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‘Kharchi Puja’ is associated with which of the following states?
Solution (d)
Kharchi Puja is one of Tripura’s most important festivals involving the worship of ‘the 14 Gods’. The festival also highlights the equal participation of people from both tribal and non-tribal communities.
Solution (d)
Kharchi Puja is one of Tripura’s most important festivals involving the worship of ‘the 14 Gods’. The festival also highlights the equal participation of people from both tribal and non-tribal communities.
Consider the following statements with respect to ‘Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis’.
Select the correct statements
Solution (b)
PC Mahalanobis was instrumental in formulating India’s second five-year-plan (1956-1961), which laid the blueprint for industrialisation and development in India.
He founded and nurtured Sankhyā – the Indian Journal of Statistics.
Source: https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/national-statistics-day-remembering-pc-mahalanobis/story-YuxqIJuoJu5tubCrZ2FEWI.html
Solution (b)
PC Mahalanobis was instrumental in formulating India’s second five-year-plan (1956-1961), which laid the blueprint for industrialisation and development in India.
He founded and nurtured Sankhyā – the Indian Journal of Statistics.
Source: https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/national-statistics-day-remembering-pc-mahalanobis/story-YuxqIJuoJu5tubCrZ2FEWI.html
Which of the following statements with respect to ‘Gynandromorphism’ is correct?
Which of the following statements with respect to ‘Chandrasekhar Limit’ is/are correct?
Select the correct statements
Solution (c)
The Chandrasekhar Limit is now accepted to be approximately 1.4 times the mass of the sun; any white dwarf with less than this mass will stay a white dwarf forever, while a star that exceeds this mass is destined to end its life in that most violent of explosions: a supernova.
Source: https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/black-hole-merges-with-unusual-compact-object/article31934686.ece#:~:text=The%20LIGO%20Scientific%20and%20VIRGO,light%20are%20compatible%20with%20both.
Solution (c)
The Chandrasekhar Limit is now accepted to be approximately 1.4 times the mass of the sun; any white dwarf with less than this mass will stay a white dwarf forever, while a star that exceeds this mass is destined to end its life in that most violent of explosions: a supernova.
Source: https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/black-hole-merges-with-unusual-compact-object/article31934686.ece#:~:text=The%20LIGO%20Scientific%20and%20VIRGO,light%20are%20compatible%20with%20both.
The term ‘Younger Dryas’ is associated with
Solution (b)
The Younger Dryas (around 12,900 to 11,700 years BP) was a return to glacial conditions after the Late Glacial Interstadial, which temporarily reversed the gradual climatic warming after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) started receding around 20,000 BP.
THINK!
Source: https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/when-the-indian-oceans-ancient-climate-patterns-return/article31934556.ece
Solution (b)
The Younger Dryas (around 12,900 to 11,700 years BP) was a return to glacial conditions after the Late Glacial Interstadial, which temporarily reversed the gradual climatic warming after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) started receding around 20,000 BP.
THINK!
Source: https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/when-the-indian-oceans-ancient-climate-patterns-return/article31934556.ece