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To view the answers for UPSC Mains 2011 - GS Paper II, follow the link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-2aENyqgfIW0USKtep6xylwhKFElyuOHaod1LMlJgZs/edit?hl=en_US...
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1. Answer any three of the following in about 250 words each: 20x3 = 60
(a) ‘Essentially all that is contained in Part IV-A of the Constitution is just a codification of tasks integral to the Indian...
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1. Analyse the pros and cons of Ethanol Blending Programme on the background of food security for Indian people?
2. What is Antimatter? Write briefly about the research on Antimatter?
3. Recently Tamil Nadu is in news to introduce Uniform Sy...
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Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa resigned his prestigious post and was asked by the central leadership of the party to quit after the State Lokayukta indicted him in a mining scam (Lokayukta report on illegal mining).
State Lokayutka (ombudsman)...
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The recent financial crisis and the ongoing war on terror made the tax revenues of the US government shrunk while its expenditure increased. Consequently, there was a substantial increase in the government's deficit. In May 2011, the US government rea...
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IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS - GS MAINS 2011
Answer all the following questions: (each carries 12 Marks)
1. In India we faced lot of scams recently. Do we need changes in Audit Act 1971?
2. Recently Sahara Group faced criticism regardin...
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The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, more commonly known simply as the Rotterdam Convention, is a multilateral treaty to promote shared responsibilities i...
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An honor killing or honour killing is the killing of a member of a family or social group by other members, due to the belief of the perpetrators (and potentially the wider community) that the victim has brought dishonor upon the family or community. Hono...
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The radiation effects from the Fukushima I nuclear accidents are the results of release of radioactive isotopes from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The total amount of iodine-131 and cae...
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P.L.RAJ MEMORIAL STUDY CIRCLE
GENERAL STUDIES (PAPER- I) 2011
TEST BOOKLET – C SERIES
ANSWER KEYS WITH EXPLANATION AND SOURCES
1. Regular intake of fresh fruits and vegetables is recommended in the diet since they are a good source of antioxidan...
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The Nuclear Suppliers Group met in the Netherlands on June 20, 2011. A section of the media and the think tank community suggested that India’s membership in the NSG would be discussed at this meeting. The meeting has generated interest in the globa...
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India and Uzbekistan, the energy-rich Central Asian nation, Wednesday signed 34 pacts in diverse areas, including pharmaceuticals and hydrocarbons, and agreed to cooperate closely in stabilising Afghanistan.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held talks with ...
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MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
The Man Booker International Prize recognises one writer for his or her achievement in fiction.
Worth £6O,OOO, the prize is awarded every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English...
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Scientists from the United States and Japan received the Nobel Prize in 2002 for these discoveries - Neutrinos are elementary particles that are filling the Universe in abundance but are very elusive. Trillions of neutrinos are passing through our bodies ...
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A Pawan Hans helicopter chartered by Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu to fly from Tawang to Itanagar went missing on Saturday morning (30th june 2011), and its status was not known till late in the night.
The helicopter, which took off from...
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Osama and his ideology
Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1957, the son of Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, a wealthy businessman with close ties to the Saudi royal family, and Mohammed bin Laden's tenth wife, Hamida al-Attas.Osama was rai...
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Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants, amazingly, a 40-year-old power plant built to withstand a 7.9 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale shut down automatically as designed when the Earth began shaking. In fact, it stood up to an earthqua...
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In economics, BRIC is a grouping acronym that refers to the countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China, which are all deemed to be at a similar stage of newly advanced economic development. It is typically rendered as "the BRICs" or "the BRIC countries"...
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The 2011 Libyan conflict is an ongoing armed conflict in the North African state of Libya being fought between those seeking to depose Muammar Gaddafi and hold democratic elections and pro-Gaddafi forces. The situation began as a series of peaceful protes...
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The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is a committee of selected members of Parliament, constituted by the Parliament of India, for the auditing of the expenditure of the Government of India. The PAC is formed every year with a strength of not more than 22 ...
