Questions

Nearly ____________ crore jobs were created in the country in the 10-month period till June this year, as per a Central Statistics Office (CSO) report.  

Sri Lanka on 9 December, 2017 formally handed over the control of the southern deep sea port of Hambantota to which country for 99 year lease?

While selling a shirt, a shopkeeper gives a discount of 7%. If he gives discount of 9% he earns Rs. 15 less on profit. The market price of the shirt is :­

What is the venue of 2020 Summer Olympics?

Bahadur Shah I (1707–1712 AD) was the ruler of which dynasty?

 In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

Inundate

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

When I think of my family's history on the land. I experience a pang of regret. Unlike much of the arid West, where the land has gone virtually unchanged for centuries, my place of origin, western Kansas, has been torn up by agriculture. The flat plains, excellent soil, and sparse but just adequate rainfall permitted farming; therefore farming prevailed, and a good 90% of the original sod prairie is gone. The consequence, in human terms, is that our relationship to our place has always felt primarily mercantile. We used the land and denied, or held at bay, its effect on us. Yet from my earliest childhood, when the most of the Kansas prairie was still intact, I 've known that the land also had a romantic quality. I've felt moved by the expanse of it , enthralled by size. I take pride in my identity as a plains daughter.

From the passage, it may be determined that the word "mercantile" has something to do with

In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

The generation gap is another of those characteristic features that set Homo sapiens apart from other animals. It is ______ if ever the most intelligent of apes ever blamed its juniors for their ______ ways! Over the years people have tried to analyse it, explain it, understand it, even ignore it, but it remains, ready to ______ each generation as it tries to ______ its own ______ about life and living.

it tries to ______ its