Questions

Where are coins minted in India?

Who took over as the new chairman of the Tata Sons owned Vistara Airline in 2016? Prior to this, he was the Managing Director of Titan for a long time.

What is the name of the balloon – borne instrument set to be launch by NASA to study heavy cosmic particles?

Which amongstthe following has the power to regulatethe right of citizenship in India?

According to the Indian Constitution, who has the power to declare emergency ?

Which institution is to provide USD 304 million loan to Assam to enhance Inter-state Power Transmission Project? 

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

But the war did not cease; though friend and foe alike were almost drowned in blood. It seemed as powerful as eternity, and in time Tony Vassall too went to battle and was killed. The country gave Patience a widow's pension, as well a touching inducement to marry again; she died of grief. Many people died in those days, it was not strange at all. Nathan and his wife got so rich that after the war they died of overeating, and their daughter Olive came into a vast fortune and a Trustee.

"............ as well a touching inducement to marry." Here inducement means

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

All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from his present experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the past to project a vision of the future, is man's greatest and distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of Aristotle's argument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as they are capable of becoming.

Aristotle argues that poetry is