3231: Consider the following statements:
1. The United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) has a Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air.
2. The UNCAC is the ever-first legally binding global anti-corruption instrument.
3. A highlight of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) is the inclusion of a specific chapter aimed at returning assets to their rightful owners from whom they had been taken illicitly.
4. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is mandated by its member States to assist in the implementation of both UNCAC and UNTOC.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
(a) 1 and 3 only
(b) 2, 3 and 4 only
(c) 2 and 4 only
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
3232: Which one of the following important trade centres of ancient India was on the trade route connecting Kalyana with Vengi ?
(a) Tagara
(b) Sripura
(c) Tripuri
(d) Tamralipti
3233: A present group of nations known as G-8 started first as G-7. Which one among the following was not one of them?
(A) Canada
(B) Russia
(C) Italy
(D) Japan
3234: Who among the following wrote the book Ayodhya : 6 December 1992 ?
(a) Arun Shourie
(b) Jaswant Singh
(c) Chandra Shekhar
(d) P. V. Narasimha Rao
3235: When the bark of a tree is removed in a circular fashion all around near its base, it gradually dries up and dies because
(a) Water from soil cannot rise to aerial parts
(b) Roots are starved of energy
(c) Tree is infected by soil microbes
(d) Roots do not receive oxygen for respiration