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Consider the following statements regarding ‘Padma Awards’
Choose the correct statements
Solution(b)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 |
| Incorrect | Correct |
| The Padma Awards are one of the highest civilian honours of India announced annually on the eve of Republic Day. The Awards are given in three categories: Padma Vibhushan (for exceptional and distinguished service), Padma Bhushan (distinguished service of higher order) and Padma Shri (distinguished service). | All persons without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex are eligible for these awards. However, Government servants including those working with PSUs, except doctors and scientists, are not eligible for these Awards. |
Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/gen-rawat-kalyan-singh-awarded-padma-vibhushan/article38325470.ece
Solution(b)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 |
| Incorrect | Correct |
| The Padma Awards are one of the highest civilian honours of India announced annually on the eve of Republic Day. The Awards are given in three categories: Padma Vibhushan (for exceptional and distinguished service), Padma Bhushan (distinguished service of higher order) and Padma Shri (distinguished service). | All persons without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex are eligible for these awards. However, Government servants including those working with PSUs, except doctors and scientists, are not eligible for these Awards. |
Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/gen-rawat-kalyan-singh-awarded-padma-vibhushan/article38325470.ece
‘Hajong’ community recently seen in news are found in
Solution(c)
The Hajong people are an ethnic group from Northeast India and northern parts of Bangladesh. The Hajongs are found in both the Garo and Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, largely along the South-West Garo Hills District of Meghalaya and Bangladesh border. They also live in the Dhubri and Goalpara districts of lower Assam, Dhemaji and other districts of upper Assam into Arunachal Pradesh.
Source: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/for-a-civic-solidarity-the-hindu-editorial-on-citizenship-for-the-chakmahajong-people/article38325718.ece
Solution(c)
The Hajong people are an ethnic group from Northeast India and northern parts of Bangladesh. The Hajongs are found in both the Garo and Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, largely along the South-West Garo Hills District of Meghalaya and Bangladesh border. They also live in the Dhubri and Goalpara districts of lower Assam, Dhemaji and other districts of upper Assam into Arunachal Pradesh.
Source: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/for-a-civic-solidarity-the-hindu-editorial-on-citizenship-for-the-chakmahajong-people/article38325718.ece
Consider the following statements
Choose the correct statements
Solution(a)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 | Statement 3 |
| Correct | Incorrect | Incorrect |
| Engaged in agriculture and trade, Indus Valley people were adept at designing well laid townships with a good system of water management. These communities slowly declined as a result of increasing aridity and declining summer rainfall | The Rigvedic people worshipped fire and were not builders like the Harappans but are likely to have been better story-tellers. | The Rigvedic people were pastoral migrants and their grazing animals including horses came in from the Eurasian Steppes. |
Source: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/distorting-history-through-a-calendar/article38325449.ece
Solution(a)
Statement Analysis:
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 | Statement 3 |
| Correct | Incorrect | Incorrect |
| Engaged in agriculture and trade, Indus Valley people were adept at designing well laid townships with a good system of water management. These communities slowly declined as a result of increasing aridity and declining summer rainfall | The Rigvedic people worshipped fire and were not builders like the Harappans but are likely to have been better story-tellers. | The Rigvedic people were pastoral migrants and their grazing animals including horses came in from the Eurasian Steppes. |
Source: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/distorting-history-through-a-calendar/article38325449.ece
Which of the following countries/water bodies border Ukraine
Select the appropriate code
Which of the following measure(s) will spur consumption
Select the appropriate code
