Maharashtra Police Constable Mock Test - 6 - Maharashtra Police Constable MCQ

• The Charter Act of 1813 abolished the East India Company's trade monopoly in India, except for trade in tea and trade with China.
•  This Act allowed other British merchants to trade with India, ending the Company's exclusive rights.
•  It marked a significant shift in British economic policy, promoting free trade.
•  The Act aimed to stimulate economic growth and encourage competition, reflecting changing attitudes towards colonial trade in the 19th century.

Bimbisara or Srenika of the Haryanka Dynasty was the first important ruler of the Magadhan Empire. He ascended the throne in the second half of the 6th century B.C. and ruled for 52 years.

Gautamiputra Satakarni is known for his contributions to Vaishnavism.

Kalidasa, the renowned Sanskrit poet and playwright, was not a part of Harsha's court. However, Bana, Ravikirti, and Dharmapala were notable figures associated with Harsha's court.

Morbi, located in Gujarat, is known for its ceramic industry. It is a major center for the production of ceramic tiles, sanitaryware, and other ceramic products.

The Sanchi Stupa, located in Madhya Pradesh, India, is a significant Buddhist monument, built by Emperor Ashoka in the 3rd century BCE.

Seafloor spreading occurs at divergent plate boundaries, where new oceanic crust is formed as plates move away from each other.

Amaravati is the capital of Andhra Pradesh, though it is still under development.

The Earth's approximate radius is 6,371 km, which represents the distance from the center to its surface.

Hampi was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire, one of the most powerful and prosperous empires in South India during the 14th to 16th centuries.

The mining industry involves the extraction of valuable metals and minerals from the earth, including gold, silver, copper, and more.

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an underwater mountain range formed by the divergent boundary between the Eurasian and North American plates.

Keoladeo National Park, also known as Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, is renowned for being a significant birdwatching destination.

The 73rd Amendment Act, 1992, introduced the provision of Panchayati Raj in India, providing a constitutional status to the Panchayati Raj institutions.

• Statement 1
  Minimum Support Price (MSP) is a form of market intervention by the Government of India to insure agricultural producers against any sharp fall in farm prices.MSP protects the producer- farmers against distress sale during bumper production years.
  MSPs have no statutory backing — a farmer cannot demand MSP as a matter of right.
  The Centre announces the MSP for 22 mandated crops.These include:
  14 kharif crops (paddy, jowar, bajra, maize, ragi, tur/arhar, moong, urad, groundnut, soyabean, sunflower, sesamum, niger seed, cotton),
  6 rabi crops (wheat, barley, gram, masur/lentil, rapeseed and mustard,and safflower) and
  2 commercial crops (jute and copra).
  Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) FRP is the minimum price at which the sugar mills purchase sugarcane from farmers.
• Statement 2
  The Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs announces the MSP at the start of each sowing season, taking into account the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP).

Several farmer associations, from Punjab and Haryana, are marching to Delhi, seeking a law to guarantee the minimum support price (MSP) for their produce.

About Black Hole

• A black hole is an extremely dense object whose gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape it.
• A black hole does not have a surface, like a planet or star. Instead, it is a region of space where matter has collapsed in on itself.
• This catastrophic collapse results in a huge amount of mass being concentrated in an incredibly small area.

About Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)

• The EHT is not a single telescope but a worldwide network of radio telescopes that work together to study a common object in space.
• Very-long baseline interferometry: It is the technique, where the data each telescope collects about the object is correlated with data from the others using extremely precise clocks.
• In this setup, the maximum distance between the telescopes defines the network’s resolution.
• The Greenland Telescope has been commissioned to the array, which has improved the resolution of the EHT in the north-south direction.

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has released new images of M87, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87.

Statement Analysis:
Statement 1

• The foundations of NATO were officially laid down in 1949 to counter the Soviet Union with Cold War tensions rising with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, more popularly known as the Washington Treaty
• Military: NATO is committed to the peaceful resolution of disputes.
• If diplomatic efforts fail, it has the military power to undertake crisis-management operations. These are carried out under the collective defense clause of NATO’s founding treaty – Article 5 of the Washington Treaty or under a United Nations mandate, alone or in cooperation with other countries and international organisations.

Statement 2

• NATO currently has 31 members – most of them European nations, plus the United States and Canada.

Statement 3

• The newest member is Finland, which joined in 2023 in reaction to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
• Sweden applied to join along with Finland but is waiting for Hungary to ratify its application as the final major step before membership.

Former US President Donald Trump accused NATO allies of not spending enough on defence.

A tap can fill a tank in 4 hours.
Therefore the tap can fill half the tank in 2 hours.
Remaining part = 1/2
After half the tank is filled, two more similar taps are opened.
Hence, total number of taps becomes 3.
Part filled by one tap in 1 hour = 1/4
Part filled by three taps in 1 hour 
= 3 × 1/4 = 3/4
i.e., 4 taps can fill remaining half in 40 minutes.
Total time taken = 2 hour + 40 minute 
= 2 hour 40 minutes

part filled in 2 hours = 
Remaining  part =  
∴ (A + B)'s 7 hour's work = 2/3
(A + B)'s 1 hour's work = 2/21
∴ C's 1 hour's work = {(A + B + C)'s 1 hour's  work} - {(A + B)'s 1 hour's work}

∴ C alone can fill the tank in 14 hours.

Gain = 10%
Let the C.P. be x.

Let the original price be Rs. 100.
Marked down price = Rs. 80
Now, we want to raise 80 to 100.

Simple Interest = PRT / 100
Here P = Principal, R = Rate of interest and T = time period
Hence, Simple Interest ∝ T
Required Ratio = (Simple Interest for 5 years) / (Simple Interest for 15 years)
⇒ T₁/ T₂ = 5 / 15
⇒ 1 / 3 = 1 : 3