401: Among the Indian languages, which one is spoken maximum in the world after Hindi?
(a) Malayalam
(b) Tamil
(c) Telugu
(d) Bengali
402: Consider the following statements:
1. In the world, the tropical deserts occur along the western margins of continents within the trade wind belt.
2. In India, the East Himalayan region gets high rainfall from north-east winds.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
403: India has the largest population of the Asian X. Today, there are just about 20,000 to 25,000 X in their natural habitat spreading across the evergreen forests, dry thorn forests, swamps and grasslands. Their prime habitats are, however, the moist deciduous forests. The X population in India ranges from North-West India where they are found in the forest divisions of Dehradun, Bijnor and Nainital districts of UP to the Western Ghats in the states of Karnataka and Kerala and in Tamil Nadu.
In Central India, their population is distributed in southern Bihar and Orissa. In the East, they are seen in North-Bengal, Assam and a few other states.
The animal X referred to in this quotation is
(a) Lion
(b) Elephant
(c) Tiger
(d) One-horned rhinoceros
404: For which one of the following countries is Spanish not an official language?
(a) Colombia
(b) Cuba
(c) Republic of Congo
(d) Chile
405: Which one of the following statements is not correct?
(a) The Press Council of India is an autonomous quasi-judicial body established under an Act of Parliament.
(b) The Press Information Bureau provides accreditation to media persons so as to have easy access to information from government sources
(c) Among all the states of India, Maharashtra publishes the largest number of newspapers
(d) Press Trust of India is the largest news agency in the country