Punchakkari-Vellayani wetlands is in the state of

Five Eyes (FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising which of the following countries?

1. Australia
2. Germany
3. Canada
4. New Zealand
5. Italy
6. United Kingdom
7. United States

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Which of the following statement/s is/are correct about Global Depository Receipts (GDRs)?

1. GDR is a collective term for DRs issued in non-US jurisdictions and includes the DRs traded in London, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Singapore.
2. The first Indian issue of Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) was made by Reliance.

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With reference to the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), which of the following statement/s is/are correct?

1. CDRI was launched by the President of France during his speech at the UN Climate Action Summit.
2. CDRI Secretariat is based in Toulouse, France.
3. A large share of the estimated fund requirements to cover the core costs over the first five years has been invested by France, India, Japan and Italy.

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Which among the following countries are part of the ‘Inner Six’?

1. Belgium
2. France
3. Portugal
4. Italy
5. Luxembourg
6. Netherlands
7. West Germany
8. Denmark

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Mycorrhizal biotechnology has been used in rehabilitating degraded sites because mycorrhiza enables the plants to

1. Resist drought and increase the absorptive area
2. Tolerate extremes of pH
3. Resist disease infestation

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Which among the following are the criteria under which the 15^th Finance Commission (FC) made recommendations for the distribution of net proceeds?

1. Income Distance
2. Population
3. Forest and Ecology
4. Tax Effort by states

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Consider the following statements with respect to Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB):

1. It is an incremental form of budgeting which depends on previous budgets.
2. Since there are pre-committed expenses, balances are carried forward to the next budget.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements with respect to Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR):

1. It is the proportion of cash kept aside by banks in the reserve, vis-à-vis the total deposits with the central bank.
2. RBI provides interest in the amount kept to it by the banks as CRR.
3. When the CRR is low, the liquidity in the market gets tight.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which of the following is measured through the Keetch – Byram Drought Index?

Wellesley established the Fort William College at Calcutta because

Consider the following statements with respect to the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC):

1. It has been constituted under the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934.
2. Six-member committee is chaired by the Finance Minister of India.
3. Decisions regarding interest rates (Repo, etc.) are taken by a consensus among members.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Harappan Site                         State

1. Lothal                                       Rajasthan
2. Kalibangan                              Uttar Pradesh
3. Dholavira                                 Gujarat
4. Rakhigari                                 Haryana

Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements about the Sun:

1. Sun’s energy comes from the nuclear fission reaction.
2. The Chromosphere is the outermost layer of the sun.
3. Sunspots are cooler compared to surrounding regions of the sun.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

With reference to Freedom Struggle of India, “The Instrument of Accession” was a legal document first introduced by?

With reference to the provisions contained in Part IV of the Constitution of India, which of the following statements is/are correct? [UPSC Prelims 2020]

1. They shall be enforceable by courts.
2. They shall not be enforceable by any court.
3. The principles laid down in this part are to influence the making of laws by the state.

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The ‘Global Gender Gap Report’ is published by

With reference to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), which of the following statement/s is/are correct?

1. It was launched by the National Statistical Office (NSO).
2. It estimates the key employment and unemployment indicators in the short time interval of six months for the urban areas only in the Current Weekly Status (CWS).
3. It estimates employment and unemployment indicators in both usual status and CWS in both rural and urban areas annually.

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In which of the following cases can a Judge recuse?

1. Family member’s economic interest in the case
2. Appeared for one of the litigants at some stage
3. Judge has a financial interest in the litigation

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Satya Shodhak Samaj organized

Consider the following statements:

1. DNA sequencing is the process of determining the order of nucleotides in DNA.
2. Human Genome is made up of 23 chromosome pairs.
3. Genomics involves the sequencing and analysis of genomes through the use of high throughput DNA sequencing.

Which of the given statement/s is/are INCORRECT?

Consider the following statements with respect to the National Population Register (NPR):

1. The NPR is a register of usual residents of the country.
2. For the purpose of NPR, a person who has resided in a local area for the past 7 years or more or a person who intends to reside in that area for the next 7 years or more is a usual resident.
3. The NPR database would contain demographic as well as biometric particulars.

Which of the given statement/s is/are INCORRECT?

Sri Lanka has handed a 99-year lease to China for which of these ports?

Consider the following statements:

1. Minsk Group was established to envisage a peaceful, negotiated resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
2. Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognised as a part of Armenia.
3. The major ethnic group in the Nagorno-Karabakh region is Armenian.

Which of the given statement/s is/are INCORRECT?

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