Questions

The Gram Panchayat is composed of which of the following?

I. The ward panchs

II. The sarpanch

III. The district collector

Which musical instrument Ustad Bismillah Khan used to play?

Pungi is a dance form related to the state

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The instructor's rules were simple. Breathe through your mouth, not your nose; else the mask will fog up. Easier said than done; I got it wrong many a time. But once you fought habit and got the hang of it, the panoramic underwater world revealed itself to you with high-definition clarity.

Led by him, I slowly peered through the mask into what till then was crystal-clear water, shimmering in the sunlight. I saw pebbles, sand and my fluid shadow. I was in Nemo's universe. Sea cucumbers, sea anemone, clown fish, star fish, sea horses, parrot fish, butterfly fish and a bevy of colourful salt water fish swam past. A shoal of canary-yellow fish did a merry dance and another with vibrant blue fish followed it. They were oblivious to the snorkelers who struggled to take in the sight of a world so beautiful, so colourful, and resist opening their mouth wide in amazement; the tube would fall off!

What is 'Nemo'?

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Election was an ‘opinion minus democracy’ in which the innocent and helpless (people were pitted among) government’s muscle power State machinery.

Correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

The main failings were of conception and a political willingness to settle _________ easy options. _______________ the expansive declarationsof the need "to maintain effective security of all nuclear materials, _______________ includes nuclear materials used in nuclear weapons”, thesummits narrowed their _______________ to civilian holdings __________________ non­nuclear weapon states.

civilian holdings __________________ non ­nuclear weapon states.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

The response to that challenge is to make the gains of globalization more visible and its transient downsides,(politically less paining).

_ pompous he was an entertaining person.