Questions

Which year has been set as goal for completing the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project operated with the help of Japan?

Which of the following is not a commercial source of energy?

What is the unit of the physical quantity, Electrical conductance?

How many Rajya Sabha members, the President of India can nominate?

Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojna has now been restructured as

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.

Showing a skilful use of underhand tactics to achieve goals

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

Illusive

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

In short, to write a good letter you must approach the job in the lightest and most casual way. You must be personal, not abstract. You must not say, 'This is too small a thing to put down'. You must say, 'This is just the sort of small thing we talk about at home. If I tell them this they will see me, as it were they'll hear my voice, they'll know what I'm talking about'. That is the purpose of a letter. Carlyle had the trick to perfection. He is writing from Scotsbrig to his brother Alec in Canada and he begins talking about his mother. Good old Mother, he says, 'she is even now sitting at my back, trying at another table to write you a small word with her own hand; the first time she has tried such a thing for a year past. It is Saturday night, after dark; we are in the east room in a hard, dry evening with a bright fire to our two selves; Jenny and her Barns are 'scouring up things' in the other end of the house; and below stairs the winter operations of the farm go on, in a subdued tone; you can conceive the scene! How simple it is and yet how perfect. Can not you see Alec reading it in his far-off home and his eyes moistening at the picture of his old mother sitting and writing her last message to him on earth?

Abstract' in the passage means