Given below is a report with four blanks. Fill those with the options provided in P, Q, R, S, in correct order, to make the report sensible. |
New Delhi, 15 August: With cross-border firing threatening to mar their nascent peace overtures, |
____ (I) ___that while it still stood by the Ufa sentiment, unprovoked firing from across the border would evoke an effective and forceful retaliation by Indian troops. |
The warning was____ (II) ____in which foreign minister Sushma Swaraj, home minister Rajnath Singh and their defence counterpart Manohar Parikkar participated. |
The review meeting was held after protest and counter protest by both sides in which both countries accused each other of resorting to unprovoked firing. |
____ (III) ____of the border. Responding to |
Pakistan's allegation that an Indian drone flew into its airspace, Jaishankar said it was a Chinese drone available off the shelf. |
Emphasizing on the seriousness of the unprovoked |
Pakistani firing. National Security Advisor Ajit K Doval spoke to Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basil |
Doval warned that India would retaliate if it continued. _____ (IV) ______next morning mentioning that there had been casualties and damage on the Pakistani side. |
P: delivered by foreign secretary S Jaishankar after a high-level review meeting on Paki- stan |
Q: "Accordingly, Wednesday night, our forces retaliated," said Jaishankar, adding that Basit spoke to the NSA |
R: Pakistan claimed that the firing had killed four civilians on its side |
S: India on Thursday warned Pakistan |
Identify the kind of adverb for the word underlined below. |
He once met me in Istanbul; I have not seen him since. |
Direction: Give the antonyms for the words underlined in the sentences below. |
Direction: Give the antonyms for the words underlined in the sentences below. |
Arrange P, Q, R, S to give the correct sequence of a movie review given below. |
The movie is a supercharged cross-border drama that goes all out in delivering its message of sub continental peace. Director pulls out an old chestnut - the theme of humanity trumping a history of bitterness. |
P: The hero does not lie, offer Namaz five times a day, and is under oath to Allah to find Samira's parents. The man puts everything at stake, driven by his faith in Allah, to ensure that the lost girl makes it back home in one piece. When he tunnels his way into Nepal, Rehan runs into a battery of security agents and cops determined to bring the "Indian spy" to book.In his uphill task, he is aided by ordinary folk in Nepal - a journo, a priest and even a bus conductor who is so impressed with Rehan's selfless mission that he saves him when the cops came calling. |
Q: Watch the movie even if you aren't an inveterate Rehan's fan. Samira will steal your heart. Rehan may be the principal driving force of the movie, but the real star of the film is the super-cute child actor .Her winning smile, her large, playful eyes and a face can melt the toughest heart, even that of a dyed in the wool film critic. |
R: Into this perennially bubbling cauldron, he throws a devout, upright Muslim do-gooder and an achingly beatific but speechless six-year-old Nepali girl, who is a Hindu, stranded on the Indian side of the border. Bridging many divides - religion, national identity, food habits -the two develop an unlikely bond that wipes out all prejudices. |
S: From the perspective of Rehan's core constituency, the movie might seem a touch tame. The blustery superstar goes missing in the movie as do his signature punch lines. It is, clearly, a calculated risk, a bid to reinvent a successful screen persona that might have outlived its utility in the light of the ageing actor's off-screen troubles. Rehan plays a God-fearing, truth-loving straight-arrow bloke from Azamgarh Uttar Pradesh who breaks neither the law nor bones. |
Give a correct question tag. |
Let's go to the movie.______? |
Identify the type of clause for the underlined part of the sentence given below. |
I believed him to be a true friend. |
Change the passive voice given in question into an active one. |
By whom was grammar taught to you? |
Fill in the blank with correct article. |
___Ms. Alia whom you met last evening is my cousin. |
Identify the figure of speech. |
She accepted it as the kind cruelty of the surgeon's knife. |
Arrange P, Q, R, S between Si and Se to make a correct sentence. |
\[{{\mathbf{S}}_{\mathbf{1}}}\mathbf{:}\]Hindustan Unilever has been |
P: manufacturer is among the most generous paymasters, |
Q: in India, but the country's biggest fast-moving consumer goods |
R: reporting sluggish |
S: growth because of weak consumer demand |
\[{{\mathbf{S}}_{6}}\mathbf{:}\]according to its latest annual report. |
Change the narration. |
He said "We all are sinners." |
Direction: Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions. |
Direction: Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions. |
The underlined word in the given sentence is a: |
You cannot gain admission without a ticket. |
Direction: Give the correct synonyms for the word written in capital letters below. |
Direction: Give the correct synonyms for the word written in capital letters below. |
Give the appropriate filler. |
The more we looked at the piece of modern art__. |
The underlined word in the given sentence is: |
At either end was a marble statue. |
Improve the sentence by changing its underlined portion. |
Let he and I do the work today itself. |
Given in question is three statements followed by two conclusions. You are to identify which or if any of the given conclusions follows the given statements. |
Statements: |
(P) All flowers are garlands. |
(Q) All garlands are fruits. |
(R) All fruits are trees. |
Conclusions: |
I: All trees are flowers. |
II: Not all trees are flowers. |
Given below is a sentence in four parts. One of the parts contains a grammatical error. Find the part. |
No sooner we entered (i)/ than (ii)/ he got up (iii)/ and left the room.(iv) |
Give one word substitution to the following. |
One who pretends illness to escape duty |
Fill in the blank as per subject-verb agreement. |
By this time next year, Anchal _____her final examination. |
Two sentences with homonyms (underlined) are given below. Read both the sentences carefully and decide in which of the sentences the use of homonym is correct. |
I: You should not interfere in one's personal affairs. |
II: The personals of ICS were proud of their positions during the British rule in India. |
Four sentences are given below on same theme. |
You are to decide which sentence is most suitable, with respect to grammar and usages, for a formal writing in English. |
Give the usage of the word underlined. |
Even if it is raining, I will not take my umbrella. |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
It seems that our economic policy debate is forever stuck in a rather tedious jugalbandi between two dominant narratives on the state of the Indian economy. One centre is around growth and the other around poverty/ redistribution. Anytime one camp talks of double digit growth and catching up with China, the other points out that India fares worse than sub-Saharan Africa or a relatively poor neighbouring country like Bangladesh in certain social indicators. |
As with any debate, each side ends up caricaturing the other. Any mention of poverty or human development and you will be called a jholawalla or a socialist who somehow does not understand the magical power of growth to lift people out of poverty or has a vested interest in keeping the poor in poverty (perhaps to attract NGO funds!). Any mention of growth or reform, and you are likely to be called a suit-bootwalla who is lobbying for reforms that will only help big corporations make more profits at the expense of the poor, who either does not care about poverty or believes in the voodoo economics of trickle down. |
The problem with the growth-based narrative is that, while growth is necessary for poverty alleviation or improvements in social indicators, it is not sufficient. For example, take the dream growth rate of 10%. It will take 26 years of sustained growth of 10% per year in income (no country in history has had a quarter century of sustained double digit growth!) to bring an Indian who is right on the poverty line up to merely the current level of per capita income, which is low by global standards to start with. Growth can bring acche din, but you would have to wait for a quarter of a century for even a glimmer of that! |
The problem with the redistribution-based narrative is that, if you focus just on redistribution, it would hardly make a dent on poverty. Yes, as attractive it may sound to some to tax the rich, the reality is if we took all of this wealth, and divided it among the poor (350 million Indians), each will get roughly the same as the amount marking the current poverty line (roughly $450 per year), and more importantly, this will be a one-time affair! |
Growth is indeed necessary for long term poverty alleviation and the suit-bootwallas have that bit correct. But to take advantage of growth opportunities, the poor need access to human capital, the key inputs to which are education and health. Markets create opportunities for those with human capital and it is the responsibility of the government to ensure that the poor acquire the human capital necessary to take advantage of these opportunities. Fostering investment in the human capital of children is therefore a win-win strategy ? it helps achieve both higher growth rates and reduces poverty, and removes the apparent tension between these objectives as implied by the growth versus redistribution debate. |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
It seems that our economic policy debate is forever stuck in a rather tedious jugalbandi between two dominant narratives on the state of the Indian economy. One centre is around growth and the other around poverty/ redistribution. Anytime one camp talks of double digit growth and catching up with China, the other points out that India fares worse than sub-Saharan Africa or a relatively poor neighbouring country like Bangladesh in certain social indicators. |
As with any debate, each side ends up caricaturing the other. Any mention of poverty or human development and you will be called a jholawalla or a socialist who somehow does not understand the magical power of growth to lift people out of poverty or has a vested interest in keeping the poor in poverty (perhaps to attract NGO funds!). Any mention of growth or reform, and you are likely to be called a suit-bootwalla who is lobbying for reforms that will only help big corporations make more profits at the expense of the poor, who either does not care about poverty or believes in the voodoo economics of trickle down. |
The problem with the growth-based narrative is that, while growth is necessary for poverty alleviation or improvements in social indicators, it is not sufficient. For example, take the dream growth rate of 10%. It will take 26 years of sustained growth of 10% per year in income (no country in history has had a quarter century of sustained double digit growth!) to bring an Indian who is right on the poverty line up to merely the current level of per capita income, which is low by global standards to start with. Growth can bring acche din, but you would have to wait for a quarter of a century for even a glimmer of that! |
The problem with the redistribution-based narrative is that, if you focus just on redistribution, it would hardly make a dent on poverty. Yes, as attractive it may sound to some to tax the rich, the reality is if we took all of this wealth, and divided it among the poor (350 million Indians), each will get roughly the same as the amount marking the current poverty line (roughly $450 per year), and more importantly, this will be a one-time affair! |
Growth is indeed necessary for long term poverty alleviation and the suit-bootwallas have that bit correct. But to take advantage of growth opportunities, the poor need access to human capital, the key inputs to which are education and health. Markets create opportunities for those with human capital and it is the responsibility of the government to ensure that the poor acquire the human capital necessary to take advantage of these opportunities. Fostering investment in the human capital of children is therefore a win-win strategy ? it helps achieve both higher growth rates and reduces poverty, and removes the apparent tension between these objectives as implied by the growth versus redistribution debate. |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
It seems that our economic policy debate is forever stuck in a rather tedious jugalbandi between two dominant narratives on the state of the Indian economy. One centre is around growth and the other around poverty/ redistribution. Anytime one camp talks of double digit growth and catching up with China, the other points out that India fares worse than sub-Saharan Africa or a relatively poor neighbouring country like Bangladesh in certain social indicators. |
As with any debate, each side ends up caricaturing the other. Any mention of poverty or human development and you will be called a jholawalla or a socialist who somehow does not understand the magical power of growth to lift people out of poverty or has a vested interest in keeping the poor in poverty (perhaps to attract NGO funds!). Any mention of growth or reform, and you are likely to be called a suit-bootwalla who is lobbying for reforms that will only help big corporations make more profits at the expense of the poor, who either does not care about poverty or believes in the voodoo economics of trickle down. |
The problem with the growth-based narrative is that, while growth is necessary for poverty alleviation or improvements in social indicators, it is not sufficient. For example, take the dream growth rate of 10%. It will take 26 years of sustained growth of 10% per year in income (no country in history has had a quarter century of sustained double digit growth!) to bring an Indian who is right on the poverty line up to merely the current level of per capita income, which is low by global standards to start with. Growth can bring acche din, but you would have to wait for a quarter of a century for even a glimmer of that! |
The problem with the redistribution-based narrative is that, if you focus just on redistribution, it would hardly make a dent on poverty. Yes, as attractive it may sound to some to tax the rich, the reality is if we took all of this wealth, and divided it among the poor (350 million Indians), each will get roughly the same as the amount marking the current poverty line (roughly $450 per year), and more importantly, this will be a one-time affair! |
Growth is indeed necessary for long term poverty alleviation and the suit-bootwallas have that bit correct. But to take advantage of growth opportunities, the poor need access to human capital, the key inputs to which are education and health. Markets create opportunities for those with human capital and it is the responsibility of the government to ensure that the poor acquire the human capital necessary to take advantage of these opportunities. Fostering investment in the human capital of children is therefore a win-win strategy ? it helps achieve both higher growth rates and reduces poverty, and removes the apparent tension between these objectives as implied by the growth versus redistribution debate. |
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