Questions

Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT are known as what?

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) (has decreed) that all MF schemes must adopt the Total Return variants of their chosen benchmarks to measure and disclose their performance.

' Yellow cake ' an item of smuggling across border s

Which of the following is not a static testing technique?

The operating system called UNIX is typically used for_______

Which type of fault is under compression?

Select the antonym of

feign

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

Manja, or the glass-coated string used for flying kites, not only poses threat to humans, animals and birds but also to trees. A study by the country's oldest botanical garden has revealed that it poses a great threat to trees. But how can a snapped string struck in a tree kill the tree? Apparently, it does so by allying with the creepers in the garden.

A research paper by three scientists of the Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, located in West Bengal's Howrah district, illustrates in detail how the manja, in collusion with climbers, does the damage. "The abandoned, torn kite strings act as an excellent primary supporting platform for the tender climbers, giving easy passage to reach the top of the trees. Lateral branches from the top of the climber and other accessory branches from the ground reaches the top taking support of the first climber, completely covers the treetop, thus inhibiting the penetration of sunlight," says the research paper.

Abandoned, torn kite strings stuck in trees benefits whom?