Test Level 2: Para Completion (August 10) - CAT MCQ

The goals remain the same - expanding with inclusion and ensuring quality and relevant education.

Soon after it was approved, the shiny clouds of liberalisation began to gather.

Three decades have passed, but the reluctance to discuss the implications of economic liberalisation in education continues.

The project aroused a lot of curiosity and expectations, but nothing much happened.

A popular financial route that officials love to offer these days is that of public-private partnership (PPP).

We can include Kurt Vonnegut, and even though a good decade or so younger, Margaret Atwood, two towering figures that have never gone out of style.

The cultural present tense isn't limited to what's new.

Into this maelstrom comes the first three-pound excavation of Algren.

There's heartbreaking poignancy in the fact that the art of storytelling in the 20th century was perfected by so many whose lives ended miserably in tragedy.

So we rediscover voices from the past that satisfy us more than the latest blockbuster. 

The TRAI order ends the debate on the issue by prohibiting all such data services which provided access to some websites for free.

Indians have been cheering telecom regulator TRAI for upholding net neutrality in its new guidelines announced in November 2017.

Had there been no net neutrality at the time when the internet was nascent, services such as Skype may not have taken off at all.

Without net neutrality regulations, ISPs can block or slow down internet speeds or provide preferential treatment to certain content providers.

But opponents to net neutrality say that without these rules, ISPs will be better able to invest in to improving internet speed, infrastructure and optimising radio spectrum.

Now nearing a compromise on tariffs, international money is straining to get into Chinese markets.

Both are positives for Beijing, trying to manage the fallout of its trade war with the US.

Confusing signals about foreign investment in e-commerce or venture capital funding, do not help.

The quitting of members of India's apex statistical commission has cast a shadow on the quality of official data.

China is attracting larger chunks of worldwide portfolio investments, in equity and debt markets.

The poet questions the reader's ability and desire to positively influence other people's lives.

The poet urges the reader to do good deeds and earn another day of life by pleasing God.

The poet indirectly attacks those who waste their day and are discontented with life.

The poet stresses that an ideal day should be spent helping fellow human beings through kind deeds.

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

Whatever their purpose, maps, and models must simplify as much as they mimic the world.

However, only a map with the minutest of detail can be useful for detailed study.

Such maps or models, therefore, do not reflect complete reality.

The best maps, therefore, focus more on the abstraction of reality rather than on the accurate reproduction of human endeavour.

The maps are, after all, only a reflection of reality.

Further delays in the launch systems being developed by SpaceX and Boeing

NASA mulls buying more rides to space from Russia amid programme delays

Russia's contract to ferry rides for NASA astronauts to the Space Station to end soon

NASA to assess multiple scenarios to ensure continued U.S. access to the Space Station

Efforts by the U.S. to end dependability on Russia for astronaut transportation to Space Station

Human life ends in death but that does not mean that it cannot be lived meaningfully by striving for achievement.

The poet cannot find reason to think that human life has a purpose as we are progressing towards death.

Humans should not behave like beasts who lack both soul and reason and waste their lives.

Humans should not be depressed or discouraged by uninspiring events or persons of the past.

The first stage of existence of human beings is truly honored by the magnificent view of their destination.

There is a need to think carefully before removing UBI.

When growth is inclusive, a UBI is not necessary.

Careful advance planning and thinking is required to make growth inclusive.

Inclusiveness is an essential ingredient of any successful growth strategy.

Governments could use income distribution schemes to attenuate negative impacts on the poor.

Nitrogen pollution from industrial and domestic sewage is growing at four times the rate of that from fertilisers.

Nitrogen pollution has escaped the attention that carbon dioxide has gotten.

The level of nitrogen in the ecosystem has begun to degrade life.

Excess of nitrogen adversely affects soil health and crop yields, water and air quality, and contributes to climate change.

Nitrogen has emerged as a potent pollutant in its chemically reactive forms in compounds, such as ammonia, urea and nitrates.