Political Science: CUET Mock Test - 4 - Humanities/Arts MCQ

World Environment Day is celebrated annually on 5 June and is the United Nations' principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of the environment.

The Protocol's first commitment period started in 2008 and ended in 2012.

The giant panda is the featured animal on the logo for World Wildlife Fund as a symbol of all endangered species that would be able to thrive if permitted the range and natural environment of their origin.

Deforestation affects animals in many ways. It causes habitat destruction, increased risk of predation, reduced food availability, and much more. As a result, some animals lose their homes, others lose food sources – and finally, many lose their lives. In fact, deforestation is one of the main causes of extinction.

Due to globalisation almost every foriegn brand in now available in India.

Globalization has led to the flow of ideas across national boundaries, e.g. spread of internet.

Globalisation is an economic, political and cultural phenomenon which makes different nations interdependent and interconnected thus making itself a multidimensional phenomenon.

Some differences in tastes will always remain among people of different nations, but with the tremendous improvement in telecommunications, transportation, and travel, the cross-fertilization of cultures and convergence of tastes can only be expected to accelerate. Consumer preferences are considered one of the key parameters on basis of which marketing strategies are devised.

New Economic Policy of India was launched in the year 1991 under the leadership of P. V. Narasimha Rao. This policy opened the door of the India Economy for the global exposure for the first time.

The worldwide interconnectedness implies to interlink the world through free flow of goods and services, technology, ideas and people across the globe to extend globalisation.

The States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) constituted by the Central Government of India in August 1953 to recommend the reorganization of state boundaries. In October 1955, after two years of study, the Commission, comprising Justice Fazal Ali, K. M. Panikkar and H. N. Kunzru, submitted its report.

India got independence from British Colonial rule on 15th August 1947

Jammu & Kashmir was not a “communal zone” during partition.

Jinnah’s firm stance on two nation theory without any cooperation to congress at that time, Failure of 1946 interim Government to stop communal violence in “communal zones” and the ever increasing communal riots taking place in Punjab and Bengal made partition inevitable.

Cities of Punjab and Bengal which formed majority of Muslim population along the Radcliffe line were termed as communal zones that witnessed brutal violence and mass deaths during partition of India.

Mahagujarat movement, known as Mahagujarat Andolan locally, was a political movement demanding the creation of the state of Gujarat for Gujarati and finally on 1 May 1960 Gujarat became a state.

He addressed to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on 11 August 1947 at Karachi.

Amrita Pritam was an Indian novelist, essayist and poet, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi. A prominent figure in Punjabi literature, she is the recipient of the 1956 Sahitya Akademi Award.

Present-day India owes an immeasurable debt of gratitude to the vision, tact, diplomacy and pragmatic approach of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the indomitable man who integrated 562 princely states with the Union of India and prevented the Balkanisation of the newly-independent country.

The Communist Party of India won 16 seats and was placed after INC which won 364 seats in the Parliament.

Sustainable development can be defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It is interlinked with the concept of sustainability.

The World Council of Indigenous Peoples was a formal international body dedicated to having concepts of aboriginal rights accepted on a worldwide scale. The WCIP had observer status in the United Nations, a secretariat based in Canada and represented over 60,000,000 Indigenous peoples worldwide. It was formed in 1975.

The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, the Rio Summit, the Rio Conference, and the Earth Summit (Portuguese: ECO92), was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to June 14, 1992.

Our global commons include everything that is to be shared among all the creatures on the planet. For example, the clean air that we breathe, the food that we derive from plants, and the space that we claim for living are all forms of global commons. Similarly is the ocean floor which is used by all creatures.

Economic globalization refers to the increasing interdependence of world economies as a result of the growing scale of cross-border trade of commodities and services, flow of international capital and wide and rapid spread of technologies.

According to rightist view, it leads to the weakening of the State. People will loose their identity and age-old values. They support protectionism and self-reliance.

The seventh World Social Forum was held in Nairobi, Kenya in January 2007.

Technology is one of the most crucial causes of globalisation as technology leads to communication and communication carries ideas of one region to other.

The Indian government embarked upon an expansionist policy without tackling the problem of resource mobilization, which was constrained because of the tax cuts. In 1986-87, the overall fiscal deficit touched an all time high of 9% of GDP.

Economic liberalization (or economic liberalisation) is the lessening of government regulations and restrictions in an economy in exchange for greater participation by private entities. In politics, the doctrine is associated with classical liberalism and neoliberalism.