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Exam Year: 2019

  • ,

    Recently, scientists observed the merger of giant ‘blackholes’ billions of light-years away from the Earth. What is the significance of this observation?

    (a)

    Higgs boson particles’ were detected.

    (b)

    Gravitational waves’ were detected.

    (c)

    Possibility of inter-galactic space travel through ‘wormhole’ was confirmed.

    (d)

    It enabled the scientists to understand ‘singularity’.

    Correct Answer:

    (b)

  • ,

    With reference to land reforms in independent India, which one of the following statements is correct?

    (a)

    The ceiling “laws were aimed at family holdings and not individual holdings.

    (b)

    The major aim of land reforms was providing agricultural land to all the landless.

    (c)

    It resulted in cultivation of cash crops as a predominant form of cultivation.

    (d)

    Land reforms permitted no exemptions to the ceiling limits.

    Correct Answer:

    (b)