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Who has been appointed as the Head of the Committee constituted to frame guidelines on playing National Anthem in cinemas?

On 5 March 2017, who launched an artificial intelligence – driven chatbot named ‘EVA (Electronic Virtual Assistant)’ for customer services? 

In 2015, which auto manufacturer manipulated emissions testing data leading to the resignation of its CEO Martin Winterkorn?

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.

Many persons of good education unconsciously circumscribe themselves ___________ a small vocabulary. They have a knowledge of hundreds of desirable wordswhich they do not put _________ practical use in their speech or writing. Many, too, are conscious __________ a poverty of language, which engenders in them a senseof timidity and self-___________. The method used for building a large vocabulary has __________ been confined to the study of single words.

circumscribe themselves ___________ a small vocabulary.

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.

Which of the following is the most accurate statement of the author's position?

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.

India has already made _________________ concessions to enable a consensus and successful outcome at Paris. Now it must ensure that it is not caught in a relentless ________________ process where each concession becomes an argument for making the next one. The post-Paris negotiations will determine more ____________ the shape of the climate change architecture for the next several decades. We _______________ ensure that India’s vital interests are safeguarded and the principle ____________ equity and equitable burden-sharing is reflected across this architecture.

India has already made _________________ concessions to enable a consensus

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
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