General Awareness Test-21 - NDA MCQ

The ‘Narmada Water Dispute Tribunal' was constituted to resolve the water sharing between -

Article 222 of the Indian Constitution "Transfer of a Judge from one High Court to another" deals with?

Special Drawing Rights were created by -

Down’s syndrome is caused due to

Calorimeters are generally made of 

Which one is weak acid?

Lichen is an association between which of the two?

What are the demands not generated by people’s struggle? 

Directions: The following questions are based on the following passage. 
A government in a democratic country has to respond to ongoing priorities in public criticism and political reproach and to the threats to survival it has to face. The removal of long standing deprivations of the disadvantaged people of our country may, in effect, be hampered by the biases in political pressure, in particular when the bulk of the social agitation is dominated by new problems that generate immediate and noisy discontent among the middle class Indians with a voice. If the politically active threats are concentrated only on some specific new issues, no matter how important (such as high prices of consumer goods for the relatively rich, or the fear that India’s political sovereignty might be compromised by its nuclear deal with the USA), rather than on be terrible general inheritance of India of acute deprivation, deficient schooling, lack of medical attention for the poor and extraordinary under nourishment (especially of children and also of young women), then the pressure on democratic governance acts relentlessly towards giving priority to only those particular new issues rather than to the gigantic persistent deprivations that are at the root of so much inequity and injustice in India. The perspective of realization of justice and that of an adequately broad nyaye are central not only to the theory of justice, but also to the practice of democracy. 
Q. What are the ‘new issues that dominate the middle class led social agenda today?

Directions: The following questions are based on the following passage. 
A government in a democratic country has to respond to ongoing priorities in public criticism and political reproach and to the threats to survival it has to face. The removal of long standing deprivations of the disadvantaged people of our country may, in effect, be hampered by the biases in political pressure, in particular when the bulk of the social agitation is dominated by new problems that generate immediate and noisy discontent among the middle class Indians with a voice. If the politically active threats are concentrated only on some specific new issues, no matter how important (such as high prices of consumer goods for the relatively rich, or the fear that India’s political sovereignty might be compromised by its nuclear deal with the USA), rather than on be terrible general inheritance of India of acute deprivation, deficient schooling, lack of medical attention for the poor and extraordinary under nourishment (especially of children and also of young women), then the pressure on democratic governance acts relentlessly towards giving priority to only those particular new issues rather than to the gigantic persistent deprivations that are at the root of so much inequity and injustice in India. The perspective of realization of justice and that of an adequately broad nyaye are central not only to the theory of justice, but also to the practice of democracy. 
Q. What is the minimum mandate of a democratic government? 

Directions: The following questions are based on the following passage. 
A government in a democratic country has to respond to ongoing priorities in public criticism and political reproach and to the threats to survival it has to face. The removal of long standing deprivations of the disadvantaged people of our country may, in effect, be hampered by the biases in political pressure, in particular when the bulk of the social agitation is dominated by new problems that generate immediate and noisy discontent among the middle class Indians with a voice. If the politically active threats are concentrated only on some specific new issues, no matter how important (such as high prices of consumer goods for the relatively rich, or the fear that India’s political sovereignty might be compromised by its nuclear deal with the USA), rather than on be terrible general inheritance of India of acute deprivation, deficient schooling, lack of medical attention for the poor and extraordinary under nourishment (especially of children and also of young women), then the pressure on democratic governance acts relentlessly towards giving priority to only those particular new issues rather than to the gigantic persistent deprivations that are at the root of so much inequity and injustice in India. The perspective of realization of justice and that of an adequately broad nyaye are central not only to the theory of justice, but also to the practice of democracy. 
Q. What does the author mean by nyaye?

Zero Hour in the Indian Parliament starts at 

The core of political democracy lies in the basic axiom of electoral democracy which is based on 

Which one of the following statements regarding judiciary in India is not correct? 

The impeachment of the President of India can be initiated in 

Formal or procedural democracy does not by any means guarantee 

Which of the following statements is/are correct? 
1. A registered voter in India can contest an election to Lok Sabha from any constituency in India. 
2. As per the Representation of the People Act, 1951, if a person is convicted of any offence and sentenced to an imprisonment of 2 years or more, he will be disqualified to contest election. 
Select the correct answer using the codes given below