സിവില്‍ സര്‍വ്വീസ് പരീക്ഷ: ഭരണഘടന അനുസരിച്ച് ‘ഷെഡ്യൂൾഡ് ഏരിയസ്’ പ്രഖ്യാപിക്കുന്നത് ആരാണ് ?

Answer (d)

    The Business Advisory Committee of LokSabha consists of 15 members including the Speaker who is the ex-officio Chairperson. The members are nominated by the Speaker. 
    In practice, a new Committee after being nominated by the Speaker is constituted and assumes office in the first week of June every year. 
    The Committee generally meets at the beginning of each Session and thereafter as and when necessary. 
    The function of the Committee is to recommend the time that should be allotted for the discussion of such government legislative and other business as the Speaker, in consultation with the Leader of the House, may direct to be referred to the Committee. 
    The Committee, on its own initiative, may also recommend to the Government to bring forward particular subjects for discussion in the House and recommend allocation of time for such discussions. 
    The decisions reached by the Committee are always unanimous in character and representative of the collective view of the House. 
    The Business Advisory Committee was constituted for the first time on the 14th July, 1952.

Answer (c)

    The Fifth Schedule of the Constitution deals with the administration and control of scheduled areas and scheduled tribes in any state except the four states of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, and Mizoram. 
    The power to declare an area to be a scheduled area is vested with the President. He can also increase or decrease its area, alter its boundary lines, rescind such designation or make fresh orders for such redesignation on an area in consultation with the governor of the state concerned. 

Answer(a)

    Harike Wetland is the largest wetland in northern India in the border of Tarn Taran Sahib district and Ferozepur district of Punjab. 
    The wetland and the lake were formed by constructing the headworks across the Sutlej River in 1953. 
    The headworks are located downstream of the confluence of the Beas and Sutlej rivers just south of Harike village. 
    The rich biodiversity of the wetland plays a vital role in maintaining the precious hydrological balance in the catchment with its vast concentration of migratory fauna. 
    It was accorded as a wetland in 1990, by the Ramsar Convention, as one of the Ramsar sites in India, for conservation, development, and preservation of the ecosystem.

Answer (b)

    The Mudumalai National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary also a declared tiger reserve, lies on the northwestern side of the Nilgiri Hills, in Nilgiri District, about 150 kilometers north-west of Coimbatore city in Tamil Nadu, India.
 

Answer (c)

    The government has allocated about ₹2,27,255 crore for the food, fertilizer, and fuel subsidy in the current fiscal in the revised estimate compared to ₹3,02,094 in the budget estimates.
    The government spent ₹1,96,769crore on the food, fertilizer, and fuel subsidies in 2018-19. 
    Of the total subsidy bill, the maximum allocation has been made for food (₹1,15,569.68crore), followed by fertilizer (₹71,309 crores) with fuel getting ₹40,915.21 crores.

Answer(a)

    This most widely accepted definition of Sustainable Development was given by the Brundtland Commission in its report Our Common Future (1987). 
    Sustainable development (SD) calls for concerted efforts towards building an inclusive, sustainable, and resilient future for people and the planet.

Answer (b)

    RaIDer-X, a new explosive detection device, has the capability to detect explosives from a stand-off distance.
    The data library can be built into the system to expand its capability to detect a number of explosives in pure form as well as with contaminants.

Answer(b)

    Kanpur Conspiracy Case was also against the newbie communists which were abhorred by the British Government. 
    Some newly turned communists named M N Roy, MuzaffarAhamed, S ADange, ShaukatUsmani, Nalini Gupta, SingaraveluChettiar, Ghulam Hussain were caught by the Government and were trailed for conspiring against the Government.
    The Charge on them was “to deprive the King-Emperor of his sovereignty of British India, by complete separation of India from imperialistic Britain by a violent revolution.” 
    This case brought the communists into the limelight. The newspapers covered the matter exhaustively and this was for the first time the people of India could know the communist doctrine in detail. 
    This case was responsible for the introduction of Communism to the Indian Public. 

Answer (b)

Statement 1 is not correct. Yellow rust or stripe rust is a fungal disease that attacks the leaves of wheat crops by forming yellow stripes and affects their photosynthesis that causes shrivelling of grain size.
Statement 2 is correct. The disease occurs when the rust colonies in the leaves drain the carbohydrates from the plant and reduce the green leaf area. Rain, dew, and fog favour the disease’s development.

Answer (d)

    The Tattwabodhini Sabha was a group started in Calcutta on 6 October 1839 as a splinter group of the BrahmoSamaj.
    It was founded by Debendranath Tagore to propagate Ram Mohan Roy's ideas.
    It promoted a systematic study of India's past in the Bengali language. It also helped spread a rational outlook among the intellectuals of Bengal.
    The main objective of the Sabha was to promote a more rational and humanist form of Hinduism based on the Vedanta, the Upanishads that form the last part of the Vedas.