Questions

The Desert Festival is held in _____.

To be a voter in India, what is the minimum qualifying age?

Rajya Sabha is assisted by the Secretary­General, who holds the rank equivalent to?

The phenomena of raising the outer edge of the curved roads above the inner edge to provide necessary centripetal force to the vehicles to take a safe turn is called _____.

Which of the following causes rainfall during winters in the north-western part of India?

Land covers about ______ of the earth's surface.

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.

That is why publicly invoking these symbols has to be an act of responsible citizenship and not self­____________ demagoguery, but the difference can be hard to _______________. The problem with emotive symbols is that _________________ they can multiply the force of arguments, they cannot replace the arguments__________________. All persuasion harnesses symbols but principled persuasion must also provide arguments that can be _____________ debated.

an act of responsible citizenship and not self­____________ demagoguery

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

There is something in a train journey that (was fascinated) a lot of people and I am one of them.