When an advance grant is made by the Parliament, pending the
regular passage of the Budget, it is called
(1) Vote on account
(2) Token grant
(3) Supplementary grant
(4) Vote on credit
India’s first Index fund was launched by 1 IDBI mutual fund 2 Prodential ICICI mutual fund 3 Reliance Capital mutual fund 4 None of the above
Sultana Raziya was the ??? of Iltutmish (a) wife (b) daughter (c) sister (d) niece
Government of India?s Disinvestment Policy was recast in 2000 to provide for ?strategic sale? of PSU shares. The new policy involves : (A) Sale with a change in management. (B) Majority holding to be sold to a private party. (C) Sale of only loss making PSUs. (D) Sale of shares of defence PSUs
Who is one of the recipient of this year?s (2004) Ashoka Chakra (posthumously)? (A) Vishnu Prabhakar (B) MN Venkatachaliah (C) Triveni Singh (D) Rupindra Batra
. To know whether the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer, it is necessary to compare (a) The wholesale price index over different periods of time for different regions (b) The distribution of income of an identical set of income recipients in different periods of time (c) The distribution of income of different sets of income recipients at a point of time (d) The availability of food grains among two sets of people, one rich and the other poor, over different periods of time.
The science of the study of nerves is called: (A) Mycology (B) Neurology (C) Ethnology (D) Biology
Sariska Reserve Forest is located in 1 Uttaranchal 2 Maharashtra 3 Jharkhand 4 None of these
India?s largest island lake is locate n he State of 1 Andhra Pradesh 2 Assam 3 Madhya Pradesh 4 Orissa
The quota (of reservation) in the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies is likely to continue till: (A) 2005 (B) 2003 (C) 2010 (D) 2000
. The first political organization established in India in 1838 was known as (a) British India Society (b) Bengal British India Society (c) Settlers Association (d) Zamindary Association
Biological fixation of nitrogen occurs most commonly in which of the following crops ? (a) Pulses (b) Rice (c) Wheat (d) None of these
The first woman President of Indian National Congress was: (a) Indira Gandhi (b) Sarojini Mahishi (c) Annie Besant (d) Vijayalakshmi Pandit