Welfare department here. Narinder Nath Vohra is the governor of J & k · Srinagar is the summer capital and Jammu is the Handicraft Manufacturing Unit opens in Jharkhand winter capital of J& K. Jharkhand’s first textiles manufacturing and export unit ‘Orient Craft Ltd’ was inaugurated by Smriti Irani. Irani will also lay Gujarat first state to implement coal utilisation foundation stones of numerous companies under special between power units make in Jharkhand drive, called “Momentum Jharkhand” in · Gujarat government has issued a tender for power Jamshedpur. developers to receive cheap coal marked for the state in return for selling coal-based power at less NOTA to be applicable for Gujarat Rajya Sabha than Rs 2.82 a unit. Elections for the first time · Through the auction, Gujarat will transfer the coal · The Supreme Court has refused to stay the Poll allocated to power generating stations owned by Panel’s Notification allowing “None of the Above Gujarat State Electricity Corporation (GSECL) to (NOTA)” provision in the upcoming Rajya Sabha more fuel-efficient private power plants. Polls in Gujarat. · The Supreme Court Bench headed by Justice Dipak Odisha government to give land rights to slum Mishra has issued such order in retaliation to a dwellers petition filed by the Gujarat Congress. Odisha cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik · It is to note that, the direction to have NOTA in the will provide land with a record to the landless slum dwellers. Elections was enforced in January 2014 after the According to the decision, 600 square feet land will be Supreme Court in 2013 made it mandatory to have provided in 112 Notified Area Councils while 450 square feet the option in the Electronic Voting Machines land would be provided in 107 municipal areas. (EVMs).

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Gujarat govt to give ‘Namo’ tablets to 3.5 lakh In a bid to boost Odisha’s culture and tourism, the college students for Rs 1000 Government of Odisha, in collaboration with the Federation Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has distributed NAMO of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), will e-tabs to college students across the state. Gujarat organise the first ever Odisha Travel Bazaar in October in Government will distribute e-tablets to 4 lakh students during Bhubaneshwar. this year for which provision of Rs.300 crore has been made. Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said that NAMO- e Tab Andhra CM lauds anti-corruption helpline no. means – New Avenues of Modern Education Through 1100 Tablets. The Andhra Pradesh Government earlier in the year had introduced the helpline number 1100 to tackle corruption in Telangana Government Launches ‘Smart Streets the state. Lab In an effort to apply and figure out technology-based Maharastra launches web portal to help with solutions for women and road safety in Hyderabad, the competitive tests government of Telangana in association with the World The Maharashtra education board has launched a web portal Resources Institute (WRI) India – Ross Centre and the Indian with online question banks to help students prepare for School of Business (ISB) launched the ‘Smart Streets Lab’ competitive exams on their own. The portal, which can be programme. accessed for free, will function as a substitute for expensive coaching classes, board officials said. Karnataka Government launches Project Varshadhari Telangana government launches 181 helpline for Karnataka Government launched clouding seeding Project distressed women Varshadhari in Bengaluru under which an aircraft will spray Seeking to help and assist women in distress, the Department chemicals to induce rainfall. of Women Development and Child Welfare in collaboration with Hyderabad District Collectorate launched a Women Odisha Govt, FICCI join hands to promote Helpline no 181. culture, tourism 

manager of the team and is a member of ad hoc committee of Indian Hockey Federation. Veteran actor Sharada has been selected for the prestigious Prem Nazir award. A three-time National Award Winner Veteran actress ‘Sharada’ has been selected for this year’s Prem Nazir Award.The award will be presented to Sharada at a function at Chirayankeezhu (Kerala) on 15th August.‘Prem Nazir’ Award was instituted in memory of Kerala’s evergreen actor Prem Nazir by people of Chirayankeezhu (Kerala). JK Rowling named world’s highest- earning author by Forbes Harry Potter creator JK Rowling has been East Bengal honours Dhanraj Pillay named the world’s most highly-paid author Former India hockey captain Dhanraj Pillay was honoured with earnings of £72.2m ($95m) this year as announced by by East Bengal football club on its foundation day with its Forbes. highest award, Bharat Gaurav.He currently serves as the

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India LaRoda crowned Miss India America 2017  Best Midfielder of the 2016/17 UEFA Champions in Los Angeles League season: Luka Modriæ. Indian-African American India LaRoda has been crowned  Best Forward of the 2016/17 UEFA Champions Miss India America 2017 at the 25th anniversary gala, in Los League season: Cristiano Ronaldo. Angeles, California.  UEFA President’s Award: Francesco Totti. Ronaldo First to be named Men’s Player of the Trans woman from Kolkata crowned first Miss Year for Three Times Transqueen India Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo has won the UEFA Natasha, a trans woman who hails from Kolkata, was named Men’s Player of the Year award for the 2016/17 season. He the first Miss Transqueen India in the Transgender beauty received the award at the 2017/18 UEFA Champions’ League pageant held in Gurugram. group stage draw in Monaco. Scientists who proved Einstein wrong to get Bell Other Award Given are as follows- Prize  UEFA Women’s Player of the Year: Lieke Martens. A trio of scientists who defied Albert Einstein by proving  Best Goalkeeper of the 2016/17 UEFA Champions that quantum particles, when correlated in pairs, interact with League season: Gianluigi Buffon. each other regardless of their distance, will be honored with  Best Defender of the 2016/17 UEFA Champions the John Stewart Bell Prize from the University of Toronto. League season: Sergio Ramos. 

service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Uhuru Kenyatta : Uhuru Kenyatta has been re-elected as the president of Kenya. INDIA Sanjaya Baru: Sanjaya Baru, who was media advisor to former PM , has been named new secretary general of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. He will replace A Didar Singh and will assume the charge from September 1. Venkaiah Naidu: National Democratic Alliance (NDA) nominee and former union minister Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu has been elected as the 13th Vice President of India with 516 votes. Whereas, Opposition nominee Gopalkrishna Gandhi has secured 244 votes. He served as the Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty WORLD Alleviation, Urban Development and Information and Hassan Rouhani: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani was Broadcasting before getting elected as the Vice President of officially sworn in for a second term at a ceremony overseen India. by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei. Rajiv Kumar: Economist Rajiv Kumar has been appointed Peter O’Neill: Peter O’Neill re-elected prime minister of as the new vice chairman of NITI Aayog. He will replace Papua New Guinea Arvind Panagariya who resigned earlier in the week. The Christopher Wray: Christopher Wray was sworn in as government also appointed Dr Vinod Paul, a pediatrician at FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) director. The Federal the AIIMS, as a member of the NITI Aayog. Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of S. Aparna: Senior bureaucrat S Aparna, presently Principal Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security Secretary to Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, has been

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Article Rajiv Bansal : Rajiv Bansal, additional secretary in the 124 of the Constitution of India provides for the manner of petroleum ministry, has been named the interim CMD of Air appointing judges to the Supreme Court. India. I V Subba Rao : Retired IAS officer I V Subba Rao has Ajay Vipin Nanavati : Ajay Vipin Nanavati was appointed appointed the secretary to Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu. as the chairman of Syndicate Bank. The appointments The Prime Minister’s Office cleared the appointment a day committee of the cabinet has approved his appointment as on which Naidu assumed charge as the 13th vice president non-official director/non-executive chairman of Syndicate of the country. N Yuvaraj, Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS officer Bank for three years. of 2006 batch, will be the private secretary to Naidu. BRAND AMBASADR Shashi Shekhar Vempati : Shashi Shekhar Vempati, Chief Harmanpreet Kaur: Executive Officer (CEO) at public broadcaster Prasar Bharati Indian Women’s Cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur to be appointed DSP by Punjab has been appointed as the chief of Rajya Sabha TV.Vempati government. will replace Gurdeep Singh Sappal who has been serving as Akshay Kumar: the CEO and editor-in-chief of Rajya Sabha TV since 2011. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister ‘Yogi Panneerselvam : AIADMK leader and former Tamil Nadu Adityanath’ has announced Bollywood superstar ‘Akshay Chief Minister O.Panneerselvam has been sworn in as Deputy Kumar’ as the brand ambassador of the Swachh Bharat Mission in UP. The chief minister also announced to make Chief Minister under the merged All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) government in the state, in his upcoming movie ‘Toilet Ek Prem Katha’ tax-free in the state. presence of Governor CV Rao. Thiru Edappadi K. Palaniswami Rahul Dravid: InCred, the Mumbai-based new age Honble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. financial services group, has signed up former Indian skipper CORPORATE AND BANKING Rahul Dravid, as its brand ambassador. Mohammad Mustafa: Senior bureaucrat Mohammad Milkha Singh : Legendary Indian athlete Milkha Singh Mustafa has been appointed as the Chairman and Manging has been appointed WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Physical Director in Small Industries Development Bank of India Activity in South-East Asia Region. (SIDBI). Aishwarya Rai Bachchan : Bollywood star Aishwarya David Rasquinha : David Rasquinha, who is currently Rai Bachchan has become the first female actor ever to hoist Deputy Managing Director of Exim Bank of India, has been the Indian National Flag at Indian Film Festival of Melbourne. appointed as Managing Director of the Exim Bank of India. Indian Film Festival of Melbourne is an annual Indian film Dilip Asbe : National Payments Corporation of India has festival based in Melbourne, presented by Film Victoria & appointed Dilip Asbe, its chief operating officer, to act as its the State Government of Victoria. She was also bestowed chief executive officer in the wake of the retirement of A. P. with ‘Excellence in Global Cinema’ award at the film festival. Hota, its founding managing director. Neymar : World’s most expensive footballer, Brazil’s Ashish Chauhan : Top stock exchange BSE’s board has Neymar Jr has become a goodwill ambassador for Handicap approved another five-year term for its chief Ashish Chauhan. International. Chauhan, who joined BSE as deputy chief executive officer RESIGN (CEO) in 2009, was made MD and CEO for a period of five Ian Narev : The Commonwealth Bank has announced that years with effect from November 2, 2012. its chief executive Ian Narev will retire by the end of the Dhirendra Swarup: The Capital and Stock Market current financial year.The Commonwealth Bank of Australia Regulator SEBI has appointed Dhirendra Swarup as the new is an Australian multinational bank with businesses across Chairman of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). He will replace New Zealand, Fiji, Asia, the United States and the United the incumbent Chairman Sudhakar Rao. Prior to his new post, Kingdom. Dhirendra Swarup was working as Public Interest Director at the BSE.

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Pahlaj Nihalani : Pahlaj Nihalani, whose decisions as the Former Minister, freedom fighter and ten-time CBFC (Central Board of Film Certification) chief repeatedly legislator Gyan Singh Sohanpal, one of the most respected angered the film fraternity, has been replaced by noted lyricist politicians in the state has passed away. Fondly called and ad guru Prasoon Joshi, drawing widespread applause ‘Chacha’ (uncle) by all, Sohanpal began his long march in from the film fraternity. public life by joining the Congress during the 1942 Quit India Lalit Modi : Lalit Modi has resigned as the president of movement, and was the oldest candidate in fray during last the Nagaur District Association, severing his ties with the year’s assembly polls. Rajasthan Cricket Association. Former IPL chairman & Dr Ruth Pfau : Dr Ruth Pfau, a German doctor popularly commissioner, expunged by BCCI, had earlier refused to quit, known as Pakistan’s ‘Mother Teresa’ for dedicating her life prompting the cricket board to suspend the state association. to eradicate leprosy in the country has passed away. Ashok Mittal : Ashok Mittal, Chairman of the Railway Sitaram Panchal : Bollywood film Peepli Live actor Sitaram Board submitted his resignation to Railway Minister Suresh Panchal passed away after almost a year-long battle with Prabhu. His resignation comes in the wake of a number of a kidney and lung cancer. high-profile accidents and derailments on the Indian Yisrael Kristal : World’s oldest man, Yisrael Kristal, who Railways. Ashwani Lohani, the CMD of Air India has been lived through both World Wars has passed away in Israel. named as the new Chairman of Railway Board. He was born in Poland. Vishal Sikka : Indian software outsourcing giant Infosys Sir Bruce Forsyth : TV entertainer and showbiz legend, CEO Vishal Sikka announced his resignation. Sir Bruce Forsyth (UK) has passed away. Tom Pritchard : New Zealand’s Oldest Cricketer Tom OBUITARY Pritchard Passes Away Santosh Mohan: Former Union Minister (Heavy Industry Ramananda Sengupta : India’s oldest cinematographer Minister in the UPA-I government) Santosh Mohan Dev has Ramananda Sengupta dead passed away. Tony de Brum : Tony de Brum, champion of Paris climate Angel Nieto: Spanish motorcycling legend Angel Nieto agreement, dies aged 72 has passed away. Gyan Singh Sohanpal, ‘Chacha’ of Bengal politics, passes away 

The centre has approved a proposal to rename the Mughalsarai railway station in Uttar Pradesh after RSS ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyaya. The proposal was given by the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh in a bid to revive the legacy of Upadhyaya, who died in 1968 at the junction itself. Govt. to develop green airports in Andhra Pradesh India’s initiative to develop green airports, two airports (Tirupati and Vijayawada) in Andhra Pradesh are going to go completely green. Airports Authority of India (AAI) has commenced installation of 1MWp solar power plant at both the airports. It has also completed installation of solar power plants at 29 airports/locations with a total capacity of 12.84 MWp. Earlier, the Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) in Kerala Govt nod to rename Mughalsarai railway station became the first airport in the world, to be completely powered as Deen Dayal Upadhyaya by solar energy.

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Bengaluru to have India’s first heli-taxi service External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will inaugurate the The Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru, country’s first Videsh Bhavan, assimilating all Regional Karnataka will become the first airport in the country to have Passport Offices under one roof, at the Bandra Kurla Complex a helicopter-taxi (heli-taxi) service for those who cannot afford (BKC) in Mumbai. to spend time battling traffic to travel across the city. National Sports Museum to be established in New World Peace University inaugurated in MIT, Pune Delhi India’s first world peace university was inaugurated in Pune, The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is going to Maharashtra. It was named as Dr Vishwanath Karad MIT establish National Sports Museum, first of its kind, at World Peace University (MIT-WPU). It is India’s first Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi. It will display university in the field of Holistic Education and it was achievements of the Indian greats in sports and also act as founded by Prof Vishwanath D Karad. an educational hub and offer opportunity for the young to delve into some sporting activity. First Cyber Court in e-commerce Hub launched by China Nungthaang Tampak becomes North East’s first China launched its first cyber court to handle Internet-related 100 % computer literate village cases in the e-commerce hub of Hangzhou. Manipur’s Nungthaang Tampak village has emerged as the ‘100 percent computer literate’ not only in the state but in the India’s first Aviation University opened in Rae entire North East. The training program was organised by Bareli in Uttar Pradesh Mangaal Rural, an NGO working for rural development. · India’s first Aviation University was inaugurated at Fursatganj in Uttar Pradesh.  · The Central Aviation University has been planned as an Autonomous Body under the Administrative Control of the Ministry of Civil Aviation with an aim to Facilitate and Promote Aviation Studies, Teaching, Training and Research. · For setting up the Central Aviation University, the Union Cabinet had given its approval in 2013 and consequently, the Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University Bill, 2013 had floated through the both houses of the Parliament and finally received the assent of the President of India on 19 September 2013. · Air Vice Marshal (Retired) Nalin Tandon has been appointed as the inaugural Vice-Chancellor. India’s first Railway Disaster Management Centre to come up in Bengaluru · India’s first Railway Disaster Management Institute and Safety Village to be come up in Hejjala Village near Bengaluru at a cost of Rs. 44.42 crore and expected to be completed by Dec 2018. · The Institute and Safety Village will focus mainly on imparting State-of-the-Art Training on Rescue, Medical Relief and Rolling Stock Restoration Techniques in a Classroom and also using various Simulated Teaching Aids. Sushma Swaraj to inaugurate first Videsh Bhavan in Mumbai

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Bolt was left with only a bronze in his final individual 100m race  India at World Athletics C’ship : Davinder Singh Kang created history, as he became the first Indian athlete to make it to the final round of the javelin throw at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in London.  2017 IAAF World Championship was the 16th edition of IAAF World Championship.  17th edition will be held on Doha.  USA won the highest medal in the 16th edition of IAAF Championship followed by Kenya. Paris to host Olympic in 2024 and Loss Angeles in 2028  On 31 Jul 2017, Lausanne, Switzerland based International Olympic Committee (IOC) Two silver & Six bronze medals for India at Asian has approved the bid of Paris to host the Junior boxing Summer Olympics in 2014 and Los Angeles bid to host the  India finished the Asian Junior Boxing Summer Olympics in 2028. Championships with two silver, and six bronze  The Paris had hosted the game for the first time in medals in Puerto Princesa, Philippines. 1932 and Los Angeles had hosted the Summer  Satender Rawat (80 plus kilogram category) and Olympics for the third time in 1984. Mohit Khatana (80-kilogram category) settled for  The 2020 edition of Summer Olympics will be hosted silver medals after losing their final in the in Tokyo, Japan. Championships. ONGC beat Bengaluru Hockey 4-2, wins MCC-  Earlier, Ankit Narwal, Bhavesh Kattimani, Sidhartha Murugappa Gold Cup Malik, Vinit Dahiya, Akshay Siwach and Aman Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) capped a fine run Sehrawat claimed bronze medals after losing in the by beating surprise finalist Bengaluru Hockey Association semifinals in their respective weight categories. (BHA) 4-2 in the final to emerge champion in the 91st All- Ankur Mittal wins gold in Asian Shotgun India MCC-Murugappa Gold Cup hockey tournament held Championship at Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Indian shooter Ankur Mittal clinched the individual as well Ravindra Jadeja tops ICC ranking among all- as the team gold medal in men’s double trap at the 7th Asian rounders in Test Cricket Shotgun Championship in Astana. With scores of Sangram India’s Ravindra Jadeja edged out Shakib Al Hasan Dahiya and Mohammad Asab added to Mittal’s final total, (Bangladesh) to claim the top-rank among all-rounders apart India managed to bag the top prize in the team event too. from maintaining top position in the bowlers’ chart in the World Athletics C’ships: Wayde Van Niekerk latest ICC test match rankings. retains men’s 400m title ICC Test rankings (Batsmen): 1- Steve Smith (Australia), 2-  Olympic Champion Wayde Van Niekerk (South Joe Root (England), 3-Cheteshwar Pujara (India) African) won the men’s 400 meters event and ICC Test rankings (Bowlers): 1- Ravindra Jadeja(India), 2- retained his title in World Athletics Championships, Jimmy Anderson (England), 3- R Ashwin (India) London. ICC Test (all rounders): 1- Ravindra Jadeja(India), 2- Shakib  In 100 meters race news American veteran Justin Al Hasan(Bangladesh), 3- R Ashwin(India) Gatlin was booed after he stunned Usain Bolt to Indian Athletes Bag Record 37 Medals at World win the 100m world title in London and rain on the Dwarf Games Jamaican’s farewell race in the blue riband event.

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The 21-men Indian team won 37 medals including 15 golds, at the 7th Asian Shotgun Championship held at 10 silver and 12 bronze medals in the 7th edition of the World Astana, Kazakhstan. Dwarf Games in Toronto, Canada. Arunachalam Nalini, who  World Player of the Year, Cristiano Ronaldo was won five medals, including one gold. banned for five-match by the Spanish football federation. 2017 FIBA Asia Cup  The greatest sprinter of modern times, Usain Bolt Australia has been crowned the FIBA Asia Cup 2017 form Jamaica retired from the Athletics world. But at basketball champions by defeating Iran in the final in Beirut, farewell Race, he injured himself while running the Lebanon. last lap of the men’s 4x100m relay race in the World Wayne Rooney retires from international football Athletics Championships in London. England’s all-time leading goalscorer Wayne Rooney has  Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina came out with a announced his retirement from international football, stupendous performance as she defeated Caroline effective immediately. Wozniacki in straight sets to clinch women’s singles London to host 2018 table tennis team World Cup title of Rogers Cup played at Canada. Germany’s The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has Alexander Zverev has won men’s singles title of announced that the 2018 ITTF Team World Cup (second the Rogers Cup after beating Swiss maestro Roger most prestigious team tournament after the World Federer. Championships) will be held in London.  India finished with a total of eight medals including three golds, one silver and four bronze medals at NEWS IN BRIEF the 7th Asian Championship Shotgun in Astana,  India have bagged 24 medals at the Jordan Junior Kazakhstan. Indian pair of Mairaj Khan and and Cadet Open table tennis tournament. The tally Rashmmi Rathore won gold in the mixed skeet team includes 7 Gold, 7 Silver and 10 Bronze medals. In event at 7th Asian Shotgun Championship in the event held at Amman, India ended as the second Kazakhstan.Earlier Indian shooter Ankur Mittal best finishers. clinched the individual as well as the team gold  Two-time former heavyweight champion Wladimir medal in men’s double trap. Klitschko, a Ukrainian former professional boxer has  Maratha Yoddhas edged out Haryana Warriors 10- announced retirement from his “incredibly 9 in finals to win the inaugural edition of Super successful boxing career” which lasted 21 years. Boxing League at Siri Fort Squash & Badminton  Indian Grandmaster R.R. Laxman clinched the Stadium in New Delhi. National Blitz Chess Championship title held in  The Under-19 cricket Asia Cup, scheduled to be Kolkata. held in Bengaluru, has been moved to Malaysia  Brazil’s Neymar (25-year) has become the world’s following the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)’s most expensive footballer, with Paris Saint-Germain objection to the tournament being held in India. signing him for a five-year deal from Barcelona for a The tournament will now be held in November in fee of Rs. 1,680 crores (€222 million). Earlier, Paul Malaysia. Pogba (Manchester United) was the most expensive player.   Ravindra Jadeja has become the 2nd fastest Indian to reach 150 Test wickets, behind teammate Ravichandran Ashwin. He achieved the feat while bowling in Sri Lanka’s first innings on day 3 of the 2nd Test. Ashwin had reached the milestone in 29 Tests while Jadeja managed it in 32 games. He also became the fastest Indian left-arm spinner to reach 150 wickets, ahead of Vinoo Mankad (40 Tests).  Indian shooter Ankur Mittal clinched the individual as well as the team gold medal in men’s double trap

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 Labs will also be integrated PayPal Incubator, which was launched in 2013, to develop & nurture the next generation of fintech startups. DRDO’s “Black Box” invention  DRDO has developed an ejectable black box for planes which will eject from an aircraft when it sinks after an accident & will get activated after coming in contact with water.  It is developed as part of Make in India initiative, is aimed for use on planes & submarines.  It can help in situations like AN32 crash where in spite of using deep-sea probes, authorities were not able to trace debris  S.Christopher is Chairman of the Defence Research and Development Organisation. H.Q -New Delhi Google’s Internet Saathi programme reaches  A. S. Kiran Kumar is the Director of ISRO having 100,000 villages H.Q at Bengaluru.  American Internet giant, Google India said that it has reached a milestone of 100,000 villages with its Google, NSDC launch programme to improve Internet Saathi programme which was launched as Mobile Developer Ecosystem a pilot in Rajasthan in July 2015 along with Tata  National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) Trusts. and Google India launched Android Skill Development Programme to impart mobile app  Google will also be expanding the program in two new states - Haryana and Bihar. development training on the Android and Web platform and improve the quality of mobile app  25,000 fully trained Internet Saahis are working everyday across these villages to help women and development ecosystem in India. children learn about the Internet.  NSDC is a public-private partnership enterprise under the Ministry of Skill Development & ISRO to launch a ‘back-up’ navigation satellite by Entrepreneurship. Manish Kumar is the MD and month-end CEO of NSDC  ISRO will launch its navigation satellite IRNSS-1H  Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google. Larry Page is by the end of this month to augment the existing 7 the founder of Google. satellites of NavIC constellation. To be launched Amazon Launches Virtual Customer Service in on board PSLV-C39, IRNSS-1H will be a “back up” navigation satellite for IRNSS-1A, one among the Four Indian Cities seven satellites in the constellation. Amazon announced the launch of virtual customer service (VCS) model, an initiative launched to create cost efficient  IRNSS-Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, PSLV - Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle employment prospects for skilled candidates seeking more flexible work opportunities. VCS has currently been launched PayPal launches innovation labs in India in Hyderabad, Pune, Coimbatore, and Noida.Jeff Bezos is  PayPal has opened 2 innovation labs in India to the CEO of Amazon. support projects in the field of machine learning, artificial intelligence and other new technologies. World’s smallest surgical robot made in UK A robot named Versius was made by the scientist of United  The labs in Bangalore and Chennai are company’s first in India. PayPal has labs in the US and Kingdom, is said to be the world’s smallest robot. It will Singapore. transfer transform daily operations for tens of thousands of patients.

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Microsoft acquires cycle computing astronauts at the International Space Station can Microsoft has acquired the Cycle Computing in order to give communicate with Earth. its customer High Performance Computing (HPC) and other NASA successfully launches Tracking and Data Big Computing capabilities in the cloud and help them Relay Satellite-M accelerate their movement to the cloud. Cycle Computing The NASA has successfully launched Tracking and Data headquartered in US is a company that provides software Relay Satellite-M (TDRS-M) into orbit. It was launched for orchestrating computing and storage resources in cloud aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. TDRS- environments. M is third and final satellite in a series of the Tracking and World’s fastest train to be launched by China Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS), next generation The world’s fastest bullet train — the Fuxingto be launched communications satellites. by China. It will run between Beijing and Shanghai at 350 kms per hour, Facebook starts rolling out shows for ‘Watch’ to take on YouTube Google announces Android Oreo In an apparent bid to take on Google-owned YouTube, Android 8.0 is now official as Android Oreo. Earlier, the Facebook has rolled out ‘Watch’ — a redesigned video operating system was known as Android O. platform for creators and publishers. The social media giant last year launched ‘Video’ tab in the US which offered a Satellite to help astronauts talk to Earth by NASA predictable place to find videos on Facebook. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has launched the latest in a series of satellites to ensure that the 

Diu, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Telangana and Uttarakhand — will be part of this phase.  The first phase of the campaign has started in February 2017 from five states and UTs — Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa, Lakshadweep and Puducherry.  The campaign which has been launched phase wise aims to cover approximately 41 crore children.  All children from nine months to less than 15 years of age will be given a single shot of measles-rubella (MR) vaccination during the campaign.  Following the campaign, MR vaccine will become a part of routine immunization and will replace measles vaccine, currently given at 9- 12 months and 16-24 months of age of child.

3.4 cr children expected to be covered under 2nd Motorbike ambulance service launched in phase of MR vaccination Mumbai  The Union health ministry has rolled out the second Maharashtra govt has launched a motorbike ambulance phase of measles and rubella (MR) vaccination service to provide swift medical assistance to patients. campaign under which 3.4 crore children are Ambulance will be available through ‘1082† helpline, have expected to be covered to reduce incidences of teams of paramedics providing treatment, especially in places these diseases in the country. inaccessible to larger ambulances, to patients during the  Eight states and UTs — Andhra Pradesh, golden hour. Royal Enfield motorbikes have been converted Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and into ambulances with emergency medical equipment

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First plant-based Zika vaccine developed  IVI began formal operations as an independent In a first, US scientists have developed a plant-based Zika international organization in 1997 in Seoul, Republic vaccine that could be more potent, safer and cheaper to of Korea. produce than other medicines being developed for the  Currently, IVI has 40 countries and the World Health disease. The vaccine, developed using tobacco plant, targets Organization (WHO) as signatories to its a key protein — called DIII — which envelopes the outside Establishment Agreement. of the Zika virus and plays a key role for the virus to infect Highest number of tuberculosis deaths among people. Zika virus is spread by daytime-active Aedes children in India mosquitoes. India has the most number of childdeaths due to tuberculosis, India gives $500,000 to International Vaccine according to a Lancet study which found that over 55,000 Institute children died from the disease in the country in 2015. The India has entered into an agreement with International Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal. It Vaccine Institute (IVI) in South Korea under which it has is one of the world’s oldest and best known general medical committed an annual contribution of $5,00,000 for vaccine journals. research and development. 40% Reservation for Girls at Planned Schools About International Vaccine Institute (IVI) The government has decided to proffer 40 per cent  International Vaccine Institute (IVI) is an reservation for girls at 100 Navodaya-type schools and five international nonprofit organization , is an initiative higher education institutes it plans to set up for minority of the UN Development Programme (UNDP). community students. 

Gandhi University and Dr. J.M. Julka of the Shoolini University, India have found two new species, named Drawida polydiverticulata and Drawida thomasi, have been discovered in the Western Ghats mountain ranges in Kerala. Severe Typhoon Hato hits Hong Kong Typhoon Hato smashed into Hong Kong with hurricane force winds and heavy rains in the worst storm the city has seen for five years, shutting down the stock market and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights. India’s rights for deep sea mining extended by 5 years India’s exclusive rights to explore polymetallic nodules from seabed in Central Indian Ocean Basin (CIOB) have been extended by five years. This was approved unanimously in the 23rd Climate change costs India $10 billion every year session of International Seabed Authority Extreme weather events are costing India $9-10 billion (ISA) concluded at Kingston, Jamaica. annually and climate change is projected to impact agricultural ‘Rayichapalu’ fish declared as rarest species of productivity with increasing severity from 2020 to the end of fish the century. ‘Rayichapalu’, a regular catch for fishermen in Andhra Two new species of earthworm found in Kerala Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam, has been declared as one of the Indian researchers Dr. S. Prasanth Narayanan, Mr. S. rarest species of fish in the world by Marine Living Resources Sathrumithra, Dr. G. Christopher, all affiliated with Mahatma Department, Andhra University.  38 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2017

India and US to conduct joint military exercise ‘Yudh Abhyas 2017’ India and the United States of America will conduct 13th “Yudh Abhyas” joint exercise between their armies in September. The exercise Yudh Abhyas – 2017, will be held from September 14-27 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in the US. Sri Lankan navy commissions India- built Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel An Indian-built Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel (AOPV) has been commissioned by the Sri Lankan navy at a ceremony in Colombo harbour. Constructed by the Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) in India, it is the first-ever brand new AOPV purchased from a foreign ship builder for Sri Lanka, custom-made for the specific requirements of the Sri Lankan Navy. Indian army buys Six Apaches for Rs 4,168 crore  Six choppers will be procured for the army at a cost LCU Mark IV L52 ship commissioned at Port Blair of Rs 4168 crore from United States. The decision by Indian Navy was taken at a meeting of the Defence Acquisition Indian Navy’s second LCU (landing craft utility) Mark IV Council(DAC) chaired by defence minister Arun L52 ship was commissioned at Port Blair, capital of Andaman Jaitley. and Nicobar Islands. LCU L52 is the second LCU Mk-IV  The DAC has also cleared a proposal to procure class ship to be inducted into the Indian Navy. two gas turbine engines for naval ships at a cost of US and South Korea Annual Military Exercise Rs 490 crore. Begins  India, in the past, had ordered 22 Apache and The Ulchi Freedom Guardian drill is a computer-simulated Chinook helicopters from Boeing in 2015. The defensive exercise between India and USA designed to Apache choppers are operated in the armed forces enhance readiness and maintain stability on the Korean of United States, Israel and The Netherlands among peninsula. other nations. Indian Coast Guard ship ‘Shaurya’ commissioned Indian Army develops app for soldiers in Goa Indian Army has developed a mobile application through Indian Coast Guard ship ‘Shaurya’, the fifth in the series of which serving soldiers can track details like postings & six 105-metre Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs), was promotions. Through the app named Humraaz, soldiers can commissioned in Goa by Union Minister for Petroleum and view their monthly salary slips & Form 16 and also download Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan. them. For security reasons, the installation of the application has been linked to verification of Aadhar details. India, China to join Indian Ocean exercise Indian Navy would join the People’s Liberation Army Navy India’s first private missile production facility in a maiden maritime search and rescue exercise at the Indian unveiled Ocean Naval Symposium in November.The exercise will be India’s first private sector missile sub-systems manufacturing held in November 2017 in the Bay of Bengal under the facility, a joint venture between the $2.5 billion Kalyani Group chairmanship of Bangladesh. and Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defence Systems Ltd., was inaugurated near Hyderabad. To begin with, the Kalyani Indian Navy Band Participates in International Rafael Advanced Systems (KRAS) plant will make anti-tank Military Music Festival in Russia guided missile (ATGM) Spike. The International Military Music Festival “Spasskaya Tower” is the parade of the best military music bands of Russia and

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Process was hosted by India, as the Lead Country, in New Delhi. Sushma Swaraj to attend fourth Bangladesh-India Joint Consultative Commission in September  India and Bangladesh have confirmed that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will visit Dhaka in the first half of September to attend the fourth Bangladesh-India Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) meeting. This will be Swaraj’s second visit to Bangladesh.  Bangladesh -, Currency:Taka, Capital: Dhaka, PM: Sheikh Hasina, President: Abdul Hamid International Union of Crystallography concluded in Hyderabad Nepal to host BIMSTEC Meeting in August 2017 The 24th Congress and General Assembly of  The Kathmandu City in Nepal hosted 4th edition of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 2017 BIMSTEC Summit, 2017 attended by seven member concluded in Hyderabad, Telangana. Crystallography is the countries to review the progress made by the group study of crystals such as sugar, ice and grains of common and to recommend future course of action to salt. strengthen Regional Cooperation among the group. Power minister addresses the 8th World  BIMSTEC stands for Bay of Bengal Initiative on Renewable Energy Technology Congress in Delhi Multi Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation. Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, Renewable  The BIMSTEC is the Sub-Regional Group of seven Energy and Mines, Shri Piyush Goyal has inaugurated the countries in South Asia and South East Asia located 8th World Renewable Energy Technology Congress in Delhi. in the littoral and adjacent areas of the Bay of Bengal. The annual conference is visualized and planed in the  It was constituted on 6 June 1997 and its backdrop of India’s vision on achieving “Energy headquarters is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. independence and power for all by 2022”.  Member Countries of BIMSTEC are India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka (South Asian Global meet on maternal and child health to be Countries) and South East Asian Countries are held in Ethiopia Myanmar and Thailand. Ethiopia will host an international conference on maternal and child health on August 24 and 25 under the theme 8th meeting of Regional Technical Group on Trade, “Overcoming critical obstacles to maternal and child Commerce and Investment CBM survival”. The eighth meeting of the Regional Technical Group of Confidence Building Measure on Trade, Commerce & India-ASEAN Youth Summit concluded in Bhopal Investment Opportunities under the Heart of Asia – Istanbul

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The India-ASEAN five day Youth Summit concluded in in 2008. Finally in 2010, the then Finance Minister Bhopal. The exercise marked the 25th anniversary of the of India, Pranab Mukherjee, decided to set up such ASEAN-India dialogue partnership in the ongoing year and an autonomous body dealing with macro prudential also the commemorative year’s theme of “Shared Values, and financial regularities in the entire financial sector Common Destiny”. of India  Chairperson: The Union Finance Minister of India FSDC meeting held in New Delhi The 17th Meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Rajnath Attends SCO Meet in Kyrgyz Republic Council (FSDC) was held in New Delhi under the A two-day Meeting of Heads of Governments of Shanghai Chairmanship of the Finance minister Shri Arun Jaitley. Cooperation Organization (SCO) Member States begun at Choplon Ata in Kyrgyz Republic. The meeting focused on About FSDC prevention and elimination of emergency situations. The  Financial Stability and Development Council Capital of Kyrgyz Republic is Bishkek. Its Currency is (FSDC) is an apex-level body constituted by the Kyrgyzstani som. government of India.  The idea to create such a super regulatory body  was first mooted by the Committee

markets and strengthen rules for algorithm trades, among other norms.  SEBI is the statutory regulator for the securities market in India established in 1988. It was given statutory powers through the SEBI Act, 1992. SEBI’s Chairman - Ajay Tyagi, Headquarters: Mumbai Justice Srikrishna committee submits report on Institutionalization of Arbitration Mechanism in India A High Level Committee under the Chairmanship of Justice BN Srikrishna which was set up to review the Institutionalization of Arbitration Mechanism in India has submitted its report. The committee has SEBI forms committee on fair market conduct recommended for setting up an Autonomous  Stock market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Body, Arbitration Promotion Council of India, APCI having representatives from all stakeholders for Board of India (SEBI) has set up a committee “on grading arbitral institutions in India. fair market conduct”.  The panel will work under the chairmanship of Tarun Ramadorai Committee on Household former Lok Sabha Secretary General and former Law Finance submitted its Report Secretary T.K. Viswanathan.  Tarun Ramadorai Committee on Household Finance  The committee is expected to submit the report constituted by the RBI has submitted its report has within a period of four months.The committee will suggested that Banks to link their Home Loan Rates suggest measures for improving surveillance of the to the RBI’s Repo Rate instead of Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate (MCLR).

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 The Committee has also recommended that all Banks Government forms panel to address data use the same reset Period of one Month for Loans. protection issues  It is to note that, under the current system, Floating  The Ministry of Electronics and Information rate Loans have a fixation period of one year. Technology (MeitY) has constituted an experts I&B Ministry constituted Preview Committee for committee headed by the Supreme Court’s former Judge B.N. Srikrishna to study and identify key data IFFI 2017 to be headed by Agnihotri protection issues and recommend methods for A committee is constituted by the Information and addressing them. Broadcasting Ministry for the International Film Festival of  Ravi Shankar Prasad-Minister of Electronics and India (IFFI) 2017 under the chairmanship of director Vivek Information Technology Agnihotri. IFFI, considered as one of the top 10 film festivals of the world, will be held in Panaji, Goa, from November 20 to  28.

Book on bodybuilder’s fight overcoming HIV released  Book ‘I am HIV positive, so what?’ on the career of Manipur bodybuilder, K Pradipkumar Singh, known for his personal struggle against HIV AIDS, was released.  K Pradipkumar Singh won the Mr South Asia title and bagged a bronze in the Mr World contest in 2012.  The book is written by journalist Jayanta Kalita. Raghuram Rajan pens book ‘I Do What I Do’ on his RBI stint Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has penned a book titled ‘I Do What I Do: On Reform, Rhetoric & Resolve’.

World’s shortest woman unveils 51-feet high book  The world’s shortest woman Jyoti Amge unveiled a 51-feet high book. The book ‘Kadve Vachan’ is written by Jain saint Acharya Tarun Sagar Maharaj. Amge is considered to be the world’s shortest woman alive by the Guinness World Records at 62.8 cm. Punjab CM releases book on Khushwant Singh Punjab CM Amarinder Singh has recalled the crucial role played by noted author and journalist Khushwant Singh in defusing tension in Punjab after Operation Blue Star. He released a book on the popular author titled ‘Khushwant Singh: In Wisdom and in Jest’. The book is co-authored by Vijay Narain Shankar and Onkar Singh.

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NGT bans use of non-biodegradable plastic bags in Delhi The National Green Tribunal, NGT has imposed an interim ban on use of non-biodegradable plastic bags which are less than 50 microns in the entire national capital. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar also announced an environment compensation of 5,000 rupees on anyone found in possession of such banned plastic. Hrithik Roshan Inks Rs 100 crore Deal with Startup Cure.Fit Hritik Roshan has been signed as a brand ambassador by a health and wellness startup Cure.fit in a deal worth Rs 100 crore. The actor will be associated with the brand for five years. Oxford Launches Tamil, Gujarati SC bans use of 5 metals in firecrackers Online Dictionaries  Supreme Court has imposed a ban on use of 5 After the Hindi version, Oxford University Press (OUP) has harmful metals in firecrackers as they cause launched online dictionaries in Tamil and Gujarati as part of enormous air pollution. its special focus on Indian languages.  A bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur Judy Pearsall, Director for Oxford Dictionaries prohibited use of lithium, mercury, arsenic, antimony, lead metals which are used in manufacturing of Nationwide yatra against child trafficking by firecrackers. Kailash Satyarthi  Court have also asked CPCB (Central Pollution Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi has announced that he Control Board) & PESO(Petroleum and Explosives would embark on a 35-day ‘Bharat Yatra’, leading a fight Safety Organisation) to setup standards regarding against child trafficking and child sexual abuse across the air pollution caused by bursting of fire-crackers. country. The yatra will begin in Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu  S.P. Singh Parihar is the chairman of CPEC. on September 11 and will conclude in Delhi on October 15, after covering 22 states. Children aged below 14 not allowed to participate in ‘Dahi Handi’ festival: Bombay HC IOC to Invest Rs 52,000 cr in Paradip Refinery  High Court has accepted Maharashtra government’s Post statement that it would not allow children below  Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) will invest about Rs the age of 14 years to participate in the ‘Dahi Handi’ 52,000 crore in expanding Paradip refinery in Odisha festival. and setting up petrochemical complex after the  A division bench of Justices B R Gavai and M S Odisha State Government agreed to restore part of Karnik, however, refused to impose restrictions on tax incentives. the height of human pyramid formation during the  Headquarters of IOC is located in New Delhi. festival.  Sanjiv Singh is the current Chairman of IOC. ‘Dawn of cruise tourism in India’ inaugurated in Mumbai 9-yr-old Indian youngest to climb 6153m mountain in Kashmir In order to promote cruise tourism in India, a special event, Nine-year-old Kaamya Karthikeyan became the youngest ‘The dawn of cruise tourism in India’ was inaugurated in person to reach the summit of the 6,153 metres-high Mt Stok Mumbai. Nitin Gadkari is the current Minister for Road Kangri in Kashmir. In May this year, Kaamya had Transport and Highways and Shipping successfully reached the base camp of Mt Everest at 5,464 metres.

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Microsoft Launches ‘Project Brainwave’ for Real- made by a team of Muslim Aid volunteers at the East London Time AI Mosque. Software giant Microsoft has announced its ‘Project Nepal launches climate-smart snow leopard plan Brainwave’ deep learning acceleration platform for real-time artificial intelligence (AI). With the help of ultra-low latency, Nepal has launched its climate-smart snow leopard landscape the system processes requests as fast as it receives them. management plan, leading the way in safeguarding this endangered species, also found in India, and its habitat. Microsoft Accelerator announces 11th start-up cohort Campaign for clean and healthy society launched Tech giant Microsoft has announced its 11th cohort of 14 Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Tanwar late-stage start-ups for its ‘Accelerator’ programme to help Chand Gehlot inaugurated a nine-day campaign on ‘Clean boost their enterprise readiness and go-to-market (GTM) Society-Healthy Society’. This campaign which will be carried activities. out by the Brahma Kumaris organization in different areas of Delhi, Noida, Gurugram and Faridabad. World record for biggest samosa set in UK The world record for the largest samosa has been created in  London. The enormous snack, weighing in at 153.1 kg, was

 Japan- Capital: Tokyo, Currency: yen. Shinzo Abe DATE & OBSERVATION is the current Prime Minister of Japan. World Day against Trafficking in Persons observed on 30 International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples: 9 July August World Biofuel Day: 10 August  United Nations World Day against Trafficking in National Deworming day: 10 August Persons was observed across the world. The second round of National Deworming Day (NDD) is  The day was observed to raise awareness of the observed on 10 August in 33 States and Union Territories to plight of Human Trafficking victims and promote tackle worm Infections, targeting more than 11 crore children. and protect their rights. August 10, is the second round of National Deworming Day,  The theme of World Day against Trafficking in held twice a year. The NDD program was launched in 2015. Persons, 2017 was “Act to Protect and Assist Under the NDD programme, children aged between 1-19 are Trafficked Persons”. provided deworming tablets in schools and anganwadis World breastfeeding week – August 1-7, 2017 across the country, except in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh World breastfeeding week 2017 Theme: “Sustaining where deworming is carried out once a year. Breastfeeding Together”. National Handloom Day: 7 August World Humanitarian Day: 19 August The campaign was launched on WHD with the theme-  National Handloom Day is observed annually to #NotATarget and organized by United Nastion. encourage people to use hand-made loom in the country. Sadbhavana Diwas: 20 August The Sadbhavana Diwas or Harmony Day is celebrated to  The main event held in Guwahati to celebrate the commemorate the birth anniversary (August 20) of Rajiv third National Handloom Day on 7th August 2017. Gandhi.  Central Government had declared August 7 as August 12: World Elephant Day National Handloom Day in 2015, to be celebrated African elephants are listed as “vulnerable” and Asian every year due to its significance in India’s history, as ‘Swadeshi Movement’ was launched in 1905 on elephants as “endangered” in the IUCN Red List of threatened species. this day. The movement involved revival of domestic International Youth Day: 12 August products and production processes. Nagasaki Day: 9th August The International Youth Day 2017 theme: ‘Youth Building Peace’.  Japan marks 72 years since world’s first atomic bomb August 13: Organ Donation Day attack at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. India observes 13th of August as Organ Donation Day every  US dropping the first atomic bomb dubbed “Little year with an aim to raise & increase awareness and encourage Boy” on August 6, 1945, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, 1945, the people to pledge to donate organs after death. second bomb—”Fat Man”—was dropped on Nagasaki. Harry Truman was then USA president  who gave approval to dropped an atomic bomb.

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E) Raghuram Rajan 15. New Zealand’s former fast Bowler ___ has passed away. A) Andy Ducat B) Jasper Vinail C) Tom Pritchard D) Wilf Slack E) Phillip Hughes 16. Which of the following companies has started its 11th cohort of 14 late-stage start-ups for its ‘Accelerator’ programme to help boost their enterprise readiness and go-to-market (GTM) activities? A) IBM B) Google C) Microsoft D) Accenture 17. On 23rd August 2017, HDFC Ergo D) Federal bank General Insurance has completed its 8. Which of the following has recieved merger with which of the following licence from RBI to operate under Insurance companies? BBPS? A) L&T General Insurance 1. Who has been appointed as the CEO of A) Tottocraft Pvt. Ltd. B) IFFCO Tokio BSE? B) Able Tourism Pvt. Ltd. C) Religare General Insurance A) Shantanu Narayen C) Spice Digital Ltd D) Cigna TTK B) Sunil Bharati Mittal D) Technosoft pvt. Ltd. 18. The central government has raised the C) Ashish chauhan 9. USS Pearl Harbor arrives in India. It creamy layer ceiling from Rs ___ lakh D) Rajeev Suri belongs to which Country? per annum to Rs ___ lakh per annum 2. Who has been crowned as the first Miss A) UK B) USA A) 5, 7 B) 6, 8 transqueen of India? C) Germany D) Britain C) 4, 6 D) 7, 9 A) Calpernia B) Manisha 10. Which of the following is the world’s 19. A nine-day campaign on ‘Clean Society- C) Aderet D) Natasha lest visuted country in 2016? Healthy Society’ has been launched by 3. Who was conferred with Bell Prize? A) Ireland B) Jamacia which ministry for the different areas A) John Bell McGreth C) Tuvalu D) Indonesia of National Capital Region (NCR)? B) John Stewart Bell 11. Who has recieved Biju Patnail Award A) Ministry of National Sports and C) Martina Bell for Scientific Excellence for 2017? Youth D) Rusell Bell A) R. Sangma B) Ministry of Environment 4. Who has been named as the UEFA Europa B) Basanti Sahoo C) Ministry of Social Justice and League Player of the season? C) Prof. Digambar Behera Empowerment A) Gareth Bale D) Aruna Mohanty D) Human Resource Development B) French Paul Pogba E) Devi lal Prasad Ministry C) Sergio Ramos 12. Who has crowned as Miss India America 20. FSSAI along with which bank is working D) Phillipp Lahm 2017 ? for preserving India’s food heritage 5. Who has been conferred with the UEFA A) Sishtim B) Pifell creating an archive of recipes and other player of the year award? C) LaRoda D) Hayden Diana initiatives? A) Lionel Messi E) Yukta Ameen A) State Bank of India B) Christiano Rhonaldino 13. Forbes listed ___ as the World’s highest B) ICICI Bank C) Cristiano Ronaldo paid actors. C) Yes Bank D) Phillip Lahm A) Jackie Chan D) Bank of India 6. Banks would pay what percent of the B) Adam Sandler 21. Scientists from which country have tax under the GST for Gold imports? C) Mark Walhberg discovered a new frog species named A) 4% B) 2% D) Dwayne Johnson Nasikabatrachus bhupathi, which has C) 3% D) 5% E) Vin Diesel a face of a pig? 7. Which bank has launched ‘100 Digital 14. Who is the author of book “I Do What I A) Kazakhstan B) Finland Villages’ initiatives to promote digital Do”? C) Germany D) India banking? A) Narendra Modi 22. England’s Wayne Rooney has announced A) Indian overseas bank B) Arvind Panagariyah his retirement from which of the B) Canara bank C) Arvind Subramanian following sports? C) Vijaya bank D) D Subbarao A) Football B) Tennis

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C) Chess D) Cricket to engage leaders who can guide and 39. The first edition of Grameen Khel 23. Who has been named as the new mentor students at more than 900 Atal Mohotsav is gping to start at which Chairman of the Railway Board? Tinkering Labs? place? A) A.K. Mittal A) Ministry of Ayush A) Rajasthan B) Avneesh Malhotra B) CCI B) Himanchal Pradesh C) A.G. Mishra C) NITI Aayog C) Uttrakhand D) Ashwani Lohani D) Human Resource Development D) New Delhi 24. Who has been selected for the Screen Ministry 40. Coast Guard training ship ___ Actors Guild Life Achievement Award 31. Google has unveiled new version 8.0 of decommissioned at the south jetty of for year 2017? Android. The code name given to this the Southern Naval Command. A) Dwayne Johnson Android 8.0 is A) Kavita B) Varuna B) Morgan Freeman A) Donut B) Eclair C) Agni D) Param C) Adam Sandler C) Gingerbread D) Oreo 41. Which State govt. Is going to build its D) Vin Diesel 32. Which of the following banks has first Eco-park ? 25. Rajya Sabha MP Rishang Keishing has launched its all-in-one ‘DigiPOS’ Point A) Uttrakhand passed away recently. He was also the of Sale (POS) machine in August 2017, B) J&K former Chief Minister of which state? which will offer a complete suite of C) Haryana A) Manipur digital payment options? D) Punjab B) Sikkim A) Yes Bank 42. India held Foreign and Polcy talks with C) Arunachal Pradesh B) ICICI Bank EU at which place? D) Assam C) HDFC Bank A) Gwalior B) Shimla 26. Which ministry has launched “Swasth D) Axis Bank C) New Delhi D) Cennai Bachche, Swasth Bharat” Programme 33. Which has become the first to score 350 43. Brian Aldiss, “the grand old man” of which is an initiative of Kendriya La Liga goals in its history? which country, died at 92? Vidyalaya Sangathan. A) Cristiano Ronaldo A) Poland B) USA A) Ministry of Earth Sciences B) Lionel Messi C) UK D) Germany B) Ministry of Women and Child C) David Beckham E) Australia Development D) Sergio Ramos 44. Who is the CEO of Dhanalaxmi Bank? C) Human Resource Development 34. Who has won Silver against Nozomi A) Mahesh Kumar Jain Ministry Okuhara in Glasgow, Scotland? B) rana kapoor D) Ministry of Health and Family A) Jwala Gutta C) Shri G. Sreeram Welfare B) Saina Nehwal D) Aditya puri 27. Name the head of preview committee C) PV Sindhu E) Vishwavir Ahuja formed by the Ministry of Information D) Ashwini Ponnapa 45. What is the currency of Hong Kong? and Broadcasting for the International 35. India has defeated ___ to win SAFF A) Dinar B) Dollar Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2017? fotball Championship? C) Peso D) Inti A) Vivek Agnihotri A) China B) Malayasia E) Rupee B) Anurag Kashyap C) Nepal D) Bhutan 46. Who is the Chief of Indian Army? C) Farhan Akhtar 36. Govt notifies changes in Banking A) Dalbir Singh D) Rajkumar Hirani Regulation Act. What are these changes? B) Bipin Rawat 28. Which of the following state A) To demand the data of stressed C) Arup raha governments has launched Free assets as and when required D) Shakti Singh injectable contraceptives ‘Antara’ B) To enquire banks about lending E) Raghav Keshu programme? rates and take actions 47. Who is the agriculture minister of A) Karnataka C) To initiate insolvency resolution Karnataka ? B) Andhra Pradesh and specify comiittees to advise A) Mohan Singh C) Maharashtra D) None of these B) Sudarshan Bhagat D) Odisha 37. RBI has appointed a cmmiittee on C) Krishna Byre Gowda 29. Who is going to launch a 35 day ‘Bharat Household Finance. Whois the D) Parshottam RUpalai Yatra’, leading a fight against child chairman of the commiittee? E) SS Ahluwalia trafficking and child sexual abuse across A) DR Mehta 48. Which company has launched S&P BSE the country? B) CE Kamath Bharat 22? A) Kailash Satyarthi C) Tarun Ramadorai A) Jigal Cables B) Sridhar Reddy D) C Rao B) 7NR Retail C) Gaurav Pandey 38. Which city is going to host World Book C) Asia Index D) Anna Hazare Fair 2017? D) Globalspace 30. Which of the following has launched A) New Delhi B) Chennai E) gautam Exim “Mentor India” Campaign, an initiative C) Ludhiana D) Dehradun

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49. Which education board has launched a A) Kiran Mazumdar C) Varshadhari web portal to help competitive tests? B) Pravin Rao D) Laptop Bhagya A) Gujarat C) Ravi Venkatesan 66. FICCI has joined hands with which state B) Madhya Pradesh D) D Sundaram govt. to promote culture, tourism? C) Rajasthan E) Nandan Nilekani A) Gujarat B) Maharashtra D) Maharashtra 58. Where is the Ministry of Youth Affairs C) Odisha D) Andhra Pradesh E) Meghalaya and Sports going to establish National 67. The Andhra Pradesh Government earlier 50. A Panel under the Chairmanshio of _____ Sports Museum, first of its kind in the in the year had introduced the helpline is formed to review National Mineral country? number ___ to tackle corruption in the Policy, 2008. A) Bhatinda B) Lucknow state. A) Harsh Banwala C) Jaipur D) New Delhi A) 1000 B) 1001 B) K Rajeswara Rao 59. India’s exclusive rights to explore C) 1100 D) 1010 C) Hemant Contractor polymetallic nodules from seabed in 68. Where will the country’s first Videsh D) Sandeep Jajodia Central Indian Ocean Basin (CIOB) Bhavan be inaugurated by External E) Sriram Kalyanraman have been extended by how many Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj? 51. EPFO organizes Tiranga Yatra in the years? A) New Delhi B) Mumbai commemoration of 75th anniversy of A) four B) three C) Gurugram D) Bhubaneshwar Quit India Moment at: C) five D) two 69. Where is the headquarters of HDFC A) New Delhi B) Kolkata 60. The cabinet of India approved MoU ERGO General Insurance Company C) Chennai D) Kerala between India and _____ on Drug situated? E) Mumbai Demand Reduction and Prevention of A) Pune B) Hyderabad 52. Microsoft India has Signed a MoU with Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs and C) Mumbai D) Chennai which state to help farmers by using Psychotropic Substances and 70. Where is the headquarters of Yes Bank IT tools? precursor chemicals, and related situated? A) Andhra Pradesh matters. A) New Delhi B) Mumbai B) Telangana A) China B) Switzerland C) Gurugram D) Hyderabad C) West Bengal C) Nepal D) Bhutan 71. Where is the headquarters of Food D) Karnataka 61. India approved MoU with Nepal for Safety and Standards Authority of India E) Tamil Nadu starting construction of a new Bridge situated? 53. Telangana government launches over _____River at Indo-Nepal border. A) New Delhi B) Mumbai ___helpline number for distressed A) Mechi B) Gandaki C) Gurugram D) Hyderabad women in collaboration with Ministry C) Koshali D) Marshyangdi 72. Who is the Chief Executive of FASSAI? of Women development and Child 62. A digital police portal under the CCTNS A) Ashish Bahuguna welfare? project has been launched by : B) Pawan Kumar Agarwal A) 118 B) 181 A) Narendra Modi C) Ghanshyam Das C) 188 D) 811 B) Sushma Swaraj D) Pankaj Handa E) 881 C) Jayalalitha 73. Who is the present Chief Ministter of 54. An Indian student named ____ has D) Rajnath Singh Manipur? developed a Nano Missile for Indian 63. The Cabinet Committee on Economic A) Naveen Patnaik Army. Affairs (CCEA) has approved the B) Lal Thanhawla A) Shobhana kamineni closure of loss-making Bharat Wagon C) Mukul Sangma B) Ashok mathur and Engineering Company (BWEL). It D) Biren Singh C) Mahesh Kumar comes under which ministry? 74. Who is the Prime Minister of Nepal? D) Dacharla Panduranga rohith A) Ministry of Information and A) Pushpa Kamal Dahal E) Rakesh Kumar Chaturvedi broadcasting B) Sher Bahadur Deuba 55. Typhoon ___ Smashed into Hong Kong. B) Ministry of Urban Development C) Khadga Prasad Oli A) Haiyan B) Hato C) Ministry of Railways D) Sushil Koirala C) Ketsana D) Megi D) Ministry of Chemical Fertilizers 75. Where is the International Film Festival E) Rammasun 64. The cabinet has approved the renaming of India (IFFI) 2017 going to held in 56. DHFL Pramerica tied up which bank of central sector scheme SAMPADA November? for bancassurance? to ______A) Maharashtra A) Yes bank A) PMDSY B) PMLSY B) Goa B) ICICI bank C) PMKSY D) PMKDY C) Karnataka C) Dhanlaxmi bank 65. Karnataka govt. launched a new Project D) Telangana D) Federal Bank based on clouding seeding. The Project 76. According to The Economic survey, E) Kotak Bank is named as: every year climate changes cost around 57. Who has appointed Chairman of Infosys A) Yug Yuva how much to the government of India? Board? B) Kaushalya Karnataka A) $10 billion B) $13 billion

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C) $12 billion D) $11 billion 87. The third bi-monthly monetary policy 98. Where was a two day Conclave of Tax 77. According to a Lancet study, which of of RBI has forecasted Indian GDP Officers entitled ‘Rajaswa the following countries has the most growth at what percentage? Gyansangam’ held? number of child deaths due to A) 6.8 B) 7.3 A) Bengaluru B) New Delhi tuberculosis? C) 7.8 D) 8.6 C) Hyderabad D) Bhubaneshwar A) China B) India 88. SEBI has formed a committee on fair 99. Who has been appointed as the new C) Indonesia D) Jaoan market conduct under? Secretary General of Federation of 78. Who has become the second Indian A) S.S. Mundra Indian Chambers of Commerce & female footballer to win the Arjuna B) T.K. Viswanathan Industry? Award? C) T.K. Venugopal A) Mukesh Pradhan A) Ngangom Bala Devi D) N.C. Saxena B) Bikram Verma B) Nongm Ratanbala Devi 89. Hassan Rouhani has been re-elected as C) Sanjaya Baru C) Okram Roshini Devi the President of which country D) Dhirendra Swarup D) Oinam Bembem Devi recently? 100. Who has clinched the men’s singles title 79. Which country has won the FIBA Asia A) Iran B) Iraq at Lagos International challenge? Cup 2017 basketball championship? C) Syria D) Yemen A) Manu Attri A) Australia 90. Which lending agency has permitted B) B Sumeeth Reddy B) Iran India to construct the hydroelectric C) C Rahul Yadav C) New Zealand power facility on Kishanganga? D) Kiran Rana D) Ukraine A) IMF B) World Bank 101. Which two airports in Andhra Pradesh 80. Who has been sworn in as Deputy Chief C) ADB D) AIIB are going to be developed as green Minister of Tamil Nadu? 91. SBI has slashed interest rate on SB airports by the central government? A) K.Pandiarajan Account upto 1 cr. to? A) Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam B) M. Karunanidhi A) 4.5% B) 4% B) Rajahmundry and Tirupati C) V. K. Sasikala C) 3.5% D) 3% C) Tirupati and Vijayawada D) O.Panneerselvam 92. As per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index D) Visakhapatnam and Tirupati 81. The CCEA of India has approved the Jack Ma is richest Asian who won 102. Who has been appointed as the new MOU with which group for an which group? vice chairman of NITI Aayog? agricultural research platform? A) Alibaba B) Fashion A) Rajiv Kumar A) EU B) ASEAN C) Maxcell D) None of these B) Vinod Shukla C) BRICS D) BIMSTEC 93. Which Indian Public Sector Bank has C) Abhijit Kanwar 82. Who heads the Ministry of Electronics issued overseas bond worth $ 400 D) Kishan Mehta & IT Export Committee on Data million recently? 103. Who has been named as the world’s Protection? A) SBI highest-earning author by Forbes? A) Sam Pitroda B) Indian Bank A) James Patterson B) B. N. Srikrishna C) Union Bank of India B) JK Rowling C) N. C. Saxena D) Canara Bank C) Jeff Kinney D) Y. V. Reddy 94. Who has been appointed as the brand D) Dan Brown 83. Central govt. has launched e-RaKAM ambassador of Swachha Bharat 104. What is the Repo Rate according to the in which field? Mission in Uttar Pradesh? Third Bi-monthly Monetary Policy of A) Sports B) GST A) Amitabh Bachchan the RBI? C) Agriculture D) Defence B) Akshaya Kumar A) 6.00% B) 6.25% 84. Which state govt. has passed a bill C) Priyanka Chopra C) 5.75% D) 6.75% banning conversion recently? D) Amir Khan 105. Santosh Mohan Dev who passed away A) Uttar Pradesh 95. India’s first private sector missile sub- recently for the former Union Minister B) Maharashtra system manufacturing facility was under which Ministry? C) Bihar recently opened in? A) Chemicals and Fertilizers D) Jharkhand A) Hyderabad B) Panaji Ministry 85. China has recently opened its first C) Bengaluru D) Kolkata B) Human Resource Development overseas base in? 96. Ankur Mittal is associated with which Ministry A) Philippines B) Vietnam sports? C) Heavy Industry Ministry C) Sri Lanka D) Djibouti A) Football B) Billiards D) Agriculture and Farmers Welfare 86. USA has recently imposed sanction on C) Shooting D) Rowing Ministry the President of which country? 97. National Handloom Day is observed on? 106. What is the theme of World A) Libya B) Syria A) 7th August B) 5th August breastfeeding week 2017? th nd C) Venezuela D) Sarmatia C) 4 August D) 2 August A) Breastfeeding: A Winning Goal – For Life!

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B) Breastfeeding and Work: Let’s 114. Where will the 15th meeting of the 122. Which of the following state Make It Work! Foreign Ministers of BIMSTEC government launched ‘She Means C) Breastfeeding: A key to countries held in August 2017? Business’ programme of Facebook for Sustainable Development A) Colombo women entrepreneurs in the state? D) Sustaining Breastfeeding Together B) Kathmandu A) Uttar Pradesh 107. Wladimir Klitschko, world boxing C) Delhi B) Gujarat champion has announced his retirement D) Dhaka C) Uttarakhand from his boxing career. He played for 115. Which of the following banks has signed D) Odisha which country? agreement with India for lending of US$ 123. Home Credit India Finance, a non- A) Germany B) Russia 329 million for Gujarat Rural Roads banking financial company (NBFC), C) Kazakhstan D) Ukraine Project? has partnered with which of the 108. Who has been appointed as the CEO, A) Asian Infrastructure Investment following to enable customers to pay Chief Executive Officer of Payback Bank their loan EMIs (Equated Monthly India? B) World Bank Installments)? A) Gautam Kaushik C) Asian Development Bank A) Paytm B) Vinay Pujara B) Mobikwik C) Navneet Sethi D) International Monetary Fund C) Airtel Payments Bank D) Hardik Sahu 116. Which of the following will acquire D) Freecharge 109. MobiKwik has entered into tie-up with Brilliant Basics, a London-based 124. Who has been appointed as the acting which non-banking financial company product design and customer chief executive of National Payments to launch India’s first debit and credit experience (CX) innovator? Corporation of India? wallet? A) Microsoft A) Dilip Asbe A) Reliance Capital B) TCS B) David Rasquinha B) Muthoot Finance C) Infosys C) R.C. Shah C) Bajaj Finance Ltd D) IBM D) Ramesh Abhishek D) Centrum Finance 117. Government has revised the base year 125. Which country will host the first 110. Which of the following institute has of Wholesale Price Index (WPI) from BIMSTEC Disaster Management “AGRI UDAAN” programme in which 2004-05 to ______Exercise in October this year 2017? selected startups will be trained to A) 2015-16 A) Myanmar B) Sri Lanka develop innovative agriculture B) 2016-17 C) Bangladesh D) India products? C) 2013-14 126. Which of the following has launched a A) Directorate of Knowledge D) 2011-12 video platform called ‘Watch’ for Management in Agriculture 118. Microsoft has tied up with which state creators and publishers? B) Indian Agricultural Statistics government to use its artificial A) Microsoft B) Google Research Institute intelligence-based MINE platform to C) Facebook D) Bing C) Indian Agricultural Research screen children for eye problems and 127. Who has been appointed as WHO Institute prevent avoidable blindness? Goodwill Ambassador for Physical D) National Academy of Agricultural A) Odisha Activity in South-East Asia Region? Research Management B) Telangana A) Imran Khan 111. Mohammad Mustafa has been C) Maharashtra B) Anupam Kher appointed as the Chairman and D) Kerala C) Farhan Akhtar Manging Director in 119. Where will the India-Asean Youth D) Milkha Singh A) NPCI B) NABARD Summit held in August 2017? 128. Which of the following state government C) SIDBI D) NHB A) Varanasi B) Noida has launched an awareness drive called 112. Who has been roped in as brand C) Bhopal D) Jaipur Namami Gange Jagriti Yatra ambassador of InCred, the Mumbai- 120. Recently motor bike ambulance service for cleanliness along the banks of Ganga based new age financial services group? has launched in which city? river? A) Rohit Sharma A) Kolkata B) Mumbai A) Bihar B) Sachin Tendulkar C) Pune D) Patna B) Uttar Pradesh C) Sourav Ganguly 121. The central government has decided to C) Uttarakhand D) Rahul Dravid observe 70th Independence Day on D) Jharkhand 113. Which Arab Country will offer August 15 2017 as 129. Where in India is Bangladesh going to permanent residency to some non- A) Siddhi Parva open a new diplomatic station? citizens? B) Sankalp Parva A) Pune, Maharashtra A) Saudi Arabia C) Sanshay Parva B) Hyderabad, Telangana B) Sudan D) Sadhna Parva C) Chennai, Tamil Nadu C) Jordan D) Puri, Odisha D) Qatar

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130. For the year ended June 30, 2017, The A) Justice J.S. Khehar solution for corporates that digitises Reserve Bank of India will transfer how B) Justice Markandey Katju employee spends and claims? much surplus amount to the C) Justice Dipak Misra A) ICICI Bank government? D) Justice P. N. Bhagwati B) Axis Bank A) Rs 304.38 billion 139. Who has been awarded the Asia Game C) IDFC Bank B) Rs 303.42 billion Changer Award for 2017 by the Asia D) Yes Bank C) Rs 305.63 billion Society for using celebrity to place a 146. Who among the following has been D) Rs 306.59 billion spotlight on India’s poor? appointed as the World Health 131. World Bank has sanctioned a loan of A) Dev Patel Organisation’s goodwill ambassador how much amount for funding B) Mehul Menon for physical activity in South-East Asia Institutional Development and for C) Deepak Sethi Region (SEAR)? construction of priority infrastructure D) Milan Singh A) Milkha Singh projects for the river Ganga? 140. ‘Khushwant Singh: In Wisdom and in B) Sachin Tendulkar A) US $ 2 billion Jest’ on popular author Khushwant C) Mary Kom B) US $ 1 billion Singh book is co-authored by D) P T Usha C) US $ 2 million A) Salman Rushdie and and Vikram 147. Which bank introduced two tier interest D) US $ 1 million Seth rate structure for saving bank accounts 132. ISRO and NOAA (National Oceanic B) Onkar Singh and Khushwant and will offer 4 per cent interest per and Atmospheric Administration) are Singh annum for incremental balance over Rs going to develop high speed data link C) Vijay Narain Shankar and Vikram 50 lakh and 3.50 per cent per annum for meteorological data exchange. Seth for balance up to Rs 50 lakh? NOAA is located in D) Vijay Narain Shankar and Onkar A) Federal Bank A) France B) Russia Singh B) Syndicate Bank C) Germany D) USA 141. As part of its forthcoming Country C) Indian Bank 133. The Banking Regulation (Amendment) Partnership Strategy for the period D) Indian Overseas Bank Bill, 2017 passed by the parliament will 2018-22, which of the following has 148. Who among the following has become amend which of the following? proposed an overall annual lending of the first female actor ever to hoist the A) Banking Regulation Act, 1949 US$ 3 billion to US$ 4 billion for their Indian National Flag at the Indian Film B) Banking Regulation (Amendment) Indian Operations Festival of Melbourne (IFFM)? Ordinance, 2017 A) World Bank A) Kangna Ranaut C) Banking Regulation (Amendment) B) BRICS New Development Bank B) Deepika Padukone Ordinance, 2015 C) Asian Development Bank C) Aishwarya Rai Bachchan D) Banking Regulation Act, 1947 D) Asian Infrastructure Investment D) Priyanka Chopra 134. When is World Bio-Fuel Day observed? Bank 149. Which among the following Indian A) 7 August B) 8 August 142. Where is the India’s first micro forest company has become the third most C) 9 August D) 10 August built in order to create an oxy-zone? funded private company globally? 135. Markets regulator Sebi has entered into A) Raipur B) Ranchi A) Paytm B) FreeCharge pact with its counterpart in which C) Patna D) Varanasi C) Flipkart D) Infibeam country to promote technical 143. Joint military excercise “Yudh Abhyas” 150. To improve road safety with the use of assistance and facilitate cross-border 2017 between India and USA is going technology, which State Government, co-operation? to held at which military base? has announced the launch of Smart A) Oman B) Qatar A) Joint Base Lewis-McChord Streets Lab program? C) Iran D) Kuwait B) Fairchild Air Force Base A) Punjab 136. Name the first Hindu to be included in C) JBLM McChord Field B) Odisha a Pakistan government in more than 20 D) Langley Air Force Base C) Chhattisgarh years. 144. For the first time in the country, which D) Telangana A) Bhagat Lal bank has launched Instant Credit Card 151. Which public sector bank unveiled two B) Vishnu Kumar Service, which will enable its savings new digital services for online C) Darshan Lal account customers to get a credit card payments – Bharat QR (Quick D) Mahesh Kumar instantly? Response) and Bharat Bill Payment 137. Which of the teams won MCC- A) ICICI Bank System (BBPS)? Murugappa Gold Cup Hockey 2017? B) Axis Bank A) Syndicate Bank A) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation C) IDFC Bank B) Canara Bank B) Bengaluru Hockey D) Yes Bank C) Corporation Bank C) Railways 145. Which of the following bank has D) Indian Bank D) Hockey Odisha partnered with digital payments 152. What was the theme of ‘International 138. Who is appointed as the new Chief company Zeta, to launch a payment Youth Day 2017’ observed on August Justice of India? 12, 2017?

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A) ‘Youth and Sustainable A) Maharashtra B) Pollution Development’ B) Gujarat C) Child Labour B) ‘Youth and Employment’ C) Rajasthan D) Child Trafficking C) ‘Youth Building Harmony’ D) Madhya Pradesh 170. IOCL will invest what amount to D) ‘Youth Building Peace’ 161. India’s first World Peace University expand the Paradip refinery in Odisha? 153. On the occasion of ‘World Elephant named as Dr. Viswanath Karad MIT- A) Rs. 42,000 cr. Day’ (August 12th), which campaign WPU was inaugurated recently at? B) Rs. 52,000 cr. was launched by Union Environment, A) Hyderabad C) Rs. 62,000 cr. Forest and Climate Change Minister, B) Pune D) Rs. 82,000 cr. Dr. Harsh Vardhan to protect C) Patna 171. Which country has opened its first elephants? D) New Delhi cyber court to handle internet related A) ’Gaj Saathi’ 162. The Terminator Train was launched cases? B) ’Gaj Mitra’ recently in collaboration with which A) India B) China C) ’Gaj Yatra’ railway? C) USA D) Japan D) ’Gaj Kavach’ A) Central Railway 172. Global meeting on Maternal and Child 154. Sriram Sagar project, which was in news B) Northern Railway health in August last week will be held recently, is located in which state? C) Southern Railway in A) Kerala D) None of these A) Angola B) Ethiopia B) Tamil Nadu 163. The North-Eastern Ethno Medicinal C) Congo D) South Africa C) Karnataka Research Centre was inaugurated in 173. Union Bank of India has signed a D) Andhra Pradesh which state recently? corporate agency agreement with 155. Which among the following has received A) Meghalaya which company to sale its insurance? markets regulator Securities and B) Arunachal Pradesh A) Bajaj Allianze Exchange Board of India (SEBI)’s C) Manipur B) Cholamandalam MS approval to launch country’s first gold D) C) Iffco Tokyo options contract? 164. Social Education Start Up Meghashala D) Both (A) & (B) A) National Stock Exchange Trust has launched Meghashala offline 174. The first regional centre of the BRICS- B) Bombay Stock Exchange mobile app for teachers in which state? New Development Bank was opened C) Multi Commodity Exchange A) Manipur B) Kerala in? D) National Commodity & C) Karnataka D) Telengana A) India Derivatives Exchange 165. The 24 th Congress and General B) China 156. Which of the following entity has Assembly of the International Union C) South Africa launched a dedicated platform for trade for Crystallography 2017 was held D) Brazil and exchange of digital currencies such recently in? 175. As per Finance Ministry report SBI as bitcoin, litecoin, ether, Lisk, monero, A) Hyderabad accounts for what percentage of NPA dash and game credits ? B) Bengaluru of Public Sector Banks? A) CryptBay B) WhiteBay C) Chennai A) 13 B) 17 C) BitBay D) HexaBay D) Mumbai C) 23 D) 27 157. ‘Dawn of cruise tourism in India’ was 166. The 8th World Renewable Energy 176. The Mentor India Programme to engage inaugurated by Union Minister for Technology Congress was held recently leaders who can guide mentor students Road Transport and Highways and in? in more than 900 Atal Tinkering Lab Shipping Nitin Gadkari in: A) Kolkata was launched by A) Kochi B) Kolkata B) Bhubaneswar A) NCVT C) Panaji D) Mumbai C) New Delhi B) AICTE 158. Legislative Assembly of which state D) Gurgram C) HRD Ministry passed a bill which reclassifies coconut 167. Which country has the most number D) NITI Ayog as a ‘tree’, ensuring legal protection for of child deaths due to TB as per Lancet 177. FDI in Indian Economy has increased it? study? by what percentage as per DIPP A) Goa B) Tamil Nadu A) Pakistan B) Congo report? C) Kerala D) West Bengal C) India D) Syria A) 7% B) 17% 159. Which company has announced the 168. Name the programme launched by C) 27% D) 37% launch of Virtual Customer Service Odisha govt. to strengthen family 178. Indian Army will purchase 6 Apaches (VCS) model in India? planning? Choppers @ Rs. 4618 cr. from? A) Apple B) Alibaba A) Antara B) Sakhi A) France B) Japan C) Walmart D) Amazon C) Sukhi D) Sahaya C) Germany D) USA 160. Which among the following has become 169. The 35 day “Bharat Yatra” will be 179. A new ministerial dialogue to enhance first state in India to implement coal launched by Kailash Satyarthi against? peace and security across the Indo- utilisation between power units? A) Illiteracy

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Pacific region will be started between 191. Former Olympic and World Cycle ANSWER KEYS India and? Champion Stephen Wooldridge who A) China B) Japan died recently belong to? 1. C 2. D 3. B 4. B C) USA D) Sri Lanka A) USA B) Canada 5. C 6. C 7. C 8. C 180. Indian athletes bagged how many C) Australia D) Russia 9. B 10. C 11. C 12. C medals at the World Dwarf Games? 192. Which Public Sector Bank bagged ten 13. C 14. E 15. C 16. C A) 27 B) 37 awards from NABARD recently? 17. A 18. B 19. C 20. C C) 17 D) 47 A) SBI 21. D 22. A 23. D 24. B 181. Who won the FIBA Asia Cup 2017 B) Corporation Bank 25. A 26. C 27. A 28. D Basketball Championship? C) SIDBI 29. A 30. C 31. D 32. C A) India B) Japan D) UCO Bank 33. B 34. C 35. C 36. C C) USA D) Australia 193. Scientists from the Edinburgh 37. C 38. D 39. D 40. B 182. The TDRS-M Satellites was launched University of UK have discovered 41. B 42. C 43. C 44. C by which country recently? largest Volcanic region on Earth under? A) China B) Japan A) Antarctica B) Pacific 45. B 46. B 47. C 48. C C) USA D) India C) Atlantic D) None of these 49. D 50. B 51. E 52. D 183. Sadbhavana Diwas or Harmony Day 194. Which state govt. has launched the 53. B 54. D 55. B 56. C in India is observed on? Indira Canteen to serve food at 57. E 58. D 59. C 60. C A) 18th August subsidised rate to the poor? 61. A 62. D 63. C 64. C B) 19th August A) Tamil Nadu 65. C 66. C 67. C 68. C C) 20th August B) Karnataka 69. C 70. B 71. A 72. B st D) 21 August C) Goa 73. D 74. B 75. B 76. A 184. India’s first railway disaster D) Madhya Pradesh 77. B 78. D 79. A 80. D management village will be established 195. India’s first partition museum was 81. C 82. B 83. C 84. D near? opened in? 85. D 86. C 87. B 88. B A) Hyderabad A) Amritsar 89. A 90. B 91. C 92. A B) Bangaluru B) Panaji 93. D 94. B 95. A 96. C C) Kochi C) Pathankot 97. A 98. B 99. C 100. C D) Gandhi Nagar D) Sri Nagar 101. C 102. A 103. B 104. A 185. Which country will host the next 196. World Humanitarian Day is observed meeting of the Steering Committee in on? 105. C 106. D 107. D 108. A TAPI Gas Pipeline? A) 18th August 109. C 110. D 111. C 112. D A) India B) Pakistan B) 19th August 113. D 114. B 115. A 116. C C) Iran D) Turkmenistan C) 20th August 117. D 118. B 119. C 120. B 186. The Indo-UK Institute for Health will D) 21st August 121. B 122. D 123. A 124. A be established in? 197. Dick Gregory who died recently is a 125. D 126. C 127. D 128. B A) Andhra Pradesh famous 129. C 130. D 131. B 132. D B) West Bengal A) Actor B) Scientist 133. A 134. D 135. C 136. A C) Kerala C) Journalist D) Sports Star 137. C 138. A 139. C 140. D D) Odisha 198. LCV Mark IV L52 Ship of Indian Navy 141. C 142. A 143. A 144. A 187. The 1st South Asian Youth Summit will was commissioned at? 145. C 146. A 147. C 148. C be organised in September 2017 at? A) Panaji B) Port Blair 149. C 150. D 151. B 152. D A) New Delhi C) Howard D) None of these 153. C 154. E 155. C 156. C B) Kolkata 199. World’s smallest Surgical Robot was 157. D 158. A 159. D 160. D C) Bhubaneswar developed by scientists from? 161. B 162. B 163. B 164. C D) Chennai A) USA B) UK 188. The G-7 Interior Ministers Summit on C) China D) Japan 165. A 166. C 167. C 168. A Security will be held in? 200. Power Grid Corporation has recently 169. D 170. B 171. B 172. B A) USA B) Japan signed a $ 500 million loan agreement 173. D 174. C 175. D 176. D C) Italy D) France with? 177. D 178. D 179. C 180. B 189. Which is world’s most liveable city? A) World Bank 181. D 182. C 183. C 184. C A) Melbourne B) Vienna B) ADB 185. A 186. A 187. C 188. C C) Geneva D) Vancouver C) IMF 189. A 190. B 191. C 192. B 190. Which International lender has agreed D) NDB 193. A 194. B 195. A 196. B to provide $ 24.64 million for India’s 197. A 198. B 199. B 200. B Forest Ecosystem Services?  A) IMF B) World Bank C) ADB D) NDB

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(b) Condensation (c) Radiation (d) Isolation 14. The most efficient engine is (a) Petrol (b) Diesel (c) Electric (d) Steam 15. Speed of sound is greater than in solids than in liquids because (a) The atoms in solids are regulatory arranged (b) The atoms in liquids are loosely packed (c) The solids have high elasticity (d) None of these 16. Core of transformer is made up of (a) Soft Iron (b) Steel 1. The first Europeans to come to India (a) 341 (b) 342 (c) Copper were (c) 343 (d) 346 (d) Aluminium (a) British (b) Dutch 8. Which chief justice of India has acted as 17. Galvanised Iron sheets have a coating of (c) French (d) Portuguese president of India? (a) Tin (b) Lead 2. In 1809 Maharaja Ranjit Singh signed a (a) M. Hidyatullah (c) Zinc (d) Chromium treaty with (b) P. B. Gajendra Gadkar 18. The location and energy of an electron (a) East India Company (c) P. N. Bhagwati in an atom can be specified by (b) Shah Alam (d) All of the above (a) Atomic mass (c) King of Kashmir 9. The chairman of the Public Accounts (b) Atomic number (d) Ruler of Sindh Committee of the parliament is (c) Quantum number 3. Which of the following was a novelty in appointed by (d) None of these Shah Jahan’s buildings? (a) Prime Minister 19. Which vitamin is considered to be a (a) Bulbous dome (b) President hormone? (b) Makrana Marble (c) Finance Minister (a) A (b) B (c) Tapering Pillars (d) Speaker of Lok Sabha (c) C (d) D (d) Gardens 10. Who is called the father of Economics? 20. Which is known as ‘graveyard of RBC’? 4. The Milky way extends through a (a) Max Muller (a) Liver (b) Bone Marrow distance of (b) Karl Marx (c) Spleen (d) Appendix (a) 1 light year (c) Adam Smith 21. BMD testing is done to diagnose. (b) 8 light year (d) None of these (a) Dengue (c) 105 light year 11. The objective of self reliance and zero (b) Malaria (d) 1010 light year net foreign aid was declared in (c) Osteoporosis 5. Super Nove is (a) 2nd 5 year plan (d) AIDS (a) An asteroid (b) 3rd 5 year plan 22. When did India join the International (b) A black hole (c) 4th 5 year plan Tsunami Warning System? (c) a comet (d) 5th 5 year plan (a) 2004 (b) 2005 (d) A dying star 12. The principal source of revenue to the (c) 2006 (d) 2007 6. Which is not a tropical type of soil? state govt. in India? 23. Which is a spacecraft? (a) Red Soil (a) Income Tax (a) Apophis (b) Cassini (b) Desert Soil (b) Sales Tax (c) Spitzer (d) Techsar (c) Black Soil (c) State Excise Duties 24. Mt. Everest was successfully climbed (d) Brown Soil (d) Land Revenue for the first time in 7. Which Article Indian Constitution 13. Clear nights are cooler than cloudy night (a) 1948 (b) 1953 prescribes Hindi Devanagari Script as because of (c) 1955 (d) 1957 the official language of Union? (a) Conduction

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25. Simla pact between India and Pakistan (c) V. P. Singh 46. The yellow and orange colour of fruits was signed in (d) Moraji Desai and flowers are mainly due to (a) 1949 (b) 1965 36. The second five year plan was based on (a) Leucoplast (c) 1971 (d) 1972 (a) Mahalanobis Model (b) Chloroplast 26. Harappan weapons were made of (b) Harrod – Domar growth model (c) Aleuroplast (a) Stone (b) Copper (c) Slow growth model (d) Chromoplast (c) Bronze (d) All of these (d) None of these 47. The monocot plants lack the process of 27. The Rigvedic God Varuna was 37. The scope of land reforms does not grafting. It is mainly due to lack of (a) Harbinger of peace include. (a) Vascular tissue (b) Destroyer of foes (a) Abolition of intermediaries (b) Ground tissue (c) God of prosperity (b) Cooperation farming (c) Carbium tissue (d) Guardian of the Cosmic order (c) Consolidation of land holdings (d) Paren chymatous tissue 28. The name Dharmasoka was found in the (d) Housing loans to farmers 48. Who invented black box flight recorder? (a) Maski Edict 38. The velocity of the sound is greatest in (a) Robert Stephenson (b) Junagarh Inscription (a) Water (b) Air (b) John shorthand (c) Sarnath Inscription (c) Vacuum (d) Metal (c) David Warren (d) Allahabad Pillar Inscription 39. We move from equator to pole the value (d) David Robinson 29. Doldrums are characterized by of g/ 49. Borlaug Award is associated with (a) Uniform low pressure (a) Increase (a) Agriculture (b) Uniform high pressure (b) Decrease (b) Science (c) Low humidity (c) Remains same (c) Journalism (d) High wind velocity (d) First increase then decrease (d) Medicine 30. Duncan pass is located between 40. Which is the softest? 50. Rajiv Gandhi’s birth anniversary is (a) South and Little Andaman (a) Sodium celebrated as ___ . (b) Little and Great Nicobar (b) Iron (a) Science Day, Anti-Terrorism Day (c) North and Middle Andaman (c) Aluminium (b) Sadbhavana Diwas, Black day (d) Middle and South Andaman (d) Copper (c) Sadbhavana Diwas, Anti terrorism 31. Which is the oldest mountain range in 41. Which is used as a mordant in dyeing Day India? and tanning industry? (d) Ek Deep Jalao Diwas, Anti- (a) Himalaya (b) Aravali (a) Magnesium oxide Smoking Day (c) Satpura (d) Nilgiri (b) Magnesium chloride 51. EEG is used for diagnosing ailments 32. Which is a feature of the presidential (c) Magnesium sulphate connected with. Government? (d) Magnesium carbonate (a) Brain (b) Heart (a) Single justice system 42. The most abundant metal in the earth’s (c) Kidney (d) Lungs (b) Federal form of government crust is 52. Which of the following is most (c) Separation of power (a) Si (b) Fe poisonous? (d) Division of powers (c) Al (d) Cu (a) Acetic acid 33. Which Article of the constitution allows 43. RNA differs from DNA in having (b) Methyl alcohol the centre to form new states? (a) Thymine (b) Adenine (c) Ethyl alcohol (a) Article 3 (b) Article 4 (c) Uracil (d) Guanine (d) Potassium (c) Article 5 (d) Article 6 44. Which vitamin is helpful for treatment 53. Which substances is a polymer if 34. When the Vice President acts as president of viral infection? Isoprene? he gets the emoluments of the (a) Vitamin C (a) Bakelite (a) President (b) Vitamin A (b) Natural rubber

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55. Sodium metal is kept under 65. Which one of the cities is nearest to the 72. The first session of the Constitute (a) Water equator? Assembly was held in (b) Alcohol (a) Colombo (a) New Delhi (c) Petrol (b) Jakarta (b) Mumbai (d) Kerosene (c) Manila (c) Kolkata 56. Bleaching powder is made from (d) Singapore (d) Lahore (a) Sulphur dioxide 66. When the first metal tool came into being 73. One of the following doesn’t constitute (b) Chlorine and Charcoal it was used for? a form of domestic violence. (c) Soda ash and lime (a) Pot-making (a) Sexual assault (d) Lime and Chlorine (b) House – building (b) Hitting and Fighting 57. The smallest organelle in a cell is (c) Clearing jungles (c) Physical abuse (a) Ribosome (d) Making wheels (d) Social Isolation (b) Peroxisome 67. The final defeat of the Maratha 74. If saving exceeds investment the national (c) Lysosome Confederacy came during the time of income will (d) Spherosome (a) Wellesly (a) Fall 58. The maximum fixation of solar energy is (b) Minto (b) Fluctuate done by (c) Hastings (c) Remain constant (a) Bacteria (d) Cornwallis (d) Rise (b) Protozoa 68. The Act of 1935 provided for 75. ‘World Investment Report’ is published (c) Fungi (a) Universal adult franchise by which of the following? (d) Green plants (b) Diarchy at central and provincial (a) WEF 59. Minamata disease is caused by levels (b) WTO (a) Automobile exhausts containing (c) A unicameral legislature (c) GATT lead (d) A disproportionate representation (d) UNCTAD (b) Water pollution form sewage to princely state in the legislative 76. The site of Harappa is located on the (c) Wastes from tanneries 69. Ganga is navigable between. bank of rover (d) Industrial wastes having mercury (a) Haridwar and Kanpur (a) Saraswati compounds (b) Allahabad and Varanasi (b) Indus 60. The celebrated novel ‘The Godfather’ (c) Patna and Kolkata (c) Beas was authored by (d) Allahabad and Haldia (d) Ravi (a) John Milton 70. Which volcano is called the lighthouse 77. Who is the founder of Rashtrakuta (b) Victor Hugo of the Mediterranean? Empire? (c) Mario Puzo (a) Vesuvius (b) Stramboli (a) Amoghavarsha (d) Harolod Robbins (c) Etna (d) Vulcan (b) Dantidurga 61. Who is a Musician? 71. Match the following. (c) Dhruva (a) Karun Chandok List I (d) Krishna 1 (b) Mira Nair (Plantation Crop) 78. Which slogan is attributed of Subash (c) Nirad C. Chaudhuri A. Cocoa Chandra Bose? (d) Ronu Mazumdar B. Coffee (a) Jai Jawan Jai Kisan 62. The headquarter of UNDP located at C. Rubber (b) Vande Mataram (a) Nairobi (b) Vienna D. Vanilla (c) Jai Hind (c) Berne (d) New York List II (e) Inquilab Zindabad 63. ‘Gateway of India’ is situated at which (Country) 79. Over 90% of the world’s biomass is in city? 1. Brazil (a) Tropical rain forest (a) Puri and Paradeep 2. Ivory Coast (b) Freshwater Wetlands (b) Mangalore 3. Madagascar (c) Top soils (c) Delhi 4. Thailand (d) Ocean (d) Mumbai Codes 80. Which is not a factor of Industrial 64. The biggest port in India is A B C D A B C D location? (a) Cohin (b) Kolkata (a) 2 1 4 3 (b) 2 1 3 4 (a) Market (c) Mumbai (d) Vishakhapatnam A B C D A B C D (b) Capital (c) Power (c) 3 4 1 2 (d) 3 4 2 1 (d) Population density

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81. Which states in India has the highest 90. The twenty point economics programme 99. Who was the first reception in Jnanpith percentage of tank irrigation? was announced for the first time in Award? (a) Tamil Nadu (a) 1976 (a) Kamala Devi (b) Pashim Bang (b) 1975 (b) Neck Chand (c) Kerala (c) 1972 (c) G. Sankar Kurup (d) Karnataka (d) 1971 (d) Manekshaw 82. Which is the longest Highway of India? 91. Which is not produce by sound waves 100. Who is the author of the book (a) NH 1 in air? ‘Conquest of self’? (b) NH 5 (a) Refraction (a) Aurobindo Ghosh (c) NH 2 (b) Polarisation (b) Rabindranath Tagore (d) NH 7 (c) Diffraction (c) Mahatma Gandhi 83. Green Revolution India is not successful (d) Reflection (d) S. Radhakrishna in the 92. The blackboard seems black because it (a) Beas valley (a) Reflects every colour (b) Brahmaputra valley (b) Does not reflect any colour  (c) Cauvery valley (c) Obsorbs black colour (d) Sutlej valley (d) Reflects black colour ANSWER KEYS 84. Which was the capital of Andhra state 93. Commercially vulcanisation of rubber when it was made a separate state in involves. 1. d 2. a 3. b 4. c the year 1953? (a) Sulphur 5. d 6. d 7. c 8. a (b) Carbon (a) Guntur 9. d 10. c 11. c 12. b (b) Kurnool (c) Phosphorus 13. c 14. c 15. c 16. a (c) Nellore (d) Selenium (d) Warangal 94. Which is used in the preparation of 17. c 18. c 19. d 20. c 85. Who was the first Law Minister of India? antiseptic solution? 21. c 22. b 23. b 24. b (a) Potassium nitrate (a) Jawaharlal Nehru 25. d 26. d 27. d 28. c (b) Moulana Abul Kalam Azad (b) Iodine 29. a 30. a 31. b 32. c (c) B. R. Ambedkar (c) Iodine chloride (d) T. Krishna Machari (d) Potassium 33. a 34. a 35. d 36. a 86. Panchayati Raj has received 95. Which continent is known as the ‘Bird 37. d 38. d 39. a 40. a continent’? constitutional status with the ____ 41. c 42. c 43. c 44. a Amendment Act. (a) Africa 45. d 46. d 47. d 48. c (a) 72nd (b) Asia (b) 73rd (c) South America 49. a 50. c 51. a 52. b (c) 74th (d) None of these 53. b 54. d 55. d 56. d th 96. Heavy Water was discovered by (d) 75 57. a 58. d 59. d 60. c 87. The Supreme Court was set up. (a) H. C. Urey 61. d 62. d 63. d 64. c (a) By an Act of Parliament (b) Haeckel (b) By the Constitution (c) Smith 65. d 66. c 67. c 68. d (c) Under the Government of India (d) Ivanowski 69. d 70. d 71. a 72. a 97. The secretory product pectin of cell Act 1935 73. d 74. c 75. d 76. d (d) By a presidential order wall is chemically a 77. b 78. c 79. d 80. d 88. The father of “Operation Flood” is (a) Protein (a) M. S. Swaminathan (b) Carbohydrate 81. a 82. d 83. b 84. b (b) Verghese Kurien (c) Lipid 85. c 86. b 87. a 88. b (d) Nucleic acid (c) Uma Kapila 89. d 90. b 91. b 92. b (d) Amartya Sen 98. Which is the richest source of ascorbic 93. a 94. b 95. c 96. a 89. Dear Money policy implies. acid? (a) High price level (a) Apple 97. b 98. d 99. c 100. c (b) Large money supply (b) Carrot (c) High production (c) Bean (d) High interest rates (d) Guava

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many people working together on one project? a) E- collaboration COMPUTER b) I- technology c) Social networking d) Knowledge management e) None of these MCQs 14. What term refers to your ability to connect to the internet and your company from a wireless device? a) Net services b) Push technology c) Pull technology d) Mobile computing c) Expansion slot e) None of these 15. In ms access, a table can have______1. What kind of memory is static and non- d) Coaxial slots primary key/ keys volatile ? e) None of these a) One b) Two a) RAM b) ROM 8. Which view in power point can be used c) Three d) Five c) BIOS d) Cache to enter speaker comments? e) None of these e) None of these a) Note view 16. User actions such as keystrokes or 2. In Excel ______allows users to bring b) Slide master mouse clicks are referred to together copies of work books that c) slide sorter view as______other user have worked on d) All of these a) Interrupts independently e) None of these b) Tasks a) Copying b) Merging 9. Identify the fastest memory c) Events c) Pasting d) Compiling a) Hard disc d) Processes e) None of these b) DVD Roms e) None of these 3. How much space in minimum must be c) Cache memory 17. ______are used to identify a provided between columns? d) Static RAM user who returns to a website. a) 0" b) 0.5" e) None of these a) Cookies c) 1" d) 1.5" 10. The term______refers to any b) Plug-ing e) None of these computer component that is required c) Scripts 4. What is the shortcut key to open dialog to perform work. d) Asps box? a) Bootstrap e) None of these a) F12 b) shift + F12 b) Kernel 18. How is power supplied to a low- Power c) Alt + F12 d) Ctrl + F12 c) Resource USB device? e) None of these d) Source Code a) Through a power cable 5. Protect document option in word is e) None of these b) From an external power supply available on ______menu. 11. What refers to a set of characters of a c) Directly from the computer’s a) Insert b) view particular design? power supply c) Design d) Review a) Keyboard d) Through the USB cable e) Layout b) Calligraphy c) Stensil e) None of these 6. ‘Spool’ stands for 19. The tracks on a disk which can be accused a) Serial printer object oriented d) Type base without repositioning the R/W heads language d) For motion is b) Simultaneous peripheral output 12. A hacker contacts you my phone or email a) Surface online and attempts to acquire your b) Cylinder c) System protocol optimization password______c) Cluster outliner a) Spoofing d) All of the above d) b) Phishing Single – program operating e) None of these system operation c) Spamming 20. A top to button relationship among the e) None of these d) Bugging items in a database is established by a 7. Where is internal card connected in a e) None of these a) Hierarchial schema computer? 13. What terms is used to identify b) Network Schema a) USB port technology that is used to support c) Relational schema b) Serial port d) All of the above

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e) None of these (a) Status Bar 37. Time taken to move from one cylinder 21. A high quality CAD systems uses the (b) Control Panel of a HDD to another is called following for printing drawing and (c) Menu bar (a) Transfer Rate graphs. (d) Title Bar (b) Average Seek Time (a) Dotmatrix Printer (e) None of these (c) Latency (b) Digital Plotter 30. A Flip-flop can store (d) Roundtrip Time (c) Line Printer (a) 1 bit of data (e) None of these e (d) All of the above (b) 2 bits of data 38. A ______system is a small, (e) None of these (c) 3 bits of data wireless handheld computer that scans 22. Which type of computers uses the 8 (d) 4 bits of data an items tag and pulls up the current bits code called EBCDIC? (e) none of these price (and any special offers) as you (a) Mini Computer 31. Which of the following is a data shop. (b) Micro Computer communication link that connects more (a) PSS (c) Mainframe Computer than two stations, nodes etc. (b) PoS (d) Super Computer (a) Multipoint Connection (c) Inventory (e) None of these (b) Multipoint Line (d) Data Mining 23. Access control based on a persons (c) Multiple Chain (e) None of these fingerprints is an example of (d) Multilinked 39. Frames from one LAN can be (a) Characteristic Identification (e) None of these transmitted to another LAN via the (b) Fingerprint Security 32. General purpose computers are those device. (c) Biometric Identification that can be adopted to countless uses (a) Router (d) Characteristic Security simply by changing its (b) Bridge (e) None of these (a) Keyboard (c) Repeater 24. Speed of line printer is limited by the (b) Printer (d) Modem speed of (c) Program (e) None of these (a) Paper Movements (d) Display Screen 40. Data definition language (DDL) (b) Catridge used (e) None of these (a) Describes how data are structured (c) Length of Paper 33. The storage locations in the internal in the database. (d) All of these storage of a CPU are called (b) Specifies for the DBMS what is (e) None of these (a) Contents required in the techniques used to 25. The physical arrangement of elements (b) Address process data. on a page is reformed to as a documents. (c) Locations (c) Determine how data must be (a) Pagination (d) Mask structured to produce the user’s (b) Grid (e) None of these view. (c) Format 34. Which area in an excel window allows (d) All of the above (d) Features entire values and formulas? (e) None of the above (e) None of these (a) Title bar 26. Which is the shortcut to goto option in (b) Menu bar Excel? (c) Formula bar  (a) F5 (b) F7 (d) Standard tool bar (c) F8 (d)F2 (e) None of these (e) None of these 35. Macromedia is the name of a company ANSWER KEYS 27. A user can get files from another related with 1. b 2. b 3. a 4. d computer on the internet by using (a) Hardware (a) FTP (b) UTP (b) Software 5. d 6. b 7. c 8. a (c) HTTP (d) both ‘a’ and ‘b’ (c) Services 9. c 10. c 11. b 12. b (e) none of these (d) Peripherals 13. a 14. d 15. a 16. c 28. Encryption and decryption are (e) None of these functions of 36. A button that makes character either 17. a 18. d 19. b 20. a (a) Transport Layer upper or lower case and numbers to 21. b 22. c 23. c 24. b (b) Session Layer symbols (c) Presentation Layer (a) Monitor 25. c 26. a 27. a 28. c (d) All of these (b) Shift key 29. d 30. a 31. b 32. c (e) None of these (c) Icon 33. b 34. c 35. b 36. b 29. The bar at the top of the window that (d) Mouse bears the name of the window is known (e) None of these 37. b 38. a 39. b 40. a as

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or incorporated in a foreign country but are investing in an Indian venture in India” are generally known as ...... A) Patent Money B) Private Equity C) Foreign Institutional Investment D) Current Account Money E) None of the above 9. As we all know managing inflation has been a very important aspect of the economy in India. Which of the following is/are true about the inflation and its effects on the economy? (A) Lack of inflation (deflation) is not 5. Which of the following is an innovative necessarily a thing which is 1. When a bank dishonours a cheque it is mechanism adopted by banks to meet always good. called. the targets fixed for lending to priority (B) Inflation is an increase in the A) Settlement of the cheque. sector by the Banks? general level of prices for goods B) Withdrawing of the cheque A) Buying and Selling of Priority and services. C) Nullifying of the cheque. Sector Lending Certification (C) When inflation goes up the D) Truncating of the cheque. B) Sale of Kisan Vikas Patra purchasing power of the money E) Return of the unpaid cheque. C) inter Bank Participation also goes up 2. ‘Sub Prime Lending’, which was the Certificates A) Only A root cause for global meltdown in banks D) Adoption of Core Banking B) Only B during 2008, means Solution C) Only A and B A) Bank finance for non-productive E) None of the above D) Only A and C activities 6. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently E) None of these B) Bank finance not properly announced a hike in some policy rates 10. As we have noticed many banks are now disclosed in its Balance Sheet and also indicated that there may be entering into Insurance business. Why C) Bank finance in violation of the another change in near future. Which are Banks entering into this sector directives of the central bank of the following is/are considered particularly when many insurance D) Bank finance to fictitious entities policy rate(s) in the hands of the RBI? companies are already there in India? E) Bank finance which do not qualify (A) Repo Rate (A) By providing insurance products for the best market interest rates (B) SLR banks are earning additional 3. What is the full form of MAT? (C) Inflation revenue in terms of fee/ A) Maximum Alternate Tax A) Only A commission. B) Minimum Alternate Tax B) Only B (B) Banks with their huge customer C) Minimum Affordable Tax C) Only C base are leveraging on their existing D) Maximum Affordable Tax D) All A, and B relationship to convert customers E) None of the above E) All A, B and C into policyholders. 4. Many times we read in newspapers 7. Which of the following is/are the Non- (C) With increase of health related that several companies are adopting the Tax Revenue components of the Union problems, everybody wants an FCCBs route to raise capital. What is Budget of India? insurance cover no matter how big the full form of FCCBs? (A) Custom Duties or small it is. Banks are coming A) Foreign Currency Convertible (B) Interest Receipts up with many attractive offers, Bonds (C) Dividends and Profits which are also affordable. B) Foreign Convertible Credit Bonds A) Only A A) Only A C) financial Consortium and credit B) Only B B) Only B bureau C) Only B and C C) Only C D) Future Credit and Currency D) Only C D) All A, Band C Bureau E) All A, B and C E) Only A and B E) None of the above 8. The investments done by “Those financial entities which were launched

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REASONING ABILITY in Alphabetical order starting from ‘P’ 9. Who is the sister of T? in clockwise direction? a) R Direction (Q.1-5): Study the following a)Three b) U information carefully and answer given b)Two c) T questions below. c)One d) Information insufficient Twelve persons A, B, C, D, E, F, H, J, K, L, d)More than three e) None of the above M and P are sitting around a circular table e)None 10. What is the profession of P? and all of them facing centre. There are six a) Doctor benches i.e. S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 and S6 around Directions (6-7): Study the following b) Nurse the table and two persons sit on each bench. information and answer the questions c) Doctor or nurse Bench S3 is on immediate left of S6. There given: d) Housewife are two benches between S3 and S4. E sits Neetika walked 5km towards north from e) None of these on fourth to the right of C, who sits on point A and reached point B. She took a bench S2. There are three persons between right turn from point B and walked 7km and Directions (Q. 11–15): Study the C and F. Both H and F is an immediate reached point C. She took another right turn following information carefully and neighbour of A. F sits fourth to the right of from point C and walked 6km to reach answer the questions given below: E, who is sitting immediate left of L. Bench Neetika point D. She took a right turn from Twelve friends are sitting on two rows (such S2 is between bench S5 and S4. D sits on point D and walked 3km to reach point E. that they are facing each other). Pravin, neither S2 nor S6. J sits in the same bench From point E, she took another right turn Pappu, Prince, Pankaj, Pranav and Piyush with C. There are three persons between M and walk 6km and reached point F. are seated in first row and facing south. and P. A is sitting on the bench S1. M is Renu, Ruchi, Rinky, Reshma, Roshani and 6. How far is point F from the point B? sitting second to the left of F. B sits on Ratan are seated in second row and facing a) 8km neither S4 nor S6. north. Ruchi is on the immediate right of b) 5km Reshma who is facing Pravin. Pankaj is on 1. Which of the following pair is sitting on c) 6km the immediate right of Pravin. Renu, Piyush the bench S6? d) 4km and Prince are at the extreme ends and a)L and M e) 3km nobody is seated on the right of Piyush. b)M and H 7. Point B is in which direction with Only Ratan is seated between Renu and c)E and L respect to point to D? Roshani and she is not facing Pappu. Ruchi d)M and K a) North-west is on the immediate left of Rinky. e)None of these b) South 2. Who among the following is sitting c) South-east 11. Who is facing Prince? between D and J? d) South-west a)Renu a)H b)C e) None of these b)Ratan c)B d)F c)Roshani Directions (8-10): Read the following e)None of these d)Ruchi information carefully and answer the 3. Who is sitting exactly opposite to B? e)None of the above questions given below. a)D b)K 12. Which of the following pairs is at one of A family consists of six members P, Q, R, S, c)H d)F the extreme ends? T and U. There are two married couples. Q e)A a)Piyush, Roshani is a doctor and the father of T. U is 4. Four of the following five are alive in a b)Prince, Roshani grandfather of R and is a contractor, S is certain way based on the given c)Renu, Pappu grandmother of T and is a housewife. There information and so form a group. d)Rinky, Prince is one doctor, one contractor, one nurse, one Which is the one that does not belong e)None of the above housewife and two students in the family. to that group? 13. Who is facing Ratan? The mother of R is a nurse. a)DF b)AM a)Pappu b)Pravin c)LP d)JD 8. Who is the husband of P? c)Pankaj e)BC a) R b) U 5. How many persons are sitting in the c) Q d) S d)Can’t be determined e)None of the above same place if all the persons are sitting e) T

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14. If Pravin is related to Rinky in a certain 17. Among five friends A, B, C, D and E, I. B$T II. T©B way and Pranav is related to Reshma sitting around a circular table, facing III.H © K IV. F © B in the same way, then which of the the centre, who sits to the immediate a) Only either I or II is true follwing is related to Pankaj? right of A? b) Only III is true a)Ruchi I. E sits third to the right of D. A is c) Only IV is true b)Roshani not an immediate neighbour of D. d) Either I or II are true and III and c)Renu II. C sits second to the left of B. A is IV are true d)Ratan not an immediate neighbour of C. e) Only either I or II are true e)None of the above 18. Who among P, Q, R, S and T is the tallest? 23. Statement: W * B, B@ F, F © R, R $ 15. If in the first row first person from the I. P is taller than S and T but shorter M left interchange its position with the than R. Q is taller than S. Conclusions: sixth person from the left and following II. T is taller than S. P is not the I W*F II.M * B the same way second person changes tallest. III.R * B IV. M* W its position with fifth and third person 19. In which month of the year did Rahul go a) Only and IV are true change its position with fourth then abroad for a vacation? b) Only II and III are true who will face Reshma? I. Rahul correctly remembers that he c) Only I and III are true a)Pravin went for a vacation in the first half d) Only II and IV are true b)Pappu of the year. e) None of these c)Prince II. Rahul’s son correctly remembers 24. Statements: E@ K, K $ T’, T © N,.B d)Pankaj that they went for a vacation after % N e)None of the above 31st March but before 1st May. Conclusions: 20. Is C the grandmother of M? I. T%E II. K©N Directions (16-20): Each of the questions I. C is the mother of D. D is the III.B * T IV. B * E below consists of a question and two brother of M’s father. a) Only I, II and III are true statements numbered I and II given below II. E is the mother of S. S is the sister b) Only II, III and IV are true it. You have to decide whether the data of M. F, the aunt of S, is the only c) Only I, III and IV are true provided in the statements are sufficient daughter of C. d) All are true to answer the question. Read both the e) None of these statements and give answers. Directions (Q21-25) : In the following 25. Statements: Z $ B, B % M, M © F, F (a) if the data in statement I alone are questions, the symbols ©, @, $, % and * @ R sufficient to answer the question, are used with following meanings as Conclusions: while the data in statement II alone illustrated below I. Z*M II. F * B are not sufficient to answer the ‘P @Q’ means ‘P is not greater than Q’. III R*M IV. M @ Z question. ‘P % Q’ means ‘P is not smaller than Q’. a) Only I and II are true (b) if the data in statement II alone ‘P * Q’ means ‘P is neither smaller than nor b) Only I, III and IV are true are sufficient to answer the equal to Q’. c) Only III and IV are true question, while the data in ‘P © Q’ means ‘P is neither greater than nor d) Only either I or IV and III are true statement I alone are not sufficient equal to Q’. e) None of these to answer the question. ‘P $ Q’ means ‘P is neither greater than nor (c) if the data either in statement I smaller than Q’. Directions (26-30): Read the following alone or in statement II alone are In each question four statements showing information carefully and answer the sufficient to answer the question. relationship have been given, which are questions given below: (d) if the data in neither statement I followed by four conclusions I, II, III & IV. There are eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G, nor II are sufficient to answer the Assuming that the given statements are true, and H are living on eight-storey building. question. find out which conclusion(s) is /are The ground floor is numbered one and next (e) if the data in both the statements definitely True. floor is numbered two and so on. They all I and II together are necessary to have different cars viz. Toyota, Mercedes, answer the question. 21. Statements: M © D, D * K, K @ R , R Safari, Parado, Bolero, Baleno, Dzire and * F Scorpio. They also like different colour viz. 16. Among P, Q, R, S and T, sitting in a Conclusions: Red, white, pink, cream, black, violet, yellow straight line, facing North, who sits I. F©K II. D * F and green but not necessarily in the same exactly in the middle of the line? III.M © R IV. D * R order. I. P sits third to the left of S. T is an a) None is true E has a Safari car and he lives immediate neighbour of P as well b) Only I is true on even numbered floor. One person lives as R. c) Only II is true between E and H. The one who likes II. T sits second to the left of S. Q is d) Only III is true violet colour live immediately below the one not an immediate neighbour of e) Only IV is true who has Bolero car. The one who likes either T or S. 22. Statements: B%K, K$ T, T* F, H© F cream colour live immediately above the one Conclusions:

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was 50 billion and 45 billion respectively, then which group 1 2 11 of countries show the minimum difference between 2013 and 49. (4356)   ? 6 2008? 4 (a) Europe and Central Asia a)2 b)4 (b) High-income countries c)8 d)6 (c) Latin America and Caribbean e)16 (d) South Asia 50. A boy had certain number of candies. If he divides it between (e) Middle East and North Africa himself and his two siblings, there are two candies that would 44. The aids received by Middle East and North Africa in 2008 and remain. But if he also includes his parents, there would be no by Europe and Central Asia in 2013 are Rs 10.5 billion and Rs candies left. Given that the number of candies is a two digit 2.4 billion, respectively. What is the ratio between the total number, how many values can it assume? aid received by all the countries in 2008 to that in 2013? a)5 b) 7 (a) 6:5 (b) 3:2 c) 6 d)9 (c) 5:6 (d) 2:3 e)None of these (e) None of these 51. In the EPL, a football club had planned to win at least 60% of Directions (Q. 45-49): What will come in place of question its 40 matches. At the halfway stage, the club had won only mark (?) in the given questions? 40% of the matches played. If each match has a definite result, find the maximum number of remaining matches that it can afford to lose.

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a)16 b)4 57. If the absolute difference between imports and exports are c)10 d)cannot be determined ranked in ascending order, which year gets 4th rank? e)None of these (a) 2010 (b) 2008 52. A person was told to mark-up the price of an item by 10% and (c) 2009 (d)Cannot be determined prepare the price tag. He instead discounted it by 10%. A (e) None of these discount of 5% is already applicable on the item. Because of 58. In which year was the fifth largest annual percentage increase the mistake, the company earned Rs. 38 less per item. Find in exports recorded? the cost price of the item. (a) 2007 (b) 2005 a)Rs 200 b)Rs 300 (c) 2009 (d)Cannot be determined c)Rs 100 d)Rs 400 (e) None of these e)None of these 59. Which year was the second largest annual percentage increase 53. Akshat invested part of a sum of Rs 10000 at 4% per annum SI in imports? and the remaining at 2% higher rate of interest for two years. (a) 2010 (b) 2005 What can be said about the interest earned? (c) 2006 (d) Cannot be determined a)Between Rs 350 and Rs 600 (e) None of these b)Between Rs 800 and Rs 1100 60. What is the approximate percentage point difference in the c)Between Rs 800 and Rs 1200 maximum annual percentage increase in exports and the d)Between Rs 900 and Rs 1200 minimum annual percentage decrease in imports? e)None of these (a) 28% (b) 48% 54. A started a business with a capital of Rs 5000. Three months (c) 64% (d) 12% later, B joined with a capital of Rs 7000. After another 3 (e) None of these months, A invested Rs 1000 more while B withdrew Rs 2000. Two months later, C joined with a capital of Rs 5000. In what Directions (Q. 9-13): What will come in place of the questions ratio should the profit get divided at the end of the year? mark (?) in the following numerical/alphabetical series? a)22 : 4 : 17 b)22 : 17 : 4 61. 9 31 73 141 (?) c)22 : 17 : 8 d)66 : 51 : 20 (a) 164 (b) 280 e)None of these (c) 239 (d) 241 55. Five years ago, the average age of a husband and wife was 35 (e) None of these years. Today, the average age of the husband, wife and a child 62. 35 256 451 620 763 (?) is 28 years. What was the average age of the couple when the (a) 680 (b) 893 child was born? (c) 633 (d) 880 a)35 years b)38 years (e) None of these c)40 years d)36 years 63. 2890 (?) 1162 874 730 658 e)None of these (a) 1684 (b) 1738 Direction (Q. Nos. 56-60) Analyse the following chart (c) 1784 (d) 1672 following the exports and imports of Sono Ltd. And answer (e) None of these the questions based on this chart. 64. 16 33 65 131 261 (?) (a) 523 (b) 521 (c) 613 (d) 721 (e) None of these 65. 5 7 13 25 45 (?) (a) 67 (b) 75 (c) 65 (d) 55 (e) None of these 66. Three years ago, the average age of a class of students was 11 years. Today, with the joining of a new child the average age of the class has become 16 years. If the age of the new child is 20 years, how many children are now present in the class? a)3 b)2 c)5 d)6 e) None of these 67. Container A has pure milk while container B has water. Half the volume of the first container is transferred to the second. 56. Approximately by what percentage are the total exports greater/ Now half the volume of the second container is transferred smaller than the toal imports for the given period? back to the first. Find the ratio of milk to water in the second (a) Greater by 9% (b) Smaller by 10% container. (c) Smaller by 9% (d) Greater by 10% a)1 : 2 b)2 : 1 (e) None of these c)1 : 1 d)3 : 1

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e) None of these 76. A bag contains three white balls and two black balls. Another 68. The speed of a boat in still water is 5 km/h, while the speed of bag contains two white and four black balls. A bag and a ball the stream is 1 km/h. The boat has to travel a distance of 36 are picked at random. The probability that the ball will be km upstream and come back. If the boat starts at 5 : 30 am in white is the morning at what time will it come back to its starting a)7/11 b)5/11 point? c)7/30 d)7/15 a)5 : 30 pm on the same day e)None of these b) 11 : 30 pm on the same day 77. In front of a shop a sign said, “sale of 30% discount + 40% c)5 : 30 am on the next day discount”. What is the effective discount being offered? d)8 : 30 pm on the same day a)58% discount b)35% discount e) None of these c)70% discount d)60% discount 69. A, B and C can do a work in 12, 15 and 30 days, respectively. e)None of these B and C started the work together but worked at half of their 78. A boat running downstream covers a distance of 30 km in 2 respectively efficiency. After 3 days A joined them and all hours. While coming back the boat takes 6 hours to cover the three of them worked at their normal efficiencies. In how same distance. If the speed of the current is half that of the much time will the work get completed? boat, what is the speed of that boat? (in km/h) a) 7 and 9/11 days b) 84/11 days a)15 b)5 c) 51 / 11 days d) 77/12 days c)10 d)20 e) None of these e) None of these 79. A courtyard is 25m long and 16m broad is to be paved with Directions (Q. 70-74): In these questions, two equations bricks of dimensions 20 cm by 10 cm. What is the total number numbered I and II are given. You have to solve both the of bricks required? equations and give answer. a)16000 b)18000 c) 20000 d)22000 70. I. 6x2 + 5x + 1 = 0 II. 15y2 + 8y + 1 = 0 e)25000 a)x  y b) x  y 80. Neet, out of his total monthly salary, pays 20% towards house c) x < y d) x > y and 15% towards his miscellaneous expenditure. e)Relationship between x and y cannot be established From the remaining amount, the respective ratio of the amount 71. I. x2 + 5x + 6 = 0 II. 4y2 + 24y + 35 = 0 he invests in a scheme and the amount left with him is 5 : 8. If a)x  y b) x  y he invests Rs 6,500/- in the scheme, what is his monthly c) x < y d) x > y salary? e) Relationship between x and y cannot be established a)Rs 26, 000/- b)Rs 36, 250/- 72. I. 2x2 + 5x + 3 = 0 II. y2 + 9y + 14 = 0 c)Rs 27, 000/- d)Rs 24, 250/- a)x  y b) x > y e)Rs 30,000/- c) x < y d) x < y e) Relationship between x and y cannot be established  73. I. 88x2 – 19x + 1 = 0 II. 132y2 – 23y + 1 = 0 a)x  y b) x > y EXPLANATIONS c) Relationship between x and y cannot be established (1-5) d)x < y e) x  y 74. I. 6x2 – 7x + 2 = 0 II. 20y2 - 31y + 12 = 0 a) x  y b) x < y c) x > y d) Relationship between x and y cannot be established e) x  y 75. In how many ways can the letters of the word RAJEEV be rearranged such that all the vowels always appear together? 6! 4! a) b) 2! 2! 3! c) 3!3! d) 4! 2! e) None of these 1. d 2. b 3. d 4. d 5. a

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(6-7) From 2-We can not decide that who is immediate right of A.

18. d; From 1- R>P>S,T and also given that Q>S. But we can not decide the position of Q. 6. d 7. a From 2- T>S. Even by using both the statements, we are not able to determine (8-10) who is the tallest as we do not have the exact idea about the height of Q. 19. b; From1-Possible months are-January, February, March, April, May or June. From2-Rahul son’s correctly remembers that his father went on vacation after 31st March but before 1st May. 20. c;

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26. e 27. d 28. a 29. d 30. b (31-35) 17. a; We can see that E is the immediate right of A.

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i) For words arrangement- Words are arranged according to descending order given in English dictionary. In first step 9  26  40 =  1   the words which comes last according to English 2  9  13 dictionary arranged first to extreme left. And in second step next word are arranged to left. And this process is 9 9 40 continued in further step.   =  1   ii) For number arrangement- Number are arranged according 2  26  13 to descending order. In first step greatest number arranged in left. And in second step next number is arranged. And 9 9 40 this process is continued in further step( Each odd number =   is added by one(+1) while they are arranged and one is 2 26 13 subtracted by each even number(-1) while they are arranged). 117  9 80 46 =  Input: 59 with broad 48 smile 35 then 24 hold 76 firmly 19 26 26 Step I: with 75 59 broad 48 smile 35 then 24 hold firmly 19 Step II: then 60 with 75 broad 48 smile 35 24 hold firmly 19 23 10 Step III: smile 47 then 60 with 75 broad 35 24 hold firmly 19 = 1 Step IV: hold 36 smile 47 then 60 with 75 broad 24 firmly 19 13 13 Step V: firmly 23 hold 36 smile 47 then 60 with 75 broad 19 Step VI: broad 20 firmly 23 hold 36 smile 47 then 60 with 75 6136 8 132 46. (c) 36. e 37. c 38. e 39. a 40. d 62816  26.25 41. (d) Aid received by Middle East and North Africa = 617 132 6.4 = 21 Rs.8.4 billion 39.25 26.25 16 102 132 6.4 = Aid received by East Asia and Pacific = 15  Rs.6 13 16 billion 234   Required difference = Rs. (8.4-6) billion = Rs. 2.4 billion = 18 42. (d) It is clear from the given figure that there are countries 13 which got more aid in 2013 than in 2008 47. (d) 1/ 2 1/3 2 1/ 2 43. (d) Aid received by South Asia in 2008 = 441  207  343  14  529  9 = 21 207 7 1414 23 50  Rs.4.5 billion 100 3 = 21971414  6 10 4 Aid received by South Asia in 2013 = 45  Rs.4.5 100 48. (c)  7744  112  23  ?3 billion Hence the required difference is zero. 88121   ?3 44. (c) Aid received by all the countries in 2008 = 8

10.5 3 100  Rs.50 billion 11121  ? 21 Aid received by all the countries in 2013 =  113  ?3 24100 ? 11  Rs.60 billion 4 1/ 2 11 Required ratio = 50 : 60 = 5 : 6 49. (e) 4356   ? 6 4 1  8  1 45. (e) 4  1 2   3 4 2  9  13 66  ? 6 11

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56. (c) Total exports = 112.5 + 150 + 150 + 200 + 175 + 200 +  6 4  ?  6 275 + 200 + 262.5 + 250 = 1975 Total imports = 275 + 250 + 225 + 225 + 270 + 200 + 175  ?  4 + 175 + 200 + 175 = 2170 ? 16 The percentage by which exports are smaller than imports = 50. (c) As per the problem :  2170 1975  The number of candies is a multiple of 5  100%  9% Also when divided by 3, the remainder is 2  2170  The smallest such number is 5 57. (a) The absolute difference between imports and exports for The next such number will be 5 + the LCM of 3 and 5 the given year are The next such number will be 20 The other numbers will be 35, 50, 65, 80 and 95 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 The number can take up six such values 162.5 100 75 25 95 0 100 25 62.5 75 51. (b) Minimum number of matches to be won = 60% of 40 = 24 At the halfway stage, the club had won 40% of its 20 matches, Hence, fourth rank while arranged in ascending order is in that is 8 matches. Therefore, in the remaining 20 matches it 2010. has to win at least 16 matches and therefore it can afford to 58. (a) The percentage increase in exports for the given year are lose a maximum of 4 matches. 2003 33.33% 50 2004 0% 52. (a) As per the instruction, there is 10  5   4.5% 2005 33.33% 100 2006 -12.5% profit 2007 14.28% 2008 37.50% As per the person’s mistake, there is 2009 -27.27% 50 2010 31.25% 10 5   14.5% , 14.5% loss 2011 4.76% 100 59. (a) The imports increased only in 2006 and 2010 in the entire Difference between the two cases = 19% of CP, (from 4.5% period  profit to 14.5% loss making a total of 19%) and it is equal to The percentage increase in 2006 = Rs. 38 So 19% of CP = 38  270  225  Therefore, CP = Rs. 200  100%  20% 53. (c) If the entire amount was invested at 4% per annum SI, total  225  interest earned will be 4% x Rs. 10000 = Rs. 400/year. SI for  Percentage increase in 2010 = 2 years will be Rs. 800. However, if the entire amount was invested at 6% per annum  200 175  SI, total interest earned will be 6% x Rs. 10000 = Rs. 600/  100% 14.28% year. SI for 2 years will be Rs. 1200  175  As a part of the money is invested in both, the interest earned Hence the second largest increase was in the year 2010. will be between Rs. 800 and Rs. 1200 60. (a) The maximum percentage increase in exports in 2008, i.e. 54. (d) As per the problem 37.5% Equivalent contribution of A = The minimum percentage decrease in imports is in 2003, i.e. 5000  6  6000  6  66000  275  250  Equivalent contribution of B =  100%  9.09% 7000  3  5000  6  51000  275  Equivalent contribution of C = 5000  4  20000  Required percentage point difference = Required ratio = 66 : 51 : 20 37.5  9.09  28% 55. (d) Five year ago, the average age of couple was 35 years 61. (d) The pattern is Today, the average age of the couple will be 40 years 3 2 , 3 2 , 3 2 , Therefore , the total age of the couple will be 80 years 2 1  9 3  2  31 4  3  73 Average age of husband, wife and child = 28 years 53  42 141, 63  52  241 Total age of the family = 28  3=84 years Age of the child is 4 year and o the child was born 4 years ago 62. (d) The pattern is 35  221  256 , Average age of couple 4 years ago=35+1=36 years 256221 26 451, 45116919526 620

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620 143169  26  763 , 763 117  880 70. (b) I. 6x2  5x 1  0 63. (b) The pattern is 658  72  730 , 730 144  874 , =6x2+ 3x+ 3x +1=0 874  288  1162 , 1162  576  1738 3x2x 112x 1  0 64. (a); Each number is twice preceding one with 1 added or 2x 13x 1  0 subtracted alternately. So the next number is (2  261+1) = 523 1 1 x   ,  65. (b) The pattern is 2 3 5 1 2  7 , 7  23  13 , 13  3 4  25 , 2 II. 15y  8y 1  0 25  45  45 , 45  5 6  75 2 66. (a) Let there be x student in the class initially 15y  5y  3y 1  0 Today their average age will be 14 years and so the total age will be 14x years. 5y3y 113y 1  0 14x  20 3y 15y 1  0 Now 16 x 1 1 1 y   ,  14x  20  16x 16  2x  4  x  2 3 5 There are 3 children in the class today. 2 67. (a) Let the volume of both containers be x 71. (e) I. x  5x  6  0 x/2 amount of milk is transferred to the second container. The 2 second container will have milk and water in the ratio 1 : 2 x  3x  2x  6  0 The total volume of the second container = 1.5x xx  3 2x  3  0 Milk drawn out will 1/ 31.5x  0.5x x  2 x  3  0 Water drawn out = x    Ratio of milk to water in the second container = 1 : 2. x  2, 3 68. (d) According to the problem : 2 Speed upstream = 5 1  4 km/h II. 4y  24y  35  0 Speed downstream = 5 1  6 km/h 4y 2 10y 14y  35  0 Time taken to travel 36 km upstream = 36 / 4  9 2y2y  5 72y  5  0 Time taken to travel 36 km downstream = 36 / 6  6 h Total time taken = 15 h since the start 2y  52y  7  0 Time at which the boat reaches the starting point = 15 h after 5.30 am, that is 8.30 pm on the same day 5 7 y   ,  69. (b) Let the total work be 60 units. 2 2 Total work 60 units A : 12 days 5 units 72. (b) I. 2x2  5x  3  0 B : 15 days 4 units C : 30 days 2 units 2x2  2x  3x  3  0 For 3 days B and C together worked at half of their normal efficiency. 2xx 1 3x 1  0 3 x 12x  3  0 Work done = 4  2  9 units 2 3 x  1 ,  Remaining units = 60  9  51 units 2 After 3 days, all three of them worked at their normal efficiency. II. y2  9y 14  0

51 7 2 Time taken =  4  days y  2y  7y 14  0 11 11 The work will get completed in 7 and 7/11 days. yy  2 7y  2  0

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Hence the total numbers of arrangement in which all the vowels y  2y  7  0 4!3! y  2 ,  7 appear together are 2! 73. (a) I. 88x2 19x 1  0 1 2 76. (d) The probability of selecting one bag = 88x 11x 8x 1  0 2 11x8x 118x 1  0 Now probability of getting a white ball form bag A = 11x 1 8x 1  0 1 3 3      1 1 2 5 10 x  , And probability of getting a white ball from bag B = 11 8 1 2 1 2   II. 132y  23y 1  0 2 6 6 2 132y 12y 11y 1  0 3 1 7 Hence probability that white ball is drawn =   12y11y 1111y 1  0 10 6 15 11y 112y 1  0 77. (a) For a sale of 30% discount + 40% discount, overall discount 1200  1 1 is  30  40     70 12  58% y  ,  100  11 12 The effective discount being offered is 58%. 74. (b) I. 6x2  7x  2  0 78. (c) Let speed of stream = x km/h Speed of boat = 2x km/h 6x2 3x  4x  2  0 According to question, 3x2x 1 22x 1  0 30 2   3x  15  x  5 km/h 2x 13x  2  0 x  2x  Speed of boat = 2x  25  10 km/h 1 2 79. (c) Required number of bricks = x  , 2 3 251610000  20000 II. 20y2  31y 12  0 2010 2 80. (a) Let monthly salary of Neet = Rs. x 20y 15y 16y 12  0 Total expenditure amount = 5y4y  3 44y  3  0 x 20%  x15%  x35% 5y  44y  3  0 Remaining amount = x 65% 6500 5 According to question,  4 3 x  65 %  6500 8 y  , 5 4 65 75. (d) RAJEEV is a six letter word with three vowels and three 1300  8  x   6500 consonants 100 If all the vowels are to be together, then there will be four sets 65 of object, that is, one group of three vowels and three distinct x   10400  6500 consonants which needs to be rearranged. Thus the possible 100 number of arrangements is 4! 65 Now the group of three vowels contains two Es and one A. x   16900 These can be arranged in 3!/2! Ways 100 x  Rs.26,000/  71 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2017

REASONING ABILITY 5. Who amongst the following have studied in college Techno? a) Barsha, Anup Directions (1-4): Read the following information carefully b) Chanu, Falguni and then answer the questions given below it. c) Barsha, Diya, Falguni I. P, Q, R, S, T and U are six members of a family, each of d) Anup, Diya them engaged in a different profession – doctor, lawyer, e) Diya, Falguni teacher, engineer, nurse and manager. 6. Which of the following groups represents the students of II. Each of them remains at home on a different day of the college KVRC? week from Monday to Saturday. a) Chanu, Ekanta, Gyan III. The lawyer in the family remains at home on Thursday. b) Anup, Chanu, Diya IV. R remains at home on Tuesday. c) Anup, Barsha, Chanu V. P, a doctor, does not remain at home either on Saturday d) Diya, Barsha, Chanu or Wednesday. e) None of these VI. S is neither the doctor nor the teacher and remains at 7. What is the profession of Falguni? home on Friday. a) Engineering b) Business VII. Q is the engineer and T is the manager. c) Medicines d) Acting e) None of these 1. Which of the following combinations is not correct? 8. Who amongst the following is in the profession of medicine? a) R-Teacher b) S-Nurse a) Ekanta b) Gyan c) T-Manager d) U- Lawyer c) Anup d) Diya e) Q-Doctor e) None of these 2. Which of the following combination is correct? 9. What is the profession of Anup? a) Lawyer-Tuesday b) Teacher-Wednesday a) Teaching b) Medicine c) Manager-Friday d) Nurse-Friday c) Business d) Fashion designing e) Lawyer- Monday e) None of the above 3. Who is the nurse? a) S b) R Directions (10-14): Study the following arrangement carefully c) U d) Data inadequate and answer the questions given below. e) P F 4 © T 2 E % M P 5 W 9 @ L Q R 6 U H 3 Z 7 * A T B 8 V # G 4. Who among them remains at home on the following day on $ Y D which R stays at home? a) Q b) Q or T 10. What should come in place of question mark (?) in the following c) S d) Cannot be determined series based on the above arrangement? e) U TEM 59L RU3 ? a) 7AB b) 7AT Directions (5-9): Study the following information carefully c) *78 d) ABV and answer the questions. e) None of these Seven friends Anup, Barsha, Chanu, Diya, Ekanta, Falguni and 11. How many such consonants are there in the above arrangement, Gyan studied in college Xavier, KVRC and Techno are currently each of which is immediately preceded by a number but not in different professions, namely, medicines, fashion designing, immediately followed by a number? engineering, business, acting, teaching and architecture (not a) None b) One necessarily in the same order). At least two and not more than (c) Two d) Three three friends has studied in the same college. Chanu is an architect e) None of these and studied in college KVRC. Ekanta is not a businessman. Only 12. Which of the following is the 10th to the right of the 19th from Gyan amongst the seven friends studied in college Xavier along the right end of the above arrangement? with Ekanta. Falguni is an engineer and did not study in college a) M b)T KVRC. Barsha is an actor and did not study in the same college as c) # d)2 Falguni. Anup did not study in college Techno. Those who studied e) None of these in college Xavier are neither fashion designer nor teachers. None of those who studied in college KVRC is a teacher.

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13. How many such symbols are there in the above arrangement, of S face South. T sits second to left of Z. Z is not an immediate each of which is immediately preceded by a number and neighbour of S. Neither Z nor U sits at the extreme end of the line. immediately followed by a letter? Both the immediate neighbours of U face North. W sits to immediate a) None b) One left of Y. Immediate neighbours of V face opposite directions (i.e. c) Two d) Three if one neighbour of V faces North, then the other faces South and e) More than three vice-versa). Immediate neighbours of T face opposite directions 14. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on (i.e if one neighbour of T faces North, then the other faces South their positions in the above arrangement and so form a group. and vice-versa). People sitting at the extreme ends face the same Which is the one that does not belong to that group? directions (i.e if one person faces North then the other also faces a) M24 b) PWM North and vice-versa). c) Q6L d) RUQ e) VG8 20. Which of the following pairs represents immediate neighbours of the persons seated at the two extreme ends of the line? Directions (15-19): In each question below, is given a group of a)U, Z b)T,Y letters followed by four combinations of digits/symbols c)W,T d)Y,Z numbered (a), (b), (c) and (d). You have to find out which of e)S,T the four combinations correctly represents the group of letters 21. How many persons are seated between T and X? based on the following coding system and the conditions that a) Four b) More than four follow and mark the number of that combination as your c) One d) Three answer. If none of the combinations correctly represents the e) Two group of letters, mark (e), i.e., ‘None of these’, as your answer. 22. If each of the persons is made to sit in alphabetical order from right to left the positions of how many will remain unchanged Letter W P J Q E T I A U F D B V M H Digits/ as compared to the original sitting arrangement? Symbol 5 6 9 1 2 3 @ 4 © 8 % * 7 # $ a) One b) Two code c) Four d) None e) Three (i) If the first letter is a consonant and the fourth letter is a 23. Who amongst the following sits exactly between Z and T? vowel, both are to be coded as the codes for the vowel. a) U b)V (ii) If the second letter is a vowel and the last letter is a c)Y d) X consonant, both are to be coded as 8. e)W (iii) If both the first and the last letter are consonants, both 24. Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a their codes are to be interchanged. circle facing the centre. D is sitting between B and G. F is 15. MBUVWE sitting between A and H. E is at second place right to A. What a) #*©#52 b) 7*©#52 is the position of A? c) $©*752 d) #©*7528 a) Left of F e) None of these b) Right of F 16. AJBMFU c) Between E and F a) 49*48© b) #9*#8© d) Cannot be determined c) 49*#8© d) ©9©#84 e) Other than those given as options e) None of these Directions (25-29) : Study the following information carefully 17. AEIMVH and answer the questions given below. a) 42@#7$ b) 42@47$ Eight persons — M, N, O, P, Q, R, S and T are sitting around a c) #2@47$ d) 48@#78 circular table facing the centre, but not necessarily in the same e) None of these order. Each one of them likes different type of animals, viz. Horse, 18. THAFIQ Tiger, Monkey, Cat, Rabbit, Dog, Sheep and Goat but not a) 3$48@3 b) 1$48@3 necessarily in the same order. c) 1$48@1 d) 3$48@1 The person who likes Horse is sitting third to the right of R. There e) None of these is only one person between the persons who likes Horse and Cat 19. WMEIJU . The person who likes Cat is not to the immediate right of R. P is a) @#2@9© b) 5#2@9© sitting third to the right of O. N is sitting to the immediate left of c)@#259© d) 5#259© S. N does not like Horse, Tiger or Cat. P is not an immediate e) None of these neighbour of R. There is only one person between P and the person Directions (20-23) Study the following information carefully who likes Monkey. O is sitting to the immediate left of the person and answer the questions given below. who likes Horse. S does not like Horse or Cat. M is an immediate Eight persons —S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z are seated in a straight neighbour of both R and O. The person who likes Goat is to the line but not necessarily in the same order, some of them are facing immediate right of that person who likes Horse. Q does not like South while some are facing North. S sits fourth to left of X. X sits Goat. The person who likes Goat is just opposite to the person at one of the extreme end of the line. Both the immediate neighbours who likes Sheep. M likes Rabbit.

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25. Who among the following likes Tiger? e) None of these a)T b)P 33. Which of the following expressions indicates ‘R is the sister of c)O d)R H’? e)Q a) R$D@F#H b) H%D@F$R 26. Starting from M, if all persons are made to sit in the alphabetical c) R%D@F$H d) H$D@F#R order in anti-clockwise direction, the position of how many e) None of these (excluding M) will remains unchanged? 34. If F@D%K#H, then how is F related to H? a) One b) Two a) Brother-in-law b) Sister c) Three d) Four c) Sister-in-law d) Cannot be determined e) None e) None of these 27. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE with respect 35. Which of the following expressions indicates ‘H is the brother to the given seating arrangement? of N’? a) The person who likes Monkey is second to the left of M a) N%F@D$H b) N%F@D%H b) T is sitting exactly between the person who likes Cat c) N%F@D$H#R d) H#R$D$N and Q e) None of these c) S is sitting opposite of Q Directions (36-38): In each of the questions below are given d) N likes Sheep three statements followed by three conclusions numbered I, e) The person who likes Tiger is sitting third to the left of II and III. You have to take the given statements to be true P even, if they seems to be at variance with commonly known 28. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the the above seating arrangement and hence they from a group. given conclusions logically follows from the given statements Which one of the following does not belong to that group? disregarding commonly known facts. a)MP b)QR c)NO d) SQ 36. Statements: e) TR All calculators are boxes. 29. Who among the following is sitting exactly between R and N? All boxes are taps. a) Q b) T Some taps are machines. c) P d) O Conclusions: e) S I. Some machines are boxes. II. Some taps are calculators. Directions (30-31): Study the following information carefully III. Some boxes are calculators. to answer the given questions. a) I and II follow b) I and III follow Point P is 9 m towards the East of point Q. Point R is 5 m towards c) II and III follow d) All I, II and III follow the South of point P. Point S is 3 m towards the West of point R. e) None of the above Point T is 5 m towards the North of point S. Point V is 7 m 37. Statements: towards the South of point S. Some pots are buckets. 30. If a person walks in a starting line for 8 m towards West from All buckets are tubs. point R, which of the following points would he cross first? All tubs are drums. a) V b) Q Conclusions: c) T d) S I. Some drums are pots. e) Cannot be determined II. All tubs are buckets. 31. Which of the following points are in a straight line? III. Some drums are buckets. a) P, R, V b) S, T, Q a) I and II follows b) I and III follow c) P, T, V d) V, T, R c) II and III follow d) All follow e) S, V, T e) None of these 38. Statements: Directions (32-35): Study the following information carefully Some uniforms are covers. to answer these questions. All covers are papers. I. ‘A $ B’ means ‘A is mother of B’. All papers are bags. II. ‘A # B’ means ‘A is the father of B’. Conclusions: III. ‘A @ B’ means ‘A is the husband of B’. I. All covers are bags. IV. ‘A % B’ means ‘A is daughter of B’. II. Some bags are covers, papers and uniforms. III. Some uniforms are not papers. 32. P@Q$M#T indicates what relationship of P with T? a) Only I follows b) I and II follow a) Maternal grandfather c) Only III follow d) All I, II and III follow b) Paternal grandfather e) None of these c) Maternal grandfather d) Cannot be determined

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Directions (39-40): In the following questions, the symbols, a)2 b)2- ©, %, $ and @ are used with the following meaning as 2 illustrated below. c)2+ d)2 P © Q means P is either smaller than or equal to Q. 2 2 P % Q means P is smaller than Q. e)None of these P @ Q means P is equal to Q. 46. A and B can complete a work in 60 and 90 days, respectively. P * Q means P is either greater than or equal to Q. They started the work together. After 10 days, B fell ill and P $ Q means P is greater than Q. therefore A and C completed the remaining work in the next Now, in each of the following questions, assuming the given 10 days. In how many days can C alone do the work? statements to be true, find which of the two conclusions I and a)18 b)20 II given below them is/are definitely true? c)15 d)24 Give answer e)None of these a) If only conclusion I is true 47. Three solutions having milk and water in the ratio 2 : 3, 3 : 1 b) If only conclusion II is true and 4 : 5 respectively, were mixed in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. Find the c) If either conclusion I or II is true ratio of milk to water in the resultant mixture. d) If neither conclusion I nor II is true a)1000 : 900 b)869 : 751 e) If both conclusion I and II are true c)800 : 650 d)600 : 700 e)None of these 39. Statements: M % T, T $ K, K © D 48. A student took five papers in an examination, where the full Conclusions: I. T $ D II. D $ M marks were the same for each paper. His marks in these papers 40. Statements: F @ B, B % N, N $ H were in the proportion of 6 : 7 : 8 : 9 : 10. In all papers Conclusions: I. N $ F II. H $ F together, the candidate obtained 60% of the total marks. Then the number of papers in which he got more than 50% marks is QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE a)2 b)3 c)4 d)5 Directions (Q. 41- 45): What should come in place of question e)None of these mark (?) in the following questions? 49. The SI for 10 years is Rs. 6000. The CI for 2 years is Rs. 1400. 41. (8% of 800)  ? = 224 Find the rate% and the principal. a)4.5 b)3.5 a)33.37%, Rs 2000 b)35.38%, Rs 1600 c)4 d)3 c)39.40%, Rs 1500 d)33.33%, Rs 1800 e)None of these e)None of these 42. ?% of 1400 – 18% of 750 = 159 50. A mother’s age is three times more than her son’s age. After 8 a)27 b)29 years, her age would be two and half times here son’s age. c)17 d)21 After another 8 years, how many times would her age be of e)None of these her son’s age? a)2 times b)2.75 times 1 c)2.5 times d)3 times 43. 4 0.25 = ? 7 (343) e)None of these a) 7 b)49 Directions (Q. 51- 55): Find out the wrong number in the given following sequence. c)-7 d)7 7 51. 7 4 6 9 20 52.5 160.5 e)None of these a)6 b)4 2 7 17 6 c)20 d)9 44.    = ? e)52.5 5 8 18 5 52. 4 6 12 30 75 315 1260 a)315 b)75 1 c)12 d)6 a)1 b) 2 e)30 53. 3 4 13 38 87 166 289 1 3 a)38 b)13 c)2 d) c)87 d)166 2 4 e)4 e)None of these 54. 4 5 9 29 111 556 3335 a)5 b)9  1 1  c)29 d)111 45. 2  2    = ? e)556  2  2 2  2 

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55. 2 6 16 38 84 176 368 Directions (Q. 61-65): Examine the given graph and answer a)6 b)16 these questions. c)38 d)84 e)176 Directions (Q. 56- 60): The circle graph given here shows the spending of a country on various sports during a year. Study the graph carefully to answer these questions. PERCENT OF MONEY SPENT ON VARIOUS SPORTS FOR ONE YEAR

61. The deficit in 1993-94 was roughly how many times the deficit in 1990-91? a)1.4 b)1.5 c)2.5 d)0.5 56. If the total amount spent on sports during the year was Rs e) None of these 1,50,00,000, then the amount spent on Cricket and Hockey 62. The increase in deficit in 1993-94 was how much per cent of together was the deficit in 1989-90? a) Rs 60,00,000 b) Rs 50,00,000 a)200 b)150 c) Rs 37,50,000 d) Rs 75,00,000 c)100 d)210 e) None of these e) None of these 63. In which of the following years, the per cent increase of deficit 57. If the total amount spent during the year was Rs 1,20,00,000, was highest over its preceding year? how much was spent on basketball? a)1992-93 b) 1990-91 a)Rs 12,50,000 b)Rs 10,00,000 c)1993-94 d)1988-89 c)Rs 12,00,000 d)Rs 15,00,000 e)1991-92 64. The ratio of the number of years, in which the trade deficit is e) None of these above the average deficit, to those in which the trade deficit is 58. The ratio of the total amount spent on football to that spent on below the average deficit, is Hockey was a)3 : 5 b)5 : 3 a)1:15 b)1:1 c)4 :4 d)3:4 c)15:1 d)3 :2 e) None of these 65. The deficit in 1992-93 was approximately how much per cent e) None of these of the average deficit? 59. The graph shows that the most popular game is a)150 b)140 a) Hockey b) Football c)125 d)90 e)114 c) Cricket d) Basketball e) None of these Directions (Q. 66-70): In each of these questions, two equations 60. The country spent the same amount of money on numbered I and II are given. You have to solve both equations and give your answer as a) Hockey and Tennis (a) if a > b b) Golf and Basketball (b) a  b c) Cricket and Football (c) if a < b d) Hockey and Golf (d) if a  b e)None of these (e) if a = b or the relationship between a and b cannot be established.

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66. I. 9a2 + 18a + 5 = 0 II. 2b2 + 13b + 20 = 0 80. A boat takes 40 minutes less to travel 10 km downstream than 67. I. a3 – 988 = 343 II. b2 – 72 = 49 to travel the same distance upstream. If the speed of the boat in still water is 8 kmph then the speed of the stream is 5 5 6 11 2 a)3 kmph b)2 kmph 68. I.   a II. b2= c)5 kmph d)1 kmph a a b e)None of these 69. I. 11a – 25.35 = 54.65 +6a  II. b  273  64  81 2 2 70. I. a – 13a + 42 = 0 II. b – 15b + 56 = 0 EXPLANATIONS Directions (Q.71-75): What approximate value should come in place of question mark (?) in the following questions? (1-4) (Note : You are not expected to calculate the exact value.) 71. 96 2  3 79510 = ? Day Profession Person   Monday Doctor P a)215 b)210 Tuesday Teacher R c)220 d)224 Wednesday Engineer/Manager Q/T e)200 Thursday Lawyer U 72. 81.38 81.63 = ? Friday Nurse S Saturday Engineer/Manager Q/T a)680 b)218 c)726 d)512 e)134 1. e 2. d 3. a 4. b 73. 26.89  168.98 + 5317 = ? (5-9) a)8980 b)8880 c)10980 d)9880 Friend College Profession e)None of these Chanu KVRC Architecture 74. 1527  0.3 + 38% of 380 + 49  0.490 = ? Ekanta Xavier Medicine a)625 b)627 Gyan Xavier Business c)527 d)427 Falguni Techno Engineering e)637 Barsha KVRC Acting 75. 11.25% of 135 + 8.72% of 463 = ? Anup KVRC Fashion Designing a)45 b)55 Diya Techno Teaching c)35 d)65 e)44 5. e 6. c 7. a 8. a 9. d 76. The area of the ring between two concentric circles, whose (10-14) circumferences are 88 cm and 132 cm, is 10. a; 7AB a)780 cm2 b)770 cm2 11. b; 8V# c)715 cm2 d)660 cm2 12. b; Total terms = 33 e)None of these 19th term from right = (33 + 1 – 19)= 34 – 19 = 15th from left 77. A shopkeeper earns a profit of 15% after selling a book at 20% = Q discount on the printed price. The ratio of the cost price and 10th term to the right of 19th term = 10th term to the right of Q the printed price of the book is = (15 +10)th = 25th term from left = T a)20 : 23 b)23 : 20 13. d; 4©T, 9@L, 7*A, c)16 : 23 d)23 : 16 14. a; M24 e)None of these (15-19) 78. In how many ways can a cricket team of 11 players be selected out of 16 players, if two particular players are always to be 15. e; M B U V W E  # * © 7 5 2 (none of the condition is included? applied) a)2006 b)2004 16. c; A J B M F U  4 9 * # 8 © (none of the condition is c)2008 d)2002 applied) e)None of these 17. d; A E I M V H  4 8 @ # 7 8 (condition (ii) is applied) 2 18. b; T H A F I Q  1 $ 4 8 @ 3 (condition (iii) is applied) 79. If P = 999, then the value of 3 p( p  3p  3) 1 is 19. a; W M E I J U  @ # 2 @ 9 © (condition (i) is applied) a)1000 b)999 c)998 d)1002 e)None of these

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38. b 2  2  2  2 45. a; Given expression = 2  2  2  2 2  2

2 2 = 2  2  2  2  2  2 2  4 46. a; Let the total work be 180 units. Total work 180 units (39-40) A: 60 days 3 units/day 39. d; According to the question, B:90 days 2 units/day A+B 5 units per day M % T  M < T ....(i) Work done by A and B together in the first 10 days 50 units T $ K  T > K ....(ii) Remaining work = 180 —50= 130 units K © D  K  D ....(iii) This is completed by A and C in the next 10 days On combining the statements (i), (ii) and (iii), we get Work done by A and C per day = 130/10 = 13 units Efficiency of A= 3 units per day M < T > K D  Therefore, efficiency of C = 13 —3 = 10 units per day. Conclusions: C alone can do the work in 180/10 = 18 days. I. T $ D  T > D (False) 47. b; Let the solutions added be 2, 3 and 4 L , respectively. II. D $ M  D > M (False) Quantity of milk in the solution = So, it is clear that neither conclusion I nor II is true. 2 3 4 4 9 16 869 40. a; According to the question, 2  3  4     F @ B  F = B ...(i) 5 4 9 5 4 9 180 B % N  B < N ...(ii) 869 1620 869 751 Quantity of water  9    N $ H  N > H ....(iii) 180 180 180 On combining the statements (i), (ii) and (iii), we get Ratio of milk to water = 869 : 751 F = B < N > H 48. c; Let the marks be 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x and 10x, respectively, making Conclusions: a total of 40x. I. N $ F  N > F (True) This represents 60% of the total marks. II. H $ F H > F (False)  60 200x So, it is clear that only conclusion I is true. T  40x  T  100 3 8008 41. b; ?  224 200x/3 is the total for five papers, and so the total marks per 100 paper = 40x /3. Now 50% of the marks per paper = 224  ?   3.5  40x  20x 64  0.5   6.66x = 6.66x  3  3 1400? 75018 42. d;  159 There are four papers in which the student has got more than 100 100 6.66x. 49. d; SI for 10 years is Rs. 6000. Therefore, 159 135 SI for 1 year will be Rs. 600. ?=  21 SI for 2 years will be Rs. 1200. 14 CI for 2 years is Rs. 1400. 1 1 Difference = Rs, 200. This is because of interest received on 43. e; 4 3 4 7 7   7 the first period’s interest. 2 7 17 6 2 7 17 5 R 44. e;        Therefore, 200 = 600 5 8 18 5 5 8 18 6 100 2 595 200    0.40  0.69 1.09 Therefore, R = = 33.33% 5 864 6

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Also, interest for the first period is Rs. 600, rate is 33.33% 3600 and time period is 1 years.  k  124.13 125 P33.331 29 Therefore, 600 = 66. a; I.9a2 + 18a + 5 = 0 100 Or, 3a(3a+ 5) + 1(3a+ 5) = 0 P = Rs 1800 Or, (3a+1) (3a+5) = 0 50. a; Let the son’s age be x and therefore the mother’s age will be Or, a = -1/3, -5/3 4x. II. 2b2 + 13b +20 = 0 Now, 4x+ 8 = 2.5 (x +8) Or, 2b(b+4) + 5(b +4) = 0 4x+ 8 = 2.5x+ 20 Or, (b +4) (2b +5) = 0 1.5x = 12 Or, b = -4, -5/2 x = 8 Hence, a > b Son’s present age is 8 and the mother’s present age is 32. 67. b; I. a3 – 988 = 343 After 16 years, mother’s age is 48 and son’s age is 24. The Or, a3 = 343 + 988 required value is two times. Or, a3 = 1331 Or, a = 11 1 1 1 1 II.b2 – 72 = 49 51. a; The series is   ,11,1 1 ,...... 2 2 2 2 Or, b2 = 121 Or, b =  11 1 1 Hence, a b 52. b; The series is 1 ,2,2 ,.....  2 2 5 6 53. d; The series is +12, +32, +52, ...... 68. e; I.   a 54. c; The series is 11,2 1,31,4 1,...... a a 55. e; The series is 2 2, 2 4, 2 6,...... 5  6         a 56. a; 40% of 15000000= 6000000 a 57. d; 12.5% of 12000000 = 1500000 Or, 11 = a 58. b; 15 : 15 = 1 : 1 59. c 5 2 60. b; 12.5% in each 11 II. b2 = 61. b; 4200  k  2800 b

4200 3 1 2 5  k   1.5 Or, b . 2 2 2800 2 b 11

62. a; 4200  k% of 2100 Or, b = 11  k  200 Hence, a = b 69. e; I.11a – 25.35 = 54.65 +6a 63. d; Percent increase in deficit in 1992-93 Or, 11a – 6a = 54. 65 + 25.35 1000 500 6 Or, 5a = 80.00 = 100   38 % Or, a = 16 2600 13 13 II. b  273  64  81 700 1 In 1990-91, 100  33 % 2100 3 Or, b  273  9  8 600 2 Or, b  273 =17 100 16 % In 1993 -94, 2 3600 3 Or,  b  273 = 289 900 10 Or, b = 289 – 273 = 16 In 1988 – 89, 100  40 % Hence, a = b 2200 11 70. d; I.a2 – 13a + 42 = 0 64. a; = 3 : 5 Or, a2 – 7a – 6a + 42 = 0 65. c; 3600  k % of 2900, say Or, a(a – 7) – 6(a- 7) = 0 Or, (a – 7) (a – 6) = 0

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Or, a = 7, 6 now, the ratio between cost price and printed price = 2 I I . b – 15b + 56 = 0 Or, b2 – 8b - 7b + 56 = 0  100  80  :100 = 16 : 23 Or, b (b – 8) – 7( b – 8) = 0  115  Or, (b – 8) (b – 7) = 0 Or, b = 8, 7 78. d; When 2 particular player are always to be included then 9 more players are to be selected out of the remaining 14 players, Hence, a  b 14! 2 3 9216 14 w h ich can b e d o n e in C ways = = 2002 71. a; ?  (96)  79510   214.325  215 9 43 9!5! 72. d; ?  81.381.63  83.01  512 79. a; 3 p( p2  3p  3) 1 73. d; 27  169+5317 1/ 3 =4563 + 5317 = 9880  p3  3p 2  3p 1 38380 31/ 3 74. b; ? 15270.3  490.490  (p 1)  p 1  1000 100 80. b; Let the speed of the stream be x kmph.  458.12 144.4  24.1 Speed downstream = ( 8 +x) kmph Speed upstream = (8 - x) kmph  458 144.4  24.1  626.5  627 10 10 2 11.25135 8.72 463 Then,   75. b; ?   8  x x  8 3 100 100 10(x  8 8  x) 2  15.1875+40.37  55 Or, 2  76. b; According to the question, 64  x 3 Or, x2 + 30x – 64 = 0 Or, (x -2) (x +32) = 0 x = 2 kmph

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE that actually provides a forest cover to badly d) India might face food crisis if denuded land, promotes the planting of fuel conservation measures are not Direction (1-10): Read the following wood trees on a sizeable scale and involves adopted. passage carefully and answer the proper conservation measuresand an e) None of these questions given below it. Certain words underestimation of the magnitude of such a 3. What seems to have been the immediate have been printed in bold to help you plan is not the only flaw in the report. Even cause of writing the passage? locate them while answering some of the more serious one, related to the first, lies in a) Danger of famine questions. its failure to establish a coherent set of b) Scarcity of water A nine-member international task force on priorities among the different functions that c) Report of the international task conservation of forests has identified India an afforestation programme must perform. force on conservation of forests as one of 56 countries of the world which To take just one example, the vital task of d) Planning for the 21st century are critically affected by widespread planting fuelwood and fodder trees is put e) Scarcity of raw materials to deforestation and steady destruction of on part with the planting of trees to meet industries natural watersheds: it has also warned that the raw material requirements of industries. 4. The author’s chief concern appears to unless urgent conservation measures are Owing to this confusion, the task force falls be the taken the country will face a serious food short of recommending the kind of radical A) conservation of forests crisis in the next century. The report measures that are really needed, including a B) destruction of natural watersheds correctly describes the Himalayan moratorium on the development of and in C) degradation of Himalayan ecosystem as the most critical watershed in some areas phasing out of wood based ecosystem the world, the degradation of which now industries : steps against the spreading of a) Only A b) Only B threatens the very processes of life in the monocultures and entrusting afforestation c) Only C d) Both A and C Indo-Gangetic plain. The report documents programmes to the people in the affected e) All A, B and C some aspects of the process of environmental regions rather than the government 5. In order to reverse the damage caused destruction that is at work in this country machinery. by deforestation, the International task and calls for an expenditure of about force has estimated that India, in a Rs.1,450 crores over the next five year 1. According to the passage all of the period of five years, will be required to period of reverse some of the damage that following would prove radical incur a total expenditure of about Rs. has taken place. While the task force’s measures to boost up the afforestation a) 300 crores report is a welcome reminder of the urgency programmes, except b) 1,000 crores of the task of halting and rolling back the A) entrusting the programmes to c) 1,450 crores most awesome form of destruction that this people in the affected regions d) 5,000 crores country has ever witnessed, it regrettably B) entrusting the programmes to the e) 7,250 crores underestimates the magnitude of the effort Government 6. In the afforestation programme, planting involved and hence falls short of suggesting C) moratorium on the development of fuel, wood trees and fodder-trees is a comprehensive solution to the problem. of wood-based industries considered on par with the planting of For instance the five-year programme it a) Only A b) Only B trees which meet the demands of raw recommends bears no relationship to the c) Only C d) Both B and C materials of industries because. resources that will be actually needed even c) All A, B and C A) all these plants are equally to reach a zero net rate of deforestation, 2. Which of the following statements is important which is proceeding at the furious pace of not true in the context of the passage? B) of the underestimation of the 1.3 million hectares a year. a) The task force report contains a magnitude of the problem. Past experience shows that more than feasible solution to the problem. C) of the lack of comprehensive Rs.300 crores in government expenditure b) India is one of the countries which approach alone are needed over four to five years, at have been affected by a) Only A today’s prices merely to plant less than a deforestation. b) Only B million hectares of land with fuel wood trees. c) The damage caused due to c) Only C Realistically speaking, resources of the order deforestation can be partially d) Both A and B of Rs.1,000 crores a year will be necessary reversed. e) Both B and C for the next five years to sustain a plan

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7. Which of the following will be most error, then your answer is (e) i.e. No c) The notion that people care more severe shortage in India in future, if error. about the nominal value, would proper measures are not taken in order be impressed if their wages double to stop degradation of the Himalayan 11. India’s travel and tourism (a)/industry than its real value. Real value of ecosystem? is poised (b)/on growth at seven (c)/ their money were to drop by more a) Water percent this year alone.(d)/ No error(e) than half during the same period. b) Food 12. The ministry was considered (a)/several d) The notion that people care more c) Fodder proposals for the (b)/development of about the nominal value of money d) Fuel wood small and medium (c)/enterprises rather than its real value. e) Raw materials to wood based during budget discussions.(d)/ No According to this idea, workers, industries error(e) for instance, would be impressed 8. Life in the Indo-Gangetic plain in India 13. Government officials have been working if their wages double in a year even is in danger because of (a)/overtime to answer queries raised if the real value of their money A) identification of this region as (b)/by banks on numerous of (c)/issues were to drop by more than half “critically affected” by the pertaining to the loan waiver.(d)/ No during the same period. International task force. error(e) e) The notion were to drop by more B) underestimation of the critical 14. The Finance Minister’s view (a)/is that than half during the same period. nature of the Himalayan the scheme will ensure (b)/that millions According to this idea workers, watershed. of farmers will be (c)/lifted out of for instance, would be impressed C) underestimation of the destruction poverty.(d)/ No error(e) if its wages double. of the Himalayan ecosystem. 15. A group of youngsters (a)/has lend 17. ______Down the ages, man has tried to D) destruction of the Himalayan financial assistance (b)/to the flood discover life’s meaning, the purpose of ecosystem. affected (c)/people of the villages.(d)/ living, whether there is a GOD or release a) Only A b) Only B No error(e) from suffering and to attain to some c) Only C d) Only D Direction (Q. No. 16-20 ) : In each of the spiritual state where all the questions e) None of these following questions a short passage is are understood by some experience, a 9. The International task force has not given with one of the lines in the passage transcendent mystical union with the a) emphasised the urgency of missing and represented by a blank. Pick ultimate. tackling the problem of out the option which when used to start (a) Trying to be something that you deforestation. a sentence combines both the above are not is not possible. The very b) emphasised the urgency of sentences is one. Select the best out of want is no different than any other tackling the problem of the five answer choices given, to make want that we might have. destruction of natural watersheds. the passage complete and coherent. (b) The very want is no different than c) underestimated the magnitude of any other want. It is not possible. the problem of deforestation. 16. ______The concept, credited to British (c) Trying to be something that you d) underestimated the magnitude of economist John Maynard Keynes, has are not is possible. The vary want the problem of natural been heavily criticized for its is not different. watersheds. assumption that people are naive. The (d) We might have, something that we e) suggested a comprehensive theory of national expectations, which are not is not possible. The very scheme for dealing with the among other things states that people want is no different. problem of deforestation. learn from experience and can reset their (e) No different than any other want earlier beliefs, l was a response to the that they mighthave. Direction (Q. No.10): Choose the word idea of money illusion. 18. ______may have triggered the current that is most nearly the same in the a) The people care about the nominal standoff with India in the Sikkim meaning as the word given in bold letters value money rather than its real section of the China-India border, says as used in the passage. value. Workers for instances, a widely circulated Chinese internet 10. SUSTAIN would be impressed if their wages blog. a) Nourish b) Prolong double in a year if real money drop (a) China’s decision to complete the c) Implement d) Support more than half. construction of a road to a watch e) Prove b) The notion that people care about tower in the Doklam area, which drop by more than half during the it had built in 2014. Direction (Q. No. 11-15 ) : In the same period. According to this (b) In Doklam area, China decides to following question, some parts of the idea, workers, for instance, would complete the construction of a sentences have errors and some are be impressed if their wages gets road to watch tower. correct. Find out which part of a sentence double. (c) In 2014,China decides to complete has an error. The number of that part is the construction of road in the your answer. If a sentence is free from Doklam area, built in 2014.

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(d) Construction of a road to a watch Direction (Q.21-25): Rearrange the a) A b) F over in Doklam area, triggered seven sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E),(F) c) B d) D current standoff. and (G) in a proper sequence to form a e) C (e) China’s decision to complete the meaningful paragraph and answer the 22. Which of the following sentences construction in Doklam area, following questions. should be the FIFTH after build in 2014. A. That asymmetry could rearrangement? 19. ______as fashion designers have potentially be offset, though a) B b) F discovered to their discomfiture. The only in small part, through the c) A d) E very slightess slight to the emblem proposal of the NITI Aayog and e) D invites the unwelcome attentions of the Union Health Ministry to 23. Which of the following sentences the police. Even variations in the allow private entities to use the should be the THIRD after dimensions of the flag are verboten. premises of the district hospitals rearrangement? (a) Designers discomfort the to provide treatment for cardiac a) A b) D discoveries, India mightly and pulmonary diseases and c) E d) C uptight the tricolour. cancer. e) F (b) Tricolour India’s might, B. The potential of India’s district 24. Which of the following sentences wrapping yourself in the flag is hospital system to dramatically should be the FOURTH after offence. expand access to quality rearrangement? (c) Emblem invite the unwelcome secondary and tertiary health a) G b) B tricolour, wrapping yourself has care has never really been c) C d) D (d) Wrapping yourself in the flag is realised. The majority of e) A offence, India might uprightly patients today use the facilities 25. Which of the following sentences about tricolour. created mostly by for profit should be the SECOND after (e) India is mightly uptight about the urban hospitals. rearrangement? tricolour. Wrapping yourself in C. Viewed in perspective, a quick a) D b) C the flag is an offence. scaling-up of care for such non- c) A d) B 20. ______the first time this has happened communicable diseases is e) E in over a decade. While this marks a possible under the arrangement, Direction (Q. No. 26-35) : In the reversal of the trend till two years because there are 763 functional following questions, some of the words back when states were more fiscally district hospitals, with just five have been left out. Read the passage prudent than the central government, states led by Uttar Pradesh carefully and choose the correct answer it is worrying that the run-rate is accounting for over 42% of the to each question out of the four likely to continue and possibly facilities. alternatives and fill in the blanks. worsen-triggered by a combination of D. One major concern in such an The economics of owning and running a revenue and expenditure side issues. arrangement is to ensure that the ration shop, the familiar name for the (a) With the gross fiscal deficit – bulk of health spending, whether outlets in our Public Distribution System GDP ratio breached 3 percent, from government funds, subsidy (PDS), are such that under normal business combining fiscal position of or private insurance, goes into terms the shop owner could never make a states deteriorated. actual care provision, and that profit. Yet, (26)the government announces (b) GDP ratio breaching the 3 administrative expenditure is that new permits for ration shops will be percent threshold in 2015-2016, capped under the contract. given out, there is frenzy in the market to last couple of years. E. A market driven approach to grab one of these. 27)?The answer is (c) The combined fiscal position of providing district hospital beds obvious the business is not for the honest states has deteriorated sharply for only those with the means and if one knows the (28)there is a fortune over the last couple of years, would defeat the objective. to be made. What are these tricks of the with the gross fiscal deficit-GDP F. Moreover, in consonance with trade? Getting fake names into the user list ratio breaching the 3 percent the goal to provide health for all is the most obvious option.The state seems threshold in 2015-16. under the National health Policy, to be (29)a losing battle against this (d) With the gross fiscal deficit-GDP care should be universal, and free practice, judging by the endless efforts to ratio breached the 3 percent, at the point of delivery. weed out bogus ration cards. The next is to sharply over the last couple G. 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How is V related to D? genuine beneficiaries and diverts them to (e) AAB a) Daughter b) Nephew the open market. The targeted group is 37. A. Please send me one carton [A]/ c) Cousin d) Niece usually not in a position to (35)itself to cartoon [B] of printer cartridges. e) Can’t be determined get its due. And thus one has all the B. If someone violates your 43. A postman had to deliver letters. He ingredients of a good PDS business. copyright, send them a cease started from the west to deliver a letter [A]/seize [B] and Desist letter 26. (a) just (b) sooner to a house which is in the east at 100m. immediately. (c) time (d) whenever From there, he turned towards left and C. The villain falling off the cliff (e) quickly travelled 50 m deliver the next letter. was climactic [A]/climatic[B] 27. (a) Where (b) Why He again turned towards left and scene of the movie. (c) How (d) What delivered the letter to a house which (a) BBA (b) AAA (e) When is 50m away. Again, he took the left (c) ABA (d) BAA 28. (a) sprouting (b) diligence turn and travelled 100m in the south (e) ABB (c) ropes (d) lying to deliver another letter. Finally, he 38. A. Toads are said to return to the pond (e) people took the left turn and travelled 70 m of their to breed [A]/bread [B]. 29. (a) winning (b) expecting to deliver the last letter. In which B. Jems was born [A]/borne [B] in (c) trying (d) attempt directions is he from the starting London (e) waging point? C. M.L.A canvas [A]/canvass [B] 30. (a) realising (b) drawing a) North-West for the candidate in the election. (c) giving (d) harping b) North-East (a) BBA (b) ABA (e) discussing c) South-West (c) AAA (d) AAB 31. (a) difficult (b) simple d) South-East (e) BAA (c) enough (d) easy e) None of these 39. A. There was a boulder [A]/bolder (e) must [B]blocking the path. 32. (a) donated (b) bought Directions (44-47): Following are steps B. He tried to brake [A]/break (c) siphoned (d) sell of an input. Rearrange them and answer [B]the fused bulb. (e) borrowed the questions. C. The opposition parties grate 33. (a) underlying (b) mechanical A number arrangement machine arranges [A]/grat[B]the ruling party. (c) unclear (d) understood two digit numbers given to it in a typical (a) BAB (b) ABA (e) poor manner. The first step is illustrated in the (c) AAA (d) BAA 34. (a) flow (b) show example below which uses the concept of (e)BAB (c) line (d) meeting multiplication to associate number and give 40. A. Don’t have cash [A]/case [B]in the (e) collusion output of the input in the first step. No pocket while you are in the bus. 35. (a) assert (b) deliver other step uses multiplication as the tool B. She had to altar [A]/alter [B]her (c) wilful (d) ask to process number in subsequent steps. clothes after losing weight. (e) voiced The second step uses at least one of the C. The boy was hurt in the dual digits from each of the three-number Direction (Q. No. 36-40) : In each [A]/duel[B]. obtained to get the next step. Each step questions, there is pair of words/phrases (a) BAA (b) ABA takes gives output taking input from the that highlighted. From the highlighted (c) AAA (d) ABB previous step. Using the illustration answer word (s)/phrase (s) select the most (e) BAB the given questions. appropriate words (s)/phrase (s) to from correct sentences. Then, from the REASONING ABILITY options given, choose the best one. Directions (41-42): Read the given 36. A. We now precede [A]/proceed [B] information and answer the following to consider the properties, syntheses, questions:

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Roelant Oltmans. The Afghanistan and Brunei captains are not the immediate neighbours of each other. Only one captain sits between SV Sunil and the Bangladesh captain. The captains of Bhutan and Bahrain are the immediate neighbours of each other. SV Sunil is not the captain of Bahrain. Only one person sits between Gurbaj Singh and the captain of Cambodia. The captain of Cambodia is an immediate neighbour of Nikkin Thimmaiah. MK Kausik and Gurbaj Singh are not the immediate neighbours of each other. 48. How many captains sit between Jude Felix and the captain of Cambodia when counted in a clockwise direction from Jude Felix? a) None b) One c) Two d) Four e) Five 49. Who is the captain of Afghanistan? a) PR Sreejesh b) Roelant Oltmans c) MK Kausik d) Jude Felix e) Gurbaj Singh 50. Based on the above sitting arrangement, which of the following will come in place of the question mark? 44. If the value ‘10’is added to the final output then what will Roelant Oltmans —SV Sunil, Nikkin Thimmaiah — Danish be the resultant value? Mujtaba, Jude Felix - Roelant Oltmans, Danish Mujtaba — a)16.5 b)6.5 PR Sreejesh,? c)17.5 d)15.5 a) SV Sunil — MK Kausik e)15 b) MK Kausik — Nikkin Thimmaiah 45. If we add both the number of step 2, then what will be the c) Gurbaj Singh — SV Sunil resultant value? d) Gurbaj Singh — Nikkin Thimmaiah a)10 b)8 e) Roelant Oltmans — Danish Mujtaba c)7 d)9 51. According to the sitting arrangement, which of the following is e)3 true? 46. What will be the resultant if we added all the three numbers a) Danish Mujtaba is the captain of Brunei. of step 1? b) MK Kausik is an immediate neighbour of Roelant a)220 b)230 Oltmans. c)240 d)145 c) The captains of Afghanistan and Cambodia are immediate e)198 neighbours. 47. What is the final sum of the both number of step 3? d) Four captains sit between MK Kausik and Gurbaj Singh. a)12 b)13 e) Nikkin Thimmaiah sits second to the left of SV Sunil. c)14 d)11 52. Who among the following is the captain of Bangladesh? e)14 a) Gurbaj Singh b) Roelant Oltmans Directions (48-52):Read the given information and answer c) Nikkin Thimmaiah d) Jude Felix the following questions: e) Cannot be determined There are 8 teams participating in Asian Games to be held in 53. How many meaningful word(s) can be constituted by using the Bhubaneswar, namely Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, first, fifth, ninth and tenth letter in the word Brunei, Combodia, India and Kuwait. PR Sreejesh, Gurbaj Singh, MANIPULATED? Danish Mujtaba, SV Sunil, Jude Felix, Roelant Oltmans, MK Kausik a) One b) Two and Nikkin Thimmaiah are the captains of these 8 Asian Game c) Three d) More than three e) None of these participating Countries’ but not necessarily in the same order. In a board meeting, the captain of each team is seated around a circular Directions (54):Question below is provided with a statement table facing the centre. followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to PR Sreejesh is seated third to the left of the captain of Brunei. assume everything in the statement to be true, then consider Only two captains can sit between Jude Felix and MK Kausik. the two conclusions together and decide which of them Neither Jude Felix nor MK Kausik is an immediate neighbour of logically follows beyond a reasonable doubt from the PR Sreejesh. Neither Jude Felix nor MK Kausik is the captain of information given in the statement. Brunei. The captain of Kuwait sits second to the right of SV Sunil. SV Sunil is not an immediate neighbour of PR Sreejesh. SV 54. Statement: The best evidence of India’s glorious past is the Sunil is not the captain of Brunei, and PR Sreejesh is not the growing popularity of yoga in the West. captain of Kuwait. The Afghanistan captain sits third to the left of

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Conclusion: Directions (58-59): Two or three statements are provided I. Gyms and aerobics are more popular in India. followed by two or more conclusions numbered I, II and so on. II. Yoga is not popular in India. You have to consider the given statements to be true and then a) If only conclusion I follows decide which of the conclusion(s) logically follow(s) from the b) If only conclusion II follows statements, disregarding the commonly known facts. Give c) If either I or II follows answer d) If neither I nor II follows e) If both I and II follow 58. Statements: A. All tapes are bulbs. Directions (55): In the question is given a statement followed B. Some tube lights are bulbs. by three courses of action numbered (A),(B)and(C). A course C. All paintings are tube lights. of action is a step or an administrative decision to be taken Conclusions: for improvement, follow-up or further action in regard to the I. Some tube lights are tapes. problem, policy, etc. On the basis of the information given in II. Some paintings are bulbs. the statement, you have to assume everything in the III. Some bulbs are tapes. statement to be true and then decide which of the suggested IV. No paintings is bulb. courses of action logically follow(s) for pursuing. a) Either II or IV and III follows b) Both I and III follow 55. Statement: A large private bank has decided to retrench one- c) Both II and IV follow third of its employees in view of huge losses incurred by it d) None follows during the past three quarters. e) All follows Courses of action: 59. Statements: A) The government should issue a notification to general A. All globes are world. public to immediately stop all transactions with the B. All globes are Map. bank. C. Some Institutes are globes. B) The government should direct the bank to refrain from Conclusions: retrenching its employees. I. Some worlds are not institutes. C) The government should ask the central bank of the II. All maps can be world. country to initiate an enquiry into the bank’s activities III. All institutes are world. and submit its report. a) All follow a) None b) Only A b) None follows c) Only B d) Only C c) Either I or III follows e) Only A and C d) Either I or III and II follows Directions (56-57): Given below are pairs of events ‘A’ and e) Only I & II follows ‘B’. Read both the events ‘A’ and ‘B’ and decide their nature Directions for Question (60-61): Each question contains six of relationship. Assume that the information given in ‘A’ and statements, followed by four options of combinations of any ‘B’ is true and don’t assume anything beyond the given three of the given sentences. Choose the option in which the information in deciding the answer. Mark your answer as combinations are definitely logically related. Take first two a) If ‘A’ is the effect and ‘B’ is its immediate and principal as statement must be followed third one from the given option. cause b) If ‘A’ is the immediate and principal cause and ‘B’ is its 60. (A) All Martians eat sausages. effect. (B) All those who eat sausages are not Martians. c) If ‘A’ is an effect but ‘B’ is not its immediate and principal (C) All those who eat sausages are herbivorous. cause. (D) All Martians are carnivorous. d) If ‘B’ is an effect but ‘A’ is not its immediate and principal (E) All those who eat sausages are carnivorous cause. (F) Martians are herbivorous. e) None of these a) BCE b) ABE c) ACD d) ACF 56. Events: e) None of these a. Company ABC has recorded a 35.40% jump in its sale 61. (A) All lotuses have flowers. previous year. (B) All lotuses have nectar. b. Company ABC has reduced the price of its products for (C) All plants with nectar have flowers. this year. (D) All shrubs have lotuses. 57. Events: (E) All shrubs have nectar. a. Mr. X died while on the way to the hospital. (F) Some lotuses have flowers. b. A car dashed the bike which was being driven by Mr. X. a) BEF b) BCF c) BDE d) ACE e) None of these

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Directions (62): In the following questions, only one c) None d) Three Conclusion is given and five statements are given as a), b), c), e) More than three d) and e). From this you have to take the statements to be true 65. Which of the following is true as per the given information? even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known a) Aman stays on a floor immediately below the floor on facts and then decide which of the given statement logically which Alok stays follows. b) Atithi stays on a floor immediately below the floor on which Amar stays 62. Conclusions : c) Atithi stays on the eighth floor All moons being stars is a possibility d) Ashwin owns the orange coloured car Some planets are stars e) None is true No moon is a universe 66. Aman is related to Aditya in the same way as Alok is related to Some planets are moons Ambika as per the given information. Following the same a) Statements : Some stars are moons. All moons are pattern, Atithi is related to which of the following? planets. No planet is a universe a) Akash b) Ashwin b) Statements : No stars are moons. All moons are planets. c) Amar d) Aditya No planet is a universe e) None of these c) Statements : Some stars are moons. Some moons are 67. What is the colour of the car of the person who stays on the planets. Some planet is a universe ground floor? d) Statements : Some stars are not moons. No moons are a) Red b) Green planets. No planet is a universe c) Yellow d) Grey e) Statements : No stars are moons. No moons are planets. e) None of these some planet is a universe Directions (68-70): Study the following information to answer Directions (63-67): Study the information given below and the given questions. answer the given question. Sagar sells mobiles of seven different companies viz. Samsung, Nine people, Amar, Aman, Aditya, Ashwin, Ambika, Atithi, Atul, HTC, Lenovo, Intex, Micromax, Nokia and Oppo starting from Alok and Akash stay in a building, but not necessarily in the same Monday and ending on Sunday, but not necessarily in the same order. The building has nine floors and only one person stays on order. Sagar sold HTC on Monday. He sold only three mobiles one floor. All of them own one car each, and each car is of a different between HTC and Samsung. He does not sell any ,mobile between colour, i.e. blue, grey, white, black, yellow, green, red, orange and the day he sold Samsung and Lenovo. He sold only two mobiles pink, but not necessarily in the same order. The ground floor is between Lenovo and Oppo. He sold Micromax mobiles on the day numbered 1, the floor above it is numbered 2, and so on, and the immediately before the day he sold Oppo mobiles. He sold Intex topmost floor is numbered 9. on one of the days after Oppo, but not on Sunday.  Alok owns a black coloured car and stays on an even numbered floor. Amar stays on any even numbered floor 68. On which day Sagar sold Micromax? below the floor on which Alok stays. a) Thursday b) Tuesday  The one who owns an orange coloured car stays on the c) Friday d) Saturday fourth floor. Ambika stays on the second floor and owns e) Wednesday a white coloured car. The one who owns a pink coloured 69. How many mobiles did Sagar sell between HTC and Lenovo? car stays on the third floor. a) Four b) Two  Amar does not own a green coloured car. There are two c) One d) None floors between the floors on which the people owning e) Three the red and the black coloured cars stay. Aditya owns a 70. Which of the following is not true as per the given arrangement? grey coloured car. There are three floors between the a) Sagar sells mobiles of anyone company between Samsung floors on which Aditya and Atul stay. and Nokia.  Ashwin stays on a floor immediately above Akash’ floor. b) Sagar sells Intex on Thursday. There is one floor between the floors on which Atithi c) Sagar did not sell mobile of any other company between and Atul stay. Atithi does not own the pink coloured car. Oppo and Intex. The one who owns the blue car stays on the topmost d) All the given statements are true. floor. Atithi does not stay on the ground floor. e) Sagar sells Lenovo on Friday. 63. Who stays on the floor which is exactly between the floor on Directions (71-75): study the following information which Alok stays and the floor on which Amar stays? arrangement carefully and answer the questions given below: a) Aman b)Atul An institute XYZ provides scholarship to its employees for higher c) Aditya d) Atithi studies in the United States of America. Following are conditions e) None of these for awarding scholarship to the employees. The candidate must: 64. How many floors are there between the floor on which Akash (i) not be more than 30 years of age as April 1, 2006. stays and the floor on which Aditya stays? (ii) have secured more than 70 per cent marks in Post- a) One b) Two graduation and 75 per cent marks in Graduation

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(iii) have at least two years work experience in the XYZ 74. Harish Chheda has a bright academic career throughout. He has institute. done post-graduation with 65% marks and has submitted (iv) be ready to sign a bond of two years with the company. Ph.D. thesis. His date of birth is 27.9.1979. He is working for (v) have got A or A + rating for his/her works in the last two last three years in the XYZ institute and has always got A years. ratings on performance. He is ready to pay Rs. 50, 000/-in However, in case of a candidate who fulfils all other criteria case if required to leave. EXCEPT a) To be selected a) (ii) above but has secured minimum 60 per cent marks in b) Refer to the President Graduation and Post-Graduation and he/she has got Ph.D. c) Refer to the Director may be referred to the Director. d) Data inadequate b) (v) above but has work experience of three years with e) Not to be selected ratings B +, A or A + may be referred to the Chairman. 75. 28 years old Tarique Anwar is a post-graduate in Chemistry c) (iv) above but he/she has to leave the institute and he is and has registered for ph.D. He scored 80% and 78% marks at ready to pay Rs. 50, 000. May be referred to the graduation and post-graduation respectively. He is working President. in the XYZ institute since 2001. His performance ratings in Based on these criteria and information provided below, decide the last three years are B+, A+ and A respectively. He is ready the course of action in each case. You are not to assume to sign two year’s bond with the institute. anything. The cases are given not to assume anything. The a) To be selected cases are given to you as on April 1, 2006. If the data provided b) Refer to the President are not adequate to decide the given course of action, your c) Refer to the Chairman answer will be “data inadequate”. d) Refer to the Director e) Not to be selected 71. Deepali Mirza is working in XYZ institute for the last two and half years. Her performance is good and has secured ratings A Directions (76-80):The questions consist of a question and +. She has secured 70 per cent and 75 per cent marks in two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to Graduation and Post-Graduation respectively. She is post decide whether the data given in the statements are sufficient Graduate from Mathematics. She is ready to sign the bond of to answer the questions. Read both the statements and mark two years. Her date of birth is 31.03.1977. She has also done the most appropriate option. Ph. D. a) The data in Statement I alone are sufficient to answer the a) Data inadequate question while the data in Statement II alone are not b) Refer to the Director sufficient to answer the question c) Refer to the President b) The data in Statement II alone are sufficient to answer d) Refer to the Chairman the question while the data in Statement I alone are not e) Not to be selected sufficient to answer the question 72. Ajit D’ souza is a Post-Graduate in Physics with 75 per cent c) The data in both Statements I and II together are marks and passed Graduation with 77 per cent marks. He is necessary to answer the question working in the institute since 2002 and has always got A d) The data even in both Statements I and II together are ratings on performance. He was 25 years old at the time of not sufficient to answer the question joining the institute. He is keen to seek job in the United e) The data either in Statement I alone or Statement II alone States of America. are sufficient to answer the a) Refer to the Chairman b) Refer to the President 76. What is the position of “P” in a row of seven persons, if all of c) Data inadequate them are facing north? d) Not to be selected I. T and V are immediate neighbours of P. Only Q stands e) To be selected. between V and U. Only R stands between S and T. 73. Rajendra Bhave is a post-graduate in Psychology. He has secured II. U and S stand at the extreme ends of the row. Only three 72% marks at post-graduation and 78% marks at graduation. people stand between U and T.R stands exactly between He is working in XYZ institute for more than two years and S and T. Q stands to the immediate left of U. his performance ratings are A + and A respectively in the last 77. In which month of the year did Rahul go abroad for a vacation? two years. He is not keen to sign the bond but does not mind I. 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79. How many marks did Suman score in the twenty marks exam? 81. The total circulation figure for the magazines together in 1988 I. Suman scored two digit marks and her marks was not in was approximately odd numbers. a)108000 b)181000 II. Suman scored more than 14 but less than 18 marks. c)157000 d)140000 80. Among six people E, F, G, H, I and J standing around a circle e)None of these facing the centre, what is the position of G with respect to F? 82. During the years 1987-89, the magazine that has shown I. E stands second to the right of G. Only one person stands maximum percentage growth in circulation has been between F and I. F is an immediate neighbour of G a)Business India b)Dalal Street Journal II. Only two people sit between G and H, H is an immediate c)Business World d)Fortune India neighbour of both I and E. F is not an immediate neighbour e)Cannot be determined of I. 83. In 1989, it Fortune India were to charge the same rate to its advertisers as Dalal Street Journal was charging a years ago, QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE their cost of advertisement per thousand copies in Fortune India would Directions (Q. Nos. 81-85) Study the following graphs and a)decrease by 50% b)increase by Rs 140 number the questions based on them. c)decrease by Rs 4000 d)increase by 25% e)Cannot be determined 84. In 1988, the advertisement cost for page per thousand copies was the lowest for a)Business India b)Dalal Street Journal c)Business World d)Fortune India e)cannot be determined 85. The advertisement cost of colour page per thousand copies for Business World has, from 1987 to 1988 a)remained the same b)decrease by Rs 200 c) increased by Rs 466 d)Increased by Rs 200 e)Cannot be determined Directions (Q. Nos. 86-90): What approximate value should come in place of the question mark (?) in the following questions? (Note that you are not expected to calculate the exact value) 86. 1453.9919+2364.0081+9712.4328+3018.6029=? a)20718 b)18121 Bi=Business India, DSJ=Dalal Street Journal c)16549 d)14226 BW=Business World, FI=Fortune India. e)None of these [Note Figures are hypothetical and do not reflect actual 87. 999.99÷25.012=?-174.469 circulation figure of the magazines] a)245 b)230 c)215 d)209 e)202 88. 16.001×11.999×99.989×0.9=? a)17280 b)19140 c)21360 d)24590 e)26720 89. 475.124×15.98÷8.001+33.33=? a)983.578 b)659.121 c)781.189 d)656.112 e)845.211 90. (369.99)2=? a)1369 b)1369×102 c)1369×10 d)1369×103 e)1369×104 91. In an election between two contestants, a candidate got 55% of the votes polled and won by a margin of 80 votes. In the next election, the number of votes received by the candidate increased by 20%. Still the candidate lost the election by a margin of 40 votes. What is the increase in the number of votes polled?

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a)1096 b)528 c)568 d)296 e)None of these 92. A man had certain number of cookies with him. At first he wanted to divide it amongst his three children. When the division was done, one cookie remained. Just then, one of the cosins of the children came. Now it was possible to divide the same number of cookies equally between the four children. What is the minimum number of cookies with the man? (Let Each children got more than one cookies) a)13 b)16 95. What is the average annual growth rate of PAL production for c)17 d)15 the period 2011 to 2014? e)None of these (a) 100% (b) 20% 93. There are two container with 125 L and 100L of milk (c) 50% (d) 33.3% respectively. In the first container 12.5 L of water is added (e)None of these while in the second container 20L of water is added. The 96. The maximum percentage change with respect to previous year contents of both are then mixed together and the entire mixture in the average price per car of PAL is is sold at cost price. Find the overall percentage profit. (a) 42.2% (b) 40% a)30% b) 32% (c) 37.5% (d) 49.4% c) 14.44% d)32.5% (e)None of these e)None of these 97. What is the percentage share of PAL in 2012, if the total 94. A man invested Rs. 20000 in two schemes offering 5% and 8% production of car industry is 3 lakh in that year? rates for two years. If the difference between the interests (a) 16.7% (b) 25% earned in the two cases is Rs. 180 with the higher interest (c) 50% (d) 33.3% received at the lower rate; find the difference between the (e) None of these amounts invested in the two schemes. 98. If only 80% of PAL car produced in 2011 were sold in that year a)Rs. 13000 b) Rs. 7000 and the rest were sold in the next year, what is the revenue of c) Rs. 4000 d)Rs. 6000 the company in 2011? (assume that the inventory at the e)None of these beginning of 2011 is zero) (a) Rs 750 crore (b) Rs 1080 crore Direction (Q. Nos. 95-99) Study the following graphs to answer (c) Rs 7500 crore (d) Cannot be determined the questions based on it. The graphs are related to M/s PAL, (e) None of these automobile company in Asia. Graph A indicates the average 99. If there is rejection of 10% of the production in 2010 due to price per car (in lakh). Graph B represents the production in quality control issues, what is the turnover of PAL? (assume units of thousand. Graph C depicts the growth rate of the sales = production — rejection) entire car industry on volume basis. (a) Rs 720 crore (b) Rs 986 crore (c)Rs 1080 crore (d) Rs 850 crore (e) None of these Directions (100-104) : What will come in place of the question mark (?) in each of the following series 100. 17, 52, 158, 477, ?, 4310 a)1433 b)1432 c)1435 d)1434 e)None of these 101. 3, 22, ?, 673, 2696, 8093 a)133 b)155 c)156 d)134 e)None of these 102. 6, 7, 15, 42, 106, 231, ? a)440 b)441 c)447 d)461 e)None of these 103. 286, 142, ?, 34, 16, 7 a)66 b)72 c)64 d)74 e)None of these

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104. 17, 9, ? 16.5, 35, 90 Give answer: I. Number of students studying in a)5 b)15 a) If x>y Institutes A and B are in the ratio c)10 d)20 b) If x  y of 3:4 respectively. II. Number of students who got e)None of these c) If x

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investing amounts in the ratio of 125. What is the name of the website (a) USA (b) Canada 3:5 respectively. launched by the RBI for the home (c) Australia (d) England III. Total amount invested by Seeta buyers? (e) Switzerland and Geeta is Rs 2.3 lakhs (a) SBI Quality 134. FINO PayTech Ltd. has got the nod to a) Only II (b) SBI Magic become payment bank. What is the b) Only III (d) SBI Loans maximum amount can be deposited by c) Only either II or III (d) SBI Homes per customer to its account? d) Information in all three statements (e) SBI Reality (a) 1 lakh (b) 2 lakh is required for answer the question 126. Who is the Indian Ambassador to (c) 3 lakh (d) 4 lakh e) Question cannot be answered even Nepal? (e) 5 lakh with the information in all three (a) Manjeev Singh Puri 135. SvatantraMicrofin has launched statements (b) Chiranjib Gupta cashless solution ‘Saathi’. Where is the 120. What is the labelled price of the article? (c) Bikash Goth headquarter of SvatantraMicrofin? I. Cost price of the article is (d) Suresh Basu (a) Mumbai (b) Delhi Rs. 500/-. (e) None of these (c) Chennai (d) Pune II. Selling price after offering 5% 127. What amount of loan has been cleared (e) None of these discount on the labelled price is for building roads in Gujarat villages? 136. Book ‘’A Crown of Wishes’’ is Rs 608/- (a) $300 mn (b) $329 mn authored by______. III. Profit earned would have been (c) $320 mn (d) $500 mn (a) Chetan Bhagat 28% if no discount was offered. (e) $600 mn (b) Salman Rushdie a)Only I 128. World blood donor day is celebrated (c) RoshaniChokshi b)Only III on______. (d) Arundhati Roy c)Only II and III (a) May 25 (b) June 14 (e) None of these d)Only I and III (c) April 15 (d) September 18 137. Tuirial Dam is situated in which state? e)Only I and II (e) July 15 (a) Manipur (b) Tripura 129. Indira Gandhi atomic research centre is (c) Nagaland (d) Mizoram GENERAL AWARENESS located in______. (e) Assam (a) Delhi 138. Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of 121. Which state has the maximum number (b) Nagpur Commerce Life Insurance ties up of branches of Scheduled commercial (c) Chandigarh with______. banks as per the handbook launched (d) Kalpakam (a) Dhanalaxmi Bank by RBI? (e) Chennai (b) Karnataka Bank (a) Andhra Pradesh 130. What amount of fund has been given to (c) Vijaya Bank (b) Uttar Pradesh YES bank by OPIC (Overseas Private (d) LaxmiVilas Bank (c) Kerala Investment Corporation)? (e) None of these (d) Assam (a) $150 mn (b) $200 mn 139. Which bank has partnered with Inter- (e) Bihar (c) $250 mn (d) $300 mn American Investment Corporation to 122. What is the revised interest rate for (e) $350 mn boost trade with Latin America? KisanVikas Patra? 131. PNB met life insurance launched new (a) Axis Bank (a) 7.3% (b) 7.4% scheme ‘Loan Life Suraksha’ for the (b) HDFC Bank (c) 7.5% (d) 7.6% customers of ______. (c) ICICI Bank (e) 7.7% (a) Dhanalaxmi Bank (d) YES Bank 123. What is the total amount to be released (b) Lakshmi Vilas bank (e) Kotak Mahindra Bank by RBI to the state farmers for loan (b) Sonali Bank 140. HDFC ERGO will implement crop payments? (d) Karnataka Bank insurance scheme in which of the (a) Rs.21000 cr (e) Dena Bank following states? (b) Rs.22000 cr 132. Which bank is going to block all Maestro (a) Bihar (c) Rs.23000 cr debit cards from July 31,2017? (b) Telengana (d) Rs.24000 cr (a) Canara Bank (c) Andhra Pradesh (e) Rs.25000 cr (b) State Bank of India (d) Tamil Nadu 124. Which of the followings is not the (c) Uco Bank (e) Kerala function of NBFC? (d) Punjab National Bank 141. The loan disbursed by a bank to an (a) Lending Money (e) Andhra Bank individual for purchasing a house is (b) Demand Deposits 133. ICICI bank has terminated its Joint called______. (c) Making Investment Venture with Fairfax. Where is the (a) Wholesale Finance (d) Acquisition of Shares issued by headquarter of Fairfax Financial (b) Bussiness Loan govt. Holdings? (c) Credit Loan (e) All of these (d) Retail Loan

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(e) Project Loan (a) $20 mn (b) $21 mn 157. Home Credit India Finance, a non- 142. Banking Regulation Act 1949 does not (c) $22 mn (d) $23 mn banking financial company (NBFC) has apply to ______(e) $24 mn partnered with______to ease (a) Nationalised Banks 148. Which country is going to host G-7 payment of loan EMIs. (b) Foreign Banks having branches in interior minister summit on security? (a) ICICI bank india (a) Canada (b) Italy (b) YES bank (c) State Bank of India and its (c) UK (d) Japan (c) Paytm associates Banks (e) USA (d) HDFC bank (d) Primary agricultural credit socities 149. What is the capital of Thailand? (e) Airtel Payment Bank and co-operative land mortgage (a) Franc (b) Peso 158. The Economist Intelligence Unit’s banks (c) Baht (d) Euro (EIU) Liveability Index ranks how (e) None of these (e) Rial many cities each year on healthcare, 143. When the exchange rate is adjusted so 150. Indravati National Park is situated in education and infrastructure as well as that an identical good in two different which state? stability, culture and environment. countries has the same price when (a) Chattisgarh (a) 150 (b) 145 expressed in the same currency. It is (b) Andhra Pradesh (c) 140 (d) 180 called______. (c) Assam (e) 190 (a) Purchasing Power Parity (d) Jharkhand 159. What is the capital of Turkmenistan ? (b) Bank Rate (e) Madhya Pradesh (a) Bujumbura (c) Wage Rate 151. ‘NamoYuvaRojgar Kendra’ is launched (b) Ashgabat (d) Exchange Rate by which state? (c) Tehran (e) None of these (a) Telengana (d) Moroni 144. Which of the following describes Hot (b) Punjab (e) None of these Money ? (c) Maharashtra 160. Who is the Secretary General of (A) Flow of funds (or capital) from (d) Assam SAARC ? one country to another in order to (e) Kerala (a) Arjun Bahadur Thapa earn a short-term profit on interest 152. Ted Corbett has died recently. He is a (b) Ali Haider rate differences and/or anticipated _____. (c) Amjad Hussain B Sial exchange rate shifts. (a) Author (b) Actor (d) Ajay Kumar (B) Speculative capital flows that (c) Footballer (d) Journalist (e) None of these move very quickly in and out of (e) Singer markets. 153. ‘Smart Streets Lab’ programme is COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE (C) Capital that is responsible for launched by which state government? stabilizing domestic money (a) Telengana 161. Telnet, FtP, Smtp, dns, http are market. (b) Andhra Pradesh examples of protocols that are used in (a) Only A and C (c) Karnataka a) application layer (b) Only B (d) Kerala b) presentation layer (c) Only A and B (e) Tamil Nadu c) Session layer (d) Only A 154. What is the interest in Indian Bank for d) Data link layer (e) None of these the deposit over Rs. 50 Lakh according e) Transport layer 145. Indo-Uk health institute is going to be to its new 2-tier interest rate? 162. A ____ is a small hand held computer opened in______. (a) 3.5% (b)3.75% that helps you surf the web and (a) Chhattisgarh (c) 4% (d) 4.5% perform simple task. (b) Jharkhand (e) 5% a) desktop computer (c) Maharashtra 155. U-19 cricket Asia cup is shifted from b) Mobile phones (d) Andhra Pradesh Bengaluru to _____. c) Note book computer (e) Uttar Pradesh (a) Singapore d) Mini computer 146. First South-Asian youth summit 2017 (b) Dubai e) PDA is going to be held in _____. (c) Kualalmpur 163. A Computer______is a set of program (a) Jaipur, Rajasthan (d) Malaysia instructions that can attach itself to a (b) Delhi (e) Chicago file, reproduce itself and spread to (c) Mumbai, Maharashtra 156. What is the theme for the International other files (d) Bengaluru, Karnataka Youth Day, 2017? a) Worm (e) Bhubaneswar, Odisha (a) Youth for the society b) Virus 147. What amount has been given to India (b) Youth are the power c) Trojan horse by the World Bank to enhance forest (c) Youth for the country d) Phishing Scam ecosystem services? (d) Youth Building Peace e) None of these (e) Youth for the world

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164. A computer intensive problem runs on d) Category of information d) RAM a e) None of these e) None of these a) Server 174. In power point,______is not present 183. Which of the following is an example b) Main frame in formatting toolbar. of toggle keys? c) Super Computer a) left align b) Centre a) Scroll lock d) Super PC c) Justify d) Rigat align b) Del key e) None of these e) None of these c) Page up keys 165. A disk’s content that is recorded at the 175. Retail employees typically use______d) A to Z time of manufacture and that cann’t be terminals to process sale transactions. e) None of these changed or erased by the user is a) Sales processing 184. The______manual tells you how a) Read only b)Transaction point to use a soft ware program. b) Memory only c) Automatic teller a) documentation c) Run only d) Point of sale b)Programming d) Write only e) None of these c) Technical e) None of these 176. CAD software is most likely to be used d)User 166. A collection of inter related files in a by e) None of these computer is a a) web designer 185. You must install a ______on a network. a) file manager b) engineers If you want to share an internet b) Field c) Project managers connection. c) Record d) magazine editors a) router d) Database e) None of these b) Modem e) None of these 177. A television broadcast uses______c) node 167. ‘VSAT’ means —— transmission mode. d) Cable a) Very Small aperature terminal a) half duplex e) None of these b) Vast satellite access terminal b) full duplex 186. To print an individual item in a file c) Various satellite application c) simplex immediately click terminal. d) automatic a) Shift + P d) Very satellite aperature terminal e) none of these b) Ctrl + P e) None of these 178. Verification of a login name and c) Alt + P 168. Special software to create a job password is known as. d) ESC+ P sequence/ queue is called a a) configuration e) None of these a) Spooler b) Drive b) accessibility 187. Taking backup of a file against crash is c) Compiler d) Interpreter. c) authentication a e) Linkage driver d) loggings in a) Preventive measure 169. IEEE 802.16 Standard represents e) None of these b) Curative measure a) WLAN b) Ethernet 179. A group of magnetic tapes, videos or c) Decisive measure c) Bluetooth d) Token ring terminals usually under the control of d) All of the above e) Wimax one master is called a e) None of these 170. ______Command is used to clear a) cluster b) track 188. A ______is approximately a the Screen. c) Cylinder d) All the above thousand bytes. a) Clear b) Cl Screen e) None of these a) gigabyte c) cls d) Clear Screen 180. IRC Stands for. b) kilobyte e) None of these a) Inter Relay chat c) megabyte 171. MS Excel Contains ____ columns. b) Internal relay chart d) terabyte a) 255 b) 254 c) Internet Relay chat e) None of these c) 256 d) 250 d) Internet Reliable chart 189. ______is the process of getting e) 253 e) Internal Reliable chat access to the computer. 172. Repeater works in ______layer of 181. The 16 bit micro processor means a) Sign in b) Log in OSI modes. that it has c) Log off d) enter a) application a) 16 address lines e) None of these b) Transport b) 16 buses 190. The storage area present in the email c) Physical c) 16 data lines account is often called as d) Data link d) 16 routes a) Hyper link e) network e) None of these b) Attachment 173. In database, a field is a. 182. Which type at memory is in pen drive? c) Mail box a) Table of information a) Cache memory d) IP address b) label b) Flash Memory e) spam c) Group of related records c) EEPROM

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191. The extension name of a flash file is a) • pdf b) • swf EXPLANATIONS c) • pmd d) • prd 1. b 2. a 3. c 4. a 5. c 6. e e) None of these 7. b 8. d 9. e 10. c 192. Disk checking is associated with (11-15) a) Debugging a program b) running a program 11. c; use ‘to grow’ in place of ‘on growth’ c) Compiling a program 12. a; delete ‘was’ d) coding a program 13. c; delete ‘of’ e) assembling a program. 14. c; ‘would’ in place of ‘will’ 193. To select an entire row in the excel sheet, the short cut- key 15. b; ‘have’ in place of ‘has’ 16. d 17. a 18. a 19. e 20. c that is used is (21-25) a) Ctrl + space BACGDFC b) Ctrl + arrow key 21. b 22. e 23. d 24. a 25. c 26. d c) ctrl + tab 27. b 28. c 29. e 30. b 31. a 32. c d) Shift + arrow key 33. a 34. e 35. a 36. b 37. b 38. d e) Shift + space 39. b 40. d 194. How many layers are there in a TCP/ IP model? (41-42) a) Four b) Five c) Six d) Seven e) Three 195. Fire walls are used to protect against a)Unauthorised attacks b) Virus attacks c) Data driven attacks d) Fire attacks e) None of these 196. If a user needs information instantly available to the CPU, is should be stored. a) in the CD b) in Secondary storage c) In the CP d) in RAM e) None of these 197. The ability to easily add additional users means that a network is 41. c 42. d 43. d a) Scalable b) Dedicate c) Decent d) Secure e) None of these 198. What kind of Scheme is the HTTP Protocol? a) get/ put b) Store/ forward c) Queuing d) Search/ return e) request/ response 199. A proxy server is used for which of the following ? a) To provide security against unauthorised user According to the preceding figure, the postman is in the south- b) To process client requests for web pages east direction with respect to the starting point. c) To process client requests for database access. (44-47) d) None of these Step - 1: Take box 1 and box 4, the 1st digit of box -1 is e) addition by 2nd digit of the box 4 and 2nd digit of box – 1 is 200. Linux is an ______operating system. addition by 1st digit of box – 4. Like this we will get the all a) Open source b) Microsoft digits in 1st step. c) Windows d) Mac Step – 2: Add the 1st digit of every box of step -1. (7+ 8 + 6) e) None of these = 23, then ,addition of two digits(3+2=05). Then add 2nd digit of every box and addition of two digits.  Step – 3: (2nd box)2 =(05)2= 25= 2+5=07 ( 1st box )2=(02)2= 04 = 0+4= 04 Step – 4 : Sum of the number of 2 box = 7 + 4 = 11 Then divided by 2 = 5.5, 5.5 +1 =6.5

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(63-67) Thus, only one meaningful word can be formed: TEMP. 54. d; The statement does not tell anything about the popularity of gym , aerobics and yoga in india. Floor Cars Persons 55. d; Since a government controls the banking system with the 9 Blue Aman help of a central bank , it should ask the central bank of the 8 Black Alok country to initiate an enquiry into the concerned bank’s 7 Green Atithi activities and submit its report. 6 Yellow Amar 56. b; It is clear by observing both pieces of information that 5 Red Atul reduction in prices is result of an increase in sales. Therefore 4 Orange Aswin ,’A’ is the immediate and principal cause while ‘B’ is its 3 Pink Akash effect. 2 White Ambika 57. a; By observing both events, it is clear that Mr.X died because 1 Grey Aditya of an accident. Therefore, ‘A’ is the effect and ‘B’ is its immediate and principal cause. 63. d 64. a 65. d 66. a 67. d It is clear by observing both pieces of information that reduction in price is result of an increase in sales. Therefore, ‘A’ is the immediate and principal cause while ‘B’ is its effect.

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(68-70) Marks of Suman > 9 and marks was not in odd number. So, possible cases are 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Day Mobile In Statement II Monday HTC Marks of Suman more than 14 but less than 18. Tuesday Micromax 18> marks of Suman > 14 Wednesday Oppo Possible case=16 Thursday Intex From Statements I and II Marks of Suman is 16. Friday Samsung 80. d Saturday Lenovo 81. c; Total circulation in 1988 Sunday Nokia =60000+40000+30000+27000 =157000 68. b 69. a 70. e 82. b (71-75) 71. b; Deepali Mirza satisfies all the criteria except (ii) but she does satisfy (a) instead. Therefore, her case may be referred to the Director. 72. c; In case of Ajit D’souza no information is given regarding the criterion (iv). 73. d; Rajendra Bhave satisfies all the criteria except (iv) but he does satisfy (c) instead. Therefore, his case may be referred to the President. 74. d; In case of Harish Chheda complete information (Marks in Graduation) is not given regarding the criterion (ii) or (a). 75. a; Tarique Anwar satisfies all the criteria. Hence, it is maximum for Dalal Street Journal. (76-80) 83. a; Required percentage decreasement 76. a 77. b; We have to find the month of the year in which Rahul go abroad for vacations. 28000 14000 In Statement I  Rahul visit in first half of the year. Therefore, possible months  31 31 100% are January, February, March, April, May, June. 28000 In Statement II According to the son of Rahul, 31 28000 14000 31st March — 1st May  100% Rahul visit between March and May. 28000 Hence, Statement II alone is sufficient to answer the question. 78. e; Who is the second heaviest among M, N, O, P, Q and R., 14000  100%  50% In Statement I 28000 O is heavier than only two friends O > (..., ...) 84. b P is heavier than O but lighter than N. N > P > O R is the heaviest. R > N> P > O > (Q, M) N is the second heaviest. In Statement II M is lighter than only two friends. (...., ...) > M N is heavier than O but lighter than R. R > N > O P is heavier than only Q. P > Q Then, R>N>M>O>P>Q Hence, data either in Statement I alone are sufficient or in statement II alone are sufficient to give answer. Hence, it is lowest for Dalal Street Journal. 79. c; We have to find the number of marks Suman scored out of 20. In Statement I

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85. c; Advertising cost per 1000 copies of Business World in 1987 257.5  225 32.5 6.5 5000 100  100  100 = = 1000 =Rs 200 225 225 45 25000 14.44% profit Advertising cost per 1000 copies of Business World in 1988 94. d; Let the amount invested at 5% be Rs. Y and so the amount invested at 8% will be 20000-Y 20000 = 1000 = Rs 666 2 10Y Y 30000 Y 5   Hence, the cost has increased by Rs 466. 100 100 10 86. c interest earned in the second case 999.99 1000  87. c; ?  174.469    174.469 2 25.012  25  (20000  Y  8 100  (40 174.469)  214.469  215 4 (80000  4Y) 88. a; ? = 1612100 0.9  (20000  Y)   25 25 ? 17280 According to the problem, 89. a; ?  475.124(15.98 8.001)  33.33 Y (80000  4Y )  180  16   475.124   33.33  950.248  33.33 10 25  8  5Y – 160000 + 8Y = 9000  983.578 13Y = 169000 Y = 13000 90. b The second amount must be 20000 – 13000 = Rs. 7000 91. d; In the first case, the difference between 55% and the Difference between the two amounts = 13000 – 7000 = Rs remaining 45% of the votes is 80. 6000 This would mean 10% of the votes is 80 and so the total 95. d; Car production in 2014 = 60000 number of votes initially is 800. Car production in 2011 = 30000 55% of 800 is 440 votes. This value increased by 20% in the next election. Now 20% of 440 is 88 votes and so the votes 60000  30000 100 received by the candidate in the next election will be 440 + 88 So, average annual growth rate =  = 528 votes. 30000 3 The number of votes received by the other candidate = 528 = 33.3% +40 =568 votes. 96. e; Maximum percentage change with respect to previous year Total votes = 528 + 568= 1096 votes in the average price per car is in 2011. Increase in the number of votes polled = 1096 — 800 = 296 5  3 votes Percentage change = 100 = 66.66% 92. b; The number of cookies with the man is a multiple of (3 +1), 3 that is also a multiple of 4. Minimum possible value that 97. a; Production of PAL cars in 2012 = 50000 satisfies the condition is 16. Total production of car industry = 300000 93. c; Let cost price of milk be Rs. 1/L. Then, 50000 Percentage share of PAL in 2012 = 100 = 300000 16.66%  16.7% 98. d; Revenue of the company’s cannot be determined as we have the average price per car. 99. c; Products rejected in 2010 = 10% of 40000 = 4000 So, Products available for sale = 40000 – 4000 = 36000 Total cost price = Rs. 125 + Rs. 100 =Rs. 225 Total turnover = 36000 x 300000 = Rs 1080 crore Total selling price =Rs. 137.5 + Rs. 120 = Rs 257.5 100. c; The series is  3+1,  3+2,  3+3, ...... Therefore, 101. d; The series is  7+1,  6+2,  5+3, ...... 102. c; The series is +1, +8, +27, ...... 103. e; The series is  2 – 1,  2 – 1,  2 – 1, ...... 104. c; The series is  0.5 + 0.5, 1+1,  1.5+ 1.5, ......

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105. b; As the lowest value in A is 20% more than the highest value 12.5 in B, therefore, the average value of A will be more than the x=  5 =-2.5 average value of B. From equation (i), 2x(-2.5)-3y=-3.5 As we do not know about the other values, we cannot find 3y= -5 + 3.5 out the exact averages of the two groups. 106. a; If 6 year have passed on Earth, 1.5 years must have passed 1.5 on planet X. Y= =-0.5 107. a; Using the structured form, we have 3 Hence, x y 74 2 = 6x = 110. d; I. x +28x+192=0 3 x2+16x+12x+192=0 =. x(x+16)+12(x+16)=0 37 = (x+12)(x+16)=0 x = = x=-12or-16 9 II. y2+16y+48=0 Therefore, Q alone can complete the work in y2+12y+4y+48=0 30 309 270 y(y+12)+4(y+12)=0   days (y+12)(y+4)=O 37 37 37 y = -12or-4 9 Hence, x  y 111. c; 2x-3y=-3.5...... (i) 115. d; Total no. of out comes (n(s)) = 20 C 3x-2y=-6.5 ...(ii) 2 7 13 By equation (i) x 2- equation (ii) x 3, we have Possible outcomes = (n(E)) = C2+ C2 4x-6y=-7 Probability that balls drawn are of the same colour P(E) = 9x- 6y =-19.5 n(E) 7 C 13 C 99 - + + 2 2  20  -5x = 12.5 n(S) C2 190

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116. e; From statement I, 131. d 132. d 133. b 134. a 135. a Let the number of students in the institutes A and B be 3x and 136. c 137. d 138. a 139. a 140. c 4x respectively. However we get no conclusive answer by 141. d 142. d 143. a 144. c 145. d using data given in all the statements. 117. c; From statements I and II, Let Mr. X’s monthly income = 146. e 147. e 148. b 149. c 150. a Rs. x Then 151. c 152. d 153. a 154. c 155. d 15 x 156. d 157. c 158. c 159. b 160. c  4500 161. a 162. e 163. b 164. c 165. a 100 166. d 167. a 168. a 169. e 170. c 4500100 171. c 172. c 173. c 174. e 175. d  x   Rs.30000 176. b 177. c 178. c 179. a 180. c 15 181. c 182. b 183. a 184. d 185. b From statements I and III, 186. b 187. a 188. b 189. b 190. c 4 85 x   20400 191. b 192. a 193. e 194. a 195. a 5 100 196. d 197. a 198. e 199. a 200. a 204005100  x  = Rs.30000  485 118. a; From statements I and III, let Suchitra’s son’s present age be x years. Vanik’s Knowledge Garden  Suchitra’s present age = 2x years Name of the Bank /Head Office After 4 years, 2x  4 13 1. Allahabad Bank Kolkata  2. Bank of Baroda Baroda x  4 24 3. Bank of Maharashtra Pune We can get the required answer by this relation. So statement 4. Bank of India Mumbai II is not required. 5. Central Bank of India Mumbai 119. d; From all three statements, Seeta’s investment = Rs. 6. Canara Bank Bangalore  3  7. Dena Bank Mumbai   2.5 lakh= Rs.93750 8. Indian Bank Chennai  8  9. Indian Overseas Bank Chennai Geeta’s investment = Rs.156250 10. Punjab National Bank New Ratio of Neeta’s, Seeta’s and Geeta’s profit = Delhi 85000 24 : 9375018 :15625018 11. Syndicate Bank Manipal 12. Union Bank of India Mumbai We can get the share of Neeta if total profit is given. So data given in all three statements is required to answer the question. 13. United Commercial Bank (UCO Bank) 120. d; Let the marked price of the article be Rs. x. Kolkata From statement II. 14. United Bank of India Kolkata 15. Andhra Bank Hyderabad 95 x  608 16. Corporation Bank Mangalore 100 17. Oriental Bank of Commerce New Delhi 18. Punjab and Sindh Bank New Delhi 608100 19. Vijaya Bank Bangalore  x   Rs.640 95 20. IDBI Bank Ltd Mumbai 21. ECGC (The Export Credit From statements I and III, Guarantee Corporation of 128500 India Ltd) Mumbai Marked price = = Rs.640 100 So, statement II is sufficient to give the answer.

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE to the customer. Technology is the most important element of financial inclusion strategy and an enabler of all others. The choice Direction (1-10): Read the following passage carefully and of technology is therefore a crucial decision, which could make or answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been mar the agenda. Of the various section criteria, cost is perhaps the printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some most important. This certainly does not mean buying the cheapest of the questions. package, but rather choosing that solution which by scaling Financial Inclusion (FI) is an emerging priority for banks that have transactions to huge volumes reduces per unit operating cost. An nowhere else to go to achieve business growth. The viability of FI optimal mix of these strategies, would no doubt offer an innovative business is under question, because while banks and their delivery means of expansion in the unbanked market. partners continue to make investments, they haven’t seen commensurate returns. In markets like India, most programmes are 1. Which of the following facts is true as per the passage? focused on customer on-boarding, an expensive process which (a) People from rural areas have high perceived value of people often find difficult to afford, involving issuance of smart banking services. cards to the customers. However, large-scale customer acquisition (b) Cost is not a valid criterion for technological pack hasn’t translated into large-scale business, with many accounts selection for financial-inclusion initiatives. lying dormant and therefore yielding no return on the bank’s (c) The inclusion segment is a singular impoverished investment. For the same reason, Business Correspondent Agents, undifferentiated mass. who constitute the primary channel for financial inclusion, are (d) The branch timings of banks generally do not coincide unable to pursue their activity as a full-time job. One major reason with the off-work hours of the labour class in urban for this state of events is that the customer on-boarding process is markets. often delayed after the submission of documents (required to (e) All the given statements are true validate the details of the concerned applicant) by the applicant 2. According to the passage, for which of the following reasons and might take as long as two weeks. By this time the initial do the delivery partners fail to serve their bank’s goal to enthusiasmof applicants fades away. Moreover, the delivery expand in the unbanked markets? partners don’t have the knowledge and skill to propose anything (A) They do not have adequate client base to sell their financial other than the most basic financial products to the customer and products. hence do not serve their banks’ goal of expanding the offering in (B) They do not have adequate knowledge and skills explain unbanked markets. anything beyond basic financial products to the Contrary to popular perception, the inclusion segment is not a customers. singular impoverished, undifferentiated mass and it is important to (C) They do not have the skills to operate advanced navigate its diversity to identify the right target customers for technological aids that are a prerequisite to tap the various programmes. Rural markets do have their share of rich unbanked-market. people who do not use banking services simply because they are a) Only (B) b) Only (C) inconvenient to access or have low perceived value. At the same c)All (A), (B) & (C) d) Only (A) time, urban markets, despite a high branch density, have multitude e) Both (B) and (C) of low wage earners outside the financial net. Moreover, the branch 3. Which of the following reasons is the viability of financial timings of banks rarely coincide with the off-work hours of the inclusion under question? labour class. (a) Banks always prefer the cheapest package (to cut cost) Creating affordability is crucial in tapping the unbanked market. while making a choice of technology to be used. No doubt pricing is a tool, but banks also need to be innovative in (b) The Business Correspondent Agents are highly de- right-sizing their proposition to convince customers that they can motivated to pursue their activity as a full-time job. derive big value even from small amounts. One way of doing this is (c) The investments made by banks and their delivery to show the target audience that a bank account is actually a lifestyle partners are not yielding equal amounts of returns. enabler, a convenient and safe means to send money to family or (d) Banks do not have adequate number of delivery partners make a variety of purchases. Once banks succeed in hooking required to tap the unbanked market. customers with this value proposition, they must sustain their (e) Banks do not have adequate manpower to explore the interest by introducing a simple and intuitive user application, diversity of the unbanked market and thereby identify ubiquitous access over mobile and other touch points, and adopting the right target customers for various programs. a banking mechanism which is not only secure but also reassuring

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4. Which of the following characteristics of the customer has With the death toll rising to at least 38 in the clashes in the Kashmir been specifiedby the author in the passage? Valley, the brutal crowd-control tactics of the police have come (a) It involves collection of documents from the applicants under the spotlight. They call into question the changes in standard in order to validate their details. operating procedure that were made after the violent protests of (b) It involves issuance of smart cards to the customers. 2010, when scores of people died, mostly to bullet injuries. A (c) It suffers from latency as it takes a long time after decision had then been taken to introduce ‘non-lethal” pellets. But submission of documents by the customer ammunition can only be as “non-lethal” as the tactics employed. (d) It is an expensive process which people find difficult to And it is evident that the security forces have failed to exercise afford. enough restraint, given the nature of injuries sustained by many (e) All of the given characteristics have been specified young men and women. A high number of the injured have suffered 5. What did the author try to highlight in the passage? pellet injuries in the eyes. For instance, in one Srinagar hospital (A) The ailing condition of financial inclusion business at alone, the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital, of the 87 civilians present who were brought in with injuries, about 40 had sustained pellet (B) Strategies that may help banks expand in the unbanked injuries to their eyes. Of these, doctors concluded that 19 persons, market or almost half of those with eye injuries, may never recover their (C) Role of government in modifying the existing financial- eyesight. Do the mathematics and a terrifying picture present itself inclusion policies ? The Centre has obviously, and correctly, read the situation, and (a) Only A (b) Only B rushed a team of eye specialists to the Valley. But the tragically (c) Only C (d)Both A& B excessive loss of life, limb and sight this month must force a serious (e) All A, B&C rethink on how policemen are equipped and trained to bring calm 6. According to the passage, which of the following ways may to the streets. help banks sustain the interest of their customers after hooking Pellets have been fired from 12 bore guns for riot control. These them? are not long distance weapons. Police around the world have been (A) Adoption of a banking mechanism which is not only trained to aim for below the knee. The idea is that the pain caused secure but reassuring to the customers by the pellets, usually made of metal and sometimes encased in

(B) Increasing the number of delivery partners in rural market ru b b er, acts as a d eterren t w ith o u t maiming or causing serious (C) Introduction of a simple and intuitive user application life-inhibiting injuries. Theoretically, it sounds viable. The reality (a) Only (A) (b) Only (C) that’s obtained in Kashmir some months back tells another story. (c) Only (B) (d) All (A), (B) and (C) It speaks to a lack of both training and leadership. It is nobody’s (e) Both (A) and (C) case that it is an easy job to control a violent crowd, but it is the duty of the police to do so by causing as little injury as possible. Direction(Q. 7-8): Choose the word which is MOST SIMILAR They must ensure that the force they use is never in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage. disproportionately excessive to the cause of action. In the heat of 7. MULTITUDE the moment, there was a clear lack of restraint, evident in the (a) Impoverished (b) Handful numbers injured by the spray of pellets. Even as the best medical (c) Acknowledged (d) Plenty care is now sought to be provided, a more holistic healing must be (e) Solitude expeditiously administered. It has to be a political exercise. This 8. UBIQUITOUS week of violence must also end with the assurance that the security (a) Quintessential (b) Popular forces have learnt important lessons the most important among (c) Omnipresent (d) Surreptitious them being the adoption of more humane measures for crowd control. (e) Grotesque 11. Why the security forces have failed to exercise enough restraint, given the nature of injuries sustained by many young men and Direction(Q.9-10): Choose the word which is MOST women,according to the passage? OPPOSITE in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in (a) due to lack of training and leadership the passage. (b) because crowd was too violent to handle 9. DORMANT (c) due to use of no-lethal pellets a) Emaciated b) Pertinent (d) intensions of security forces were not good c) Cornered d) Rejected (e) None of these. e) Active 12. What could be the suitable ‘title’ of the above passage? 10. DELAYED (a) Clash in Kashmir a) Perturbed b) Popularised (b) Violent Kashmir c) Expedited d) Stabilised (c) Learning to control crowds e) Repressed (d) “Security Forces” not up to the mark (e) Brutality –A Reality Direction (Q. No. 11-15): Read the following passage very 13. Which of the following statements are NOT TRUE according carefully and answer the questions below.Certain words may to the given passage? help you locate them while answering some of the questions. (A) In one Srinagar hospital alone, the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital, of the 87 civilians who were brought in

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with injuries, about 40 had sustained pellet injuries to C. For years now, pitches have been prepared to suit the their eyes. home team’s strengths and that is fine so long as the (B) Doctors concluded that 19 persons, or almost half of pitch is not a lottery. those with eye injuries, may never recover their eyesight. D. If one goes by the scores in some of the matches, (C) The idea is that the pain caused by the pellets, usually especially Delhi’s games, then it is quite obvious that the made of metal and sometimes encased in rubber, acts as pitches prepared are sub-standard and not conducive to an encouragement with maiming or causing serious life- a fair contest inhibiting injuries. between bat and ball. (a) Only A (b) Only B (a) A only (b) B only (c) Only C (d) Both A and C (c) C only (d) D only (e) Both B and A (e) No error 14. What should be the mindset of the security forces while tackling 19. A. So, once an economy, is actually in recession, the huge crowd? B. the authorities can, in principle, move the economy (a) They should be calm an compound. C. out of slump :assuming hypothetically. (b) They should have proper equipments to dispel the crowd. D. that they know how to – by a temporary stimuli (c) They should target below the knee to cause pain without E. in the longer term, however, such policies have no affect mutilation. on the overall behaviour of the economy. (d) If crowd is violent, they should also reply in the same (a) A, B and E (b) D and E manner. (c) C and D (d) A and B (e) None of these (e) No error 15. Choose the word which is most opposite in meaning to 20. A. It is sometimes told that democratic. maiming as used in the passage. B. Government originated in the city states. (a) abetment (b) mutilate C. Of ancient Greece. Democratic ideals have been handed (c) mangle (d) mar to us from that time. (e) disfigurement D. In truth, however, this is an unhelpful assertion. E. The Greeks gave us the word, hence did not provide us Direction (Q. No. 16-20): Identify the incorrect sentence(s) with a model. from the following given choices. (a) A, B and D (b) A, C and E 16. A. In the long history of the world, only a few generations (c) B and D (d) B Only have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of (e) No error maximum danger. Direction (Q. No. 21-25): Which of the phrases (a), (b), (c) B. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places and (d) given below each statement should be placed in the with any other people or any other generation. blank space provided so as to make a meaningful and C. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to grammatically correct sentence. If none of the sentence is this endeavour will light our country and all who serve appropriate, mark (e) i.e, ‘None of the above’ as the answer. it. D. The glow from that fire can truly light the world. 21. Overlooking the fact that water scarcity intensifies during (a) B only (b) A only summer, ______. (c) C only (d) D only (a) the government issued guidelines to all builders to limit (e) No error their consumption to acceptable limits. 17. A. As the growing economy makes increasing demands on (b) provision for rainwater harvesting has been made to aid infrastructure inputs, these problems could worsen in the irrigation in drought prone area. coming year. (c) the water level did not improve even after receiving B. Therefore, addressing infrastructure gaps needs to doing normal monsoon in the current year. our topmost priority next year. (d) many residential areas continue to use swimming pools, C. The second risk lies in the global macroeconomic wasting large quantities of water. imbalances, reflected in the twin deficits of the US and (e) None of the above. rising surpluses of Asia. 22. Refuting the rationale behind frequent agitations for formation D. The longer these imbalances have persisted, the greater of separate states, a recent report ______. has become the risk of a disruptive correction. (a) proved that such agitations result in loss of governmental (a) A only (b) B only property. (c) D only (d) C only (b) indicated that the formation of small states does not (e) No error necessarily improve the economy. 18. A. The only problem is that the wickets that are on offer for (c) suggested that only large scale agitations have been domestic cricket are hardly conducive for batsmen. effective in bringing out desired change in the past. B. It is here that BCCI needs to show the same will, as they (d) recommended dividing large states into smaller ones to have shown in making players play domestic cricket. improve governance.

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(e) None of the above. 27. Which of the following sentences should be the SECOND 23. Achieving equality for women is not only a laudable goal, after rearrangement? ______. a) A b) B (a) political reforms are also neglected preventing women c) C d) D from entering legislatures and positions of power e) E (b) the problem is also deep rooted in the society and 28. Which of the following sentences should be the THIRD after supported by it. rearrangement? (c) their empowerment is purposefully hampered by people a) A b) B with vested interests in all sections of the society. c) C d) D (d) it is also equally difficult to achieve and maintain for a e) F long term. 29. Which of the following sentences should be the FOURTH (e) None of the above. after rearrangement? 24. Michel has lost most of his life’s earning in the stock market a) A b) B but ______. c) C d) D (a) he still seems to be leading his life luxuriously and e) F extravagantly. 30. Which of the following sentences should be the (b) he could not save enough to repay his enormous debts SIXTH(LAST)after rearrangement? (c) stock market is not a safe option to invest money unless a) A b) B done with caution. c) C d) D (d) experts have been suggesting to avoid investments in e) E stock market because of its unpredictable nature. (e) None of the above. Direction (Q. No. 31-40) : In the following passage, the blank 25. ______or else they would not keep electing him year spaces are numbered and a word is given in bold with bracket after year. in some cases the bold word might fit the sentence and the (a) The party leader gave a strong message to the mayor for paragraph meaning fully and sometimes it might not. If it fits improving his political style “No change required” will be your answer. If it does not fit (b) Owing to numerous scandals against the mayor, he was you have to choose one option out of the given four options told to resign from the post immediately against that number and mark it as your answer. (c) The mayor threatened the residents against filing a The Indian rupee has (31) (hiked) out to be one of the best complaint against him performing currencies in the world with a gain of well over six (d) The residents must really be impressed with the political percent against the U.S. dollar this year to date. In fact, the currency style of their mayor hit a two year high of 63.60 last Wednesday, supported by strong (e) None of the above. (32) (inflows) of foreign capital. Around the beginning of 2017, analysts were(33) (bearish) on the rupee, predicting that it would Direction (Q.26-30): Rearrange the six sentences (A), (B), not (34) (violate) the 70-mark by the end of the year. But strong (C), (D), (E) and(F) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful capital inflow has managed to turn the tide. According to the RBI, paragraph;then answer the questions given below them. foreign portfolio investors invested 15.2 billion dollar in India’s A. To propose the idea of becoming perfected is not the equity and debt markets this year until the end of July. In addition, same as saying that we human beings can foreign direct investment in April-May doubled compared to last be perfect. year. Such (35) (bounteous) inflow of capital, of course, is in B. It only means that we are capable of learning, changing sharp contrast to 2013 when the tightening of policy by the U.S, and growing throughout the span of our Federal Reserve had (36)(rattled) the rupee. This time around, earthly life. emerging markets have escaped any such taper(37) (tantrum) as C. Learning is a process that begins at birth and lasts till the Fed’s approach towards tightening has been measured. Another death. major contributor to the rupee’s strength is the RBI’s hawkish D. This development through understanding new things, (38)(word), which has pushed down domestic retail inflation to a transforming and developing throughout record low of just around two percent. This has spilled over to may be considered as the perfection of soul. influence the external value of the rupee as well. Oil prices remaining E. Given that we are here to continually learn on the journey (39)(fluctuate) at around the 50 dollar mark too has helped as of life, it seems that the ultimate goal Indians have had to (40)(shell out) fewer rupees on oil imports. of learning is the perfection of our souls. This is reflected in the improved current account deficit, which F. Nor that we should be perfect in everything. stood at 0.7% of GDP in 2016-17 compared to almost 4.8% in 2012-13. 26. Which of the following sentences should be the FIRST after rearrangement? 31. (a) shifted (b) jaunted a) A b) B (c) turned (d) swigged c) C d) D (e) No change required e) E 32. (a) investments (b) affluences (c) flows (d) deluge

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(e) No change required e) None of these 33. (a) bearish (b) bullish 45. Statements: Z @ D, F © D, F $ G (c) pessimistic (d) ominous Conclusions: I. D © G II. Z@G III. D@G (e) No change required a) Either I or III and II only follows 34. (a) breach (b) infringe b) I and II only follows (c) break (d) comply c) Only I follow (e) No change required d) II and III only follow 35. (a) fulsome (b) generous e) None of these (c)obstreperous (d)heinous (e) No change required Direction (Q. 46-50): Study the following information and 36. (a) disturbed (b) controlled answer the given questions. (c) clamoured (d) clattered Seven people namely P, Q, R, S, T, U and V like seven different (e) No change required colours viz. Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Grey, white and Pink, but 37. (a) outburst (b) overwhelm not necessarily in the same order. Each person also works in the (c) investment (d) stimulus same office but different designation namely Attender, Clerk, (e) No change required Stenographer, Financial Adviser, Administrator, Manager and CEO. 38. (a) stance (b) attitude (Designations are in increasing order of experience; Attender being (c) idiosyncrasy (d)presence the least experienced while the CEO being most experienced) (e) No change required Only one person has more experience than Q. The one who likes 39. (a) stagnated (b) changed blue colour is more experienced than the one who likes pink but (c) stabled (d) ratified less experienced than T, who is a Financial Adviser. The one who (e) No change required likes blue colour is not a Clerk. Q does not like green colour. P likes 40. (a) dropout (b) fork over white. S is more experienced than the one who likes blue colour but (c) pull over (d) lay out less experienced than the one who likes green colour. The one who (e) No change required likes Red colour is less experienced than S. Both R and U have less experience than the one who likes Red colour. U neither likes blue REASONING ABILITY nor is the least experienced person. The one likes yellow is not a manager. Directions (41-45): Study the following information and answer the given questions. 46. Which of the following colour does R likes? a) A @ B means A is neither equal to nor smaller than B. a)Pink b)Blue b) A © B means A is neither greater nor smaller than B. c)White d)Red c) A £ B means A is either smaller or equal to B. e)None of these d) A ? B means A is neither greater than nor equal to B. 47. Which of the following combination represents the designation e) A $ B means A is either greater or equal to B. in which V works and the colour he likes? a)Manager- Grey b)Stenographer – Blue 41. Statements: L @ T, P ? T, K$L c)Attender – Green d)CEO- Green Conclusions: I. L@P II. K@T III. K@P e)Stenographer – Pink a) Only I and II follows 48. Which of the following person represent the people who have b) Only II and III follow more experience than R and less experience than S? c) Only I and III follow a)Q b)T d) None of follows c)U d)P e) All follows e)None of these 42. Statements: N ? S, S @ P, P £ M 49. Which of the following colour does ‘S’ likes? Conclusions: I. S @ M II. P © N III. M @ N. a)Green b)Pink a) None follows b) Only I follow c)Grey d)Yellow c) Only II follows d) Only III follows e)None of these e) Only II & III follows 50. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on 43. Statements: R © U, U ? Q, W $ R the given arrangement and so form a group. Which is the one Conclusions: I. W © U II. W@U III. Q@R that does not belong to that group? a) Only I follow a)PU b)RT b) I and II only follows c)ST d)QV c) Either I or II and III follows e)UR d) II and III only follow e) None of these Direction (Q.51-55): Study the following information and 44. Statements: J©P, P$N, J£H answer the given questions. Conclusions: I. J © N II. H@P III. J $ N Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular a) Only II follows b) Only I and III follow table with equal distance between each other but not necessarily in c) Only III follows d) Only I follow

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Step IV : doll hen river man 23 89 35 71 47 65 addition tiger e)None of these Step V : hen man 23 89 35 71 47 65 addition tiger doll river 67. Statements: Step VI : 23 89 35 71 47 65 addition tiger doll river hen man Some bikes are buildings. Step VI is the last step of the given arrangement as the intended All buildings are bottles. output of the arrangement is obtained. As per the rules Some bottles are trucks. followed in the given steps, find the appropriate steps for Conclusions: the given input. I. Some bikes are trucks. Input: 53 nutrition noise 81 normal 37 19 nuclear 75 II. Some bikes are bottles. network 96 nerve III. Some bottles are buildings. IV. No truck is a bike. 61. What is the position of ‘37’ in step IV? a)None of the above th a)6 from the left end b)II and III only follow th b)6 from the right end c)Either only I or II and III and IV follows th c)7 from the right end d)Either only I or IV and II and III follows th d)8 from the left end e)All of the above e)None of these 68. Statements: 62. If ‘nerve’ is related to ‘96’ in step-III and ‘81’ is related to ‘75’ Some bags are cats. All cats are dogs. in step-IV and in the same way, which of the following is No dog is a cycle. All cycles are bulls. related to ‘nutrition’ in step-V? Conclusions: a)75 b)53 I. No dog is a bull. c)Nuclear d)Nerve II. Some dogs are bulls. e)None of these III. Some dogs are bags. 63. Which of the following step is the last but one? IV. Some bulls are bags. a)Step –VI b)Step-VII a)None follows c)Step-IV d)Step-V b)All follows e)None of these c)Only either I or II and III follow 64. Which of the following element is sixth to the left of the tenth d)Only I and III follow from the left end in step-II? e)Only I, II and III follow a)75 b)19 69. Statements: c)Normal d)96 No cards are lines. All copies are cards. e)Noise All cards are telephones. No radios are telephones. 65. Which of the following element is in between 96 and 81 in Conclusions: step-III? I. Some lines are not copies. a)37 b)53 II. Some copies are neither cards nor telephones. c)19 d)Both a) and b) III. Some telephones are neither copies nor cards. e)None of these IV. Some copies are not radios. Directions: (66-70) In each question below, there are three or a)Only I ,II and III follow four statements followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, b)Only II and III follow III and IV. You have to take the given statements to be true c)Only I and IV follow even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known d)All follows facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically e)None of these follow(s) from the given statements. 70. Statements: Some soldiers are famous. 66. Statements: Some soldiers are intelligent. Some dogs bark. All soldiers are honest. All dogs bite. All honest and famous persons are kind-hearted. All bats bite. Conclusions: Those animals who bark are not dangerous. I. Some soldiers are either famous or intelligent. Conclusions: II. Some soldiers are neither famous nor intelligent. I. Even those dogs who do not bark bite. III. All intelligent persons are kind hearted. II. Those dogs who do not bark, do not necessarily bite. IV. Some intelligent persons are not kind-hearted. III. All those dogs which are of white colour, bite is a a)All follow possibility b)Only I and II follow IV. Some dogs are bats. c)Only I, II and III follow a)Only II and III follow d)Only either I or II follows b)Only II follows e)None of these c)Only III follows 71. Among Suresh, Dinesh, Ganesh, Ramesh and Lokesh each d)Only I and III follow having a different height, Ganesh is taller than Suresh and

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Lokesh but shorter than Ramesh and Dinesh. Suresh is not c) PT d) TS the shortest. Who among them is the tallest? e) None of the above a)Ramesh b)Dinesh c)Suresh d)Suresh or Lokesh QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE e)Data inadequate Directions (Q. Nos. 81-85): Out of the two bar graphs provided 72. Priya is 18th from the left end and Saranya is 11th from the below, one shows the amounts (in lakh) invested by a company right end of a row of 40 children. How many children are there in purchasing raw materials over the years and the other between Priya and Saranya in the row? shows the values (in lakh) of finished goods sold by the a)10 b) 9 company over the years. c)12 d)11 e)None of these 73. What should be come next in the following number series? 9 8 7 6 5 4 9 8 7 6 5 9 8 7 6 9 8 7 ? a)6 b)3 c)9 d)8 e)5 74. If two is subtracted from each odd digit and three is added to each even digit in the number ‘9542763’, how many digits will appear twice in the new number thus formed? a)None b) One c)Two d)Three e)Four 75. Z is the son of V. Y is the son of V. Z is married to X. W is X’s daughter. How is Y related to W? a)None of these b)Brother c)Father-in-law d)Brother-in-law e)Uncle 76. If ‘E $ F’ means ‘E is father of F’, ‘E # F’ means ‘E is daughter of F’, ‘E @ F’ means ‘E is sister of F’, then how is G related to J in G @ H $ I # J ? a)Husband b)Father c)Uncle d)Sister e)Sister in law Directions (77-80): Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below it: (i) Six flats on a floor in two rows facing North and South are allotted to P, Q, R, S, T and U. (ii) Q gets a North facing flat and is not next to S. (iii) S and U get diagonally opposite flats. 81. The maximum difference between the amount invested in raw (iv) R, next to U, gets a South facing flat and T gets a North materials and value of sales of finished goods was during the facing flat and is neighbour of S. year? 77. Which of the following combinations get south facing flats? a) 2005 b) 2006 a) QTS b) UPT c) 2007 d) 2008 c) URP d) Data inadequate e) None of these e) None of the above 82. The value of sales of finished goods in 2009 was approximately 78. Whose flat is between Q and S? what per cent of the sum of amounts invested in raw materials a) T b) U in the years 2007, 2008 and 2009? c) R d) P a) 33% b) 37% e) Data inadequate c) 45% d) 49% 79. If the flats of T and P are interchanged, whose flat will be next e) 20% to that of U? 83. What was the difference between the average amount invested a) P b) Q in raw materials during the given period and the average value c) R d) T of sales of finished goods during this period? e) None of the above a)62.5 Iakh b) 68.5 Iakh 80. The flats of which of the other pairs than SU, are diagonally c)71.5 Iakh d) 77.5 Iakh opposite to each other? e) None of these a) QP b) QR

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84. In which year, the percentage change (compared to the previous e)None of these year) in the investment on raw materials was same as that in 92. 358 356 352 344 328 296 ? the value of sales of finished goods? a)232 b)247 a) 2006 b) 2007 c)225 d)255 c) 2008 d) 2009 e)None of these e) None of these 93. 8 ? 30 105 472.5 2598.75 16891.875 85. In which year, there has been a maximum percentage increase in a)24 b)10 the amount invested in raw materials as compared to the c)12 d)16 previous year? e)None of these a)2006 b) 2007 94. Mr. X invested a certain amount in Debit and Equity funds in c) 2008 d) 2009 the ratio of 4 : 5 respectively. At the end of one year, he e) None of these earned a total dividend of 30% on his investment. After one year he reinvested the amount including dividend in the ratio Directions (Q. Nos. 86-87): In the following questions, two of 6 : 7 in Debt and Equity Funds. If the amount reinvested in equations are given. You have to solve both the equations and Equity Funds was Rs 94,500/-, what was the original amount give answer. invested in Equity Funds? (a) Rs 75,000/- (b)Rs 81,000/- 86. I.x2 + 3x – 28 = 0 II. y2 – y - 20 = 0 a)x = y or relationship cannot be decided (c) Rs 60,000/- (d) Rs 65,000/- b)x > y (e) None of these c) x < y 95. A thief manages to escape from the Tihar Jail. He is running at speed 30 km/h. A policeman comes to know about this escape d)x  y two hours later. He immediately starts running after the thief e) x  y at a speed of 36 km/h. After how many hours will the policeman 87. I.5x2 + 11x + 6 = 0 II. y2 – 34y – 336 = 0 be able to catch the thief? a)x > y a)6 hours b)8 hours b)x  y c)10 hours d)12 hours c) x = y or relationship cannot be decided e)14 hours d)x < y 96. A can do a work in 12 days. When he had worked for 3 days, B joined him. If they complete the work in 3 more days. In how e)x  y many days, can B alone finish the work? 88. A, B and C invested different amounts in a business for 4 a)Other than the given options months, 6 months and 12 months respectively. B’s investment b)12 was 2 times A’s investment and C’s investment was 2.5 times c)8 A’s investment. If at the end of the year, they together received d)6 an amount of Rs 5,819/- as profit, what was B’s share in the e)10 profit? a)Rs 1404/- b)Rs 1428/- Directions (Q. Nos. 97-101) Read the information carefully c)Rs 1518/- d)Rs 1536/- and answer to the questions which are based on it. e)1644/- The following pie charts present the relative breakup of the sources 89. A slice from a circular pizza of diameter 14 inches is cut in such of income and the heads of expenditure for a family for the year a way, that the slice forms a sector of angle measuring 450. 2007. The total annual income of the family is Rs 800000. Due to Find the measure of area of the cut slice of the pizza. (in the revised pay scales, the income of the father and the mother inches square) have increased by 40% and 30%, respectively in 2008. Education a)17.5 b)18.25 cost doubled in 2008, whereas all other expenses (in Rs) remain c)19.25 d)19.75 same in 2008. e)17.75 90. The difference between two numbers is 18 and their H.C.F. and L.C.M. are 6 and 168 respectively. What is the sum of squares of the two numbers? a)2280 b)2260 c)2420 d)2340 e)2380 Directions (Q. Nos. 91-93): What should come in place of the question mark (?) in the following number series? 91. 2 26 286 ? 18018 90090 270270 a)3088 b)2667 c)3862 d)2574

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104. 3018.19  2.87  841.02  ? a)365 b)90 c)387 d)1000 e)200 Directions (Q. Nos. 105-106) : What should come in place of the question mark (?) in the following number series? 105. 2 16 112 672 3360 13440 ? a)3430 b)3340 c)40320 d)43240 e)None of these 106. 4 9 19 ? 79 159 319 a)59 b)39 c)49 d)29 e)None of these 107. In an examination, the maximum aggregate marks that a student can get is 1040. In order to pass the exam, a student is required 97. Assuming that the relative contribution of different sources of to get 676 marks out of the aggregate marks. Minal got 624 income remains the same across all heads of expenditure, how marks. By what percent did Minal fail in the exam? much of the father’s income is spent on medical expenses for a)5 the year 2007? b)8 a) Rs 32000 b) Rs 25000 c)7 c) Rs 54000 d)Rs 80000 d)Cannot be determined e) None of these e)None of these 98. What percentage of the total income is spent on education in 2008? Directions (Q. 108 - 110): In the following questions, two a) 20% b) 30% equations numbered I and II are given. You have to solve both c) 50% d) 40% the equations and give answer e) 35% (a) if x > y 99. In 2008, what is the amount saved by the family? (b) if x  y a) Rs 50000 b) Rs 40000 (c) if x < y c) Rs 10000 d)Rs 15000 e) None of these (d) if x  y 100. What is the total amount spent on clothing and medical (e) if x = y or relationship cannot be established between x expenses during 2007 and 2008? and y. a)Rs 320000 b) Rs 240000 108. I. 2x2 + 15x + 27 = 0 II. 2y2 + 7y + 6 = 0 c) Rs 440000 d) Rs 520000 109. I.3x2 – 13x + 12 = 0 II.3y2 – 13y + 14 = 0 e) None of the these 110. I.5x2 + 8x + 3 = 0 II. 3y2 + 7y + 4 = 0 101. In 2008, what percentage of income is spent on bills and miscellaneous expenses? Directions (Q. Nos. 111-112) : What should come in place of a) 5% b) 12% question mark (?) in the following questions? c) 16% d) 25% e) 14% 111. (27 5?) 15  5.4  6  0.3 Directions (Q. Nos. 102-104) : What approximate value should a)2 b)6 come in place of the question mark (?) in the following c)10 d)4 questions? e)8 (Note : You are not expected to calculate the exact value) 2 112. 32105  64  216 104 = 10? 102. 10.972  (4.13)3 3.79  ? a)6 b)10 c)-8 d)-6 a)428 b)376 e)-10 c)197 d)204 113. Arunavo invested a total sum of Rs 16, 000 in two schemes (A e)302 and B) for 2 years. Scheme A offers compound interest at a 103. 12.13% of 935.81 + 1498% of 25.85 = ? rate of 10% per annum and scheme B offers simple interest at a)500 b)550 the rate of 12% per annum. If the total interest earned by him c)478 d)341 from both the schemes after two years is Rs 3,504, how much e)596 money did he invest in scheme B?

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a)Rs 4, 800 b)Rs 4,200 117. How many students play tennis? 126. Who is the CEO of MobiKwik that c)Rs 4,600 d)Rs 4,400 a) 35 b) 48 provides a mobile phone based e)Rs 5,200 c) 50 d) 59 payment system and digital wallet? 114. Pipe A can fill a tank in 5 h, pipe B can e) None of these (a) Megha Tank fill it in 8 h, while a leak in C can empty 118. How many girls do not play chess? (b) UpasanaTaku it in 12 h. Assume that the tank is a) 66 b) 62 (c) Gagan Deep Singh empty and the pipes and the leak are c) 58 d) 55 (d) BipinPreet Singh opened together. However, pipe A is e) None of these (e) None of these closed after 3 h. In how many hours, 119. What is the ratio of number of girls 127. According to a report by the think- will the tank get filled? playing hockey to the number of boys tank organisation, ICRIER, internet- playing hockey, respectively? based applications have contributed 5 5 a)5:16 b)13:8 a)5 b)9 how much to the country’s GDP in 9 3 c)8:13 d)16:5 2015-16? e) None of these (a) Rs 1.5 lakh crore 3 120. What is the total number of students (b) Rs 1.6 lakh crore c)9 d)Cannot be determined playing badminton? (c) Rs 1.2 lakh crore 5 a)84 b)88 (d) Rs 1.4 lakh crore e)None of these c)91 d)78 (e) None of these 115. A bag contains 5 blue and 7 white balls. e) None of these 128. How much Goods And Services Tax One ball is drawn out and replaced with (GST) is applicable on buying and a ball in the bag. Then, one ball is drawn GENERAL AWARENESS selling of second-hand goods if sold at out again. What is the probability that a price cheaper than the purchase price? both the balls are of blue colour? 121. As per the “Handbook of Statistics on (a) 5% (b) 7% Indian States 2016-17” released by (c) 6% (d) No GST 25 2 RBI, which state had the highest a) b) (e) None of these 144 7 number of offices of Scheduled 129. What is the deadline for traders to get Commercial Banks at the end of March registered under the Goods and Services 17 8 2015? Tax (GST) regime? c) d) (a) Maharashtra 144 55 (a) August 31, 2017 (b) Bihar (b) December 31, 2017 e)None of these (c) Uttar Pradesh (c) September 30, 2017 (d) Haryana (d) July 30, 2017 Directions (Q. Nos. 116-120) : These (e) Andhra Pradesh (e) None of these questions are based on the following 122. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Krushi 130. For making management education information. SanmanYojana is the farm loan waiver accessible to all through Massive Open A total of 250 students of a class play programme of which state? Online Courses (MOOCs), which of different games viz. football, hockey, chess, (a) Punjab the following Indian Institutes of badminton, table-tennis and tennis. The ratio (b) Maharashtra Management has been awarded by of girls to boys in the class of 250 is 13 : 12, (c) Haryana president, Pranab Mukherjee? respectively. 50% of the girls play table- (d) Uttar Pradesh (a) IIM Ahmedabad tennis and badminton only. 20% of the boys (e) Kerala (b) IIM Bangalore play football, hockey and tennis only. 15% 123. Which organization released the World (c) IIM Calcutta of the boys play tennis and chess only. The Drug Report 2017? (d) IIM Lucknow ratio of number of girls to boys playing (a) WHO (b) UNICEF (e) None of these tennis and chess only is 2 : 3, respectively. (c) UNODC (d) UNIDO 131. Which of the following bank has ties 30% of the girls play hockey and chess only. (e) None of these up with OPIC and Wells Fargo Bank 10% of the girls play chess, badminton and 124. Recently the United States has tie-up to support women table-tennis only. The remaining girls play approved the sale of how many entrepreneurs and increase lending to only football. Boys playing table-tennis and Guardian drones to India? small and medium enterprises (SMEs) badminton only is 20% of the girls playing (a) 19 (b) 21 in India? the same. 40% of the boys play only (c) 25 (d) 22 (a) HDFC Bank football. The remaining boys play only (e) 20 (b) ICICI Bank chess. 125. Which state will launch the ‘My Plant’ (c) Axis Bank mobile app on tree plantation? 116. What is the total number of students (d) SBI (a) Haryana playing football? (e) Yes Bank (b) Maharashtra a) 72 b) 64 132. Which country has topped the charts (c) Uttar Pradesh c) 68 d)73 of sustainable development goal (SDG) (d) Telangana e) None of these (e) Bihar 112 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2017

index according to the SDG Index and facility that aims to advance women’s (c) USD 105 million Dashboards Report? entrepreneurship. (d) USD 117 million (a) Sweden (a) $1.5 (b) $2 (e) None of these (b) Denmark (c) $1 (d) $2.5 146. Kaiga power station is in which state? (c) Finland (e) None of these (a) Maharashtra (d) Portugal 139. Over which river India and Bangladesh (b) Rajasthan (e) None of these have decided to construct bridge in to (c) Tamil Nadu 133. Which state government has decided facilitate trade and increase (d) Karnataka to merge all the branches of the district communication? (e) Gujarat central cooperative banks (DCCBs) (a) Khawthlangtuipui River 147. How many Banking Ombudsman with the state cooperative banks? (b) River Office does RBI has in total in India? (a) Uttar Pradesh (c) Ganga River (a) 15 (b) 17 (b) Punjab (d) Chhimtuipui River (c) 18 (d) 20 (c) Chhattisgarh (e) None of these (e) 23 (d) Bihar 140. How much amount has been allotted 148. GST registrations for ecommerce and (e) None of these by the centre to Goa under Swadesh new companies will start from which 134. According to the union government, it Darshan scheme? date? has saved around how much amount in (a) Rs 150 crore (a) June 24, 2017 2016-17 through Direct Benefit (b) Rs 200 crore (b) June 25, 2017 Transfer (DBT)? (c) Rs 110 crore (c) July 1, 2017 (a) Rs 54,000 crore (d) Rs 100 crore (d) July 10, 2017 (b) Rs 57,000 crore (e) Rs 250 crore (e) None of these (c) Rs 58,000 crore 141. India has signed a Loan Agreement for 149. Which of the following is not fully (d) Rs 56,000 crore co-financing of part funding through owned by RBI? (e) None of these World Bank for USD ______million (a) NHB 135. Which of the following banks has for “24X7 Power for All in Andhra (b) DICGC collaborated with Inter- American Pradesh Project. (c) SIDBI Investment Corporation which will (a) 220 (b) 240 (d) BRBNMPL help traders boost relations between (c) 260 (d) 250 (e) None of these India and Latin America and the (e) None of these 150. World Economic Forum’s headquarter Caribbean? 142. The difference between repo rate and is situated in which of the following (a) State Bank of India reverse repo rate is known as? city? (b) Axis Bank (a) Repo gap (a) Zurich (c) ICICI Bank (b) Gap divergence (b) Gland (d) Punjab National Bank (c) Interest rate gap (c) Geneva (e) None of these (d) Policy rate corridor (d) Berne 136. Smartron, a global technology OEM (e) None of these (e) Washington D.C. and IoT brand has signed an MoU with 143. What interest is paid under the deposit 151. Under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima which state government to invest in made under the PMGKDS 2016? Yojana (PMFBY), farmers will have to multiple areas of opportunities in the (a) 0% (b) 2% pay a uniform premium of ______per state? (c) 4% (d) 6% cent for all rabi crops. (a) West Bengal (e) 8% (a) 1% (b) 1.5% (b) Madhya Pradesh 144. The finance ministry has extended the (c) 2% (d) 2.5% (c) Chhattisgarh time limit for providing Permanent (e) 3% (d) Odisha Account Number (PAN) by bank 152. The portion of Net Demand and Time (e) Arunachal Pradesh account holders. What is the deadline Liability that the bank has to maintain 137. Gifts given by the employer to the for bank savings account holders to with RBI is called ____ employee worth above how much value give PAN card? (a) SLR will come under the ambit of Goods (a) June 30, 2017 (b) CRR and Services Tax (GST)? (b) May 31, 2017 (c) Repo (a) Rs 1 lakh (c) July 31, 2017 (d) Reverse Repo (b) Rs 1,50,000 (d) December 30, 2017 (e) None of these (c) Rs 50,000 (e) September 30, 2017 153. According to a circular issued by (d) Rs 80,000 145. What amount of loan has Asian Department of Telecom (DoT) in (e) None of these Development Bank approved for to March this year, Aadhaar-based e-KYC 138. The World Bank Group is going to create train 2 lakh youngsters in Odisha? was made mandatory for new mobile a nearly _____ billion innovative new (a) USD 100 million phone connections. KYC norms were (b) USD 102 million

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introduced in ______by the Reserve COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE 169. What does ‘U’ stand for in ‘UPS’? Bank of India (RBI) (a) Under (a) 2000 (b) 2001 161. Small application programs that run (b) Unique (c) 2002 (d) 2003 on a web page and may ensure a form (c) Universal (e) None of these is completed properly or provide (d) Uniform 154. A bank note of which a portion is animation are known as (e) Uninterruptible missing is called ______(a) Cookies 170. Which of the following term is used to (a) Soiled note (b) Cache describe using the mouse to move an (b) Mutilated note (c) Hyperlink item on the screen to a new location? (c) Imperfect note (d) Flash (a) Single click (d) Mismatched note (e) Spam (b) Double-click (e) None of these 162. 601 error code identifies a (c) Drag and drop 155. What is the capital of Portugal? (a) Motherboard problem (d) Left click (a) Lesbon (b) Floppy drive problem (e) Right-click (b) Ottawa (c) ALU problem 171. ______is an extension name of Java (c) Budapest (d) Hard disk problem language file. (d) Madrid (e) Other than the given options (a) .Jar (b) .Java (e) None of these 163. A mainframe computer works on a (c) .Jif (d) .Jf 156. Recently _____and UNESCO have ______number system. (e) .Js signed agreement to get Chilika Lake (a) decimal 172. The network topology in which there world heritage site tag. (b) octal are bi-directional links between each (a) IOCL (c) hexadecimal possible node, is (b) ONGC (d) binary (a) Mesh (b) Star (c) HPCL (e) both c and d (c) Tree (d) Ring (d) NTPC 164. ______is a component of (e) Bus (e) None of these motherboard, which is used to travel 173. What does ‘V’ stand for in ‘DVD’? 157. Currencies whose demand is less but information. (a) Video supply is more in international market (a) ALU (b) Chip (b)Vision is known as (c) Port (d) CMOS (c) Versatile (a) Cold Money (e) Bus (d) Visual (b) Cheap Money 165. What does ‘P’ stand for in ‘DPI’? (e) Other than the given options (c) Soft Money (a) Protocol (b) Page 174. Cache and main memory are ______, (d) Near Money (c) Per (d) Pixel will lose their contents when the power (e) None of these (e) Paper is off. 158. Which banks are classified as Domestic 166. A collection of programs that controls (a) static Systemically Important Banks (D- how your computer system runs and (b) dynamic SIBs) by RBI? processes information is called (c) magnetic (a) Indian bank & SBI (a) Motherboard (d) non-volatile (b) Indian bank & Canara bank (b) Operating system (e) volatile (c) Axis bank & SBI (c) Interface 175. What is called a program designed to (d) ICICI bank & SBI (d) Application suite destroy data on your computer? (e) Axis bank & ICICI bank (e) Protocol (a) Hurricane 159. Who is the author of the book “God’s 167. A ______is a mechanism that (b) Tarpedo Little Soldier”? allows the server to store its own (c) Spam (a) Kiran Nagarka information about a user on the user’s (d) Virus (b) Cyrus Mistry own computer. (e) Other than the given options (c) (a) Webcam (b) Flash 176. Communications for the entire (d) V.S. Naipaul (c) Cookies (d) Cache computer system is controlled by (e) Mridula Koshy (e) History (a) Arithmetic-logic-unit 160. It is not needed to submit Aadhaar card 168. Which of the following is the basic logic (b) Motherboard to comply with FATCA. What does gates in any digital system? (c) Flash drive ‘T’ denotes in ‘FATCA’? (a) AND gate (d) Disk drive (a) Transaction (b) OR gate (e) Slots (b) Transfer (c) NOT gate 177. Which of the following octal number is (c) Tax (d) both a and b equivalent to three binary digits ‘110’? (d) Truncation (e) All of the above (a) 7 (b) 4 (e) Tentative (c) 5 (d) 6 (e) 8

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178. ______is the part of a computer 187. How many bits are equal to 1 Kilobyte? 196. The binary number equal to (220)10 is that one can touch and feel. (a) 1044 (b) 1000 ______(a) Program (b) Software (c) 1024 d) 8192 (a) (11011001

(c) NIC (d) Bug (e) Other than the given options (b) (110011001)2

(e) Norton 188. In American Standard Code (ASCII) (c) (111010101)2

179. What is the full form of ‘WAP’? system a character is represented by- (d) (11011100)2

(a) Wireless Application Packet (a) 7 bits (b) 8 bits (e) (10110100)2 (b) Waveform Access Protocol (c) 10 bits (d) 4 bits 197. Which Internet Protocol is used for (c) Wireless Access Protocol (e) Other than the given options logging on to a remote computer? (d) Wireless Application Protocol 189. What does ‘M’ stand for in ‘CDMA’ (a) TCP/IP (b) Telnet (e) Other than the given options technology? (c) I-net (d) VPN 180. What is called an area in which text and (a) Multiple (b) Many (e) VRML graphics that have been cut or copied (c) Major (d) More 198. ______is server that acts as an are stored? (e) Other than the given options intermediary for requests from clients (a) Labels (b) Recycle Bin 190. ______is a device that limits seeking resources from other servers (c) Prompt (d) Clipboard access to your system from the outside. (a) Access servers (e) Table (a) Firewall (b) Client servers 181. Which menu is selected to change font (b) Anti virus (c) Network servers and style in word file? (c) Security Wall (d) Proxy servers (a) File (b) Tools (d) WiMAX (e) Printer servers (c) Ribbon (d) Format (e) MODEM 199. Which function does allow to keep an (e) Edit 191. ______refers to the hardware through application running, but removing it 182. ______is the feature of Recycle which computer data is transmitted. from the desktop area? Bin. (a) Protocol (a) Maximize (a) Deleting (b) Port (b) Minimize (b) Editing (c) Point of sale (c) Resize (c) To store deleted file (d) NIC (d) Close (d) Formatting (e) MODEM (e) Hibernate (e) Data mining 192. Which of the following is a method, a 200. The boxes contain options and 183. Which of the following term is used to computer uses to send e-mail from one commands for the computer to execute describe software that monitors computer to another? is called someone’s online computer activities? (a) SQL (a) Menu Box (a) Hibernate (b) SCSI (b) Scroll Box (b) Spyware (c) Shareware (c) Command Box (c) Freeware (d) SMTP (d) Icon (d) Phishing (e) Other than the given options (e) Dialogue Box (e) Other than the given options 193. One nanosecond is equal to 184. “Zipping” of a file means (a) 10-19 second  (a) extracting the file (b) 10-8 second (b) deleting the file (c) 10-19 second EXPLANATIONS (c) editing the file (d) 10-12 second -16 (d) compressing the file (e) 10 second 1. d 2. a 3. c 4. e (e) save the file 194. Which of the following is called a 5. d 6. e 7. d 8. c 185. ______functions is used to perform DIRECTORY? 9. e 10. c 11. a 12. c if we need to move a block of text. (a) Collection of software 13. c 14. c 15. a (a) Cut (b) Collection of Bytes (16-20) (b) Paste (c) Collection of Files 16. e; No error (c) Copy (d) Collection of data 17. b;”needs” by “need” (d) Cut and Paste (e) Collection of numbers 18. b;”they have” by “it has” (e) Copy and Paste 195. ______software is a kind of system 19. b; in sentence –D-”stimuli” by 186. ______is used to connect a software designed to help analyse, “stimulus”: I sentence –E-”affect” by Personal Computer to a network. configure, optimize and maintain the “effect” (a) IC computer. 20. b; in sentence-A-”told” by “said” :in (b) NIC (a) Utility sentence-C-”to” by “over”: in (c) PROLOG (b) Application sentence-E-”hence” by “but” (d) Linkers (c) Programming Language 21. d 22. b 23. d 24. a (e) Compilers (d) System 25. a (e) Computer

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(26-30) (56-60) CEAFBD 26. c 27. e 28. a 29. e 30. d 31.c 32. e 33. a 34. a 35. b 36. e 37. e 38. a 39. b 40. e (41-45) 41. e; L> T, P< T, K  L L>P K>T K>P All follows. 42. a; N< S ... (i), S> P ... (ii), P M ... (iii)  56. a 57. d 58. c 59. b 60. d S> M (61-65) P = N In the given input the numbers are arranged first, then the M> N words. The lowest number and first number come together None follows. and arranged in right hand side and so on. Similarly the words 43. c;R = U, U< Q, W  R are arranged as accordingly. W=U Input: 53 nutrition noise 81 normal 37 19 nuclear 75 network W>U 96 nerve Q>R follows Step I : 53 nutrition noise 81 normal 37 nuclear 75 network Either I or II and III follows. nerve 19 96 44. c;J = P ... (i), P e” N ... (ii), J  H ... (iii) Step II : 53 nutrition noise normal nuclear 75 network nerve J = N not follows 19 96 37 81 H> P not follows Step III : nutrition noise normal nuclear network nerve 19 96 J  N follows 37 81 53 75 Step IV : noise normal nuclear network 19 96 37 81 53 75 45. a;Z> D, F = D, F  G nerve nutrition D=G Step V : noise normal 19 96 37 81 53 75 nerve nutrition Z>G follows network nuclear D> G Step VI : 19 96 37 81 53 75 nerve nutrition network nuclear Either I or III and II follows noise normal (46-50) 61. b 62. a 63. d 64. c 65. a V > Q > S > T > R > U > P (66-70) 66. e

46. b 47. d 48. b 49. d 50. c (51-55)

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69. c (77-80)

77. c 78. a 79. c 80. a 70. e 81. c; The differences between the amount invested in raw material and the value of sales of finished goods for 2005 = (200—120) lakh = 80 lakh for 2006 = (300—225) lakh = 75 lakh for2007 = (500—375)lakh= 125lakh for 2008 = (400—330) lakh = 70 lakh for 2009 = (600— 525) lakh = 75 lakh for2010= (460—420)lakh= 40 lakh Clearly, maximum difference was during the year 2007. 82. d; Value of sales of finished goods in the year 2009 = 600 lakh Amount invested in raw materials in the years 2007, 2008 and 2009 =375+330+525 = 1230

71. e; Ganesh> Suresh, Lokesh 600 Reqd. Percentage = 100% = 48.78%  49% Ganesh Suresh>Lokesh 1230 Ramesh, Dinesh>Ganesh> Suresh>Lokesh 83. d; Required difference = Average amount invested in raw So, either Ramesh or Dinesh is the tallest. materials — Average values of sales of finished goods 72. d; Number of boys between Priya and Saranya = 40 – (18 + 11) =11 1 1 73. c; 9 8 7 6 5 4 9 8 7 6 5 9 8 7 6 9 8 7 9 8 = [ (200 + 300 + 500 + 400 + 600 + 460) — x 74. c 6 6 (120+225+375+330+ 525+420)]lakh  2460 1995  =    lakh  6 6  = (410—332.5) lakh = 77.5 lakh 84. b; The percentage change in the amount invested in raw materials 75. e and in the value of sales of finished goods for different years are as follow: Percentage change in amount invested in raw materials. 225 120 For 2006= x100 = 87.5% 120 375  225 for2007 = x 100 = 66.67% 225  330  375  for 2008=   x 100=—12% 76. e  375  525  330 for 2009= x 100= 59.09% 330

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420  525 for 2010 = x 100=—20% 525 Percentage change in value of sales of finished goods 300  200 For 2006= x100=50% 200

500  300 90. d; Let two numbers are a and b. for 2007= x100 = 66.67% 300 a x b = HCF x LCM = 6 x 168 a x b = 1008 ...... (i) 400  500 a – b = 18 ...... (ii) for 2008= x100 = -20% (a – b)2 = a2 + b2 – 2ab 500 a2 + b2 = (18)2 + 2 x 1008 600  400 = 324 + 2016 = 2340 for 2009= x100 = 50% 91. d; The series is  13,  11,  9,  7, ...... 400 92. a; The series is -2, -4, -8, ...... 93. c; The series is  1.5,  2.5,  3.5, ...... 460  600 94. a; Let the common ratio be x. for 2010= x100=—23.33% 600 The amount invested in Debit funds = 4x The amount invested in Equity Funds = 5x Thus, the percentage change was same during the year 2007. After one year, Mr. X’s total amount (including dividend) 85. a; From the above solution, we can say that the maximum percentage increase is in 2006. 130 130 86. a; I.x2 + 3x – 28 = 0 = 4x  5x 11.7x Or, x(x + 7) – 4 (x + 7) = 0 100 100 Or, x = 4, -7 II.y2 7 – y – 20 = 0 Amount reinvested in Equity Funds = 11.7x Or, y(y – 5) + 4( y - 5) = 0 13 Or, y = -4, 5 Relationship cannot be decided. 7 87. c; I.5x2 + 11x + 6 = 0 11.7x =94500 Or, x(5x+6) + 1(5x + 6) = 0 13 Or, x = -1, -6/5 6.3x = 94500 II.y2 – 34y – 336 = 0 x = 15000 Or, y (y – 42) + 8 (y – 42) = 0 The original amount invested in Equity Funds = 5 x 15000 Or, y = 42, -8 =Rs 75, 000/- Relationship cannot be decided. 95. c; When the policeman starts chasing the thief, the thief is 88. c; Let capital of A = x already ahead by 30 x2 = 60 km. then, capital of B = 2x To catch the thief, the policeman has to travel 60 km more capital of C = 2.5x than the thief. A : B : C = x  4 : 2x  6 : 2.5x  12 = 2 : 6 : 15 Time taken by the policeman to catch the theif = 60 / Relative speed of thief and policean 6 =60 / (36 - 30) = 10 hours Share of B = 5819 =Rs 1, 518/- 96. d; Let the total work = 1 2  6 15 Step I : Calculate the working efficiency of both A and B 89. c A can complete a work in 12 days 1 Working efficiency of A = work/day 12  1  1 Work done by A in 3 days= 3x    12  4 Assume B can do the same work in x days

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105. c; The series is  8,  7,  6,  5, ...... 1 106. b; The series is 2+1, 2+1, 2+1, ...... Work done by B in 3 days= 3x( )    x 107. a; Passing marks = 676 Step II: Calculate the remaining work done by both A and B in Minal scored = 624 3 more days, i.e. Failed by = 676 – 624 = 52 marks [Minal scored 52 marks less out of passing marks i.e. 676] 1 3 Remaining work = 1—  (This work is done by both 52 4 4 Reqd. Percentage = 100 = 5% 1040 A and B together in 3 more days.) 2 Step Ill: Calculate the days of B to complete the work alone 108. c; I.2x +15x + 27 = 0 (Working efficiency of A + Working efficiency of B) = Or, x(2x +9) + 3(2x + 9) = 0 Remaining work Or, x = -9/2, -3 II.2y2 + 7y + 6 = 0 1 3 3 Or, 2y (y +2) +3 ( y +2) = 0   Or, y = -2, -3/2 4 x 4 Hence, x < y 2 x 12 3 109. e; I.3x – 13x + 12 = 0  Or, 3x(x – 3) – 4(x – 3) = 0 4x 4 Or, x = 4/3, 3 2 x + 12 = 3x II. 3y – 13y + 14 = 0 x= 6 Or, y(3y – 7) – 2 ( 3y - 7) = 0 97. a; Since, all sources of income have their relative contribution Or, y = 2, 7/3 in all expenses, therefore 10% of father’s income is spent on Relationship cannot be established 2 medical expenses. 110. b; I.5x + 8x + 3 = 0 Now, father’s income =40% of 800000 = 3200O0 Or, 5x(x +1) +3 (x +1) = 0 10% of father’s income = 32000 Or, (x +1) (5x+ 3) = 0 98. d; In the year 2008, Or, x = -1, -3/5 II.3y2 + 7y + 4 = 0 Father’s income = 140% of father’s income in 2007 = 140% Or, y(3y + 4) + 1(3y + 4) = 0 of 320000 = ‘448000 Or, y = -4/3, -1 Mother’s income = 130% of mother’s income in 2007 = 130% of (30% of 800000) = 130% of 240000 = 312000 Hence, x  y Income from rent, fund and fixed deposit in 2008 is same as in 2007 which is =30% of 800000 111. d; (27 5?) 15  5.4  6  0.3 =240000 Therefore, total income of family in 2008 9 = 448000 + 312000 + 240000 =1000000 ?  0.9  0.3 Expenditure on education in 2007 =25% of 800000 = 200000 25 Expenditure on education in 2008 = 200000 X 2 = 400000 6 400000 ?  Thus, required percentage = x 100% = 40% 3 1000000 99. b; Amount saved by the family in the year 2008 is same as in ?  2 2007 which is =5% of 800000 = 40000 ? = 4 100. a; Amount spent on clothing and medical in 2007 = (10 + 5 2 16 4 ? 10)% of 800000 =20% of 800000 112. d; (3210 ) 64  2 10 10 =160000 and amount spent on these two items in 2008 is 5 5 10 6 same as in 2007 i.e., 160000. 2  2 10  2  10? Thus, total required amount = (160000 + 160000) = 320000 216 104 101. c; In 2008, total income = 1000000 and money spent on bills and miscellaneous 16 6 =(8 + 12)% of 800000=20% of 800000 = 160000 2 10 ?  16 10 160000 2 Required percentage = x 100% =16% 1000000 10? 106 102. b 103. a 104. e  ?  6

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113. a; Let P and (16,000 - P) be the sums invested in scheme A and Number of boys playing tennis and chess only =15% of scheme B respectively. 120=18 Amount in scheme A after 2 years at 10% rate in C.I. = P x 1.1 2 x 1.1 =1.21P=121% of P Number of girls playing tennis and chess only = x 18=12 C.l. for 2 years in scheme A = 121% of P—P=21% of P 3 S.l. for 2 years at 12% rate in scheme B = 24% of (16000 - P) Number of girls playing hockey and chess only = 30% of 130 = 3840 — 24% of P = 39 Now Number of girls playing chess, badminton and table-tennis 21% of P + 3,840— 24% of P = 3,504 only = 10% of 130 = 13 =336 =3% of P Number of girls playing only football = 130—(65 + 12+39+ = 1% of P = 112 13)= 130— 129=1 =P= Rs 11,200 Number of boys playing table-tennis and badminton only Money invested in scheme B =20% of 65=13 = 16000 - 11200 = Rs 4,800 Number of boys playing football only = 40% of 120 = 48 114. c; Let total number of units of work Number of boys playing chess only LCM (5, 8, 12) = 120 =120—(24+18+13 +48) =120—103=17 Efficiency of Pipe A = 24 units/h Tabular form of above information is shown below. Efficiency of Pipe B = 15 units/h Efficiency of Leak C = —10 units/h Combined efficiency of A, B and C = 29 units/h For three hours, A, B and C work together; therefore, no. of units of work done in 3 hours = 87 units Remaining units = 120 - 87 = 33 units Now, pipe A is closed. Combined efficiency of B and C = 5 units/h 3 Tank will now take 33/5 = 6 hours more 5 3 Therefore, total time taken = 9 hours 5 116. d; From the above table, total number of students playing 5 football = 24 + 1 + 48 = 73 115. a; Probability that the first ball is of blue colour = 117. e; From the above table, it is clear that total number of students 12 playing tennis = 24 + 12 + 18 = 54 Probability that the second ball is of blue colour too (when 118. a; Number of girls who don’t play chess = 65 +1 = 66 5 119. b; Number of girls playing hockey =39 the first ball drawn is put back into the bag) = Number of boys playing hockey = 24 12 Required ratio =39 : 24 =13:8 Now, probability of getting both balls of blue colour = 120. c; Number of students playing badminton =65 +13 +13 = 91 121. c 122. b 123. c 124. d 125. b 126. d 5 5 25   127. d 128. d 129. d 130. b 131. e 132. a 12 12 144 133. c 134. b 135. b 136. c 137. c 138. c 139. a 140. d 141. b 142. d 143. a 144. a (116-120) 145. b 146. d 147. d 148. b 149. c 150. c Total number of students = 250 151. b 152. b 153. c 154. b 155. a 156. b 13 157. a 158. d 159. e 160. c 161. d 162. b Number of girls = x 250 = 130 163. d 164. e 165. c 166. b 167. c 168. e 25 169. e 170. c 171. b 172. a 173. c 174. e 175. d 176. b 177. d 178. c 179. d 180. d 12 181. d 182. c 183. b 184. d 185. d 186. b Number of boys = x 250 = 120 25 187. d 188. a 189. a 190. a 191. b 192. d 193. a 194. c 195. a 196. d 197. b 198. d Number of girls playing table-tennis and badminton only 199. b 200. e =50% of 13O=65 Number of boys playing football, hockey and tennis only =20% of 120=24 

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SECTION - A (Objective Test)

ENGLISH LANGUAGE 4. Which word out of the given options means ‘feeling of most people’? Direction (Q. No.1-5) : Read the passage carefully and choose (a) Promote (b) Numerous the most appropriate answer to each question out of the four (c) Bearing (d) Consensus alternatives. 5. Which word from the passage is the opposite of the word- There is a general consensus that ‘International Understanding’ ‘narrow’? need not to be taught as a separate subject at the school stage as (a) Concern (b) Broad that would add to the curricular load which is already too heavy. (c) Direct (d) None of these Instead it should be woven into the curriculum and the numerous opportunities that present themselves while teaching normal school Direction (Q.No.6–7): In the following questions, a part of subjects may be intelligently and imaginatively used by the teacher sentence is printed in BOLD. Below are given alternatives to to promote International Understanding. the bold part a, b and c which may be improved the sentence. The school subjects which can be most profitably used for this Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is purpose are History, Geography, Civics, Economics, sociology, needed, your answer is d. Political Science, Social Sciences, Languages as well as Physical 6. Once only did she give her way to emotions. and Life Sciences. However, at the higher education level, (a) Once only did she give way to her emotions. International Education can be prescribed as a separate subject of (b) Only once did she give way to emotions. study. In fact, the present situation of India broadly conforms to (c) Only once she did give way to her emotions. this consensus so far as the school stage is concerned. (d) No improvement. At the under-graduate and the post-graduate levels, courses of 7. Since your departure, nothing has been transpired here study in subjects like History, Geography, Economics, Political worth your notice. Science, International Relations, International Law and International (a) worth your notice has transpired here. Organization have been prescribed by most of the universities and (b) worthy of note has been transpired here. these contain content which has a direct or indirect bearing on (c) worthy of note has transpired here. promoting UNESCO ideals. (d) No improvement. 1. How International Understanding can be taught at the school Direction (Q. No.8-9) : In the following questions, out of the level? alternatives choose the one which can be substituted for the (a) Through various subjects like History, Civics, Geography, given sentence. etc. (b) By giving numerous opportunities to the students. 8. One who deliberately damages other people’s property (c) By combining the subject content with the curriculum. (a) Destructor (b) Vandal (d) All of the above. (c) Vampire (d) Arsonist 2. Which phrase from the passage means “combined with the 9. The policy of extending country’s empire and influence curriculum”? (a) Internationalism (b) Pluralism (a) Intelligently and imaginatively used in the curriculum. (c) Mercantilism (d) Imperialism (b) Can be prescribed curriculum. (c) Woven into the curriculum. Direction (Q. No.10-11) : In the following questions, four (d) None of these words are given in each question, out of which only one word 3. What are the two stages where “International Understanding” is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word. should be taught as a separate subject? 10. (a) Camoflage (b) Camouflage (a) Primary and secondary stage. (c) Camoflauge (d) Camoflege (b) Under-graduate and post-graduate stage. 11. (a) Renaissance (b) Renaisance (c) Secondary and under-graduate stage. (c) Reneisance (d) Renaissence (d) Post-graduate and doctoral stage. Direction (Q. No.12-13) :Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the given Idiom/Phrase in underline.

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12. Only those who have the courage and determination to go Direction (Q. No.23): In the question given below, a sentence against the tide can lead a country to plenty and prosperity. has been given in Direct from. Select the one which best (a) to oppose religious sentiments expresses the same sentence in Indirect. (b) to oppose the majority (c) agricultural 23. He said to the interviewer, “Can you please repeat the (d) to take quick decisions question?”. 13. People were on tenterhooks when the possibility of an (a) He requested the interviewer if he could please repeat earthquake was announced. the question. (a) ready to face bravely (b) He requested the interviewer to please repeat the (b) waiting for the event calmly question. (c) expecting sympathy from everyone (c) He requested the interviewer to repeat the question. (d) waiting nervously for the outcome (d) He requested the interviewer if he could repeat the question. Direction (Q. No.14-15) : In the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose 24. The Rigvedic samhitacomprises the correct alternative out of the four. (a) 10 books (b) 15 books 14. Do you prefer ______or traditional art forms? (c) 20 books (d) 25 books (a) archaic (b) contemporary 25. Which is the longest epic of the world? (c) foreign (d) simultaneous (a) Mahabharata (b) Ramayana 15. The farmers ______their farms if they had known that a (c) Bible (d) Koran thunderstorm was approaching. 26. European paintings was introduced in the court of (a) will leave (b) would leave (a) Humayun (b) Akbar (c) will have left (d) would have left (c) Jahangir (d) Shahjahan 27. What is the othername of tundra type of climate? Direction (Q. No.16-17) : In the following questions, out of (a) Humid micro thermal the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses (b) Dry mesothermal the meaning of the given word that is your answer. (c) Humid mesothermal (d) Polar climate 16. REPRIMAND 28. Where is the famous Tuscarora deep located? (a) Commendation (b) Panegyrize (a) Near USA (c) Rebuke (d) Refute (b) Off Japan 17. BARBARIAN (c) Off Lakshadweep (a) Hooligan (b) Mobster (d) Near the Australian coast (c) Savage (d) Brute 29. ‘Lapps’ is associated with Direction (Q. No.18-19) : In the following questions, out of (a) A tribal group of Pakistan the four alternatives, Choose the word that is opposite in (b) A folk dance of Australia meaning to the given word. (c) People of Chhattisgarh region (d) People of the European tundra 18. INQUISITIVE 30. The Vice President is the ex-officio chairman of the Rajya (a) Curious (b) Callous Sabha under the Article? (c) Insensitive (d) Impertinent (a) Art. 52 (b) Art. 60 19. NADIR (c) Art. 62 (d) Art. 64 (a) Modernity (b) Zenith 31. Who is the guardian of the Union Government? (c) Liberty (d) Progress (a) Speaker of Lok Sabha (b) Chief Justice of Supreme Court Direction (Q.20-22): In the following questions, some parts (c) Advocate General of High Court of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out (d) Comptroller and Auditor general which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that 32. Who is the leader of the house in the Rajya Sabha? part is your answer. If a sentence is free from error, then your (a) Rajnath Singh (b) Narendra Modi answer is (d) i.e. No error. (c)Arun Jaitley (d) Sumitra Mahajan 20. The teacher told that (a)/the students should have gone to the 33. The national income of a nation is the library (b)/instead of having wasted their time.(c)/ No error (a) Government annual revenue (d) (b) Sum total of factor incomes 21. He was awarded (a)/with a doctorate degree (b)/for his new (c) Sulphur of public sector undertaking invention.(c)/ No error (d) (d) Exports minus imports 22. All the employees in the office (a)/has left early, (b)/haven’t they?(c)/ No error (d)

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34. The only state having a sex ratio of above 1,000 is 50. The difference between CI and SI on an amount of Rs.15000 (a) Tamil Nadu (b) Kerala for two years is Rs.96. What is the rate of interest per annum? (c) Karnataka (d) Andhra Pradesh a) 8 b) 10 35. Economic growth is usually coupled with c) 12 d) None of these (a) Deflation (b) Inflation (c) Stagflation (d) Hyperinflation Directions (Q.51 – 54): The students of three sections A, B 36. Eyes of potato are useful for and C participated in a blood donation camp conducted at the (a) Nutrition (b) Respiration college. The following table gives the details about the (c) Reproduction (d) Vegetative propagation students in a section and those who participated in the blood 37. The plants bearing flowers are known as donation camp. (a) Phanerogams (b) Gymnosperms (c) Cryptogams (d) Bryophytes Section Girls as a Girls as a Number of 38. Healing of wounds is hastened by vitamin. % of total % of total boys who (a) A (b) C section donors of donated (c) E (d) K strength the section blood 39. Who invented the lift? A 25% 40% 48 (a) J. L. Baird (b) Tomas Alva Edison B 40% 50% 75 (c) E. G. Otis (d) Michael faraday C 30% 70% 39 40. Aspirin is the common name of (a) Salicylic acid (b) Salicylate 51. If all the girls in section A donated blood, find the number of (c) Methyl Salicylate (d) Acetylsalicylic acid boys in the section who did not participate in the donation 41. Water does not boil at camp? (a) 1000 C (b) 2120F a) 32 b) 48 (c) 800R (d)273 K c) 60 d) 56 42. What fraction of a floating iceberg remains inside water? 52. Find the number of students who donated blood in section C. (a) 0.5 (b) 0.7 a) 39 b) 91 (c) 0.8 (d) 0.9 c) 130 d) 169 43. India’s first private channel was 53. Find the number of girls in section A who donated blood. (a) Star TV (b) Zoom TV a) 32 b) 130 (c) Zee TV (d) Colors TV c) 55 d) Cannot be determined 44. The script of the Hindi language is 54. If 45 boys from section B did not donate blood, find the total (a) Brahmi (b) Gupta number of students in section B. (c) Devanagari (d) None a) 120 b) 150 45. Gaya on the banks of the river c) 80 d) 200 (a) Ganga (b) Yamuna 55. A box has coins of 25 – paisa, 50 – paisa and 1 – rupee in the (c) Son (d) respective ratio 4 : 4 : 3. If the value of all the coins in the bag 46. The playing time of National Anthem approximately is Rs.660, find the value of all the 25 – paisa coins in the bag. (a) 50 second (b) 52 second a) 60 b) 240 (c) 53 second (d) 60 Second c) 110 d) None of these 56. There are two groups consisting of 30 and 70 students, QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE respectively. If the average weight of group A is 30 kg and that of group B is 70 kg, find the average weight of all the students 47. The HCF and LCM of two numbers are 11 and 385, respectively. of groups A and B together. If one number lies between 75 and 125, then the number is a) 58 b) 50 a) 77 b) 88 c) 40 d) 42 c) 99 d) 110 57. My son is 5 years old while I am eight times as old as him. How 48. The number of seats in an auditorium is decreased by 20% and old will I be when my son is as old as I am now? the price of a ticket is increased by 10%. If the auditorium has a) 60 b) 70 a capacity of 500 seats after the change, find the percentage c) 55 d) 75 change in the total collection per show. 58. 52 L of a solution contains wine and water in the ratio 3 : 1. a) 12% decrease b) 2% decrease Water is added to make the ratio 3 : 2. Find the quantity of c) 10% decrease d) No change water added. 49. A milkman mixes x L of water to 145 L of milk and sells the a) 65 L b) 16 L mixture at a discounted price of Rs.36/L. If pure milk costs c) 13 L d) 20 L Rs.45/L and the milkman still makes an overall profit of 20%, 59. A is twice as fast as B and B is twice as fast as C. The journey find x. covered By C in 56 min will be covered by A in a) 29 L b) 36 L a) 18 min b) 27 min c) 72.5 L d) Cannot be determined c) 14 min d) 9 min

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60. A can do a work in 24 days, B in 9 days and C in 12 days. B and REASONING ABILITY C start the work but leave after 3 days. The remaining work will be done by A in 70. If 6  9  3 = 963 and then which of the following alternatives a) 5 days b) 6 days will follow the above pattern and complete this 1  4  7 = ? c) 10 days d) 10.5 days (a)174 (b) 471 61. In how many ways can a bird trainer arrange five pigeons and (c) 417 (d) 741 four parrots in a row so that no two pigeons are together? 71. If APPLE can be written as DQQML , how can BANGLE be a) 5!4! b) 120 written in that code? (a) NABELG (b) FANGLL c) 625 d) 4!5!2! (c) FBOHHL (d) FBOHML 62. The sides of a rectangular field are in the ratio 3 : 4 and its area 72. In a row of boys, if A who is tenth from the left and B who is is 7500 m2. The cost of fencing it at 25 paisa/m is ninth from the right interchange their positions, A becomes a) Rs.77.5 b) Rs.87.5 fifteenth from the left. How many boys are there in the row? c) Rs.67.5 d) Rs.57.5 (a) 23 (b) 27 63. A large sphere having a radius of 4 cm is melted and cast into a (c) 28 (d) 31 number of smaller spheres of radius 2 cm. Find the number of 73. How many even numbers are there in the following sequence of smaller spheres. numbers each of which is immediately followed by an odd a) 4 b) 12 number as well as immediately preceded by an even number? c) 16 d) 8 8 6 7 6 8 9 3 2 7 5 3 4 2 2 3 5 5 2 2 8 1 1 9 64. 50 kg of a product is sold and the profit generated is equal to (a) One (b) Three the cost price of 20 kg. Find the profit percentage made. (c) Five (d) Four a) 20% b) 25% 74. In this question, four groups of letters are given. Three of them c) 35% d) 40% are alike in a certain way while one is different. Select the one which is different. 65. 243  7 215  15  23 ? (a) PRTV (b) MOQS (c) CEGI (d) HJMO 3 1 75. Pointing to a lady in the photograph, Shruti said, “Her son’s a) 30 b) 31 8 8 father is the son-in-law of my mother.” How is the Shruti related to the lady? 2 (a) Aunt (b) Sister c) 32 d) None of these (c) Mother (d) Cousin 8 76. Which answer figure is the part of the following question figure?

 6 7 9  2 66. 3  2 1   ?  17 34 25  2 1 a) b) 5 3 4 3 c) d) 5 5

3 5 3 1 77. 67. 3 6  2 3  ? 8 12 16 2 a) 21 b) 18 c) 14 d) 15 68. A pipe alone can fill a tank in 10 h but it takes half an hour more because of a leak. In how much time can the leak alone empty the tank? a) 110 h b) 105 h (a) 6 (b) 9 c) 210 h d) 205 h (c) 12 (d) 18 69. If a certain sum of money becomes four times itself in eight years at SI, in how many years will it become 28 times itself? Directions (79) : In each question below are given two a) 56 years b) 50 years statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. c) 72 years d) 80 years You have to take the given two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read

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I. Write an Essay on any ONE of the following (about 400 words): 1. Need to encourage all sports apart from Cricket in India 2. What is GST bill and how it impacts on common man. 3. Indian Space programme for societal benefits. 4. “Global Terrorism- The Fight Against Terrorism”. II. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions in A and B below: When a brave mountaineer is assailing the Everest he is as great a hero as a cosmonaut rocketing towards Mars in his space capsule and thousands of men and women in different countries back his progress with their good wishes and share the thrills and anxieties of his hazardous journey to the roof of the world, which scores of anxious scientists wish him success in the hope of obtaining valuable information on atmospheric conditions in the upper regions of the earth. Mountaineering is indeed a source of pleasure and a mine of useful knowledge which is constantly enriching the scientific vocabulary of geologists, mineralogists and glaciologists of the world. Mountaineering is a perennial source of joy to those who have eyes that can appreciate beauties of nature. Nowhere does nature reveal her charm in greater abundance than as green and flowering mountain tops with transparent stream of water flowing down their slopes or on snow-clad hills where sunlight weaves its magic colours into their virginal whiteness. To lovers of mountains the sound of waterfalls is like the joyful clapping of merry primitive dancers and the howling of night winds contains a musical pleasantness which surpasses the highly sustained rhapsodies of man-made organs. Lakes in high altitudes, holding within their cup-like mountainous enclosures the watery wealth of surrounding glaciers, treeless plateaus covered with rare varieties of grass, plants and flowers and yawning chasms into whose dark, unfathomable interior nature’s countless species of animals and plants carry on their fight for existence are attractions so powerful and irresistible that no man or woman who is a member of a mountaineering party or club can turn a deaf ear to their call. These widely scattered, ever-alluring treasures of nature are the climber’s greatest inducement to wander with a hungry heart in search of beauty, adventure and fame along the dangerous slopes of sky-embracing heights. Mountaineering is an awfully risky venture in the case of those ambitious souls who are dreaming of conquering such majestic peaks as Annupurana, Dhaulegiri and Everest, and who wish to be ranked among the world’s greatest climbers like Sir Edmund P. Hillary and Tenzing Norgey. Dozens of adventurers belonging to different nations with their hearts burning with a passion to conquer the highest peak in the world perished in the immortal snows of the Himalayas, after painfully inching theirway to heights which were in close proximity to the summit. Expedition after expedition turned back exhausted, frost bitten and utterly disappointed when the mighty Himalayas hurled icy winds, snow storms and blizzards at those who wanted to conquer Everest, thus barring their way to this pinnacle of glory. The bones of many men of unrealized ambition lie buried in the glacial wilderness which is the home of the highest peak in the world. Such awful setbacks however did not dampen the enthusiasm of succeeding generations of mountaineers; the failure of early expeditions did not deter. Colonel Hunt and his brave companions from trying to plant on the summit the flag of the victory of human defiance of nature’s death-dealing agents in high altitudes. A. Answer the following questions briefly: 1. Mountaineers are considered as heroes. Why? 2. In what way does mountaineering become a source of knowledge? 3. What are the beautiful sights which catch a mountaineer’s eye? 4. Why mountaineering is considered risky? 5. Setbacks in mountaineering do not dampen the spirit of many mountaineers. Why?

B. Find words from the above passage which convey similar meaning as the ones given below: 6. One who studies the science relating to the history and development of the earth’scrust. 7. Lasting through the year. 8. A blinding storm of windand snow.

III. Write a letter on any one of the following. Keeping in view the difficulties being faced by students to prepare for the ensuing Schools/Colleges Examination due to acute shortage of power supply in your place, write a letter to the concerned authority to provide uninterrupted power supply. OR Write a letter to the Regional Transport Commissioner in your City to introduce a new bus route to your area considering the increased population and difficulties faced by the residents.

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EXPLANATIONS 51. b; Number of boys in the section = 128 – 32 = 96 Number of boys who donated blood = 48 1. c 2. c 3. b 4. d 5. b 6. b Therefore, number of boys who did not donate blood = 96 – 7. a 8. b 9. d 10. b 11. a 12. b 48 = 48 13. d 14. b 15. d 16. c 17. c 18. b 52. c; 30% of the total donors = 39 19. b Total donors = 130 students. (20-22) 53. a 54. d; 75 boys donated blood while 45 boys did not donate blood. 20-a; Use ‘said’ in place of ‘told’ here because ‘told’ is use in Total number of boys in the section = 75 + 45 = 120 boys. indirect narration in the place of ‘said to’ before the given object. This represents 60% of the total section strength. Therefore, total section strength = 200. 21-c; Use ‘research’ in place of ‘invention’. Research means ‘to 55. c; Let the number of coins be 4x, 4x and 3x, respectively. explore something’ 22-d; No error. The value of the coins is x, 2x and 3x. 23. d 24. a 25. a 26. c 27. d 28. b Therefore, 6x  600  x  110. 29. d 30. d 31. d 32. c 33. b 34. b 56. a; Combined average weight of the two groups A and B = 35. b 36. d 37. a 38. d 39. c 40. d 41. d 42. d 43. c 44. c 45. d 46. b 3030  7070 47. a; Since the HCF of the two numbers is 11, both the numbers 100 must be a multiple of 11. Also, this multiple of 11 between 75 and 125 should also be a factor of 385. The required answer is 5800 77. =  58 48. a; The percentage change in total collection per show 100 200 57. d; As per the problem:  20 10   12% Presently, my son is 5 years old and I am 40 years old After 100 35 years, my son will be as old as I am now, that is, 40 years That is, 12% decrease. old. My age after 35 years will be = 40 + 35 = 75 years 36  45 58. c; Wine is 39 L and water is 13 L. Let the quantity of water 49. c; Discount offered = 100  20% discount 45 added be x. 39 3 Let x represent the percentage profit due to addition of  impurity, then 13 x 2 20x 80x x  20   20   40  x  50% 39  3x  78 100 100 3x  39  x  13 L Water added is 50% of the volume of pure milk. As the quantity 59. c; As A is four times as fast as C, therefore A will take one- of milk is 145 L, therefore the quantity of water added = 50% fourth of the time. of 145 = 72.5 L 60. c; Let the total work be 72 units. R 2 Total work 72 units 50. a; The difference in the two rates will be % . A : 24 days 3 units/day 100 B : 9 days 8 units/day C: 12 days 6 units/day 2 R Work done in 3 days = 143  42 units Therefore, 15000  96 100100 Remaining units = 72 – 42 = 30 units which will be done by A in 10 days. R 2  64  R  8 % 61. a; The four parrots can be arranged in 4! Ways. Now, to arrange (51 – 54) the pigeons such that no two pigeons together, they have to In section A, girl were 40% of the total donors and so the be arranged in five places between these four parrots. This boys must have been 60% of the blood donors. Now 60% of can be done in 5! Ways. the total donors in section A = 48 Thus, total arrangements = 4!  5! Ways. Therefore, total donors in section A = 80 62. b; Let the sides be 3x and 4x, respectively. Therefore, So, 80 – 48 = 32 girls donated blood. 3x 4x  7500 Since all the girls in the section donated blood, number of girls in section A = 32. 12x2  7500 Also, girls from 25% of the total strength and therefore total section strength = 32 4 128

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2 7500 693 245 x   625  x  25 m  ?   12 32 32 Breadth of the fence = 253  75 m 448  ?  14 Length of the fence = 25 4 100 m 32 Total length = 275 100  350 m 68. c; Let total work be 210 units. Total work 210 units Cost of fencing = 350 0.25  Rs.87.5 Pipe : 10 h 21 units/h 63. d; In both the cases, the total volume will be equal. Therefore, Pipe + Leak : 10.5 h 20 units /h Therefore, leak can empty one unit in 1 h. 4 4 π64  π8 n  n  8 Therefore, the leak can empty 210 units in 210 h. 3 3 69. c; The required number of years is 64. d; As per the problem, we have 28 1 SP of 50 kg – CP of 50 kg = CP of 20 kg 8  72 years CP of 70 kg = SP of 50 kg 4 1 rd Therefore, 70. c; Pattern : 2nd , 1st, 3 71. d ; 1st and last letter = (1st letter  2)+2 and (last letter x 2)+2 70  50 respectively   100  40%  50  and middle letters = letters +1 72. a; A’s new position is 15th from the left. But this is the same as 65. a; 243  7 215  15  23 ? B’s earlier position which is 9th from the right. So number of  243  [14 + 15 – (15 + 6)] = ? boys in a row = (15 + 8) = 23  243  [14 + 15 – 21] = ? 73. d; 867, 689, 223, 281 74. d; All other groups consist of alternate letters.  243  [29 – 21] = ? 75. b; Lady’s son’s father is lady’s husband. So, the lady’s husband  243  8 = ? is the son-in-law of Shruti’s mother i.e. the lady is the daughter 3 of Shruti’s mother. Thus, Shruti is the lady’s sister.  30  ? 8 76. a 77. c; We have : (27  3) + (16  4) = 13; (42  7) + (65  13) =  57 75 34  2 11 66. a;      ?  17 34 25  Missing Number = (27  9) + (72  8) = (3 + 9) = 12 78. d

 57 34 34  2       ?  17 75 25 

114 34  2      ?  75 25 

114 102 2   ? 75 79. c 80. a 81. d 82. a 83. c 84. b 85. b 86. c 87. b 88. d 89. b 90. a 4 2  ?   25 5  27 77 35 7 67. c; Here, ?     8 12 16 2

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REASONING ABILITY 4. Select the answer figure in which the question figure is hidden / embedded. 1. How many triangles are there in the given figure?

a) 48 b) 60 c) 56 d) 52 2. Which of the answer figure is exactly the mirror image of the given figure, when the mirror is held on the line AB?

5. A paper is folded and cut as shown in the given figures. When opened how will it appear, find from the four alternatives given.

3. Which answer figure will complete the pattern in the question Directions (Q.6): In each of the following questions, which figure: answer figure will complete the series? 6.

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Directions (Q.7 – 9): In each of the following questions, select 16. If ‘bat’ is ‘racket’, ‘racket’ is ‘football’, ‘football’ is ‘shuttle’, the related letter/word/number from the given alternatives. ‘shuttle’ is ‘ludo’ and ‘ludo’ is ‘carrom’, what is cricket played with? 7. Fire : Extinguish : : Thirst : ? a) Racket b) Football a) Quench b) Satiate c) Bat d) Shuttle c) Mitigate d) Drink 17. A word is represented by only one set of numbers as given in 8. CEDH : HDEC : : ? : PNRV any one of the alternatives. The sets of numbers given in the a) VRNP b) RNPV alternatives are represented by two classes of the alphabets c) NRVP d) VNRP as in two matrices given below. The columns and rows of 9. 365 : 90 : : 623 : ? Matrix I are numbered from 1 to 5 and that of Matrix II are a) 36 b) 45 numbered from 6 to 10. A letter from these matrices can be c) 123 d) 63 represented first by its row and next by its column, e.g., ‘L’ Directions (Q.10): In the following questions have a group, can be represented first by 14, 33, 42, etc. And ‘M’ can be which one of the given alternatives will be another member represented by 66, 79, 98 etc. Similarly, you have to indentify of the group or of that class? the set for the word given below: PINK 10. Given set:- (7, 12, 22, 37) a) 2, 7, 12, 32 b) 3, 8, 18, 33 c) 4, 8, 19, 34 d) 4, 13, 22, 38 11. If PNLJ : 2468, then QOKL : ? a) 3591 b) 1367 c) 1276 d) 1376 12. If ‘  ’ stands for division ‘+’ stands for subtraction, ‘  ’ stands for multiplication, ‘  ’ stands for addition, then which a) 99, 11, 69, 22 b) 69, 99, 11, 34 one of the following equations is correct? c) 69, 11, 99, 41 d) 69, 78, 51, 43 a) 70 – 2 + 4  5  6 = 44 18. In a code language, the following alphabets are coded in a particular way : b) 70 – 2 + 4 5 6 = 21   A B C D E F G H I P R S T O c) 70 – 2 + 4  5  6 = 341 d) 70 – 2 + 4  5  6 = 36 ? ! : ;  > <  o@  *  + Which word can be decoded as Directions (Q.13): In the following question, select the ? @ @ + ? : alternatives that will be come in place of questions mark (?).   a) ABOLISH b) APPROVAL 13. 156, 506, ?, 1806 c) ACCOMPLISH d) APPROACH a) 1056 b) 856 c) 1456 d) 1506 Directions (Q.19): Given below are four possible membership schemes. In the case, mark the one you feel appropriate Directions (Q.14): Find the missing number from the given description of the three listed items. responses in each of the following questions. 19. Triangles, Scalene triangles, Right-angled triangles 14.

a) 9107 b) 97 c) 907 d) 1097

Directions (Q.15): In the following question, the numbers of 20. Pointing to a girl in the picture, Sarita said, “She is the mother letters skipped in between adjacent letters in the series are of Neha whose father is my son.” How is Sarita related to the successive odd numbers, which of the following series girl in the picture? observes this rule. a) Mother b) Aunt c) Cousin d) Data inadequate 15. a) dcba b) zyxw 21. Choose the cube that will be formed by folding the sheet a c) srpq d) hgfe paper shown in the problem figure.

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a) 0 b) 1 c) a xyxz yz d) a x yz

27. The value of 2 3 4 23 4 23 4..... is:

a) 2 b) 22 c) 23 d) 25 28. Average of the first three innings of Dhoni is 70. If runs of the fourth inning are added to the total of the first three, the new average becomes 64. In the fifth inning, he scores 2 runs less than he scored in the fourth inning so that the average of the last 4 innings now becomes 58. Determine his score in the first inning: a) 60 b) 66 22. Rajat moves from his office to the canteen straight at a distance c) 72 d) 68 of 12 metres. Then he turned left and walked for 2 metre, 29. A table and a chair costs Rs.200 and Rs.140, respectively. If Then he turns left again and walks straight for 12 metres. the price of the table and that of the chair is increased by 20% How far is he from his office? and 30%, respectively, the price of 1 dozen tables and 2 dozens a) 10 metres b) 12 metres chairs is: c) 8 metres d) 2 metres a) Rs.7248 b) Rs.7136 23. Five people are sitting in a row facing South. Y is at the left of c) Rs.7434 d) None of these X, W is sitting at the right of Z. V is sitting at the right of X 30. The cost of manufacturing of a tape recorder is Rs.1,500. The and W is sitting at the left of Y. If Z is sitting at one end who manufacturer fixes the marked price 20% above the cost of is in the middle? manufacture. If the manufacturer wants to gain 8%, what is a) V b) X the rate of discount that can be allowed? c) Y d) Z a) 20% b) 15% 24. Sonu’s brother Monu 536 days older to him while his sister c) 11% d) 10% Tonu 75 weeks older to Monu. If Tonu was born on 31. Tap X can fill the tank completely in 4 hours, while tap Y can Wednesday, on which day was Sonu born? empty it in 8 hours. By mistake, the person forgot to close a) Saturday b) Sunday tap Y. As a result, both the taps remained open. After 4 hours, c) Friday d) Monday the person realised the mistake and immediately closed tap Y. Directions (Q.25): In the question two statements are given In how much time (in hours) from now would the tank get followed by two conclusions I and II. You have to consider the full? statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with a) 4 b) 2 commonly known facts. You are to decide which of the given c) 6 d) 8 conclusions, if any follows from the given statements. 32. A, B and C enter into a partnership with capital contributions of Rs.25,000. Rs. 30,000 and Rs.15,000, respectively. A is 25. a) If only conclusion I follows. the working partner and he gets 30% of the profit for managing b) If both conclusion I and II conclusion follow. the business. The balance profit is distributed in proportion c) If either conclusion I or conclusion II follows. to the capital investment. At the year-end, A gets Rs.200 d) If neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows. more than B and C together. Find the total profit. Statement: a) Rs.2500 b) Rs.2000 All plug is a not wire c) Rs.2200 d) Rs.2400 All wire is charger 33. The difference between the compound interest and the simple Conclusion: interest on a sum for 2 years at 5 per annum, when the interest i) No plug is a wire is compounded annually is Rs.25. If the interest were ii) All wires being charger is a possibility. compounded half-yearly, the difference in two interests for the same period of time would be: QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE a) Rs.34 b) Rs.38 c) Rs.32 d) None of these 1 1 34. A dishonest milkman professes to sell pure milk at cost price, 26. yx zx  xy zy but he mixes it with water and thereby gains 20%. Find the 1 a  a 1 a  a percentage of water in the mixture assuming that water is 1 freely available.   ? a) 10% b) 16.66% 1 a yz  a xz c) 20% d) 25%

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35. At his usual rowing rate, a man can travel 60 km downstream in sinθ  cosθ 3 a certain river in 2 hours less than it takes him to travel the 41.  , the value of tan 2 -1  ? same distance upstream. But if he doubles his usual travelling sinθ  cosθ 4 θ speed for his 120 km round trip, the downstream 60 km then a) 45 b) 48 take only 200/7 minutes less than the upstream 60 km. What c) 47 d) 49 is the speed of the current in kmph? a) 4 b) 6 6250.14 6250.11  c) 8 d) None of these 42. The value of 0.5 0.40 0.2 is : 36. In the given figure AB is the diameter of the circle and  PAB 121 25 5 = 250. Find  TPA. a) 1/11 b) 5/11 c) 25/11 d) None of these 43. A number m1n082 is divisible by 11, where m, and n are single – digit positive integers, the value of m + n = ? a) 4 b) 5 c) 6 d) None of these 44. Two trains start simultaneously in the opposite direction from two points X and Y and arrive at their destinations 16 and 9 hours, respectively, after they meet each other. What is the speed of train from Y if the speed of train from X is 90 kmph? a) 80 kmph b) 100 kmph c) 120 kmph d) None of these a) 500 b) 650 45. A, B and C can do a task in 10, 20 and 25 days, respectively. c) 700 d) 450 They started the work together and A stops doing the task 37. A spherical cannon ball, 28 cm in diameter, is melted and cast after 2 days. After 3 more days, B and C left too but then A into a right circular conical mould the base of which is 35 cm got back to the task and completed the task. What portion of in diameter. Find the height of the cone correct up to two work is done by C? places of decimals. a) 1/14 b) 1/5 a) 8.96 cm b) 35.84 cm c) 1/4 d) 3/10 c) 5.97 cm d) 17.92 cm 46. Find the sum of n terms of the series 7 + 77 + 777 + .....? 38. There are two vertical posts, one on each side of a road, just opposite to each other. One post is 108 m high. From the top 7 10 n  a)  10 1 n of this post, the angles of depression of the top and foot of 9  9  the other post are 300 and 600, respectively. The height of the other post (in meters), is: 7 10 a) 36 b) 72  n  b)  10 1 n c) 108 d) 110 9  9  39. Find the value of x in the given figure, 7 10 n  c)  10 1 n 9  11  d) None of these 47. Find the area formed by the graph of lines x  y  0 ,

x  y  2 and x – axis. a) 1 b) 4 c) 2 d) 5

Directions (Q.48–50): Study the following graph carefully a) 1200 b) 1300 and answer the questions on the basis of it. c) 1100 d) 1000 Exports of Wool and Foreign Exchange Earned 40. A silver wire when bent in the form of a square, encloses an area of 484 cm2. Now if the same wire is bent to form a circle, the area of enclosed by it would be a) 308 cm2 b) 196 cm2 c) 616 cm2 d) 88 cm2

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Direction (Q. No.56-57) : In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word that is your answer. 56. ENIGMA (a) Truth (b) Flaw (c) Blot (d) Puzzle 57. CONCURRENCE (a) Occurrence(b) Vanquishment (c) Conundrum (d) Agreement Direction (Q. No.58-59): In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the given word. 58. FOMENT (a) Repulse (b) Brew (c) Incite (d) Quell 48. As compared to 1990, the price of wool per quintal increased 59. TARDY by how many dollars in 1993? (a) Prompt (b) Sluggish a) 93 b) 103 (c) Laggard (d) Procrastinating c) 50 d) 500 Direction (Q. No.60-61) : In the following questions, four 49. As compared to 1991, what was the increase percent in the words are given in each question, out of which only one word quantity of wool exported in 1993? is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word. a) 25 b) 80 c) 125 d) 135 60. (a) Hypocrite (b) Hypocrate 50. The wool exported in 1992 was how much percent of the total (c) Hypocret (d) Hipocrate wool exported during the given five years? 61. (a) Enmity (b) Enimity a) 10 b) 15 (c) Enmitee (d) Enimonitte c) 20 d) 25 Direction (Q.No.62-63): In the following questions, four ENGLISH LANGUAGE alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase printed in bold in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses Direction (Q. No.51-53) : In the following questions, sentences the meaning of the idiom/phrase. are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word. Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose 62. Sarala is always ready to eat anyone’s salt. the correct alternative out of the four. (a) to be one’s guest (b) to cook tasty dishes 51. Man is essentially a ______animal and tends to associate (c) an infectious disease with others. (d) to deceive someone (a) sentimental (b) gregarious 63. He will certainly come to grief if he does not leave his present (c) selfish (d) perverse friends. 52. Why do we always have to submit ______his authority? (a) addicted (b) go upto the extreme (a) under (b) with (c) suffer (d) enjoy (c) for (d) to 64. If you develop friendship with an individual you must stand 53. The master assured her ______success in the examination. by him through thick and thin. (a) of (b) in (a) think about his/her welfare (c) for (d) with (b) under all circumstances (c) to accompany through a thick forest Direction (Q. No. 54-55) : In the following questions, some (d) in day and night parts of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that Direction (Q. No. 65-66) : In the following questions, out of part is your answer. If a sentence is free from error, then your the alternatives choose the one which can be substituted for answer is (d) i.e. No error. the given sentence. 54. None of his lectures (a)/have ever been (b)/printed .(c)/No 65. The practice of eating human flesh error (d) (a) Solipsism (b) Narcissism 55. Either Sohan or his friends (a)/is to be blamed (b)/for this (c) Cannibalism (d) Mysticism mischief .(c)/No error (d) 66. Someone who works only for personal profit (a) Materialistic (b) Mercenary (c) Greedy (d) Mercantile

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Direction (Q.No.67-68): In the following question, the first consume relatively large quantities of food. In the course of a day, and the last part of the sentence are numbered 1 and 6. The a hummingbird consumes about half its body weight in nectar. rest of the sentence is split into four parts and named P, Q, R 71. Which of the following statements about hummingbird is true? and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. (a) It could fly high beyond the clouds. Read the parts and find out which of the four combinations is (b) It cannot be seen when it is in flight. correct. (c) It is obviously visible when it flies. 67. (1) The public is hereby informed (d) It escapes our sight when it is in flight. (P) is organizing an eye donation camp 72. Hummingbirds need a lot of energy in order to (Q) about this noble cause (a) sustain a steady rhythm of heart beat. (R) that the Red Cross Society of India (b) win in the struggle for survival. (S) to create awareness among people (c) maintain their body metabolism. (6) to enable the blind to see again. (d) flap their wings and fly backwards. a) SRPQ b) PQRS 73. The hummingbirds are exclusive in the sense that c) PRSQ d) RPSQ (a) they consume half their body weight every day. 68. (1) The Government of India is (b) they can fly backwards. (P) a market driven, special purpose vehicle (c) they subsist only on nectar (Q) a global Indian consortium to (d) their pulse rate is more than 1000 per minute. (R) in the process of creating 74. The world ‘incredible’ in the passage means (S) that will help establish (a) unbelievable (b) phenomenal (6) facilitate investments by the overseas Indians. (c) tremendous (d) inexhaustible a) PQRS b) QSRP 75. Nature has made man realize the fact that c) QRSP d) RPSQ (a) humans who rule the planet are the most powerful beings on Earth. Direction (Q.No.69–70): In the following questions, a part of (b) the largest and the smallest species are equally tough and sentence is printed in BOLD. Below are given alternatives to strong. the bold part a, b and c which may improve the sentence. (c) the large creatures emerge victorious from the struggle Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is for survival. needed, your answer is‘d’. (d) the smallest creatures are the toughest and most adaptable. 69. Vinoba Bhave was one of those Gandhians who did what he believed. GENERAL AWARENESS (a) did what he believes (b) does what they believe 76. The site of Harappa is located on the bank of river (c) did what they believed (a) Saraswati (b) Indus (d) No improvement (c) Beas (d) Ravi 70. His verbal apology does not absolve him for the sins. 77. With reference to Delhi Sultanate, who was the founder of (a) does not absolve him off the sins Sayyid Dynasty? (b) did not absolve him for the sins (a) Khizr Khan (b) Mubarak Shah (c) does not absolve him of the sins (c) Muhammad Shah (d) Alauddin Alam Shah (d) No improvement 78. Bhakta Tukaram was a contemporary of which Mughal Emperor? Direction (Q. No.71-75) : Read the passage carefully and (a) Babar (b) Akbar choose the most appropriate answer to each question out of (c) Jahangir (d) Aurangzeb the four alternatives. 79. The International Date Line, passes through As the rulers of the planet, humans like to think that it is the large (a) Baffin Bay (b) Bering Strait creatures who will emerge victorious from the struggle for survival. (c) Denmark Strait (d) Hudson Bay However nature teaches us the opposite : it is often the smallest 80. Which of the following is not correctly? species which are the toughest and most adaptable. A perfect example is the hummingbird, which is found in the U.S.. One species of (a) Prime Meridian - 00 hummingbird known as the bee hummingbird ranks as the world’s 0 smallest and lightest bird and it is barely visible when it is in flight. (b) Arctic Circle - 66 1 N Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards. They 2 feed mainly on the nectar of flowers a liquid that is rich in energy. 0 Nectar is an ideal food source, for hummingbirds need an incredible (c) International Date Line - 180 amount of energy to sustain their body metabolism. A hummingbird 0 wings flap at a rate of about 8- times per second and its tiny heart (d) Tropic of Cancer - 23 1 S beats more than 1000 times per minute. This is why they must 2

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81. The Sun rises two hours earlier in Arunachal Pradesh as 91. An Instrument for measured blood pressure is called compared to Gujarat in the west but the watches show the (a) Barometer same time. How does it happen? (b) Spirometer (a) Same Latitude (b) Same Longitude (c) Sphygmomanometer (c) Single Timezone (d) All of these (d) Haemocytometer 82. The country that shares longest border with India is? 92. The brain of human adult weight about (a) China (b) Bangladesh (a) 1200-1300 gm (b) 1600-2000 gm (c) Nepal (d) Pakistan (c) 500-800 gm (d) 1090-1200 gm 83. Which of the following British Prime Minister sent Cripps 93. Who wrote Sanskrit Grammar? Mission to India? (a) Kalidas (b) Charak (a) Mac Donald (b) Baldwin (c) Panini (d) Aryabhatta (c) Chamber Lain (d) Churchill 94. Fa-Hien visited India during the region of 84. The isotope used for the production of atomic energy is (a) Chandragupta II (b) Samudragupta (a) U-285 (b) U-238 (c) Ramagupta (d) Kumargupta - I (c) U-234 (d) U-236 95. The Bureaucracy performs 85. Which is not nuclear? (a) Only administrative function (a) Proton (b) Neutron (b) Only Judicial function (c) Electron (d) Positron (c) Only legislative function 86. In which is the process is energy released? (d) Administrative as well as quasi judicial and quasi (a) Respiration (b) Photosynthesis legislative function (c) Indigesion (d) Absorption 96. Which president of India served for two term? 87. Which chemicals is responsible for depletion of Ozone layer in (a) S. Radhakrishan (b) Rajendra Prasad the atmosphere? (c) Zakir Husain (d) V.V. Giri (a) Chlorofluro Carbon 97. The term of a non-permanent member of the UN security (b) Nitrogen Oxide council is (c) Sulphur Dioxide (a) 3 years (b) 6 months (d) Carbon Dioxide (c) 1 year (d) 2 year 88. Which chemical is associated with muscle fatigue? 98. The book ‘Stannic Verses’ was written by (a) Uric Acid (b) Acetic Acid (a) Agatha Christic (b) Gunnor Myrdal (c) Pyrcuvise Acid (d) Lactic Acid (c) Gabrieal Sabatini (d) Salman Rushdie 89. An important green house gas other than methane being 99. Nautanki is a folk dance of produced form the agricultural field? (a) Haryana (b) Uttar Pradesh (a) Nitrous Oxide (b) Ammonia (c) Rajasthan (d) Gujarat (c) Sulphur Dioxide (d) Arsin 100. Who invited the jet engine? 90. The disease that is caused by Virus is (a) Karl Benz (b) Sir Frank Whittle (a) Typhoid (b) Cholera (c) Thomas Savery (d) Michael Faraday (c) Common Cold (d) Tetanus  PART - II IN PART(II) EACH HAS 100 MCQ.. SO BASED ON QUALIFICATION. THE STUDENTS WILL CHOSE EITHER PHYSICS OR COMPUTER OR ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATION.

COMPUTER SCIENCE 3. The primary tool used in structured design is a (a) Structure Chart (b) Data Flow Diagram 1. Blue tooth technology allows: (c) Program Flowchart (d) Module (a) Landline phone to mobile phone communication (e) None of these (b) Wireless communication between equipments 4. In prototyping (c) Signal transmission on mobile phones only (a) BASIC is used (b) COBOL is used (d) Satellite television communication (c) 4Gls are used (d) System is documented (e) None of these (e) None of these 2. In which addressing mode, the effective address of the operand 5. Controls of data communication deal with is generated by a constant – value to the contents of register? (a) The communication channel (a) Absolute Mode (b) Indirect Mode (b) The computer (c) Immediate Mode (d) Index Mode (c) Terminals (e) None Of These (d) None of these

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(e) All of the above (e) None of these 6. A lockbox service is used for 18. In OSI model dialogue control and token management are (a) Depositing cash when bank is closed responsibilities of? (b) Paying bank customer bills automatically (a) Session layer (b) Network layer (c) Storing paper in a bank vault (c) Transport layer (d) Data link layer (d) Depositing payments to bank customer (e) None of these (e) None of these 19. Under mark parity, each parity bit is? 7. Inventory is also Referred to as (a) Alternated between 0 and 1 (a) Stock (b) Warehouse capacity (b) Always set to 0 (c) Materials (d)Materials in hand (c) Always set to 1 (e) None of these (d) Not used 8. Primitive operations common to all record management systems (e) None of these include. 20. How often one BPDUS sent from a layer 2 device? (a) Print (b) Sort (a) Every 2 seconds (b) Never (c) Look-up (d) All of the above (c) Every 10 minutes (d) Every 30 sec (e) None of these (e) None of these 9. Each of data files has a ______that describe the way the data 21. What protocols are used to configure Trunking on a switch? is stored in the file. (a) VLAN trunking protocol (a) File Structure (b) Records (b) VLAN (c) Fields (d) Data base (c) 802.1 q (e) None of these (d) ISL 10. The data dictionary tells the DBMS (e) none of these (a) What files are in the database 22. How many collision domains are created when you segment a (b) What attribute are possessed by the data. network with a 12-port switch? (c) What these files contain (a) 1 (b) 12 (d) All of the above (c) 5 (d) 2 (e) None of the above (e) None of these 11. The highest level in the hierarchy of data organisation is called 23. What PPP protocol provides dynamic addressing, authentication (a) Databank (b) Database and multilink? (c) Data file (d) Data record (a) NCP (b) HDLC (e) None of these (c) X.25 (d) LCP 12. Which peripheral port provides the fastest throughout to laser (e) None of these printers? 24. The protocol data unit (PDU) for the application layer in the (a) RS-232 (b) SCSI internet stack is (c)Parallel (d) Serial (a) Segment (b) Datagram (e) None of these (c) Message (d) Frame 13. A bidirectional feedback loop links computer modelling with (e) None of these (a) Artificial intelligence 25. Which of the following topology is least affected by addition/ (b) Heuristic processing removal of a node? (c) Human intelligence (a) Ring (b) Star (d) Cognitive science (c) Bus (d) Net (e) none of these (e) None of these 14. Which SQL keyboard is used to retrieve maximum value? 26. Which infrastructure includes application servers, data servers (a) MAX (b) UPPER and clients? (c) top (d) MOST (a) Client/Server (e) none of these (b) Thin client 15. The method of communication in which transaction takes place (c) 2-tier infrastructure in both direction. But only in one direction at a time is called? (d) 3-tier Infrastructure (a) Simplex (b) Four wire circuit (e) None of these (c) Full duplex (d) Half duplex 27. In earlier times, IBM was known as (e) None of these (a) Cisco 16. In communication satellite, multiple repeaters are known as? (b) Solaries (a) Detectors (b) Modulators (c) CTR (computing tabulating recording) (c) Stations (d) Transponder (d) Zovi (e) None of these (e) None of these 17. The topology with highest reliability is? 28. Large amounts of cheques are processed by using (a) Bus topology (b) Star topology (a) OCR (b) MICR (c) Ring topology (d) Mesh topology (c) OMR (d) All of these

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(e) None of these (e) None of these 29. While working with MS-DOS which key is used to get the 40. There are a total of ______action buttons in power point previous command used? (a) 12 (b) 15 (a) F3 (b) F1 (c) 16 (d) 18 (c) F6 (d) F9 (e) none of these (e) None of these 41. The number of tuples in a relation is called its ____. While the 30. What is the primary different between a pivot table report and number of attributes in a relation is called it’s ____ a cross tab query? (a) Degree, Cardinality (a) A pivot table report can contain sums, counts, and (b) Cardinality, Degree averages while a cross tab query cannot. (c) Rows, Columns (b) You can’t pivot a cross tab query. (d) Columns, Rows (c) A cross tab query lets you group similar items a pivot (e) None of these table report does not. 42. Which of the following is false for a query? (d) All of the above (a) It is an expression which on evaluation returns results (e) None of these from the DBMS. 31. In order to include picture data type must be (b) It is a command given to the DBMS (a) Hyperlink (b) OLE (c) DBMS might support some kind of command to execute (c) Yes/no (d) Picture a query (e) None of these (d) Queries make the database useful 32. Which symbols is used to right align the text in table? (e) None of these (a) < (b) @ 43. What are the valid responses of a RDBMS? (c) > (d) $ (a) Completion codes (e) None of these (b) Messages 33. ______is a process of summarising data from more than (c) Results of the queries one source. (d) All of the above (a) Data validation (b) Data filter (e) None of these (c) Data form (d) Data consolidation 44. The GROUP BY clause is not: (e) None of these (a) Used to combine, or group, rows with related values into 34. Using the chart wizard, we can quickly and easily turn our elements of a smaller set of rows. (a) Data into charts and Vice versa (b) Often used in conjunction with SQL aggregate functions (b) Data into charts (c) Used to preserve duplicate rows in a result set. (c) Charts into most advanced charts (d) Used to eliminate duplicate rows from a result set. (d) Charts into charts (e) None of these (e) None of these 45. The parameter which gives probability transport layer itself 35. Which menu option can be used to split windows into two? spontaneously termination 2 a connection due to internal (a) Format > windows problem is called? (b) View > windows > split (a) Protection (c) Windows > split (b) Resilience (d) View > split (c) Option negotiation (e) None of these (d) Transfer failure 36. Data can be arranged in a worksheet on an easy to understand (e) None of these manner using 46. What is the valid host range the IP address 172.16.10.22 (a) Auto formatting (b)Applying styles 255.255.255.240 is a part of? (c) Changing fonts (d) All of these (a) 172.16.10.20 through 172.16.10.22 (e) None of these (b) 172.16.10.1 through 172.16.10.255 37. By which option, we can show and print the grid lines? (c) 172.16.10.16 through 172.16.10.23 (a) Page setup (b) Format (d) 172.16.10.17 through 172.16.10.31 (c) Auto format (d) Style (e) 172.16.10.17 through 172.16.10.30 (e) None of these 47. Which of the following are invalid SQL language elements? 38. To insert three columns between A and B you would (a) Colon (a) Select column A (b) Select A and B (b) Queries which retrieve data based on specific criteria (c) Select B (d) All of the above (c) Expressions which can produce either scalar values or (e) None of these tables consisting of columns and rows of data 39. You can activate a cell by? (d) Statements which may have a persistent effect on (a) Pressing the tab key schemas and data, or which may control transactions, (b) Clicking the cell program flow, connections, sessions, or diagnostics (c) Pressing an arrow key (e) None of these (d) All of the above

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48. Which protocol working at the Transport layer provides a (e) None of these connectionless service between hosts? 58. Milestones are used to? (a) IP (b) ARP (a) Know the cost of the project (c) TCP (d) UDP (b) Know the status of the project (e) None of these (c) Know the user expectations 49. Which of the following categories of the data integrity RDBMS (d) All of the above will enforce specific business rules: (e) None of these (a) Entity Integrity 59. The average search time of hashing with linear probing will be (b) Domain integrity less if the load factor? (c) Referential integrity (a) Is far less that one (d) User – defined integrity (b) Equals one (e) None of these (c) Is far greater than one 50. SQL is all but (d) All of the above (a) SQL is an ANSI standard computer language (e) None of these (b) SQL allows you to access a database 60. Negative numbers can’t be represented in? (c) SQL allows you to execute queries against a database (a) Signed magnitude form (d) SQL does not allow you to update records in a database (b) 1’s complement form (e) None of these (c) 2’s complement form 51. Disk scheduling includes deciding (d) All of the above (a) Which should be accessed next (e) None of these (b) Order in which disk access requests must be services 61. Sending a file from your personal computer’s primary memory (c) The physical location of the file or disk to another computer is called? (d) The logical location of the file (a) Uploading (b) Hang on (e) None of these (c) Logging on (d) Downloading 52. Which among following scheduling algorithms give minimum (e) None of these average waiting time 62. The memory cell of a dynamic RAM is simpler and smaller (a) FCFS (b) SJF that the memory cell of a ___RAM? (c) Round robin (d) On priority (a) Volatile (b) Semiconductor (e) None of these (c) Static (d) Bipolar 53. What is not true about COMMIT and ROLLBACK? (e) None of these (a) Interact with areas such as transaction control and locking 63. The normal form that is not necessarily dependency preserving (b) COMMIT alone cannot make data permanent is (c) Both terminate any open transaction and release any (a) 2NF (b) 3NF locks held on data (c) BCNF (d) 4NF (d) Both maintain consistency of database (e) None of these (e) None of these 64. Fifth Normal form is concerned with 54. Which of the following is a function of e-mail system? (a) Functional dependency (a) Composition (b) Transfer (b) Multivalued dependency (c) Reporting (d) All of the above (c) Join dependency (e) None of these (d) Domain key 55. Mobile computers and personal digital assistant (PDAs) are (e) None of these the examples of? 65. A_____ does not have a distinguishing attribute if its own and (a) Radio broadcasting mostly are dependent entities, which are part of some another (b) Wireless network entity (c) Geosynchronous (a) Weak entity (d) LAN (b) Strong entity (e) None of these (c) Non attributes entity 56. The XOR operator Å is? (d) Dependent entity (a) Commutative (e) None of these (b) Associative 66. ____is the complex search criteria in the where clause (c) Distribute over AND operator (a) Sub string (b) Drop table (d) (a) and (b) (c) Predict (d) Predicate (e) None of these (e) None of these 57. An identifier in C? 67. The term module in the design phase refers to? (a) Is a name of thing such as variable and function (a) Functions (b) Procedures (b) Is made up of letters numerals and the underscore (c) Sub programs (d) All of the above (c) Can contain both uppercase and lowercase letters (e) None of these (d) All of the above

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68. Switch is a Device of ____layer of OSI model (d) The WHERE clause is applied after the GROUP BY (a) Network layer clause (b) Data link layer (e) None of these (c) Application layer 77. What protocol is used to find the hardware address of a local (d) Session layer device? (e) None of these (a) RARP (b) ARP 69. The number of binary trees with 3 nodes which when traversed (c) IP (d) ICMP in post order gives the sequence A, B, C is? (e) BootP (a) 3 (b) 9 78. Establishing a virtual connection is functionally equivalent (c) 7 (d) 5 (a) Connecting as virtual memory (e) None of these (b) Physically connecting a DTE and DCE 70. Which database level is closed to the users? (c) Placing a telephone call prior to a conversation (a) External (b) Internal (d) Placing a modem prior to a conversation (c) Physical (d) Conceptual (e) None of these (e) None of these 79. Which of the following is a variation of Frequency Division 71. Which are the two ways in which entities can participate in a multiplexing (FDM)? relationship? (a) Time division multiplexing (TDM) (a) Passive and active (b) Pulse code multiplexing (PCM) (b) Total and partial (c) Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) (c) Simple and complex (d) All of the above (d) All of the above (e) None of these (e) None of these 80. The binary equivalent of the Gray code 11100 is ____? 72. Which among these is incorrect for relations? (a) 10111 (b) 00111 I. degree – number of tuples (c) 01011 (d) 10101 II. relation – table (e) None of these III. tuple – row 81. Star Topology is Based on a Central Device that can be ___? IV. attribute – column (a) HUB (b) Switch (a) Only I (b) I and II (c) Only (a) (d) Both (a) and (b) (c) I and III (d) III and IV (e) None of these (e) None of these 82. Any program is C has access to three standard files? 73. What is meant by type in RDBMS? (a) Standard input file, standard output file, standard error (a) Domain file (b) Range (b) Stdin, stdout, stderr (c) Named set of values (c) All of above (d) Both (a) and (c) (d) Key words, screen, stderr (e) None of these (e) None of these 74. A database schema includes the following information except: 83. The index register in a digital computer is used for? (a) Interface for user to interact (a) Pointing to the stack address (b) Format for storage representation (b) Indirect addressing (c) Integrity parameters such as physically authorization (c) Keeping track of number of times a loop is executed and backup policies (d) Address modification (d) Characteristics of data items such as entities and (e) None of these attributes 84. The HAVING clause (e) None of these (a) Includes a comparison predicate used to eliminate rows 75. Which of the following is not true? after the GROUP BY clause is applied to the result set (a) External view-highest level of abstraction as seen by a (b) It acts on the results of the GROUP BY clause user (c) Aggregate functions can be used in the HAVING clause (b) Conceptual view-sum total of Data Base Management predicate system user’s views (d) All of the above (c) Internal level middle level of abstraction’ (e) None of these (d) Internal level how the data are physically stored 85. What are the functions of DCL? (e) None of these (a) Handling the authorization aspects of data 76. Which of the following is true about WHERE clause? (b) Permitting the user to control who has access to see or (a) Does not include a comparison predicate manipulate data within the database (b) No restriction on the number of rows (c) Both (a) and (b) (c) Eliminates all rows from the result set where the (d) (a) only comparison predicate does not evaluate to true (e) None of these

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86. Which of these are the activities done by RDBMS? 98. A terminal that cannot process any information is called (a) Take note of authorizations (a) Direct Access Terminal (b) Take note of constraints (b) Intelligent Terminal (c) Update variables according to authorizations and (c) Smart Terminal constraints (d) Blind Terminal (d) All of the above (e) Dumb Terminal (e) None of these 99. Which type of switching uses the entire capacity of a dedicated 87. Which of the following are the properties of entities? link (a) Groups (b) Table (a) Circuit Switching (c) Attributes (d) Switchboards (b) Virtual Circuit Packet Switching (e) None of these (c) Datagram Packet Switching 88. _____is preferred method for enforcing data integrity (d) Message Switching (a) Constraints (b) Stored procedure (e) None of these (c) Triggers (d) Cursors 100. The product of two binary numbers (1011) and (1001) is (e) None of these (a) 1100011 (b) 1010100 89. ____data type can store unstructured data (c) 1011001 (d) 100110 (a) RAW (b) CHAR (e) None of these (c) NUMERIC (d) VARCHAR (e) None of these PHYSICS 90. A DBMS responds to commands given by (a) General purpose application programs 1. Which one of the following types of waves are used in a night (b) Custom developed application programs vision apparatus? (c) Users a) Radio waves b) Micro waves (d) All of the above c) Infra-red waves d)None of the above (e) None of these 2. Consider the following. 91. The search tool used to text that appears in Gotherspace is 1. If the two forces act in the opposite directions on an (a) Gobbler (b) Archie object, the net force acting on it is the difference between (c) Mikky (d) Veronica the two forces. (e) None of these 2. If the force is applied in the direction opposite to the 92. Outlook express is a direction of motion then it results in a increase in the (a) E-Mail Client (b) Scheduler speed of the object. (c) Address Book (d) All of these Select the incorrect option: (e) None of these a)1 only b)2 only 93. Which key should be pressed to start a new page in Ms- Word c)Both d)None (a) Down Cursor Key (b) Enter Key 3. A person travel from A to B and again he travel from B to A ,In (c) Shift + Enter (d) Ctrl + Enter this case what would be the correct answer: (e) Ctrl + Shift + Enter a) Distance and displacement will be same. 94. X.21 protocol consists of b) Distance will be more than displacement. (a) Physical and frame levels c) Displacement will be more than distance. (b) Frame and packet levels d) Either distance will be more or displacement will be more. (c) Physical, frame and pocket levels 4. The motion of a freely flowing body or object is in a. (d) Only physical levels a) Uniformly accelerated motion. (e) None of these b) Non –uniform accelerated motion. 95. For separating channels in FDM, it is necessary to use c) Both of them (a) Time slots (b) Bandpass Filters d) None of these (c) Differentiation (d) All of these 5. Consider the following statements: (e) None of these 1. The change in the velocity could be due to change in its 96. A device operating at the physical layer is called a magnitude or direction of the motion. (a) Bridge (b) Router 2. When the velocity of an object changes it is observed (c) Repeater (d) All of these that the object is accelerating. (e) None of these Which of the above statement is correct: 97. Which of the following types of tables constraints will prevent a) 1 only b) 2 only the entry of duplicate rows c) Both 1 and 2 d) Neither 1 and (a) Primary key (b) Unique key 6. To accelerate the motion of an object we required. (c) Null (d) Foreign key a) Balanced force b) Unbalanced force (e) None of these c) Frictional force d) None of the above 7. Safety belt in a car is used because. a) It makes us sit tightly and thereby make us comfortable.

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b) It exerts a force on our body to make the forward motion Which of these statements are correct? slow. a) 1 & 3 b) 2 & 4 c) It makes driving easier with change in speed. c) 2 & 3 d) 1 & 4 d) It is totally depend on our choice to use it or not while 15. Spring Balance is used for measuring seated in a car. a) The force acting on an objects 8. In a high jump the athletes are made to fall either on a cushioned b) The force of friction bed or on a sand bed. This arrangement is because _____ . c) Magnitude of the pressure 1. It increase the time of the athletes fall after making the d) Relative motion between the objects. jump. 16. In humans, the sound is produced by the 2. It decrease the rate of change of momentum. a) Voice box b) Windpipe 3. It decrease the rate of change of force. c) Both d) None 4. It is based on Newton’s second law of motion. 17. Amplitude and frequency are two important properties of Choose the correct options: a) Heat b) Force a) 1 and 2 b) 2 and 4 c) Sound d) light c) 3 only d) All of the above. 18. The spherical body moves with a uniform angular velocity “a”, 9. Which of the following is true regarding the Newton’s third around a circular path of radius “r”. Which one of the following law of motion? statements is correct? 1. When one object exert a force on another object, the a) The body has no acceleration second object reacts back on the first object. b) The body has a radial acceleration directed towards the 2. These two forces always unequal in magnitude but centre of the path. opposite in direction. c) The body has a radial acceleration directed away from 3. These two forces act on different objects. the centre of the path. 4. These two forces act on same object. d) The body earlier has radial acceleration but loses it after a) 1 and 3 b) 2 only some time . c) 3 only d) All of them. 19. Which one among the following has the highest energy? 10. What do you understand by centripetal force? a) Blue light b) Green light 1. It is a force acting away from the centre. c) Red light d) Yellow light 2. It is a force acting towards the centre. 20. Consider the following statements: 3. It involves change in direction at particular interval. 1. A flute of smaller length produces waves of lower 4. It involves change in direction at every point. frequency. Choose the correct options: 2. Sound travels in rocks in the form of longitudinal elastic a) 1 and 2 b) 2 and 4 waves only. c) 3 and 4 d) 1 and 3 Which of the statements given above is /are correct. 11. When we hit a pile of carrom coins, at bottom coin moves out a) 1 only b) 2 only while the other coins fall vertically. It is due to ______. c) Both 1 and 2 d) Neither 1 nor 2 a) Frictional force 21. Splitting of light into its constituent colors is known as b) Speed of carom striker a) Reflected light b) Dispersion c) It is due to smoothness of carom board c) Lateral Inversion d) Separation d) It is due to inertia. 22. Uses of Multiple Reflection of sound can be observed in 12. Which of the following regarding the motion of the moon around instruments like the earth is correct? a) Megaphone b) Horn 1. It is due to centrifugal force. c) Speakers d) Stethoscope 2. It is due to centripetal force. 23. When a CD is seen in sunlight ,rainbow like colours are seen. 3. It is provided by the force of attraction of earth. This can be explained on the basis of the phenomenon of 4. If there is no such force ,the moon would pursue a uniform a) Reflection and Diffraction straight line of motion. b) Reflection and transmission a) 1 only b) 2 and 3 only c) Diffraction and transmission c) 3 and 4 only d) 2, 3 and 4 only. d) Refraction, Diffraction and transmission 13. Winds and cyclones are caused by the differences in the __ 24. Diffusion of light in the atmosphere takes place due to a) Air b) Pressure a) Carbon dioxide b) Dust particles c) Both d) None c) Helium d) Water vapors 14. Consider the following statement: 25. In which of the following “Capillarity” is not the only reason. A four wheeled vehicle moving in a sharp circular path at high a) Blotting of ink speed will. b) rising of underground water 1) Overturn about its outer wheels c) the spreading of water drops on cotton cloths. 2) Overturn about its inner wheels d) the rising of water from the root of the plants to the 3) Skid outwards leaves. 4) Skid inwards

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26. “Cryogenics” is used in 37. The motion of a freely flowing body or object is in a. a) Space travel, surgery, and magnetic levitation a) Uniformly accelerated motion. b) Surgery, magnetic levitation and telemetry b) Non –uniform accelerated motion. c) Space travel, surgery and telemetry c) Both of them d) Space journey ,magnetic levitation and telemetry d) None of these 27. When light waves pass from air to glass, the variables affected 38. Consider the following statements: are ______1. The change in the velocity could be due to change in its a) Wavelength, frequency and velocity magnitude or direction of the motion. b) Velocity and frequency 2. When the velocity of an object changes it is observed c) Wavelength and frequency that the object is accelerating. d) Wavelength and velocity Which of the above statement is correct: 28. Which one of the following types of waves are used in a night a) 1 only b) 2 only vision apparatus? c) Both 1 and 2 d) Neither 1 and 2 a) Radio waves b) Micro waves 39. To accelerate the motion of an object we required. c) Infra-red waves d)None of the above a) Balanced force b) Unbalanced force 29. Consider the following. c) Frictional force d) None of the above 1. If the two forces act in the opposite directions on an 40. Safety belt in a car is used because. object, the net force acting on it is the difference between a) It makes us sit tightly and thereby make us comfortable. the two forces. b) It exerts a force on our body to make the forward motion 2. If the force is applied in the direction opposite to the slow. direction of motion then it results in a increase in the c) It makes driving easier with change in speed. speed of the object. d) It is totally depend on our choice to use it or not while Select the incorrect option: seated in a car. a)1 only b)2 only 41. In a high jump the athletes are made to fall either on a cushioned c)Both d)None bed or on a sand bed. This arrangement is because _____ . 30. Winds and cyclones are caused by the differences in the ______1. It increase the time of the athletes fall after making the a) Air b) Pressure jump. c) Both d) None 2. It decrease the rate of change of momentum. 31. Consider the following statement: 3. It decrease the rate of change of force. A four wheeled vehicle moving in a sharp circular path at high 4. It is based on Newton’s second law of motion. speed will. Choose the correct options: 1) Overturn about its outer wheels a) 1 and 2 b) 2 and 4 2) Overturn about its inner wheels c) 3 only d) All of the above. 3) Skid outwards 42. Which of the following is true regarding the Newton’s third law 4) Skid inwards of motion? Which of these statements are correct? 1. When one object exert a force on another object, the a) 1 & 3 b) 2 & 4 second object reacts back on the first object. c) 2 & 3 d) 1 & 4 2. These two forces always unequal in magnitude but 32. Spring Balance is used for measuring opposite in direction. a) The force acting on an objects 3. These two forces act on different objects. b) The force of friction 4. These two forces act on same object. c) Magnitude of the pressure a) 1 and 3 b) 2 only d) Relative motion between the objects. c) 3 only d) All of them. 33. In humans, the sound is produced by the 43. What do you understand by centripetal force? a) Voice box b) Windpipe 1. It is a force acting away from the centre. c) Both d) None 2. It is a force acting towards the centre. 34. Amplitude and frequency are two important properties of 3. It involves change in direction at particular interval. a) Heat b) Force 4. It involves change in direction at every point. c) Sound d) light Choose the correct options: 35. Sound can travel through a medium except a) 1 and 2 b) 2 and 4 a) gases b) solids c) 3 and 4 d) 1 and 3 c) liquids d) Vacuum 44. When we hit a pile of carrom coins, at bottom coin moves out 36. A person travel from A to B and again he travel from B to A ,In while the other coins fall vertically. It is due to ______. this case what would be the correct answer: a) Frictional force a) Distance and displacement will be same. b) Speed of carom striker b) Distance will be more than displacement. c) It is due to smoothness of carom board c) Displacement will be more than distance. d) It is due to inertia. d) Either distance will be more or displacement will be more.

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45. Which of the following regarding the motion of the moon around a) maximum in both 1 and 2 the earth is correct? b) zero in both 1 and 2 1. It is due to centrifugal force. c) zero in 1, maximum in 2 2. It is due to centripetal force. d) maximum in 1, zero in 2 3. It is provided by the force of attraction of earth. 54. A resistor, an inductance and a capacitance are connected in 4. If there is no such force ,the moon would pursue a uniform series to an a.c. supply. When measured with the help of an straight line of motion. a.c. voltmeter, the p.d. across the resistor is found to be 40 V, a) 1 only b) 2 and 3 only across the inductance 30 V, and across the capacitance 60 V. c) 3 and 4 only d) 2, 3 and 4 only. What is the supply voltage? 46. Scalars are quantities that are described by ______a) 130 V b) 50 V a) Magnitude c) 70 V d) 100 V b) Direction 55. Reactance of a capacitor of 1/ farad at 50 Hz is c) Magnitude & Direction d) Motion a) 100  b) 10  47. Which one is a scalar quantity? c) 50  d) 10-2  a) Acceleration b) Displacement 56. An electric bulb of 100 watt is connected in parallel with an c) Speed d) Velocity ideal inductance of 1 H. This arrangement is connected to a 90 48. The r.m.s. value of i = I sin  t  I cos  t is Volt battery through a switch. On pressing the switch, 1 2 a) bulb glows 2 2 b) bulb glows after short time and then continues to glow I1  I2 I1  I2 c) bulb does not glow a) b) 2 2 d) bulb glows for a short time and then slops glowing 57. In the circuit shown in Fig. If value of R = 60  , then the 2 2 current flowing through the condenser will be I1  I2 I1  I2 c) d) 2 2 49. Alternating voltage V = 400 sin 500 t is applied across a resistance of 0.2 k  . The r.m.s value of current will be equal to a) 14.14 A b) 1.414 A c) 0.1414 A d) 2.0 A 50. In a half wave rectifier is used to convert 50 Hz a.c. into d.c., a) 0.5 A b) 0.25 A then the number of pulses present in rectified voltage is c) 0.75 A d) 1.0 A a) 25 b) 50 58. The value of conductance in the adjoining circuit shown in Fig. c) 100 d) 75 Is 51. An a.c. source is 120 volt, 60 Hz. The value of the voltage after 1/360 sec. from the start will be a) 146.4 volt b) 42.4 volt c) 106.8 volt d) 20.2 volt 52. In L – R circuit, the A.C. source has voltage 220 V. If potential difference across inductance is 176 V, the potential difference a) 0.1 mho b) 0.025 mho across the resistance will be c) 0.103 mho d) 9.7 mho a) 86 V b) 110 V 59. Which of the following curves, Fig. Correctly represent the c) 132 V d) 220 V 53. In a circuit given in Figure 1 and 2 are ammeters. Just after key variation of capactitative reactance X C  with K is pressed to complete the circuit, the reading is frequency  f ?

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64. The resonant frequency of a circuit of negligible resistance containing an inductance of 50 mH and a capacitance of 500 pf is 105 1 a) Hz b)   100 1000 c) Hz d) Hz   65. A series LCR circuit is tuned to resonance. The impedance of the circuit now is

1/ 2  2  2  1  a) R  L      C   60. Reactance of a capacitor of capacitance C μF of frequency  

400 2 1/ 2 Hz is 25 . The value of C is  2  1     R2  L     b) C a) 25 b) 50     c) 400 d) 100 61. For the LR circuit shown in Fig, the phase angle if frequency is 1/ 2  1 2  is 2   100/ c) R   L    C   d) R 66. In the non resonant circuit, what will be the nature of the circuit for frequencies higher than the resonant frequency? a) Resistive b) Capacitative c) Inductive d) None of these 67. The power factor of an a.c. circuit having resistance R and inductance L connected in series to an a.c. source of angular a) 0 b) 0 30 60 frequency  is c) 450 d) 900 a) R/  L b)  L/R 62. In the circuit shown in Fig. At resonance: c) R/ R 2  ω2L2 d) zero 68. The magnetic field between the plates of a capacitor when r > R is given by : (Where r is the distance from the axis of plates and R is the radius of each plate of capacitor)

μ 0IDr μ0ID a) b) 2π R 2 2π R

a) the power factor is zero μ0ID c) d) zero b) the current through the a.c. source is minimum 2 r c) the current through the a.c. source is maximum π d) current through L and R are equal 69. The magnetic field between the plates of a capacitor when r < 63. An A.C. circuit using an inductor and a capacitor in series has a R is given by: max. Current. If L = 0.5 Henry and C = 8 , then the angular μF μ 0IDr μ0ID a) b) frequency of A.C. voltage will be 2π R 2 2π R a) 500 b) 5  105 c) 4000 d) 5000 μ0ID c) d) zero. 2π r

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70. The Maxwell’s four equations are written as: 2  a EB a) E.d s  ql 0 parallel to x – y plane and zero in others i)  2μ0 S  2 B.d s  0 a EB ii)  b) parallel to x – y place and zero in others S μ0

 d   2 E.d l   B.d s a EB iii)   c) from all faces dt S 2μ0

 d   2 B.d l   I    E.d s a EB iv)  0 0 0  d) parallel to y – z faces and zero in others. dt S 2μ0   The equation which have sources of and are: 74. A radio station on the surface of the earth radiates 50 kW. If E B transmitters radiates equally in all directions above the surface a) i), ii), iii) b) i), ii) of earth, what is the amplitude of electric field detected 100 c) i) and iii) only d) i) and iv) only km away? 71. Which of the following relation is correct? -1 -1 a ) 2 . 4 5 V m b) 0.245 Vm c) 0.0245 Vm-1 d) 0.00245 Vm-1 a) 0 E0  0 B0 75. An earth orbiting satellite has solar energy collecting panel with total area 5 m2. If solar radiations are perpendicular and completely absorbed, the average force associated with the b) 0 0 E0  B0 radiation pressure is: (Solar constant = 4 kWm-2) c) E    B 0 0 0 0 a) 2.3310-3 N b) 2.3310-4 N c) -5 d) -6 d) 0 E0  0 B0 2.3310 N 2.3310 N 72. An electromagnetic wave, going through vacuum is described 76. The frequency of electromagnetic wave, which best suited to observe a particle of radius 3  10-4 cm is of the order of: 15 14 by E = E0 sin kx t . Which of the following is a) 10 b) 10 independent of wavelength? c) 1013 d) 1012 a) k b)  77. A gold leaf electroscope is charged and the leaves are observed to diverge by a certain amounts. A beam of X-rays is allowed c) k / d) k to fall upon the electroscope for a short period. The leaves 73. A cube of edge a has its edges parallel to x, y and z – axis of would electroscope for a short period. The leaves would  a) collapse b) melt rectangular coordinate system. A uniform electric field E is  c) diverge more d) not diverge more parallel to y – axis and a uniform magnetic field B is parallel 78. Interference is possible in a) light waves only to x – axis. The rate at which energy flows through each face b) sound waves only of the cube is: c) both light and sound waves d) neither light nor sound waves 79. In Young’s double slit experiment, the separation between the slits is halved and the distance between the slits and screen is doubled. The fringe width is a) unchanged b) halved c) doubled d) quadrupled 80. The correct formula for fringe visibility is

Imax  Imin Imax  Imin a) V = b) V  Imax  Imin Imax  Imin

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is 5  10-4 phot (lumen/cm2). The line joining the bulb to the I I 0 V  max V  min point makes an angle os 60 with the normal to the surface. c) I d) I The luminous intensity of the bulb in candela (candle power) min max is 81. A very thin film in reflected white light appears a) coloured b) white a) 40 3 b) 40 c) black d) red c) 20 d) 4 82. The correct curve between fringe width and distance between 4010 the Slits (d) in Fig. Is 90. A convex lens will become less convergent in a) oil b) water c) both d) none 91. A telescope has an objective lens of 10 cm diameter and is situated at a distance of 1 km from two objects. The maximum distance between these two objects, which can be resolved by 0 the telescope, when the mean wavelength of light is 5000 A is of the order of a) 5 mm b) 5 cm c) 0.5 m d) 5 m 92. A thin glass lens (refractive index 1 – 5) has optical power of – 5 D in air. Its optical power in a liquid medium with refractive index 1.6 will be 83. The colour of bright fringe nearest central achromatic fringe in a) – 25 D b) 25 D the interference pattern with white light will be c) – 1 D d) 0.625 D a) violet b) red 93. In Foucault experiment, radius of curvature of the mirror is 20 c) green d) yellow m and the plane mirror is rotating at 20 rps. The angle of 84. The device which produces highly coherent sources is rotation of plane mirror in the mean time is -5 -6 a) Fresnel biprism b) Young’s double slit a) 3  10 rad b) 5.33   10 rad c) Laser d) Lloyd’s mirror c) 6.22   106 rad d) 3.33   10-6 rad 0 94. Time of exposure for a photographic print is 10 second, when 85. Two sources of light of wavelengths 2500 A are used in a lamp of 50 Cd is placed at 1 m from it. Then another lamp Young’s double slit expt. Simultaneously Which orders of of luminous intensity I is used, and is kept at 2 m from it. If fringes of two wavelength patterns coincide? the time of exposure now is 20 s, the value of L in (in Cd) is: a) 3rd order of 1st source and 5th of the 2nd a) 100 b) 25 b) 7th order of 1st and 5th of the 2nd c) 200 d) 20 c) 5th order of 1st and 3rd of the 2nd 95. A convex mirror of focal length f produces an image (1/n) th of d) 5th order of 1st and 7th of the 2nd the size of the object. The distance of the object from the 86. In Young’s double slit expt., one slit is covered with red filter mirror is and another slit is covered with green filter, then interference a) (n – 1)f b) f ln pattern will be c) (n + 1)f d) nf a) red b) green 96. A ray of light incident on the first mirror and parallel to the c) yellow d) invisible second is reflected from the second mirror parallel to first 87. In double slit expt, the distance between two slits is 0.6 mm mirror. The angle between two mirrors is 0 a) 300 b) 600 and these are illuminated with light of wavelength 4800 A . 0 0 The angular width of first dark fringe on the screen distant c) 75 d) 90 120 cm from slits will be 97. A convex mirror has a focal length f. A real object, placed at a a) 8  10-4 radian b) 6  10-4 radian distance f in front of it from the pole, produces an image at c) 4  10-4 radian d) 16  10-4 radian a) 2f b) f /2 88. When a beam of light is used to determine the position of an c) f d)  object, the maximum accuracy is achieved if the light is 98. A convex mirror has a focal length = 20 cm. A convergent beam a) polarised tending to converge to a point 20 cm behind convex mirror on b) of longer wavelength principal axis falls on it. The image is formed at c) of shorter wavelength a) infinity b) 40 cm d) of high intensity c) 20 cm d) 10 cm 89. An electric bulb illuminates a place surface. The intensity of 99. A glass slab is placed in the path of a beam of convergent light. illumination on the surface at a point 2m away from the bulb The point of convergence of light

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a) moves towards the glass slab b) moves away from the glass slab c) remains at the same point d) undergoes a lateral shift. 100. If the refractive index of water is 4/3 and that of glass slab is 5/3, then the critical angle of incidence for which a light ray tending to go from glass to water is totally reflected is a) sin-1 ¾ b) sin-1 3/5 c) sin-1 2/3 d) sin-1 4 /5 ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATION 9. The equivalent resistance between point L to M in the network 1. Kirchhoff’s current law states that shown in Fig. is given by (a) net current flow at the junction is positive (b) algebraic sum of the currents meeting at the junction is zero (c) no current can leave the junction without some current entering it. (d) total sum of currents metting at the junction is zero 2. According to Kirchhoffs voltage law, the algebraic sum of all IR drops and e.m.fs. in any closed loop of a network is always (a) negative (b) positive by battery e.m.fs. (c) determined (d) zero 3. Kirchhoff’s current law is applicable to only (a) junction in a network (b) closed loops in a network (c) electric circuits (a) 2 ohms (b) 4 ohms (d) electronic circuits (c) 6 ohms (d) 8 ohms 4. Superposition theorem can be applied only to circuits having 10. “Maximum power output is obtained from a network when (a) resistive elements the load resistance is equal to the output resistance of the (b) passive elements network as seen from the terminals of the load”. The above (c)non-linear elements statement is associated with (d) linear bilateral elements (a) Millman’s theorem 5. The concept on which Superposition theorem is based, is (b) Thevenin’s theorem (a) reciprocity (b) duality (c) Superposition theorem (c) non-linearity (d) linearity (d) Maximum power transfer theorem . 6 . T h ev en in resistan ce R is found th 11. In any linear bilateral network, if a source of e.m.f. E in any (a) by removing voltage sources along with their internal branch produces a current I in any other branch, then same resistances e.m.f. acting in the second branch would produce the same (b) by short-circuiting the given two terminals current I in the first branch”. The above statement is associated (c) between any two ‘open’ terminals with (d) between same open terminals as for E th (a) compensation theorem 7. To determine the polarity of the voltage drop across a resistor, (b) superposition theorem it is necessary to know (c) reciprocity theorem (a) value of current through the resistor (d) none of the above (b) direction of current through the resistor 12. In the circuit shown in the Fig. R equals (c) value of resistor th (d) e.m.fs. in the circuit 8. The Thevenin’s equivalent between points L and M for the network shown in Fig. is given by (a) 5 V, 0 ohm (b) 5 V, 5 ohm (c) 5 V, 10 ohm (d) none of the above

R1  R2  R2  R3  a) R3  b) R1  R1  R2 R2  R3

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(b) less than the load resistance R  R  R  3 1 (c) more than the load resistance c) 2 R  R d)none of the above (d) none of the above 3 1 19. If resistance across LM in Fig. is 15 ohms, the value of R is

1 3 . T h ev en in ’s eq u iv alen t (E th, Rth) for the circuit shown in Fig. will be

(a) 20 V. 5.6  (b) 18 V, 4  (c) 16 V, 3  (d) 12 V, 2  14. Using Thevenin’s theorem, the current in branch NS of the (a)10  (b)20  network shown in Fig. will be (c)30  (d)40  20. For maximum transfer of power, internal resistance of the source should be (a) equal to load resistance (b) less than the load resistance (c) greater than the load resistance (d) none of the above 21. The circuit whose properties are same in either direction is known as (a) unilateral circuit (b) bilateral circuit (c) irreversible circuit (d) reversible circuit 22. In a series parallel circuit, any two resistances in the same current path must be in (a) 3.7 A (b) 2.7 A (a) series with each other (c) 1.6 A (d) 0.6 A (b) parallel with each other 15. Which of the following is non-linear circuit parameter? (c) series with the voltage source (a) Inductance (d) parallel with the voltage source (b) Condenser 23. In the given circuit, the Kirchhof’s current law at the point L is (c) Wire wound resistor applied. Which of the following relation is correct ? (d) Transistor 16. In a delta network each element has value R. The value of each element in equivalent star network will be R R a) b) 6 4

R R (a)I -(I +I )=0 (b)I =I -I c) d) 1 2 3 1 2 3 2 3 (c)I1+12-I3-0 (d)I1+I2+I3=0 17. Kirchhoff’s voltage law applies to circuits with 24. The resistance between points A and B in Fig. is (a) non-linear elements only (b) linear elements only (c) linear, non-linear, active and passive elements (d) linear, non-linear, active, passive, time varying as wells as time-in-variant elements 18. For high efficiency of transfer of power, internal resistance of the source should be (a) equal to the load resistance

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(a)4  (b)6  (c) only two sources of e.m.f. in it (d) no source of e.m.f. in it (c)8  (d)12  35. A terminal where three or more branches meet is known as 25. The circuit parameters may be (a) node (b) terminus (i) active (c) combination (d) anode (ii) passive 36. The period of a wave is (iii) linear (a) the same as frequency (iv) non-linear (b) time required to complete one cycle Which of the following is valid for a gas diode ? (c) expressed in amperes (a) (i) and (ii) (b) (i) and (iv) (d) none of the above (c) (ii) and (iv) (d) (ii) and (iii) 37. The form factor is the ratio of 26. Which of the following is linear and bilateral parameter ? (a) peak value to r.m.s. value (a) resistors (b) r.m.s. value to average value (b) semi-conductor diodes (c) average value to r.m.s. value (c) electron tubes (d) none of the above (d) transistor 38. A heater is rated as 230 V, 10 kW, A.C. The value 230 V refers

2 7 . F o r th e circu it sh o w n in fig . th e cu rren t th ro u g h R 2 will be to (a) average voltage (b) r.m.s. voltage (c) peak voltage (d) none of the above 39. If two sinusoids of the same frequency but of different amplitudes and phase angles are subtracted, the resultant is (a) a sinusoid of the same frequency (b) a sinusoid of half the original frequency (c) a sinusoid of double the frequency (a) 2.5 A (b) 3.5 A (d) not a sinusoid (c) 4.5 A (d) 5.5 A 40. If two sine waves of the same frequency have a phase difference 28. The circuit has, resistors, capacitors and semi-conductor diodes. of  radians, then The circuit will be known as (a) both will reach their minimum values at the same instant (a) non-linear circuit (b) linear circuit (b) both will reach their maximum values at the same instant (c) bilateral circuit (d) none of the above (c) when one wave reaches its maximum value, the other 29. A non-linear network does not satisfy will reach its minimum value (a) superposition condition (d) none of the above (b) homogeneity condition 41. If two waves are expressed as (c) both homogeneity as well as superposition condition e = E sin (  t +  ) and (d) homogeneity, superposition and associative conditions 1 m1 l e = E sin (  t +  ), then 30. An ideal voltage source has 2 m2 2 (a) zero internal resistance (a) e is leading e by ( - ) 1 2  2 1 (b) open circuit voltage equal to the voltage on full load (b) e is leading e by ( - ) (c) terminal voltage in proportion to current 2 1  2 1 (d) terminal voltage in proportion to load (c) e is leading e by ( - ) 31. Application of Norton’s theorem to a circuit yields 2 1 (d) e1 is in phase with e2 (a) equivalent current source and impedance in series 42. For the same peak value which of the following waves will (b) equivalent current source and impedance in parallel have the highest r.m.s. value ? (c) equivalent impedance (a) square wave (d) equivalent current source (b) half wave rectified sine wave 32. Millman’s theorem yields (c) triangular wave (a) equivalent resistance (d) sine wave (b) equivalent impedance 43. The current in a circuit is given by: i = 100sin314t amperes. (c) equivalent voltage source The maximum value and frequency of current are (d) equivalent voltage or current source 33. The superposition theorem is applicable to (a) 50 2 A ,l00 Hz (b) 100 2 A.100Hz (a) voltage only (c) 100 A, 50 Hz (d) 70.7A, 50 Hz (b) current only 44. The phase difference between voltage and current wave through (c) both current and voltage a circuit element is given as 30°. The essential condition is (d) current, voltage and power that 34. A passive network is one which contains (a) both waves must have same frequency (a) only variable resistances (b) both waves must have identical peak values (b) only some sources of e.m.f. in it (c) both waves must have zero value at the same time

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(d) none of the above 56. Power factor of an inductive circuit is usually improved by 45. Two sinusodial currents are given by connecting capacitor to it in

I1 = 100 sin (  t + ð/3), and (a) parallel (b) series (c) either (a) or (b) (d) none of the above i2=50 sin (  t -ð/4) The phase difference between them is______degrees 57. Power factor of the system is kept high (a) 15 (b) 50 (a) to reduce line losses (c) 60 (d) 105 (b) to maximise the utilization of the capacities of generators, 46. The r.m.s. value of sinusoidal A.C. current is equal to its value lines and transformers at an angle of ______degrees. (c) to reduce voltage regulation of the line (a) 90 (b) 60 (d) due to all above reasons (c) 45 (d) 30 58. In the R-L-C circuit containing R=4.50hm W, L =0.006 H; C = 47. Capacitive reactance is more when 0.6  f the power factor will be (a) capacitance is less and frequency of supply is less (a) zero (b) lagging (b) capacitance is less and frequency of supply is more (c) leading (d) unity (c) capacitance is more and frequency of supply is less 59. The r.m.s. value of alternating current is given by steady (D.C.) (d) capacitance is more and frequency of supply is more current which when flowing through a given circuit for a given 48. Time constant of a capacitive circuit increases with the time produces (a) increase of capacitance and decrease of resistance (a) the more heat than produced by A.C. when flowing (b) increase of capacitance and increase of resistance through the same circuit (c) decrease of capacitance and decrease of resistance (b) the same heat as produced by A.C. when flowing through (d) decrease of capacitance and increase of resistance the same circuit 49. In a series circuit on resonance. following will occur (c) the less heat than produced by AC. flowing through the

(a)V=VR (b)XL=XC same circuit (c)Z=R (d) all above (d) none of the above 50. Power factor of an electrical circuit is equal to 60. The square waveform of current has following relation between (a) R/Z r.m.s. value and average value. (b) cosine of phase angle difference between current and (a) r.m.s. value of current is equal to average value voltage (b) r.m.s. value of current is greater than average value (c) kW/kVA (c) r.m.s. value of current is less than average value (d) all above (d) none of tile above 51. Poor power factor 61. The transient currents are associated with the (a) reduces load handling capability of electrical system (a) changes in the stored energy in the inductors and (b) results in more power losses in the electrical system capacitors (c) overloads alternators, trans formers and distribution lines (b) impedance of the circuit (d) results in all above (c) applied voltage to the circuit 52. In series resonant circuit, increasing inductance to its twice (d) resistance of the circuit value and reducing capacitance to its half value 62. The power factor at resonance in R-L-C parallel circuit is (a) will change the maximum value of current at resonance (a) zero (b) 0.08 lagging (b) will change the resonance frequency (c) 0.8 leading (d) unity (c) will change the impedance at resonance frequency 63. Inductance of coil (d) will increase the selectivity of the circuit (a) is unaffected by the supply frequency 53. Pure inductive circuit (b) decreases with the increase in supply frequency (a) consumes some power on average (c) increases with the increase in supply frequency (b) does not take power at all from a line (d) becomes zero with the increase in supply frequency (c) takes power from the line during some part of the cycle 64. In any AC. circuit always and then returns back to it during other part of the cycle (a) apparent power is more than actual power (d) none of the above (b) reactive power is more than apparent power 54. Inductance of a coil varies (c) actual power is more than reactive power (a) directly as the cross-sectional area of magnetic core (d) reactive power is more than actual power (b) directly as square of number of turns 65. Pure inductive circuit takes power from the A.C. line when (c) directly as the permeability of the core (a) applied voltage decreases but current increases (d) all of these (b) applied voltage increases but current decreases 55. All the rules and laws of D.C. circuit also apply to AC. Circuit (c) both applied voltage and current increase containing (d) both applied voltage and current decrease (a) capacitance only 66. Times constant of an inductive circuit (b) inductance only (a) increases with increase of inductance and decrease of (c) resistance only resistance (d) all above

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(b) increases with the increase of inductance and the increase (a)5  (b)10  of resistance (c) increases with the decrease of inductance and decrease of (c)15  (d)30  resistance 76. The purpose of a parallel circuit resonance is to magnify (d) increases with decrease of inductance and increase of (a) current (b) voltage resistance (c) power (d) frequency 67. Time constant of a capacitive circuit 77. At very low frequencies a series R-C circuit behaves as almost (a) increases with the decrease of capacitance and decrease purely of resistance (a) resistive (b) inductive (b) increases with the decrease of capacitance and increase (c) capacitive (d) none of the above of resistance 78. Which of the following statements pertains to resistors only ? (c) increases with the increase of capacitance and decrease (a) can dissipate considerable amount or power of resistance (b) can act as energy storage devices (d) increase with increase of capacitance and increase of (c) connecting them in parallel increases the total value resistance (d) oppose sudden changes in voltage 68. Magnitude of current at resonance in R-L-C circuit 79. A phasor is (a) depends upon the magnitude of R (a) a line which represents the magnitude and phase of an (b) depends upon the magnitude of L alternating quantity (c) depends upon the magnitude of C (b) a line representing the magnitude and direction of an (d) depends upon the magnitude of R, L and C alternating quantity 69. Power factor of magnetising component of current of a (c) a coloured tag or band for distinction between different transformer is phases of a 3-phase supply (a) 0.8 lag (b) 0.8 lead (d) an instrument used for measuring phases of an unbalanced (c) zero (d) unity 3-phase load 70. In a R-L-C circuit 80. Wire-wound resistors are unsuitable for use at high frequencies

p o w er is co n su m ed in resistan ce an d is eq u al to I because they (a) 2R (b) exchange of power does not takes place between inductor (a) create more electrical noise and supply line (b) are likely to melt under excessive eddy current heat (c) exchange of power does not takes place between capacitor (c) consume more power and supply line (d) exhibit unwanted inductive and capacitive effects (d) exchange of power take place between resistance and the 81. The power taken by a 3- load is given by the expression supply line 71. Which of the following coils will have large resonant frequency? (a) 3 VL, IL sin  (a) A coil with large resistance (b) A coil with low resistance (b) 3 VL, IL cos (c) A coil with large distributed capacitance (d) A coil with low distributed capacitance (c) 3 VL, IL. sin 72. A pure inductance connected across 250 V, 50 Hz supply

consumes 100 W. This consumption can be attributed to (d) 3 VL,IL cos  (a) the big size of the inductor 82. A series R-L-C circuit has R = 80 , L = 100  H and C = (b) the reactance of the inductor  (c) the current flowing in the inductor 300  F, V=20 V The current at resonance will be (d) the statement given is false (a) 0.125 A (b) 1.25 A 73. The effective resistance of an iron- cored choke working on (c) 0.25 A (d) 5 A ordinary supply frequency is more than its true resistance 83. Which of the following waves has the highest value of peak because of factor ? (a) iron loss in core (a) Square wave (b) skin effect (b) Sine wave (c) increase in temperature (c) Half wave rectified sine wave (d) capacitance effect between adjacent coil turns (d) Triangular wave 74. In AC. circuits, laminated iron is invariably used in order to 84. The voltage in a circuit follows the law v= 100 sin  t If the (a) reduce eddy current loss frequency is 25 Hz, how long will it take for the voltage to (b) increase heat radiation rise to 50 volts ? (c) make assembly cheap and easier (d) reduce circuit permeability 1 1 a) s b) s 75. The reactance offered by a capacitance to alternating current of 50 100 frequency 50 Hz is 20  . If the frequency is increased to 100 Hz, reactance becomes

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93. When an alternating current passes through an ohmic resistance 1 1 the electrical power converted into heat is c) s d) s 300 600 (a) apparent power (b) true power 85. The r.m.s. value of pure cosine function is (c) reactive power (a) 0.5 of peak value (d) none of the above (b) 0.707 of peak value 94. A coil is connected across a 200 V, 50 Hz supply and takes a (c) same as peak value current of 10 A. The loss in the coil is 1000 W. The impedance (d) zero and resistance of the coil are 86. The quality factor of R-L-C circuit will increase if (a) R increases (a)10  ,8  (b) R decreases (b)15  ,8  (c) impedance increases (c) 20 , 10 (d) voltage increases   87. The Fig. shows the current and voltage wave forms of a circuit (d) 30  , 15  element. The circuit used is 95. For a purely resistive circuit the following statement is incorrect (a) Work done is zero (b) Power consumed is zero (c) Heat produced is zero (d) Power factor is unity 96. In an A.C. circuit Isin is called (a) active component (b) wattless component (c) any of the above (a) an ohmic resistance (d) none of the above (b) a capacitor 97. In a R-L-C circuit the impedance is given by (c) a coil with low inductance (d) none of the above a) Z  R  X L  X C 88. The frequency of an alternating current is (a) the speed with which tire alternator runs b) Z  R  X L  X C (b) the number of cycles generated in one minute 2 2 (c) the number of waves passing through a point in one c) Z  R  X  X  second L C

(d) the number of electrons passing through a point in one 2 d) 2 second Z  R X L  X C  89. A pure capacitor connected across an AC. voltage consumed 50 98. A coil of 20 ohms resistance and 0.16 H inductance is connected W. This is due to (a) the capacitive reactance in ohms in parallel with a 100  F condenser to a constant voltage (b) the current flowing in capacitor variable frequency supply. The frequency (neglecting the (c) the size of the capacitor being quite big resistance) at which the current in the main is a minimum is (d) the statement is incorrect given by 90. The product of apparent power and cosine of the phase angle (a) 20 Hz (b) 30 Hz between circuit voltage and current is (c)40 Hz (d) 50 Hz (a) true power (b) reactive power 99. A balanced star connected load is supplied from a symmetrical (c) volt-amperes (d) instantaneous power three phase 440 V system. It draws current of 40 A at 0.866 91. An A.C. voltage is impressed across a pure resistance of 3.5 power factor lagging. The total power taken by the load will ohms in parallel with a pure inductance of impedance of 3.5 be ohms, (a) 13.2 kW (b) 26.4 kW (a) the current through the resistance is more (c) 30.4 kW (d) 40,4 kW (b) the current through the resistance is less 100. A 100 kW three-phase delta connected motor works on a (c) both resistance and inductance carry equal currents supply of three phase 3.3 kV. The motor efficiency is 92% (d) none of the above and the power factor is 90%. The line current drawn by the 92. In a pure inductive circuit if the supply frequency is reduced to motor will be 1/2, the current will (a)10A (b)15A (a) be reduced by half (c)18A (d)21A (b) be doubled (c) be four times as high  (d) be reduced to one fourth

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EXPLANATIONS 14. d; 8  2 + 1 = 17 17  8 + 1 = 137 PART - I So, 137  8 + 1 = 1097 1. b; 2. b 3. a 4. b 5. c 15. c 16. a 6. c; Number of cross point in picture – 1  0 17. c; P  76, 106, 97, 88, 69 Number of cross point in picture – 3  1 I  11, 32, 52, 43, 24 Number of cross point in picture – 2  2 N  86, 67, 78, 99, 109 So, K  41, 51, 22, 13, 34 3 Number of cross point in picture – 4  PINK  69, 11, 99, 41 No. of inner circle picture – 1  4 18. d; Number of inner circle picture – 3  5 A P P R O A C H Number of inner circle picture – 2  5 ? @ @  + ? :  So, 19. d Number of inner circle picture – 4  6 20. d 7. d; Second is the name given to the act of doing away with the first. 8. a 9. a; 365  3  6  5 = 90 Similarly, 623  623 = 36. 10. b; 7 + 5 = 12, 12 + 10 = 22 22 + 15 = 37 21. a Similarly, 22. d 3 + 5 = 8, 8 + 10 = 18, 18 + 15 = 33 11. d; P  (opp) K (11)  1 + 1 = 2 N  (opp) M (13)  1 + 3 = 4 L  (opp) O (15)  1 + 5 = 6 J  (opp) Q (17)  1 + 7 = 8 Similarly, Q  (opp) J (10)  1 + 0 = 1 O  (opp) L (12)  1 + 2 =3 23. c K  (opp) P (16)  1 + 6 = 7 L  (opp) O (15)  1 + 5 = 6 12. b; 24. b; Tonu ––Wednesday 70  2  4  5 6  21 Tonu –– Monu = 75 Weeks  70  2  45  6  21 Monu –– Sonu = 536 days Extra days in 75 Weeks = 0  35  20  6  21 Extra days 536 days = 4 days  15  6  21 These four days in Tonu’s day of birth Wednesday + 4 = Sunday  21  21 25. a 13. a

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So, the cost of 12 tables and 24 chairs = 1 1 26. b;  12 240  24182  7248 1 a yx  a zx 1 axy  a zy 30. d; CP of tape recorder = Rs.1500 1  yz xz 1500100  20 1 a  a Marked price = Rs. 100 1 = Rs.1,800. = 1 a y / a x  a z / a x To gain 8%, he needs to sell the item at 1500 + 8% of 1500 =     1500 + 120 = Rs.1620. 1  The percentage of discount is =  x y z y 1800 1620 1 a / a  a / a  100 10% 1800 1  31. b; Let the volume of tank = 8 units 1 a y / a z  a x / a z     (LCM of 4 & 8) a x a y 8 = x y z  y x z Volume filled by tap ‘X’ in 1 hour = = 2 units a  a  a a  a  a 4 a z a x  a y  a z 8   1 Volume emptied by tank ‘y’ in 1 hour = 1 unit a z  a y  a x a x  a y  a z 8 27. a; Net volume filled by both ‘X’ and y in 1 hour = 2 – 1 = 1 units. Volume filled in 4 hour = 4  1 = 4 units Let y = 2 3 4 23 4 23 4..... No. of unit left unfilled = 8 – 4 = 4 units. 4 Squaring, we get So, the unfilled ‘4’ unit can be filled by only x in  2 hour.. 2 y 2  2 3 4 23 4 23 4..... 32. b; Ratio of profits: A : B : C = 25000 : 30000 : 15000 = 5 : 6 : 3 Cubing, we get A’s total share of profit = 5/14 th of 70% of the profit + 30% of the profit = 55% of the profit. B, and C will thus 6 3 3 y  32 2 4 2 4...... receive only 45% of the total profits.

6 5 Therefore, A gets 10% of the total profit more than B and C Or, y  32y  yy  32  0 together. 5 5  yy  2  Since, A gets Rs.200 more, this means that the total profit Either y = 0 or 2 would be Rs.2000. Since y  0 , therefore y = 0 is not possible and so y = 2 33. b; For 1st year, the simple interest and the compound interest 28. d; Total score of first three innings = 70  3 = 210 are the same. Total score of first 4 innings = 64  4 = 256 Rs.25 is the simple interest for 1 year on simple interest of 1st Score in the 4th inning = 46 year. Dhoni’s score in the 5th inning = 46 – 2 = 44 If Rs.5 is the simple interest for Rs.100 (simple interest rate Total score in the last four innings = 58  4 = 232 is 5% per annum). Total score in 2nd and 3rd innings = 232 – (46 + 44) = 142 So Rs.25 is the simple interest of Rs.500. Score in the first inning = 210 – 142 = 68 Hence, the simple interest on principal sum for 1 year is 29. a; Price of a table after 20% increase = Rs.240. Rs.500. Price of a chair after 30% increase = Rs.182

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500100 Or 3y 2 12y Principal sum =  Rs.10,000. 5 Or y  4 kmph. Compound interest for two years if the principal sum 0 0 compounded half yearly 36. b;  APB = 90 (angle in a semicircle = 90 ) PBA 180 – (90 + 25) = 650 4   2.5  TPA = PBA (the angle that a chord makes with the = 100001  10000  Rs.1038.    100  tangent, is subtended by the chord on the circumference in the alternate segment) = 650 Simple interest for 2 years = Rs.1000. Required difference = Rs. 1038 1000 = Rs.38 37. b; The volume in both the cases will be equal. 34. b; If you assume that the cost price of milk is Rs.120, then his Let the height of cone be = h

selling price of the mixture would also be Rs.120. Then, he 2 2 3 1 22  35  h cost price of his mixture would need to be Rs.100. 4 14      7 3 7  2  3

2 3  35   414  h   2  141414 2 2 Milk : water = 5 : 1  h  3535 1 cm.  Percentage of water in mixture = 100 16.66%  h  35.84 6 38. b; Let AB is the pole of height 108 m. Let the other post is CD. 0 35. a; Let the speed of the boat and of the current be x kmph and y Angle of depression from point A to C and D are given as 30 0 kmph, respectively. and 60 , respectively. According to the question, 60 60   2 x  y x  y 1 1  1/ 30 Or x  y x  y

Or 60y  x2  y 2

Or x2  y 2  60y ..... (i) After doubling his travelling speed, 60 60 200 10    In  ACX, 2x  y 2x  y 420 21 1 1 1   Or 2x  y 2x  y 126

Or 4x2  y 2  252y ...... (ii) By putting x2 from Eq. (i) in Eq. (ii), we get Or 4y 2  60y y 2  252y

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AX Then 2r  88  r  14 cm tan300  CX Then area = r 2  616 cm2

Or sinθ  cosθ 3 CX  AX 3 41. b;  In  ADB, sinθ  cosθ 4

0 AB sinθ tan60  1 3 BD cosθ  Or sinθ 4 108 1 Or 3  cosθ BD tanθ 1 3 108 Or  Or BD = m = CX tan 1 4 3 θ Or 4tanθ  4  3tanθ  3 As we derived earlier CX = AX 3 Or tan θ  -7 CX 108 108 Or tan 2θ  49 AX =    36 m 3 3  3 3 2 Or tan θ 1  49 1  48 Hence, the height of the post, 0.14 0.11 CD = AB – AX = 108 – 36 = 72 m 625 625  42. a; 0.5 0.40 0.2 39. d 121 25 5

0.14 0.11 0.5 0.4 = 54  54  /112  52  50.2  50.56 50.44 50.560.44 5 =   1/11 1150.8 50.2 1150.80.2 115 43. c; A number m1n082 is divisible by 11 only if the difference of the sum of digits at even places and the sum of digits at odd places is divisible by 11 or it is zero. So (m + n + 8) – (1 + 0 + 2) = m + n +5 Now, m + n + 5 is divisible by 11 when m + n = 6. AOM = 2 ABM and   44. c; After meeting,  AON = 2  ACN Because angle subtended by an arc at the centre of the circle is S2/S1  t1 /t 2 twice the angle subtended by it on the circumference on the Or S = same segment. 2 S1  t1 /t 2  AON = 600 and  AOM = 400 = 90 16 / 9 120 kmph.  x =  AON +  AOM ( vertically opposite angles). 45. b; Let the total unit of work be = 100 units. X 1000   A does 10 units per day. 40. c; The perimeter would remain the same in any case. B does 5 units per day and C does 4 units per day. Let one side of a square be = a cm Combined efficiency = 10 + 5 + 4 = 19 units per day. Then a2  484  a  22 cm  perimeter = After 2 days = 19  2 = 38 units of work get completed. After 3 more days B and C did 27 units of work 4a  88 cm Remaining amount of work = 100 – (38 + 27) = 35 units Let the radius of the circle be = r cm 

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and that was done by A. 52,000 ‘C’ did for 5 day and hence he had done 20 units. 48. a; Price of wool per quintal in 1993 = $  $693.3 75 20 1  Portion of work done by C =  39,000 100 5 Price of wool per quintal in 1990 = $  $600 65 46. b; 7 + 77 +777 + 7777 + ...... n terms  Required increase = $(693.3 – 600) = $ 93.3  93 = 7 ( 1 + 11 + 111 + 1111 + ..... up to n terms)  75  60   49. a; Required percentage increase =  100% = 9  99  999 ...n terms 60 9   10 1100 11000 110000  15  7   =  100%  25% =    60  9 1....n terms  50. c; Total wool exported during the given period = 7 10 10n 1    65  60  68  75  70 quintal = 338 quintal =   n   9  10 1   68  Required percentage =  100% 7 10 n  338 10 1 n   = 9  9    = 20% (approx.) 47. a 51. b 52. d 53. a

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80. d 81. c 82. b 83. d 84. a 85. d x  y  0 .... (i) x  y 86. a 87. a 88. d 89. a 90. c 91. c If x = 0, then y = 0 92. a 93. c 94. a 95. d 96. b 97. d Again x  y  2 98. d 99. b 100. b If x  0, y  2 PART - II If y  0, x  2 COMPUTER SCIENCE 1 Area of  DBC =  BC DX 1. b 2. d 3. a 4. c 5. e 6. d 2 7. a 8. c 9. a 10. d 11. b 12. c 1 13. d 14. a 15. d 16. d 17. d 18. a =  21 1 unit 2 19. c 20. a 21. a 22. b 23. d 24. c 25. a 26. d 27. c 28. b 29. a 30. d 31. b 32. d 33. d 34. b 35. c 36. d

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Minister of Home Affairs. Raj Nath Singh Minister of External Affairs. Sushma Swaraj Minister of Finance, Ministry of Defence and Minister of Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley Minister of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of Shipping. Nitin Jairam Gadkari Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhu Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation. D.V. Sadananda Gowda Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. Uma Bharati Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ramvilas Paswan Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Kalraj Mishra Minister of Women and Child Development Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers; and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Ananthkumar Minister of Law and Justice; and Minister of Electronics and Information Ravi Shankar Prasad Technology Minister of Health and Family Welfare Jagat Prakash Nadda Minister of Civil Aviation Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises. Anant Geete Minister of Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal Minister of Rural Development; Minister of Panchayati Raj; and Narendra Singh Tomar Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Minister of Urban Development* Minister of Steel Chaudhary Birender Singh Minister of Tribal Affairs Jual Oram Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Radha Mohan Singh Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawar Chand Gehlot Minister of Textiles, Information and Broadcasting* Smriti Zubin Irani Minister of Science and Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences Dr. Harsh Vardhan Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar

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Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning; Rao Inderjit Singh Minister of State in the Ministry of Urban Development; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Labour and Bandaru Dattatreya Employment Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Skill Rajiv Pratap Rudy Development and Entrepreneurship. Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Vijay Goel Sports; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga Shripad Yesso Naik and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministryof Petroleum and Dharmendra Natural Gas Pradhan Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Power; Minister Piyush Goyal of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Coal; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy; and Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Mines. Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministryof Development of Jitendra Singh North Eastern Region; Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office; Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy; and Minister of State in the Department of Space Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Commerce and Nirmala Sitharaman Industry. Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Culture; and Mahesh Sharma Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Tourism Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Communications; Manoj Sinha and Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Environment, Dr. Harsh Vardhan Forest and Climate Change Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Minority Affairs; Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs

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Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development. Ram Kripal Yadav Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; and S.S. Ahluwalia Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs General (Retd.) V.K. Singh Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance Santosh Kumar Gangwar Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Faggan Singh Kulaste Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Giriraj Singh Medium Enterprises Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs Hansraj Gangaram Ahir Minister of State in the Ministry of Drinking Water and Ramesh Chandappa Sanitation Jigajinagi Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways Rajen Gohain Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Parshottam Rupala Farmers Welfare; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs. M. J. Akbar Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development Upendra Kushwaha Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Radhakrishnan Highways; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Shipping Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Krishan Pal Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs Jaswantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor Minister of State in the Ministry of Water Resources, Dr. Sanjeev Kumar River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Balyan Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel. Vishnu Deo Sai Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Sudarshan Bhagat Minister of State in the Ministry of Science and Y.S. Chowdary Technology; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Earth Sciences Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Babul Supriyo Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Vijay Sampla Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance; and Arjun Ram Meghwal Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development Mahendra Nath Pandey Minister of State in the Ministry of Textiles Ajay Tamta Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development Krishna Raj Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Mansukh L. Highways; Minister of State in the Ministry of Shipping; and Minister of State in the Mandaviya Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Anupriya Patel Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution C. R. Chaudhary Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice; and Minister of State in the P.P. Chaudhary Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence Subhash Ramrao Bhamre

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S. STATE AND U.T. CHIEF MINISTER GOVERNOR NO 1 Andaman & Nicobar U.T. Jagdish Mukhi 2 Andhra Pradesh N.Chandrababu Naidu Shri. E. S. L. Narasimhan 3 Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu Padmanabha Acharya 4 Assam Sarbananda Sonowal Banwarilal Purohit 5 Bihar Nitish Kumar Keshari Nath Tripathi 6 Chandigarh U.T. V.P. Singh Bandore 7 Chhattisgarh Dr. Raman Singh Shri Balramji Dass Tandon 8 Goa Manohar Parrikar Mridula Sinha 9 Gujarat Vijay Rupani Shri Om Prakash Kohli 10 Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar Kaptan Singh Solanki 11 Himachal Pradesh Virbhadra Singh Acharya Dev Vrat 12 Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed Narinder Nath Vohra 13 Jharkhand Raghubar Das Draupadi Murmu 14 Karnataka Shri K. Siddaramaiah Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala 15 Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan P. Sathasivam 16 Madhya Pradesh Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan Shri Om Prakash Kohli 17 Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao 18 Manipur N. Biren Singh Najma Heptullah 19 Meghalaya Mukul Sangma Banwarilal Purohit 20 Mizoram Pu Lalthanhawla Nirbhay Sharma 21 Nagaland T.R. Zeliang Shri Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya 22 New Delhi Arvind Kejriwal Anil Bijal 23 Odisha Sh. Naveen Patnaik Shri S. C. Jamir 24 Puducherry V. Narayanasamy Kiran Bedi 25 Punjab Captain Amarinder Singh V P Singh Badnore 26 Rajasthan Vasundhara Raje Kalyan Singh 27 Sikkim Shri Pawan Kumar Chamling Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil 28 Tamil Nadu Eddappadi k.Palaniswami C.Vidyasagar Rao 29 Telangana K Chandrasekhar Rao ESL Narasimhan 30 Tripura Shri Manik Sarkar Tathagata Roy 31 Uttar Pradesh Yogi Aditya Shri Ram Naik 32 Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat Krishan Kant Paul 33 West Bengal Km. Mamata Banerjee Keshari Nath Tripathi 34 Dadra and Nagar Haveli U.T. Prafula Khoda patel 35 Daman and Diu U.T. Prafula Khoda patel 36 Lakshadweep U.T. Farooq Khan

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PERMANENT COMMISSIONS OFFICE-HOLDERS 1. Chairman, National Human Rights Commission of India-H. L. Dattu 2. Chairman, Central Vigilance Commission-K. V. Chowdhary 3. Chairman, Central Information Commission-R. K. Mathur 4. Chairperson, Central Board of Direct Taxes -Sushil Chandra 5. Chairman, National Commission for Minorities-Syed Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi 6. Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Castes -Ram Shankar Katheria 7. Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes -Nand Kumar Sai 8. Chairman, National Commission for Backward Classes- vacant 9. Chairman, National Commission for Women-Lalitha Kumaramangalam 10. Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of India-Sekhar Basu 11. Chairman, Department of Space-A. S. Kiran Kumar 12. Chairman, National Forest Commission-B. N. Kirpal 13. Chairman, Union Public Service Commission-David R. Syiemlieh 14. Chairman, University Grants Commission-V. S. Chauhan 15. Chairman, Central Water Commission-Narendra Kumar 16. Director, Space Applications Centre-Tapan Misra 17. Chairman, Competition Commission of India-Devender Kumar Sikri 18. Chairman, CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education)-Rajesh Kumar Chaturvedi 19. Chairperson, Central Board of Excise & Customs-Ms. Vanaja N. Sarna

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20. Chairman, FSSAI(Food Safety and Standards Authority of India)-Ashish Bahuguna 21. Chairman, National Highways Authority of India-Deepak Kumar 22. Chairman, Central Board of Film-Prasoon Joshi 23. Chairman, Children’s Film Society of India-Mukesh Khana 24. Chairman, Press Council of India -CK Prasad 25. Chairman, Press Trust of India-Riyadh Mathew 26. Chairman, TRAI-Ram Sevak Sharma 27. Chairperson, National Green Tribunal-Justice Swatantra Kumar 28. Director, NCERT(National Council of Educational Research and Training)-Hrushikesh Senapaty 29. Director General, Archaeological Survey of India-Rakesh Tewari 30. Chairperson, Staff Selection Commission -Ashim Khurana 31. Director General, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation-Mangoo Singh DEFENCEAND SECURITY 1. Chief of the Army Staff-General Bipin Rawat 2. Chief of the Air Staff-Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa (also Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee) 3. Chief of the Naval Staff-Admiral Sunil Lanba 4. Chief of Integrated Defence Staff-air marshall p p reddy 5. Director, Research and Analysis Wing-Anil Dhasmana 6. Director, Intelligence Bureau-Rajiv Jain 7. Director General, Military Intelligence-Lieutenant General K. G. Krishna 8. Director, Central Bureau of Investigation-Alok Kumar Verma 9. Director General, Border Security Force-K. K. Sharma 10. Director General, Central Reserve Police Force-Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar 11. Director General, Central Industrial Security Force-O. P. Singh 12. Director General, Indo-Tibetan Border Police-R. K. Pachnanda 13. Director General, National Security Guard-R. C. Tayal 14. Director General, National Investigation Agency-Sharad Kumar 15. Director General, National Disaster Response Force-Sanjay Kumar 16. Director General,SSB-Archana Ramasundaram HEADS OF FINANCIAL BODIES 1. Chairman, 14th Finance Commission of India-Y. Venugopal Reddy 2. Governor of Reserve Bank of India-Urjit Patel 3. Chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India-Ajay Tyagi 4. Chairman, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India-T. S. Vijayan 5. Chairman, 7th Pay Commission-Ashok Kumar Mathur 6. Chairman, Small Industries Development Bank of India-Muhammad Mustafa 7. Chairman, Company Law Board-Mahesh Kumar Mittal 8. Chairman and Managing Director, Export-Import Bank of India- David Rasquinha 9. CEO and Managing Director, National Housing Bank-Sriram Kalyanaraman 10. Chairman, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development-Harsh Kumar Bhanwala 11. CEO and Managing Director, Industrial Finance Corporation of India-Dr. Emandi Sankara Rao 12. Chairman, National Stock Exchange-Ashok Chawla 13. Chairman, Bombay Stock Exchange-Dhirendra swarup 14. Chairperson, State Bank of India-Arundhati Bhattacharya 15. Chairman, IDBI-Mahesh Kumar Jain 16. Chairman, Life Insurance Corporation of India-V. K. Sharma 17. President, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry-Pankaj Patel 18. Chairman, Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority-Hemant G. Contractor 19. President, Confederation of Indian Industry-Shobhana Kamineni 20. President, ASSOCHAM-Sandeep Jajodia 21. Chairman, National Statistical Commission-Radha Binod Barman 22. Chairman of Indian Bank Associations- Rajeev Rishi

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AFS-Annual Financial Statement KMB-Kotak Mahindra Bank. AFS-Available For Sale KVB-Karur Vysya Bank. BoP-Balance of Payments KYC-Know Your Customer. CR-Capital Receipts LAB-Local Area Bank. CRAR-Capital to Risk Weighted Asset Ratio LAF-Liquidity Adjustment Facility. DCCB-District Central Cooperative Bank LDB-Land Development Bank. ECGC-Export Credit and Guarantee Corporation LIBOR-London Inter Bank Offered Rate. GFD-Gross Fiscal Deficit MIBOR-Mumbai Inter Bank Offer Rate. GIC-General Insurance Corporation NABARD-National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development. HUDCO-Housing & Urban Development Corporation NAS-National Account Statistics. IBRD-International Bank for Reconstruction and Development NAV-Net Asset Value. IBS-International Banking Statistics NBC-Non Banking Companies. OECD-Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development NBFC-Non Banking and Finance companies. OLTAS-OnLine Tax Accounting System NEFT-National Electronic Funds Transfer System. RWA-Risk Weighted Asset NFA-No Frills Account. SEBI-Securities and Exchange Board of India NFC-Non Banking Finance Companies. UBB-Uniform Balance Book NHB-National Housing Bank. WPI -Wholesale Price Index NIB-Nordic Investment Bank. FDI-Foreign Direct Investment. NPA-Non Performing Assets. FERA-Foreign Exchange Regulation Act. NPS-National Pensions Scheme. FICCI-Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. NSE-National Stock Exchange. FII-Foreign Institutional Investor. OMO-Open Market Operations. FIPB-Foreign Investment Promotion Board. OTP-One Time Password. FPI-Foreign Portfolio Investment. PGS-Payment Gateway System. FTA-Free Trade Agreement. RBI-Reserve Bank Of India. GDP-Gross Domestic Product. RBS-Royal Bank of Scotland. GDR-Global Depository Receipt. RRB-Regional Rural Bank. GAAR-General Anti Avoidance Rule. RTGS-Real Time Gross Settlement System. HDFC-Housing Development Finance Corporation. SCB-Scheduled Commercial Bank. IBRD-International Bank For Reconstruction And Development. SCC-Selective Credit Control. ICICI-Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India. SEPA-Single Euro Payment Area. IDB-Islamic Development Bank. SEBI-Security Exchange Board Of India. IDBI-Industrial Development Bank of India. SHGs-Self Help Groups. IDR-Indian Depository Receipts. SIDBI-Small Industries and Development Bank of India. IIB-International Investment Bank. SLR-Statutory Liquidity Ratio. IIBF- Indian Institute of Banking and Finance. SPNS-Shared Payment Network System. IRR- Internal Rate Of Return. SWIFT-Society For World Wide Inter Bank Financial IMD-India Millennium Deposits. Telecommunication. IMF-International Monetary Fund. ULIP-Unit Linked Insurance Plan. IMPS-Immediate Mobile Payment System. UCB-Urban Cooperative Bank. IOB-Indian Overseas Bank. UEBA-Universal Electronic Bank Account. IPO-Initial Public Offering. UIDAI-Unique Identification Authority of India. IRBI-Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India. ULIP-Unit Linked Insurance Policies. KCC-Kisan Credit Card. UPIN-Unique Property Identification Numbers.

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USB-Ultra Small Branch. SPMCIL - Security Printing and Minting USD-United States Dollar. OPEC - Organisation for Petroleum Exporting Countries VDBS-Vertically Differentiated Banking System. MCA - Ministry of Corporate Affairs WBCIS-Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme. SMEs - Small and Medium Enterprises WL ATM-White Label ATM. SMO - Special Market Operations WPFI-World Press Freedom Index. MFDEF - Micro Finance Development and Equity fund WPI-Wholesale Price Index. SEBI - Securities and Exchange Board of India ECR - Export Credit Refinance ORFS - Online Returns Filing System ECS - Electronic Clearing Services OSMOS - Off-Site Monitoring and Surveillance SDR - Special Drawing Rights OTC - Over-the-Counter BRBNMPL - Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private OTS - One-Time Settlement Limited BSA - Bilateral Swap Arrangements CDR - Corporate Debt Restructuring IMF - International Monetary Fund EEA - Exchange Equalisation Account MBS - Mortgage Backed Securities NFA - Net Foreign Assets BSE - Bombay Stock Exchange, Mumbai PDO - Public Debt Office CBDT - Central Board of Direct Taxes REER - Real Effective Exchange Rate CBLO - Collateralised Borrowing and Lending OPEC - Organisation for Petroleum Exporting Countries 

Pragmatic in London: on Brexit This late pragmatism does not detract from the contentious round The Labour Party’s surprise announcement that Britain should of negotiations between the U.K. and the rest of the bloc. Brussels continue in the European single market, at least for some time after has, ever since the June 2016 referendum, insisted upon adherence the March 2019 Brexit deadline, reflects the late dawning of realism to a sequential process of unwinding the long partnership. The over disengaging with the European Union. It implies an acceptance withdrawal agreement deduced from Article 50 of the Treaty on of the principle of free movement of people from the bloc, a European Union entails three distinct elements. It includes a decision contentious issue that had alienated the opposition party’s core on the status of British and EU migrants resident in their respective support base during the 2016 referendum. Equally significant is territories, the financial settlement of €60-100 billion, and the ruling Conservative Party’s sudden acceptance of the reconfiguration of the border between Northern Ireland and the possibility that the European Court of Justice may still have a role Republic of Ireland. Any meaningful negotiations on a future trade after Britain’s exit from the EU. Independence from the jurisdiction agreement between the two parties hinges on a resolution of these of the Luxembourg court had all along been equated with the outstanding issues. Little progress has been achieved so far on assertion of national sovereignty by the Leave campaign. This many of these critical matters. The European Commission and hard line was also the centrepiece of Prime Minister Theresa May’s some EU member-states have expressed concern that London is Lancaster House address in January. Foreign Secretary Boris not doing enough to hasten the process. The emerging shifts in the Johnson, a staunch Brexiter, has also made a striking departure. U.K.’s negotiating stance vis-a-vis the EU should be read against Last month he made news with his “go whistle” comment to this overall backdrop. European leaders over London’s outstanding dues, but has since Word List said that as a law-abiding country Britain would indeed pay its 1. pragmatic (adjective) – empirical, realistic/actual, bills. There are thus good chances that Eurosceptics in both the practical. parties will be further isolated within and outside Parliament, 2. come round (phrasal verb) – agree with, change one’s allowing divisions between the U.K. and EU negotiating positions mind, give way to. to be narrowed. The bottomline for Brussels is to ensure that 3. dawning (noun) – beginning, unfolding, development. Britain’s exit does not set a precedent. A necessary implication of 4. disengage (verb) – remove, separate, disconnect. this premise is that the terms of a future partnership would be 5. imply (verb) – suggest, hint, say indirectly. vastly inferior in comparison with the benefits of full membership. 6. bloc (noun) – alliance, association, coalition. Conversely for Britain, to conform to a set of rules and regulations 7. contentious (adjective) – controversial, debatable, without a real voice in their formulation would be far from an ideal disputed. arrangement. 8. alienate (verb) – estrange, set/drive apart, divide/ separate.

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9. referendum (noun) – public vote; a direct vote in which Learnings from Mumbai are important for other cities as well, to people cast ballots to decide on a specific issue or policy prepare for a future in which scientists think there will be more (Courtesy: VOA Learning English). days of short but intense rain spells. Numerical weather prediction 10. assertion (noun) – affirmation, declaration, statement. has consistently improved. Researchers from IIT Gandhinagar 11. sovereignty (noun) – autonomy/independence, self- published a forecast on social media warning of 100 mm-plus rainfall government/rule; non-alignment. for the region on August 29, four days ahead. These remarkably 12. hard line (noun) – uncompromising & strict attachment/ accurate models open up possibilities for authorities to evacuate commitment to a policy. vulnerable sections early, residents to stock up on essential supplies 13. staunch (adjective) – loyal/faithful, trusty, committed. and disaster management authorities to review options. Indian cities 14. striking (adjective) – noticeable, prominent; significant. are poorly planned and managed, exposing them to cyclical weather 15. go whistle (phrase) – to inform someone to get lost, and havoc; it is imperative that civic bodies produce flood risk maps that you have no intention of doing whatever he wants. and restrict development in the areas. Given that monsoon flooding 16. law-abiding (adjective) – lawful, righteous, honest. is inescapable, citizens and communities need to prepare. Putting 17. eurosceptic (noun) – a person who is opposing new constructions on stilts, retrofitting houses to locate electrical to increase the powers of the European Union. installations high above, and creating a first response protocol are 18. precedent (noun) – model, example, previous case. all important. Introduction of insurance cover for householder losses 19. implication (noun) – consequence, result, ramification/ will provide financial protection and, crucially, require city repercussion. administrations to provide professional management. If there is a 20. premise (noun) – proposition, assumption, belief/ single priority that every city needs, it is to reopen the veins of thought. natural drainage that have been callously built over. Mumbai this 21. inferior (adjective) – subservient, not important, lower year and Chennai’s disastrous flood of 2015 underscore that lesson. in status/quality. Word List 22. conform (verb) – comply with, abide by; agree with. 1. Apres le deluge (phrase in French) – after the flood. 23. pragmatism (noun) – realism, practicability, logical 2. deluge (noun) – severe flood, torrent; downpour, thinking; a pragmatic (practical/logical/realistic) way. torrential rain. 24. detract (verb) – belittle, take away from, diminish. 3. paralysis (noun) – shutdown, immobilization, stoppage. 25. unwind (verb) – untwist, undo; ease up. 4. resilience (noun) – strength, toughness; the capacity to 26. deduce (verb) – conclude, work out, infer. recover quickly from difficulties. 27. entail (verb) – cause/produce, generate, prompt. 5. nucleus (noun) – core, most important part, focus/focal 28. hinge on (verb) – be dependent, be contingent, be based. point. 29. hasten (verb) – speed up, accelerate, expedite. 6. implication (noun) – consequence, result, ramification/ 30. vis-a-vis (preposition) – in relation to, with regard to. repercussion. 7. distressing (adjective) – upsetting, painful, traumatic. Après le déluge: on the Mumbai floods 8. wrangle (verb) – argue, quarrel, debate/disagree. The return of the deluge to Mumbai and the paralysis suffered by 9. scenario (noun) – course of events, situation. the city bring up the question of why Indian cities are unable to 10. encroachment (noun) –taking away (gradually) of others’ improve their resilience to extreme weather events. As the nucleus areas (beyond acceptable limits). of financial activity, Mumbai’s losses naturally have national 11. traction (noun) – an idea or a product gains popularity/ implications. The flooding reduced trading volumes in the stock acceptance. market, and thousands had to stay on in their offices after the 12. fringe (noun) – perimeter, periphery, border. workday. All this brings back memories of the disaster of 2005 13. underline (verb) – emphasize, highlight, focus on. caused by over 99 cm of rainfall in a 24-hour period leaving hundreds 14. compensatory (adjective) – compensating, redemptive, dead. There has been distressing loss of life this time too, but on a offsetting. lower scale. Beyond the political wrangling on bad management, 15. stock up (verb) – fill, store up, collect/accumulate. such extreme weather events trigger valuable research and analysis 16. cyclical (adjective) – recurrent, recurring, regular. on developing better prediction and management systems. 17. havoc (noun) – devastation, destruction, damage/ Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai have, catastrophe. for instance, provided pathways for nearly 450 sq. km of the city 18. imperative (noun) – vitally important, crucial, necessary. to better prepare for monsoonal floods, using the worst-case 19. stilts (noun) – a set of posts/piles supporting a building scenario of a dozen years ago as the baseline. There should naturally above the ground. be an inquiry into whether the reforms proposed over time, ranging 20. retrofit (verb) – adding something to the one already from clearing of drainage channels and removal of encroachments constructed/manufactured. to the creation of holding ponds to temporarily store large volumes 21. vein (noun) – layer, channel, passage. of water, gained any traction. Over time, mangrove wetlands in the 22. callously (adverb) – unfeelingly; heartlessly, eastern fringes and drain paths in the north-west of the city have insensitively. lost much of their capacity owing to unplanned development. The 23. underscore (verb) – call attention to, emphasize, latest downpour underlines why loss of urban wetlands should be highlight. halted and compensatory lakes created.  167 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. 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International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances was celebrated across the world on - 30th August 2017 13. “YUVA - Skill Development Programme inaugurated by - Rajnath Singh 14. No interview for non-gazetted posts in Uttar Pradesh announced by - The Uttar Pradesh Government 15. Sri Lankan Selectors stepped down on - 29th August 2017 16. Gobindobhog rice gets Geographical Indication status on - 24th August 2017 17. Largest fossil of Ichthyosaurus discovered accidentally in Museum by - UK Scientists 18. India-China Doklam border standoff end on - 28th August 2017 19. ‘National Sports Talent Search Portal’ launched by - Vice President Venkaiah Naidu 20. UEFA Men’s Player of the Year Award won by - Cristiano Ronaldo 21. Subramanian Swamy’s plea to direct BCCI to e-auction IPL rights rejected by - Supreme Court 22. 10-year jail term for Dera chief Ram Rahim Singh pronounced by - CBI court 23. International Day Against Nuclear Tests 2017 observed globally on - 29th August 2017 24. National Sports Day observed on - August 29th 2017 25. Ministry of Textiles proposes to hold Pan India camps for weavers and artisans on - 28th August 2017 26. Union Government to launch Deep Ocean Mission on - 28th August 2017 27. DIPP releases Consolidated FDI Policy on - 28th August 2017 28. Non Resident Indians can also have convertible notes on non-repatriation basis. 29. Production of Light Combat Helicopter at HAL inaugurated by - Union Government 30. India wins South Asian Football Federation Under-15 Championship on - 27th August 2017 31. ‘Cleanliness is Service’ campaign announced by - PM Narendra Modi 32. Who has been crowned first Miss TransQueen India? - Nitasha Biswas 33. Biosensor to detect kidney disorder developed by - IIT Researchers 34. Justice Dipak Misra sworn in as 45th Chief Justice of India on - 28th August 2017 35. World Badminton Championship won by - Nozomi Okuhara 36. Who has been appointed as CEO of Uber Technologies Inc? - Dara Khosrowshahi 37. Lewis Hamilton wins 2017 Belgian Grand Prix on - 27th August 2017 38. Who has been appointed as Chairman of Infosys Board? - Nandan Nilekani 39. Potential new way to treat HIV identified by - Researchers 40. E-waste disposal in state schools has been launched by - Kerala Government 41. Canada to allow gender-neutral passports to promote equality on - 24th August 2017 42. Project Brainwave for real-time artificial intelligence launched by - Microsoft 43. ‘Business Week’ in India to be led by - Australian Trade Minister 44. Project Brainwave for real-time artificial intelligence launched by - Microsoft 45. Amit Shah, Smriti Irani sworn in as Rajya Sabha members on - 25th August 2017 46. Rooftop solar programme launched by - Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik 47. Amazon national reserve for mining opened by - Brazil 48. England to host 2018 International Table Tennis Federation Team World Cup on - 24th August 2017 49. Union Government names Rajiv Bansal as CMD of Air India on - 23rd August 2017 50. Nepal launches Climate-Smart Snow Leopard Plan on - 23rd August 2017

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51. India-Nepal signed 8 agreements to boost the bilateral relations on - 24th August 2017 52. Union Cabinet approves setting up of Commission to examine Sub-Categorization within OBCs on - 23rd August 2017 53. Radar system in Palau, island nation south-west of Guam to be installed by - US military 54. England striker Wayne Rooney retires from international football on - 23rd August 2017 55. Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY) - 23rd August 2017 56. Amalgamation of Public Sector Banks through Alternative Mechanism approved by - Union Cabinet 57. Former Manipur CM Rishang Keishing passed away on - 22nd August 2017 58. India grants Pfizer patent for pneumonia vaccine in - August 2017 59. Nano Missile developed by Indian Student for - Indian Army 60. National Sports Museum to be established in New Delhi announced by - The Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports 61. New frog species with pig face discovered by - Indian Scientists 62. Common Services Centres (CSC) in India to launch - Doorstep Enrollment Facility for Elders 63. NITI Aayog to launch Mentor India Campaign on - 22nd August 2017 64. International Day for the Remembrance of Slave Trade and Its Abolition 2017 observed globally on - 23rd August 2017 65. Ashwani Lohani appointed as Chairman of Railway Board on - 23rd August 2017 66. Cabinet approves India-Nepal MoU on drug matters on - 23rd August 2017 67. Australia beats Iran to clinch 2017 FIBA Asia Cup on - 20th August 2017 68. Finance Ministry gives formal go ahead to printing of Rs 200 notes on - 23rd August 2017 69. World’s smallest surgical robot named Versius created by - British scientists 70. National Sports Awards 2017 announced on - 22nd August 2017 71. O Panneerselvam sworn in as Deputy CM of Tamil Nadu on - 21st August 2017 72. Digital Police Portal under CCTNS project launched by - Union Government 73. ICMR signs Deal signed between IVI for vaccine research and development on - 21st August 2017 74. Second ship of Landing Craft Utility MK-IV inducted by - Indian Navy 75. Swasth Bachche, Swasth Bharat Program on - 21st August 2017 76. Supreme Court strikes Triple Talaq by 3:2 majority on -22nd August 2017 77. Work on Asian Trilateral Highway to begin shortly as part of India’s Act East Policy announced on - 21st August 2017 78. TDRS-M Satellite to help astronauts communicate with Earth launched by - NASA 79. Polish-US writer Janusz Glowacki passed on - 19th August 2017 80. Arabian cap-shaped World Cup stadium to be built for FIFA 2022 in - Qatar 81. RBI to issue new fluorescent blue Rs 50 banknotes on - 18th August 2017 82. Compassionate family pension instead of employment to be launched by - Assam government 83. India’s first calf born to surrogate cow in - August 2017 84. Physical police verification of passport to be replaced with - Online verification 85. New Android version named Oreo introduced by - Google 86. Who has been selected for 2017 Global Agriculture Leadership Award ? - K Chandrashekhar Rao 87. Anti-dumping duty on tempered glass from China imposed by - Union Government 88. Rahul Doshi crowned as ‘Child Genius’ in UK on - 20th August 2017 89. Action against violators of sex determination laws by - Bombay HC 90. Nagaland Government constitutes committee to review Nagaland Municipal Act 2001 on - 20th August 2017 91. Delegation of Powers to Border Roads Organisation approved by - Union Ministry of Defence 92. Lost WWII wreckage of warship USS Indianapolis found in Pacific on - 18th August 2017 93. 40% reservation for girls at Navodaya schools planned by - Union Government 94. New state of matter discovered by - A group of Scientists 95. First three of 24 fast track courts for Maharashtra to be set up in Mumbai, Thane stated on - 19th August 2017 96. Mobile App MyFASTag and FASTag Partner launched by - NHAI 97. Proposal to procure 6 Apache attack helicopters for Army cleared by - Defence Ministry 98. Harit Diwali, Swasth Diwali Campaign launched by - Union Environment Ministry 99. Veteran photographer S Paul died on - 16th August 2017 100. Who has taken the charge as Executive Director of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board?- Mamta Suri

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A country’s foreign policy, also called foreign relations or foreign affairs -policy, consists of self-interest strategies chosen by the state to safeguard its national interests and to achieve goals within its international relations milieu. The foreign policy of a country is the sum total of the principles, interests and objectives which it seeks to promote through its relations with other countries. It is also “for influencing and changing the behaviour of other states” and for ‘adjusting’ its own “activities to the international environment”. So, “the conduct and formulation of foreign policy is governed by the interplay of numerous determinants, institutions, processes and personalities”. The basic determinants of India’s’ foreign policy is: (a) Political Tradition and philosophical basis (b) Geography (c) National Interest (d) International Milieu Political Tradition and Philosophical basis The history of Indian foreign policy is short but active. Nehru could rightly be called the ‘architect’ of independent India’s foreign policy. However the historic declarations of the Congress were very fundamental in providing roots to the attitudes of anti-Cold War, anti-imperialism, anti-racialism, anti power politics and peaceful relationships. The philosophical basis of Indian foreign policy includes an account of such moral ideals and values of India. Mutual love and faith in national and international peace and friendship with other countries are regarded as possible and practical values by India. Geography Geography is the foremost determinant of Indian foreign policy. Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru was fully conscious of the geographical importance of India. On 17th March 1950, in a speech in the Indian Parliament, he observed, “We are in a strategic part of Asia, set in the centre of Indian Ocean, with intimate past and present connection with West Asia, South-East Asia and Far Eastern Asia.” Himalayas and the Indian Ocean are determining factors of India’s security. The Himalayas was considered to be natural security guard for India. National Interest A country’s foreign policy, also called the foreign relations policy, consists of self interest strategies chosen by the state to safeguard its national interests and to achieve its goals within international relations milieu. There has been a tremendous growth in politico-intellectual interest in interpreting Indian foreign policy. International Mileu The broad currents of international politics at any given point of time have direct bearing on foreign policies. The difficulty in conducting the foreign policy arises because states do not have sure means of controlling the behaviour of other states. During the inter-war period (1919-39), the quest for French security, followed by the rise of Fascism in Italy and Nazism in Germany and militarism in Japan had their impact on foreign policies. The US changed its policy towards the Soviet Union and recognised it because, in 1933, Hitler’s emergence in Germany posed a threat to the world order created after the War. The Japanese aggression in Manchuria (China) in 1931 provided a common threat to USA as well as USSR in the Far East. The two Powers gave up their hostility. The Cold War era (1945-90) has determined in a big way the foreign policy of most countries.

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India’s efforts in expounding the policy of nonalignment was directly a response to this emerging polarisation in the international environment. Basic Objectives and Principles of Foreign Policy Preservation of national interest, achievement of world peace, disarmament, independence for Afro-Asian nations have been important objectives of India’s foreign policy. These objectives are sought to be achieved through some principles viz. Panchsheel; nonalignment; anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, anti-racism, and strengthening the UN. It would be befitting to expand these principles. Panchsheel Nehru was a believer in world peace. He understood the linkage between peace for development and survival of mankind. For the progress of a nation a long spell of peace was needed. In its absence social and economic priorities relating to development tend to get pushed to the background. The production of nuclear weapons strengthened Nehru’s faith in the peaceful philosophy even more. Hence he gave utmost importance to world peace in his policy planning. India’s desired peaceful and friendly relations with all countries, particularly the big powers and the neighbouring nations, while signing an agreement with China, on April 28, 1954, India advocated adherence to five guiding principles known as Panchsheel for the conduct of bilitral relations. It includes the following: 1. Mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. 2. Mutual non-aggression 3. Mutual non-interference in each other’s internal affairs 4. Equality and mutual benefit 5. Peaceful co-existence. The Panchsheel agreement enumerates best the principles of peaceful co-existence with neighbours. It is an important component of India’s foreign policy. Non-alignment Non-alignment has been regarded as the most important feature of India’s foreign policy. Non alignment aimed to maintain national independence in foreign affairs by not joining any military alliance formed by the USA and Soviet Union in the aftermath of the Second World War. Non-alignment was neither neutrality nor non-involvement nor isolationism. It was a dynamic concept which meant not committing to any military bloc but taking an independent stand on international issues according to the merits of each case. The policy of non-alignment won many supporters in the developing countries as it provided an opportunity to them for protecting their sovereignty as also retaining their freedom of action during the tension ridden cold war period. India played an important role in forging the non-aligned movement (NAM). The concept of NAM emerged through a gradual process. Nehru took the initiative to convene the Asian Relations Conference in New Delhi in 1947. Later on a Conference, of 29 countries of Asia and Africa was held in Bandung (Indonesia) in 1955. This was the first gathering of its kind which pledged to work together for colonial liberation, peace, cultural, economic and political cooperation. Bandung to Belgrade in 1961 where the first NAM conference was held was a logical process to project an alternative to cold war bloc politics and assertion of newly independent countries of their independent and sovereign rights. The world politics revolved around the two poles. Thus the world became bipolar. Among the non-aligned, Nehru had evolved special relationship with President Tito of Yugoslavia and Nasser of Egypt. These three are regarded as the founding fathers of the Non-Aligned Movement. The NAM remains a very relevant forum for third world countries to engage the developed nations in a productive dialogue. Moreover, the NAM can prove to be powerful instrument for global cooperation. Such a thing is essential if the third world countries are to increase their bargaining power vis-a-vis the developed world. India continues to take active part in the non- aligned movement even after the end of cold war. Finally, the developing countries united under the forum of NAM have to fight for the reform of UN and change it according to the requirements of 21st century. Anti Imperialism, Anti Racism, Anti Colonialism India has always opposed colonialism and racism. Whenever any injustice happened, India raised her voice, for instance in favour of Indonesia’s nationality fighting the Dutch colonialism in 1947, against South Africa’s illegal occupation of Namibia and the infamous apartheid policy in South Africa India fully supported inclusion of communist China in the United Nations.

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Strengthening of UN India has always viewed UN as a vehicle for peace and for peaceful change in world politics. Apart from this, India has always expected UN to actively involve countries to moderate their differences through talks or negotiations. Further, India has advocated active role for UN in development effort of Third World countries. India has pleaded for a common united front of the third world countries in the UN. It believes that the nonaligned world by virtue of its massive number could play a constructive and meaningful role in the UN by stopping the superpowers from using this world body for their own designs. As early as 1950 India linked the reduction of armaments with the larger goal of development. The UN has in fact played a key role in preserving world peace by helping in the decolonization process, by providing humanitarian and developmental assistance and through peacekeeping. Decolonization – refers to achievement of independence from colonial rule. After the Second World War many colonies achieved freedom in Asia and Africa. Tashkent Declaration: The Tashkent Declaration was a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed on 10 January 1966 that resolved the Indo- Pakistani War of 1965. A meeting was held in Tashkent in the Uzbek, USSR (now Uzbekistan) from 4-10 January 1966 to try to create a more permanent settlement. The Soviets, represented by Premier Alexei Kosygin, mediated between Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and Pakistani President Muhammad Ayub Khan. The Tashkent conference, under United Nations, American and Soviet pressure, compelled India and Pakistan to give away the conquered regions of each other and return to the 1949 ceasefire line in Kashmir. The conference was viewed as a great success and the declaration that was released was hoped to be a framework for lasting peace. The declaration stated that Indian and Pakistani forces would pull back to their pre-conflict positions, pre- August lines. The nations would not interfere in each other’s internal affairs, economic and diplomatic relations would be restored and the two leaders would work towards improving bilateral relations. Simla Agreement: The Simla Agreement was signed between India and Pakistan on 2 July 1972 in Simla, the capital city of Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It followed from the Bangladesh Liberation war in 1971 that led to the independence of Bangladesh, which was earlier known as East Pakistan and was part of the territory of Pakistan. India entered the war as an ally of Bangladesh which transformed the war into an Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The agreement was ratified by the Parliaments of both the nations in same year. The agreement was the result of resolve of both the countries to “put an end to the conflict and confrontation that have hitherto marred their relations”. It conceived the steps to be taken for further normalisation of mutual relations and it also laid down the principles that should govern their future relations. The treaty was signed in Simla, India, by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the President of Pakistan, and Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India. The agreement also paved the way for diplomatic recognition of Bangladesh by Pakistan. Both countries will “settle their differences by peaceful means through bilateral negotiations”. NUCLEAR DOCTRINE Since independence, global nuclear non-proliferation has been a dominant theme of India’s nuclear policy. India conducted first nuclear test in 1974 (Smiling Buddha) and then in 1998(Operation Shakti) and become a de facto nuclear power country. To alleviate the fear of the neighbour and show itself as a responsible nuclear power, New Delhi came out with its Nuclear Doctrine after Pokharan II. India’s nuclear doctrine was perhaps the first of its kind among the known nuclear weapon states. The two pressing theme of our Nuclear- Doctrine are (i) No first use and (ii) Credible minimum deterrence. The document lays down that India will not use nuclear weapon unless and until nuked. It also says that India will not use nuclear weapon against any non-nuclear state, unlike any other nuclear power countries. To ensure nuclear deterrent, India has been engaged in developing credible retaliating power by developing triad of aircraft, mobile land-based missile and sea-based assets. In its Nuclear Doctrine, India has clearly laid dawn that the final decision to use nuclear weapon will lie with the civilian leader. It also laid down complete chain of command in this regard. Objectives: (i) In the absence of global nuclear disarmament India’s strategic interest require effective, credible nuclear deterrence and adequate retaliatory capability. This is consistent with the UN Charter, which sanctions the right of self defence.

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(ii) India aims at convincing any potential aggressor that: (a) Any threat of use of nuclear weapons against India shall involve measures to counter the threat, and (b) Any nuclear attack on India and its forces shall result in retaliation with Nuclear Weapon. (iii) The fundamental purpose of Indian nuclear weapon is to deter the use and threat of use of nuclear weapons by any state or entity against India or Indian forces. Credibility and survivability are central to India’s nuclear deterrent. Command and Control (I) Nuclear weapons shall be tightly controlled and released for use at the highest political level. (ii) An effective and survivable Command and Control system with requisite flexibility and responsiveness shall be in place. (iii) Space based and other assets shall be created to provide early warning, communication, damage and detonation. GUJRAL DOCTRINE The GujraI Doctrine is a set of five principles to guide the conduct of foreign relations with India’s immediate neighbours. The doctrine was given by I.K. Gujral, former Prime Minister of India. It was seen that smaller neighbour saw India with aprehension and there were few unsolved issues and irritant with neighbour countries. India’s big brotherly approach was also not welcomed. Thus, to overcome all sorts of apprehension of small neighbours. The following principles were given. 1. India should give unilateral concessions to neighbours like Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Srilanka, Maldives without asking for reciprocity. 2. No south Asian country should allow its territory to be used against the interest of another country of the region. 3. No country should interfere in the internal affairs of another. 4. All south Asian countries must respect each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. 5. All south Asian countries should settle all their disputes through peaceful bilateral negotiation. These five prinicples if adhered to would recast the south Asia’s regional relationship, including difficult relationship between India and Pakistan. These principles would generate a climate of mutual cooperation in the region and ensure lasting peace. FOREIGN POLICY OF NARENDRA MODI The foreign policy of the Narendra Modi government is popularly known as Modi Doctrine. It concerns the policy initiatives made towards other countries by the Modi government after he assumed office as Prime Minister of India on 26 May 2014. Modi’s foreign policy is currently focused on improving relations with neighbouring countries in South Asia, engaging the extended neighbourhood in Southeast Asia and the major global powers. In pursuit of this, he invited the SAARC leaders to his swearing in ceremony as PM and he has made official visits to Bhutan, Nepal and Japan within the first 100 days of his government, followed by the United States, Myanmar, Australia, and Fiji. During 3years of his rule he has emerged as the most visiting PM of India who has traversed the world to build Indian relation in the changed geopolitical situation. 1. Act East policy From the very beginning the Modi led government made it ample clear that India would focus more and more on improving relations with ASEAN and other East Asian countries as per India’s Look East policy which was formulated during PM Narasimha Rao’s government in 1992 for better economic engagement with its eastern neighbours but successive government later successfully turned it into a tool for forging strategic partnership and security cooperation with countries in that region in general and Vietnam and Japan in particular. The recent Government stressed on the need for an Act East Policy that should replace India’s over two decade-old Look East Policy emphasizing a more proactive role for India in this region. All the ASEAN leaders have been invited to the Republic Day celebration next year. 2. Neighbourhood first policy One of the major policy initiatives taken by Modi government is to focus back on its immediate neighbours in South Asia. Even before becoming the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi hinted that his foreign policy will actively focus on improving ties with India’s immediate neighbours which is being termed as neighbourhood first policy in the media and he started well by inviting all heads of state/heads of government of South Asian countries in his inauguration and on the second day on office he held bilateral talks with all of them individually.

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3. Indian Ocean outreach The Indian Ocean region (IOR), which is long been considered as India’s nautical backyard, steadily turning into a hotspot due to growing Chinese strategic presence over the region’s numerous strategically located archipelagos. To counter the recent moves made by China’s OBOR project, India started to reach out its maritime neighbours in the IOR with proposals of enhanced economic and security cooperation. 4. Project Mausam On the back of growing Chinese naval activity in the Indian Ocean region, which India considers its area of supremacy, the Modi administration have introduced Project Mausam, which is believed to rival the Chinese Maritime Silk Road (MSR) initiative. Mausam which means weather or season in many South and Southeast Asian languages is highlighted because of its profound role in cultural exchanges in region as in ancient time maritime trade used to depend on seasonal monsoon winds. The project which is still in the evolving phase will focus on the ancient trade and cultural linkages and emphasize on future maritime cooperation in the Indian Ocean region stretching from Southeast Asia to East Africa with the central location of India, from where the ocean derived its name. 5. Cooperation with Pacific Islands Modi chose to visit Fiji soon after democracy was re-established in the island country after 8 years. There apart from bilateral meeting, he also met heads of state/government from 14 pacific island states to enhance India’s engagement in the region and proposed a ‘Forum for India - Pacific Islands Cooperation’ (FIPIC) be held on a regular basis. He conveyed there India’s keenness to work closely with Pacific Island nations to advance their development priorities in this regard a number of measures to strengthen India’s partnership in the region. These include adapting climate change vis-a-vis clean energy, establishing a ‘trade office’ in India, ‘Pan Pacific Islands e-network’ to close the physical distance between the islands by improving digital connectivity, extending visa on arrival at Indian airports for all the fourteen Pacific Island countries, ‘space cooperation’ in space technology applications for improving the quality of life of the islands, ‘training to diplomats’ from Pacific Island countries to increase mutual understanding. 6. Fast-track Diplomacy On completion of the first 100 days of Modi government the External Affairs Ministry published a booklet called “Fast Track Diplomacy” show-casing the achievement made in the foreign policy arena. In her first media interaction the minister Sushma Swaraj said the catchphrase for her tenure was “fast-track diplomacy” and said it had three faces - proactive, strong and sensitive. 7. Para Diplomacy One of the innovative ideas of Modi government is the introduction of elements of para diplomacy in India’s foreign policy where each states and cities would be encouraged to forge special relation with countries or federal states of another country or even cities of their interest in order. During the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping Town twinning agreement between Mumbai and Shanghai, Ahmedabad and Guangzhou and a similar ‘sister states’ agreement between Gujarat and Guangdong province of China was signed. Earlier Varanasi signed partnership agreement with Kyoto, Japan. 8. West Asia Policy Indian External Affairs Ministry refers the region of ‘Middle east’ as West Asia and not as Middle East which is a more popular attribution, particularly in the western countries. The region plays a vital role in India’s economy as it supplies nearly two third of India’s total oil import, bilateral trade is also flourishing in recent years particularly with UAE and other gulf states. Over the years millions of Indian mostly working classes have migrated to the gulf looking for jobs and they account for a sizeable share in the total remittances received from abroad. India Israel relation witnessed a big push after Modi’s Israel visit. This is the first such visit by any Indian PM in recent times. 9. Link West Policy In an attempt to strengthen ties with India’s western neighbours specially the gulf countries, Modi proposed this policy to complement his Act East policy concerning East Asia. Although it is called ‘Link West’ (West of India) which gives it a bigger geographical connotation, it is most likely to focus on the middle-east and some of the India’s strategic thinkers are calling it as

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Modi’s middle-east policy. The West Asia Approach of India is working successfully and its relations with Middle East are improving since Modi came in power. The “West Asia Approach” of India is now its key strategy to win Middle East. Indian foreign policy makers say that India’s interests in the GCC countries are intimately linked with its energy security, trade, employment for Indians and remittances while Middle Eastern foreign policy experts believe that India has showcased itself as “Security Partner” during Modi’s visit to UAE. Given the economic and human security interests, the stability and security of the GCC countries is crucial for India because huge flow of remittances comes from GCC to the Indian economy. 10. Stand against ISIS & after Islamic Terror Outfits On 16 December 2014, Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced in the Parliament that ISIS is banned as a terrorist organization under the United Nations schedule. Following the arrest of few Indian individuals with ISIS connections, on 26 February 2015 India put fresh bans on ‘The Islamic States/Islamic States of Iraq and Syria/Islamic States of Iraq and Levant’ with all its manifestation and all its affiliates under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. In the changed geo-political environment India has been deeply engaged with the global community to establish itself as a power center and global leader. Through its proactive foreign policy it is able to mobilize global public opinion in its favour which is clearly visible in the present Doklam Issue which was resolved peacefully after nearly two months long standoff. From the surgical strike on terror launch pond in PoK to the regulation of Doklam standoff all are the reflection of Indian strong foreign policy.

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And And Many Many More Selections More ABHIJEET MISHRA RAMANI PRADHAN PRIYARANJAN PARIDA SANDEEP BEHERA IPSMITA BHOI DILLIP SAMAL SURYAKANTA GIRI SABITA HORO ARCHANA SAHOO SOUMYA R. SWAIN BISWABHUSHAN PATRA KRISHNA PRIYA RANA AMAN KUMAR JHA DILLIP SAMAL PRATICHI PRACHITARA Selections SYNDICATE BANK-PO UNION BANK-PO VIJAYA BANK-PO CANARA BANK-PO IBPS-PO BOI-PO IBPS-SO SYNDICATE BANK-CLERK CANARA BANK-CLERK IBPS-CLERK CENTRAL BANK-CLERK BOB-Clerk IBPS-CLERK BOI-CLERK KARNATAKA BANK-CLERK OTHER SELECTIONS-2016 OAS-2015 SELECTED CANDIDATES

ARANYA KU. PANDA DEBABRAT ROUTRAY PIPAS KUMAR BEHERA SMRUTI SWAIN SURJIT SAHOO ATISH KUMAR SAHU BISHWANATH DEHURY ASHOK KUMAR SAHOO SANTOSH KUMAR SAHU MADHUSMITA BEHERA DEBASHISA BEHERA SURUCHI PRIYADEVI BOM-PO NABARD BANK-PO BOB-PO BOB-PO INDIAN BANK-PO INDIAN BANK-PO RBI-CLERK OGB-CLERK UGB-CLERK LIC-AAO CO-OPERATIVE-PO OSSSC TRUPTI BARAI SANKALP SAHOO GOUTAM MAHALIK MANOBRATA SATPATHY SOUBHAGYA BEHERA SATYAVIKASH BHUYAN SUNITA PATI SWEEKRUTI BARPANDA KHIRABDI T. SAHOO PRATAP CH. SAHOO SOURYA RANJAN MISHRA RANK-17 RANK-45 RANK-55 RANK-67 RANK-70 RANK-72 RANK-75 RANK-84 RANK-91 RANK-104 RANK-131

AMIT KUMAR PARIDA RUTU PALLAVI DAS SWASTIKA PANDA DEBASISH SAHOO MONIKA M. JENA RAKESH ACHARYA BHAGIRATHI SETHY SUPARNA SUBHADARSINI ABHIMANYU PAL GYANADEEP DASH NARENDRA DAS BAILOCHAN PRADHAN TRIDEV RATH PRATIK PATTNAIK SANGRAM PARIDA SHEETAL AGARWAL GYANI MOHANTY SWETAPADMA DHAL SANJIT SUMAN RAJIV DAS PREETAM KUMAR RATH SAGARIKA SAHU TAPAS DEHURY RANK-174 RANK-194 RANK-199 RANK-267 RANK-326 RANK-352 RANK-364 RANK-406 INDIAN BANK-PO RURAL BANK-PO BOB-PO BOB-PO BOB-PO ICICI BANK-PO OSSSC OPTCL-OFFICE ASST. BSNL-TTA BOB-PO ICICI BANK-PO CO-OPERATIVE BANK-PO RANK-159 RANK-214 RANK-403

And Many And Many More SOURAV DAS More Selections SUNARAM HEMBRAM RAJESH SETHI BIJAYA TOPPO MITALI M. PATRA SURENDRA GHADAI BHANUPRIYA SABAR APARNA BHOI ASHOK MAJHI BAIDYANATH MURMU SUDIPA JENA AKHILANAND PURUSOTTAM DEEPAK KUMAR JENA ASHUTOSH BARIK SANTANU KU. SETH PRIYANKA S. ROUT TULU KUMAR SAHU SUMITA BEHERA PRIYANKA NAYAK SUMAN KUJUR PRITAM SWAIN Selections RANK-451 RANK-470 RANK-474 RANK-481 RANK-494 RANK-577 RANK-645 RANK-665 RANK-668 OSSSC OSSSC UBI-CLERK AXIS BANK OPTCL OPTCL OPTCL OPTCL OPTCL OPTCL OPTCL Rank - 1

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