Questions

In January 2018, who has been awarded the 9th Infosys award for engineering and computer science?

World Wetland day is celebrated every year on ___ February.

If O is the centroid and AD, BE and CF are the three medians of Δ ABC with an area of 96 cm2 then the area of Δ BOD in cm2 is

The price of a chair is Rs. 500. It has been sold at two succesive discounts of 10% each. What is its selling price?

The height of a tower is 50√3 m. The angle of elevation of a tower from a distance 50 m from its feet is

A car takes 5 hours to cover 100 kms distance at a particular speed whereas another car takes 3 hours to reach a particular distance at the same speed. Find the distance.

_______________ states that the ratio of the potential difference across a conductor to the current flowing through it, is a constant, provided that its physical conditions, such as temperature, remain constant.

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

The man who is perpetually hesitating which of the two things he will do first, will do neither. The man who resolves, but suffers his resolution to be changed by the first counter-suggestion of a friend, - who fluctuates from opinion to opinion, from plan to plan, and veers like a weather-cock to every point of the compass, with every breath of caprice that blows-can never accomplish anything great or useful. Instead of being progressive in any thing, he will be at best stationary, and more probably retrograde in all. It is only the man who first consults wisely, then resolves firmly, and then executes his purpose with flexible perseverance, undismayed by those petty difficulties which daunt a weaker spirit that can advance to eminence in any line. Take your course wisely, but firmly; and having taken it, hold upon it with heroic resolution, and the Alps and Pyrenees will sink before you.

What is the meaning of "retrograde" in the passage?