Questions

The Sahara is the biggest desert in the world.

It occupies the northern one third of the African continent.

Uttar Pradesh is the most polluted state in India, with 15 of its cities among 30 cities with highest levels of toxic air in the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency Varanasi turned out to be the worst polluted city of UP. Countrywide, it came sixth.

Other towns and cities in UP on the list are Hapur, Bareilly, Firozabad, Kanpur, Agra, NOIDA, Allahabad, and Mathura where PM10 levels were way above permissible limits.

Kerala is the least polluted state in the country, India. In all the 14 districts of the state, NAAQ(National Ambient Air Quality Standards) standards are complied with and had lower concentrations of PM10. However, all the cities surpassed the PM10 standards prescribed by WHO.

The report - Airpocalypse II - is based on air pollution related data collected from Central and State Pollution Control Boards and Committees.

Telecom Secretary J S Deepak was on Wednesday named India’s next Ambassador to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) from June this year. A 1982 batch IAS officer from Uttar Pradesh, Deepak, who is at present attending the World Mobile Congress at Barcelona, has been shifted with “immediate effect” from the telecom ministry and has been made Officer on Special Duty in the commerce department.

All of the options given are synonyms of RUN.

Hence, Race, Amble, Lope are similar in meaning to the word Run.

Geysers are fountains of hot water and superheated steam that erupts with an explosion whereas hotsprings or thermal springs are found where water sinks deep enough the surface to be heated up by the interior forces and it comes out without any explosion. Iceland and New Zealand are the other countries having geysers while hot springs are relatively common.