Directions (Q.1-10): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them. Thailand is no stranger to political violence. The country, which has seen two military coups in less than 10 years, has been riven by street battles between protesters and security […]

Directions (Q.1- 8): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them.  Iran has agreed to go so much out of its way in assuming the obligations under the JCPOA that the document has an explicit disclaimer clause to affirm that

Directions (Q.1-10): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them. A long-standing perspective on modernity — that a march toward it would lead progressively to lessening of religious and related affiliations – has been discredited over a period of time.

Directions (Q.1-10): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them. The countries of South-East Asia have rarely controlled their own destinies. Asia’s three giants — China, Japan and India — loom over the region. Colonial armies have fought there. Even

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. In India, live in relationships have been a taboo right since the British raj. However, this is no longer entirely true amongst young couples in big cities like Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, etc. However, one can not deny that maintaining such relationships in

As far as we know, all animals dream; and humans probably started to dream even before they were sufficiently intelligent to think about the process. It has been suggested that some of the earliest prehistoric cave paintings are records of dreams. Freud set out the theory that, although they may be prompted by external stimuli, wish-fulfillment was

Directions: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/ phrases are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions. We today revel in the idea that we are living in a world of science and science can work wonders for us. It is evident

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/ phrases are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some fo the questions. Almost everything has implications for the poor, whether it is education, health, family planning, employment, or the environment, or the environment: they are all fields where current performance

Directions : Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words in the passage have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.   As a concept, outsourcing is no doubt gaining ground. But there are many who still keep away from it.

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Every year, the sun irradiates the land masses on earth with the equivalent of 19,000 billion tons of oil equivalent (toe). Only a fraction — 9 billion toe — would satisfy the world’s current energy requirements. Put differently, in 20 minutes, the

Directions (Q.1-10): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them. It has been less than six years since the so-called BRIC nations — Brazil, Russia, India and China — held their first formal summit, and five since they admitted South

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. India is a great book producing nation and has a vibrant world of book publishing spread throughout the vast country in a number of modern languages most of which have their roots in Sanskrit, the mother of Indian languages. In terms of

Directions : Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. The word Lokpal has been derived from the Sanskrit words “Lok” meaning People and “pala” meaning caretaker. Therefore, the word Lokpal means “caretaker of people”. The Jan Lokpal Bill, also referred to as the citizens’ ombudsman bill, is intended as a

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions. The subject “Good Governance” is both topical and timely. It is an axiom of political science that a State comes into being for life but

Directions (Q.1-10): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them. Public general hospitals originated in the almshouse infirmaries established as early as colonial times by local governments to care for the poor. Later, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the