General Knowledge Questions

Who is the Bengali writer who won the 31st Moortidevi Award for the year 2017?

Who awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind medal of the British to Mahatma Gandhi for his contribution to ambulance services in South Africa?

Which Five Year Plan adopted Indicative Planning in India?

Which statement about Ultrabook computers is false?

In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.

As with people, some monkeys are lazy, (1)/ like those who sleep all day in the zoo, (2)/ and some were industrious. (3)/ No error (4)

This tax is entirely borne by the entity it is levied upon and cannot be passed.

The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. These sentences, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Select the most logical order of sentences from among the options.

P: The depletion of organic nutrients in the soil has reached alarming proportions, thanks to indiscriminate use of chemical fertiliser in Green Revolution areas.
Q: As against an acceptable level of ‘soil organic carbon’ of well over 5 percent, soils in Punjab are said to have levels far below 1 percent.
R: Besides, 5.3 billion tonnes of soil is eroded annually, at a rate of 16.4 tonnes/hectare.
S: The nutrient imbalance has been skewed by the overuse of urea (N) vis-a-vis phosphatic (P in chemical parlance) and potassic (K) fertiliser.

The study of individual markets of demand and supply in which the 'players', or the decision makers, were also individuals (buyers or sellers, even companies) who were seen as trying to maximize their profits (as producers or sellers) and their personal satisfaction or welfare levels (as consumers) is called?