2266: The prices at which the Government purchases food grains for maintaining the public distribution system and for building up buffer-stocks is known as
(a) minimum support prices
(b) procurement prices
(c) issue prices
(d) ceiling prices
2267: Who among the following is a famous economist?
(a) Max Muller
(b) Macaulay
(c) Gunnar Myrdal
(d) Henry Francis Carry
2268: In order of their distances from the Sun, which of the following planets lie between Mars and Uranus?
(a) Saturn and Neptune
(b) Saturn and Earth
(c) Earth and Jupiter
(d) Jupiter and Saturn
2269: The path of Halley's comet in its orbit around the sun is
(a) Parabolic
(b) Hyperbolic
(c) Elliptical
(d) Circular
2270: Assertion (A):
Information technology is fast becoming a very important field of activity in India.
Reason (R):
Software is one of the major exports of the country and India has a very strong base in hardware.
(a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true, but R is not a correct explanation of A
(c) A is true, but R is false
(d) A is false, but R is true