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Question 1 of 5
1. Question
‘Overground workers’ a term seen in news is used in the context of
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Solution(b)
Over ground workers (OGWs) are people who help militants, or terrorists, with logistical support, cash, shelter, and other infrastructure with which armed groups and insurgency movements such as Hizbul Mujaheddin and Jaish-e-Muhammad in Jammu and Kashmir can operate.
Context – Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) police recently arrested three overground workers (OGWs) for a grenade attack on a Central Reserve Police Forces (CRPF) camp.
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Over ground workers (OGWs) are people who help militants, or terrorists, with logistical support, cash, shelter, and other infrastructure with which armed groups and insurgency movements such as Hizbul Mujaheddin and Jaish-e-Muhammad in Jammu and Kashmir can operate.
Context – Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) police recently arrested three overground workers (OGWs) for a grenade attack on a Central Reserve Police Forces (CRPF) camp.
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
Consider the following statements regarding ‘Methanol’
- It is a low carbon, hydrogen carrier fuel produced from high ash coal
- It can be made from any source that can be converted into synthesis gas
- Methanol Economy Research Programme has been launched by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Choose the correct statement/s
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Solution(a)
Statement Analysis:
Statement 1 Statement 2 Statement 3 Correct Correct Incorrect Methanol is a low carbon, hydrogen carrier fuel produced from high ash coal, agricultural residue,CO2 from thermal power plants and natural gas. Methanol can be made from any source that can be converted into synthesis gas(CO and H2). Methanol Economy Research Programme has been launched by the Department of Science and Technology Context – India’s first Indigenously Designed High Ash Coal Gasification Based Methanol Production Plant was inaugurated
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Solution(a)
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Statement 1 Statement 2 Statement 3 Correct Correct Incorrect Methanol is a low carbon, hydrogen carrier fuel produced from high ash coal, agricultural residue,CO2 from thermal power plants and natural gas. Methanol can be made from any source that can be converted into synthesis gas(CO and H2). Methanol Economy Research Programme has been launched by the Department of Science and Technology Context – India’s first Indigenously Designed High Ash Coal Gasification Based Methanol Production Plant was inaugurated
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
Consider the following
- Influence of Gandhara, Mathura and Kushana styles
- Use of sandstone, granite and brick
- Dedicated to a single god rather than a large number of gods
Which of the following given above are the features of ‘Gupta Temple architecture’
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Solution(c)
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Statement 1 Statement 2 Statement 3 Correct Correct Incorrect The Gupta style was influenced by Kushana, Mathura, and Gandhara and borrowed the common features of T-shaped doorways, decorated door jambs, sculpted panels with high-relief figures, and laurel-wreath and acanthus motifs The temples were constructed using sandstone, granite, and brick. Gupta temples were dedicated to a large number of Hindu gods rather than a single deity. Context – The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has found remains of an ancient temple dating back to the Gupta Period, 5th Century CE in Uttar Pradesh.
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Solution(c)
Statement Analysis:
Statement 1 Statement 2 Statement 3 Correct Correct Incorrect The Gupta style was influenced by Kushana, Mathura, and Gandhara and borrowed the common features of T-shaped doorways, decorated door jambs, sculpted panels with high-relief figures, and laurel-wreath and acanthus motifs The temples were constructed using sandstone, granite, and brick. Gupta temples were dedicated to a large number of Hindu gods rather than a single deity. Context – The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has found remains of an ancient temple dating back to the Gupta Period, 5th Century CE in Uttar Pradesh.
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
With reference to ‘Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana’, consider the following statements
- Beneficiaries will be provided with first LPG refill and Stove (hotplate) both free of cost along with their deposit free connection by the Government
- It is a flagship scheme of the Ministry of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Choose the correct statement/s
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Solution(d)
Statement Analysis:
Statement 1 Statement 2 Incorrect Incorrect All PMUY beneficiaries will be provided with first LPG refill and Stove (hotplate) both free of cost along with their deposit free connection by the Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MOPNG), introduced the ‘Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana’ (PMUY) as a flagship scheme with an objective to make clean cooking fuel such as LPG available to the rural and deprived households which were otherwise using traditional cooking fuels such as firewood, coal, cow-dung cakes etc. Context – Migrant workers can avail a free cooking gas connection on the basis of a self-declaration without any need for documents like address proof under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana.
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Solution(d)
Statement Analysis:
Statement 1 Statement 2 Incorrect Incorrect All PMUY beneficiaries will be provided with first LPG refill and Stove (hotplate) both free of cost along with their deposit free connection by the Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MOPNG), introduced the ‘Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana’ (PMUY) as a flagship scheme with an objective to make clean cooking fuel such as LPG available to the rural and deprived households which were otherwise using traditional cooking fuels such as firewood, coal, cow-dung cakes etc. Context – Migrant workers can avail a free cooking gas connection on the basis of a self-declaration without any need for documents like address proof under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana.
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
Consider the following statements regarding ‘India Plastic Pact’
- The pact is collaboration between World-Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF India) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
- It aims to transform the current linear plastics system into a circular plastics economy
Which of the following statement(s) given above is/are true
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Solution(c)
Statement Analysis:
Statement 1 Statement 2 Correct Correct The India Plastics Pact is a collaboration between WWF India and CII—anchored at the CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development (CESD), and supported by WRAP, a global NGO based in the UK The Pact aims to transform the current linear plastics system into a circular plastics economy Context – India Plastic Pact was in news
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Solution(c)
Statement Analysis:
Statement 1 Statement 2 Correct Correct The India Plastics Pact is a collaboration between WWF India and CII—anchored at the CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development (CESD), and supported by WRAP, a global NGO based in the UK The Pact aims to transform the current linear plastics system into a circular plastics economy Context – India Plastic Pact was in news
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