The first definite step to provide Parliamentary control
over East India Company was taken by
1 The Regulating Act
2 The Pitts India Act
3 The Charter Act of 1793
4 The Charter Act of 1813
Where is first Railway University located?
Who is popularly known as queen of ghazals? (a) M S Subbulakshmi (b) Siddeshwari Devi (c) Begum Akhtar (d) Nur Jehan
The freedom of speech of a member of Parliament during the parliamentary session is (a) Subject to restrictions (b) As may be determined by the Parliament from time to time (c) Similar to that of a citizen (d) Almost absolute
The Borlaug Award 2005 were announced recently. S.Nagarajan, who is one of the recipient of the same, is associated with which of the following institutes/organizations? 1 Indian Agricultural Research Institute 2 Ohio State University 3 Punjab Rao Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Akola 4 Pantnagar Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Pantnagar
Who among the following won the Best Actor Award at the 50th National Film Awards? 1 Ajay Devgan 2 Mamooti 3 Aamir Khan 4 Murali
Private banks in India account for what share of the total banking sector? 1 4% 2 8% 3 12% 4 20%
The first major inscription in classical Sanskrit is that of (a) Chandragupta Vikramaditya (b) Kanishka I (c) Rudradaman (d) Samudragupta
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
People of Indian origin in Sri Lanka are concentrated more in: (1) Colombo (2) Anuradhapura (3) Jafna (4) Manar
Which one of the following things the President can do? (a) He has the power to make the rules for the convenient transaction of the business of the government and the administration (b) He can ask any information regarding the administration or the government from the Prime Minister (c) He can tell the Prime Minister to submit a particular problem for consideration to the Cabinet and inform him regarding the decision of the same (d) All of these
When returning to the earth, spacecraft has a communication blackout. The reason is: (A) The returning spacecraft is doing so against the force of gravity, which inter-feres with the radio waves (B) During the re-entry period, the density of the plasma, generated by the intense frictional heat, is so high that the operational frequencies used for communication be come very much less than the plasma cut-off frequency, resulting in a total blackout (C) Stellar X-rays attract and absorb the sound waves (D) None of the above
The chief instrument through which nationalist-minded Indians created an all-India consciousness in the early period was: (a) the English language (b) literature (c) the press (d) patriotic poetry