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Which of the following are constitutional provisions and laws for the protection of the rights of the Scheduled Castes in India?

1.Article 17 of the Constitution of India

2.The Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955

3.The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989

 

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

 

A) 1 and 3 only B) 1 and 2 only
C) 1, 2 and 3  D) 2 and 3 only
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 1, 2 and 3 

Explanation:

Protective arrangements: Such measures as are required to enforce equality, to provide punitive measures for transgressions, to eliminate established practices that perpetuate inequities, etc.A number of laws were enacted to implement the provisions in the Constitution. Examples of such laws include The Untouchability Practices Act, 1955, Scheduled Casteand Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, The Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993, etc. Despite legislation, social discrimination and atrocities against the backward castes continued topersist

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As per John Locke, an English philosopher and physician, which is not a Natural Right?

A) Liberty B) Equality
C) Property D) Right to Vote
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Right to Vote

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‘Shagun’ is a flagship scheme of which Indian state/UT?

A) Punjab B) Maharashtra
C) Madhya Pradesh D) Gujarat
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Punjab

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the word given.

To filch

A) To smuggle B) To appropriate
C) To encroach D) To philanthropy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) To philanthropy

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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.


The woodpeckers of the West (with one exception) are different _______________ those of the East, and so are the flycatchers, the grosbeaks, the orioles, the tanagers, the humming-birds, _____________ many of the sparrows. ____________ of the purple and bronzed grackles (the latter are _______________ seen on the plains of Colorado, but are not common), the Rockies boast of Brewer's blackbird, ______________ habits are not as prosaic as his name would indicate.

West (with one exception) are different _______________ those of the East

A) for B) from
C) of D) to
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) from

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Who discovered bacteria?

A) Antonie Ven Leeuwenhoek B) Robert Brown
C) Robert Hook D) Robert Koch
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Antonie Ven Leeuwenhoek

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For the movie "Taare Zameen Par", Aamir Khan won the Filmfare Award for

A) Best Director B) Best Debut Director
C) Best Art Direction D) Best Screenplay
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Best Director

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Alexander Kerensky was

A) the head of the Provisional Government in Russia before the October Revolution B) a  close  confidant  of  Lenin,  with  whose help the Czar was dethroned
C) the head of the Czar’s army D) an advisor of Joseph Stalin
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) the head of the Provisional Government in Russia before the October Revolution

Explanation:

Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky was a Russian lawyer and revolutionary who was a key political figure in the Russian Revolutionof 1917. After the February Revolution of 1917 he joined the newly formed Russian Provisional Government

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