Consider the following statements regarding the declaration of certain wild animals as ‘vermin’ in India:

1. The State Government has the authority to declare a wild animal as vermin.
2. Animals listed in Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 cannot be declared as vermin.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding Eco-Sensitive Zones (ESZ) in India:

1. The activities in these zones are mostly prohibitive in nature.
2. An ESZ is established for at least 100 kilometers around a protected area.
3. The Kasturirangan committee report has proposed more than fifty percent of the total area of Western Ghats to be declared as ESZ.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which of the following categories are covered under the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2022?

1. Greenhouse gas emissions
2. Renewable energy
3. Deforestation
4. Climate policy

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Recently seen in the news, Puntius denisonii or the Denison barb is:

Consider the following statements about the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES):

1. It is an intergovernmental organisation formed/established to strengthen the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services.
2. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) provides secretariat services to it.
3. All States Members of the United Nations are eligible for IPBES membership.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding the Asiatic Black Bear and Sloth Bear:

1. Both are listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
2. The gall bladder of the Asiatic Black bear is poached for use in traditional medicine.
3. Both hibernate during the winter months.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Tarballs, that have recently have resurfaced on the beaches of Mumbai and Goa, sometimes seen in news are:

Consider the following statements:

1. Stenohaline organisms are species that can only tolerate specific ranges of salinities.
2. Euryhaline organisms are commonly found in habitats such as estuaries and tide pools.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

The terms E12 and E15 recently in news are related to:

Consider the following statements with respect to Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG):

1. Biogas is purified to remove carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide gases to prepare CBG.
2. CBG has a calorific value similar to CNG and hence can be utilized as green renewable automotive fuel.
3. The CBG can be transported through cylinder cascades or pipelines to retail outlets.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Which one of the following statements regarding Nurdles is not correct?

Consider the following statements regarding very short-lived halogenated substances (VSLS):

1. They are ozone-depleting halogen-containing substances found in the stratosphere.
2. 90% of VSLS are produced by anthropogenic causes.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Ecological Threat Report 2021 has been published by:

With reference to the Earth shot Prize, consider the following statements:

1. It is awarded for contributions towards achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals.
2. It has been instituted by Earth System Governance Project.
3. No Indian has ever won this award.

Which of the statements given above is/ are correct?

Montreal Process, Near East Process, Bhopal–India Process are related to:

According to India’s Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, which of the following wastes has/have been prohibited for import?

1. Waste edible fats and oils of vegetable or animal origin
2. Household waste
3. Critical care medical equipment

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Consider the following statements with reference to Society of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (SICOM):

1. SICOM is the National Project Management Unit of the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) project.
2. Its objective is to check violations to CRZ (Coastal Regulation Zone) through improved technology-enabled enforcement.
3. It has been established under the aegis of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements with reference to ‘Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)’:

1. It is a part of the United Nations Environment Programme.
2. It was adopted at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 2002.
3. ‘Project Lead in Paint’ is an initiative of SAICM.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

In the context of environmental conservation, Glowing Glowing Gone campaign has been launched to:

Match the following tiger reserves with the states they belong to.

1. Namdapha: Assam
2. Achanakmar: Chhattisgarh
3. Mukandra Hills: Rajasthan
4. Sariska: Odisha

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Consider the following statements regarding ‘World Forest Congress’

1. It serves as a forum for governments, civil society and private sector to exchange views
2. It has been held under the aegis of International Union for Conservation of Nature and World Wide Fund for Nature
3. The Sustaining an Abundance of Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) initiative was launched by WFC at the Seoul convention

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With reference to ‘Places of Worship Act of 1991’, consider the following statements

1. It provides for the maintenance of the religious character of all places of worship as it existed on the 15th day of August, 1947
2. Any legal proceeding with respect to the conversion of the religious character of any place of worship existing on August 15, 1947 pending before any court are abated

Select the correct statement(s)

Consider the following statements with respect to ‘National Startup Advisory Council’

1. The council will suggest measures to foster a culture of innovation amongst citizens and students
2. Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship is the chairman of this council

Select the correct statement(s)

‘Macolin Convention’ seen in news recently is related to

Consider the following statements regarding ‘Kanheri Caves’:

1. Artistic evidence of all the three vehicles of Buddhism is found here
2. Earliest reference of Kanheri is ascribed to Fa-Hien
3. Kanheri flourished under the patronage of Mauryas, Nandas and Kushanas

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For each hour a watch is going slow by 30 seconds. Now the time is 7 a.m., when the clock is set right. What will be the time in watch when the actual time is 7 p.m.?

A watch which gains 5 seconds in 3 minutes was set right at 7 a.m. In the afternoon of the same day, when the watch indicated quarter past 4 o’clock, the true time is:

If every second Saturday and all Sundays are holidays in a 30 days month beginning on Saturday, then how many working days are there in that month ? (Month starts from Saturday)

If 10th May, 1997 was a Monday, what was the day on Oct 10, 2001?

 Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow each passage. Your answer to these questions should be based on passage only

British colonial policy went through two policy phases, or at least there were two strategies between which its policies actually oscillated, sometimes to its great advantage. At first, the new colonial apparatus exercised caution, and occupied India by a mix of military power and subtle diplomacy, the high ground in the middle of the circle of circles. This, however, pushed them into contradictions. For, whatever their sense of the strangeness of the country and the thinness of colonial presence, the British colonial state represented the great conquering discourse of Enlightenment rationalism, entering India precisely at the moment of its greatest unchecked arrogance. As inheritors and representatives of this discourse, which carried everything before it, this colonial state could hardly adopt for long such a self-denying attitude. It had restructured everything in Europe—the productive system, the political regimes, the moral and cognitive orders—and would do the same in India, particularly as some empirically inclined theorists of that generation considered the colonies a massive laboratory of utilitarian or other theoretical experiments. Consequently, the colonial state could not settle simply for eminence at the cost of its marginality; it began to take initiatives to introduce the logic of modernity into Indian society. But this modernity did not enter a passive society. Sometimes, its initiatives were resisted by pre-existing structural forms. At times, there was a more direct form of collective resistance. Therefore the map of continuity and discontinuity that this state left behind at the time of independence was rather complex and has to be traced with care.

Most significantly, of course, initiatives for modernity came to assume an external character. The acceptance of modernity came to be connected, ineradicably, with subjection. This again points to two different problems, one theoretical, the other political. Theoretically, because modernity was externally introduced, it is explanatorily unhelpful to apply the logical format of the ‘transition process’ to this pattern of change. Such a logical format would be wrong on two counts. First, however subtly, it would imply that what was proposed to be built was something like European capitalism. (And, in any case, historians have forcefully argued that what it was to replace was not like feudalism, with or without modificatory adjectives.) But, more fundamentally, the logical structure of endogenous change does not apply here. Here transformation agendas attack as an external force. This externality is not something that can be casually mentioned and forgotten. It is inscribed on every move, every object, every proposal, every legislative act, and each line of causality. It comes to be marked on the epoch itself. This repetitive emphasis on externality should not be seen as a nationalist initiative that is so well rehearsed in Indian social science.

Quite apart from the externality of the entire historical proposal of modernity, some of its contents were remarkable. Economic reforms, or rather alterations did not foreshadow the construction of a classical capitalist economy, with its necessary emphasis on extractive and transport sectors. What happened was the creation of a degenerate version of capitalism—what early dependency theorists called the ‘development of underdevelopment’.

 Which of the following observations is a valid conclusion to draw from the author’s statement that “the logical structure of endogenous change does not apply here. Here transformation agendas attack as an external force”?