General Knowledge Questions

A passage with three blanks, followed by five options, each containing one word, is given. Choose the word that can fill all the three blanks.
The ability of humans to ___________ the landscape and recognize the consequences of doing so puts us in a peculiar position. There are several animals on earth that show this same kind of intelligence. Some animals have extensions to ___________ their environment and some do not. As a species we are assigned the duty to provide and proliferate. Our goal is to achieve stability for ourselves and our kin. However, we also have an obligation to maintain the environment, as we depend on the resources and services it provides. The question then becomes:
what is our role in nature? Do we have the right to _________ the land, factory farm animals, and pollute waterways? Or do we have an obligation to reduce our numbers and merely subsist? In order to answer these questions, we must rely on our knowledge of Earth, evolution, and our influence on the environment.

In December 2017, SEBI raised the investment limit for FPIs in central government securities to over ______ from January 2018.

Who appoints the Finance Commission in India?

Which Indian organisation is developing ‘Green propulsion’ technology, that was seen in the news recently?

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

to use for the first time

In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.

If I had remembered(A)/this it will have(B)/prevented some mistakes.(C)/No error(D)

Atomic number of an atom gives the number of which of the following ?

Akbar was __________ years old when he became emperor.