Who among the following has the constitutional authority to make rules and regulations fixing the number of members of the UPSC ?
a) Home Ministry
b) President
c) Cabinet Secretary
d) Vice President
Which of the following teams was not included in the TVS Cup Tri Series Cricket held recently? 1 Australia 2 West Indies 3 New Zeland 4 India
The company that has acquired Spectra mind is 1 RIL 2 TCS 3 WIPRO 4 SATYAM
To attain ?nirvana?, the Buddha prescribed: (a) the four noble truths (b) the eightfold path (c) nishkama karma (d) the three jewels
?Golconda Fort? is in which state? (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Karnataka (c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Bihar
The ?Lepchas? are mostly found in an Indian State namely: (a) Assam (b) Arunachal Pradesh (c) Sikkim (d) Jammu & Kashmir
The name of the World Bank president is?.. A. Paul Walferson B. Paul Jefferson C. Paul Walfowitz D. Paul McPherson
In living organisms the water acts as (1) Diluting agent (2) Physiological solvent (3) Lowers body temperature (4) None of the above
Which of the following is a distributary river? (a) Hoogly (b) Chambal (c) Kosi
Harsh Mankad and Vishal Uppal were recently in the news as they won Doubles of the ITF Men?s Futures tournament in 1 Badminton 2 Chess 3 Tennis 4 Billiards
The RBI has four chief weapons to control or maintain desired equilibrium in the economy of the country. Which of the following is NOT one of them? (1) Open market operations (2) Reserve requirement (banks have to keep a part of deposits in reserve) (3) Repo rate (4) Bank rate (5) Introducing new taxes/levies, etc.
Who granted the permission to establish the first British factory at Hooghli in Bengal? 1 Shah Shuja 2 Murshid Quli khan 3 Shuja-ud-din 4 Alivardi Khan
. The theory of ‘jumping genes’ was propounded by (a) Gregor Johann Mandel (b) Thomas Hunt Morgan (c) Barbara McClintock (d) Watson and Crick