Which of the following represents the Defence expenditure of
India in terms of per-centage of the total outlay of the Budget?
1 12%
2 14%
3 15.55
4 17.5%
How long can the Prime Minister remain in office? (a) Till the President wants him to remain so (b) Till he enjoys the confidence of the majority part in Lok Sabha (c) Till he remains MP and the leader of the majority party in Lok Sabha (d) Both ?b? and ?c?
Which one of the following is correct? (a) Every state sends equal number of members to the Rajya Sabha (b) Every state sends 50 members to the Rajya Sabha (c) The number of members elected to the Rajya Sabha from a State depends upon the population of the State concerned (d) None of these
The broad objective of Indian planning has been (a) to create heavy industries (b) to promote agriculture (c) to create a socialistic pattern of society (d) to promote education
Which of the following does not border Mynmar? 1 Cambodia 2 Laos 3 China 4 Thailand
The main achievement of the American Revolution was the establishment of a republic which was not truly democratic because: (a) the right to vote was limited (b) women had no votes (c) election laws favoured men of property (d) slavery was not abolished
Who invented vaccination? 1 Alexander Fleming 2 Edward jenner 3 Jonas Salk 4 Louis Pasteur
Which of the following States stood first in the list of the Statewise quantum of wheat distributed through public distribution system upto December 1998? 1 Uttar Pradesh 2 Punjab 3 Maharstra 4 West Bengal
Which of the following is India?s long range surface-to-surface missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads? 1 Varun 2 Tejas 3 Agni-III 4 Arjun-II
For how many people in India, in terms of percentage, the farming and agricultural activities are the main source of income? 1 30% 2 42% 3 69% 4 73%
Who among the following was defeated by Babar in the First Battle of Panipat? 1 Bahlol Lodihi 2 Ibrahim lOdhi 3 Sikanda Lodhi 4 Daulat Khan Lodhi
What is the relative position of the moon, the earth and the sun during a lunar eclipse? (A) The sun and the moon are in apposition (B) The sun and moon are in conjunction (C) The lines joining the earth and the sun and the earth and the moon make a right angle (D) The three make an equilateral triangle
Why was Kanha, the famous tiger reserve in India, recently in news? 1 An International workshop on ?Pure Forests? was organized there in December ?97 2 The only pair of the tigers in the reserve died accidentally resulting into the fear of extinction of the entire species of tigers 3 A ?sal borer epidemy? has put a serious threat to entire population of sal trees in the forest 4 None of these