Directions (1-10): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. There were two sisters who hated each other: Inanna who ruled the world, land of the living, and Ereshkigal who ruled the underworld, land of the dead. Inanna decided to visit the underworld. She told the gatekeeper of the underworld that she wanted to attend her brother-in-law’s…
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Directions (1-10): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Though the Cold war has ended. Selective tactics are still continuing for ensuring the military and economic dominance of developed countries. Various types of technology denial regimes are still being enforced which are now being mainly targeted against developing countries like India. Today, we in India…
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Directions(1-10): Read the passage and answer the following questions. Mark Zuckerberg co-founded the social-networking website Facebook out of his college dorm room at Harvard University. Zuckerberg left college after his sophomore year to concentrate on the site, the user base of which has grown to more than two billion people, making Zuckerberg a billionaire many times over. The birth of…
Read MoreDirections(1-5): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below them. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions. Moody’s has downgraded scam-hit Punjab National Bank (PNB) to junk grade, following its Rs. 13,417-crore loss in the fourth quarter. This will make it tough for PNB to raise…
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Directions(1-10): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below them. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions. Nearly 18 months after the government’s decision to scrap currency notes of ₹500 and ₹1,000, which accounted for over 86% of the currency in circulation at the time, large…
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Directions(1-5):Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Consolidation in India’s overcrowded telecommunications industry was perhaps inevitable. What is interesting though is that the current wave of mergers and acquisitions, which started in November 2015 with Reliance Communications’ agreement to acquire Sistema’s Indian wireless business, has gained considerable momentum over the last 15 months with several more announcements…
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Directions:(1-10)Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below them. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions. The Indian Companies Act (2013) mandates that Indian corporates, public and private, must allocate at least 2 per cent of their net profits for CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). The Act…
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Which of the following is/are required to create a high performing government body? Real autonomy from ministries. Partnership with the private sector Appropriate ecosystem. A team of specialists. All of the above Option E Refer to the last paragraph of the passage. Which among the following statements is/are not true?I. ISRO is staffed with generalists.II. The geographical location of…
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Directions(1-10): Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these. Even as frauds and murky dealings continue to tumble out of the closets of the biggest names in Indian banking, there is danger in assuming that the problem is restricted to that…
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Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below them. Certain words are given in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions. Management is a set of processes that can keep a complicated system of people and technology running smoothly. The most important aspects of management include planning, budgeting, organising, staffing,…
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