3871: Who was the person behind conversion of East India Company from a trading company into a regional power?
(a) Lord Warren Hastings
(b) Lord Clive
(c) Lord Dalhousie
(d) Lord Wellesley
3872: How is the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference wherein the agreements were signed to set up IBRD, GATT and IMF, commonly known?
(a) Bandung Conference
(b) Yalta Conference
(c) Bretton Woods Conference
(d) Versailles Conference
3873: With reference to 'Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets Promotion', which of the following statements is/are correct?
1. This initiative aims to demonstrate the improved production and post-harvest technologies, and to demonstrate value addition techniques, in an integrated manner, with cluster approach.
2. Poor, small, marginal and tribal farmers have larger stake in this scheme.
3. An important objective of the scheme is to encourage farmers of commercial crops to shift to millet cultivation by offering them free kits of critical inputs of nutrients and micro irrigation equipment.
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 2 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
3874: Examine the following relationships among members of a family of six persons A, B, C, D, E and F.
I. The number of males equals that of females.
II. A and E are sons of F.
III. D is the mother of two, one boy and one girl.
IV. B is the son of A.
V. There is only one married couple in the family at present.
Which one of the following inferences can be drawn from the above ?
(a) A, B and C are all females
(b) A is the husband of D
(c) E and F are children of D
(d) D is the grand-daughter of F
3875: Consider the following statements:
1. During the year 2004, India's foreign exchange reserves did not exceed the 125 billion U. S. Dollars mark.
2. The series of index numbers of wholesale prices introduced from April 2000 has the year 1993-94 as base year.
Which of the following statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 or 2