171: Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:
List-I (Author) -- List-II (Work)
A. Bankim Chandra Chatterji -- 1. Shatranj Ke Khiladi
B. Dinabandhu Mitra -- 2. Debi Chaudhurani
C. Premchand -- 3. Nil-Darpan
ABC
(a) 321
(b) 123
(c) 2 3 1
(d) 312
Explanation:
Bankim Chandra was a Bengali poet, novelist, essayist and journalist, most famous as the author of Vande Mataram or Bande Mataram, that inspired the freedom fighters of India, and was later declared the National Song of India. His novel Devi Chaudhurani, was published in 1884.
. Oinabandhu Mitra the Bengali dramatist, was born in 1830 at Chouberia in Nadia, and was the son of Kalachand Mitra. His given name was Gandharva Narayan, but he changed it to Dinabandhu Mitra. Mitra stormed the social and the literary cirle of Bengal by his most notable play Nildarpan in the year 1860. It was published from Dhaka and soon after its publication it ignited a major argument in the newspapers.
Munshi Premchand, was one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi and Urdu literature. Shatranj ke khiladi is a story in Hindi written by him. Premchand's Urdu version is titled Shatranj ki bazi. The story depicts decadent royalty of Central North India. It is set around the life of Nawabs of Lucknow, local feudal lords, in the eighteenth century.
172: What is the broad area in which the Nobel Prize winners for the year 2006 in Physiology or Medicine, worked to get the Prize?
(A) Adult stem cell research
(B) Immunology and disease resistance
(C) Flow of genetic information
(D) Prevention of weakening due to ageing
173: Which one of the following was the largest IT software and services exporter in India during the year 2002-03?
(a) Birlasoft
(b) Infosys Technologies
(c) Tata Consultancy Services
(d) Wipro Technologies
174: Which country is known as the "Land of the Morning Calm"
(a) Japan
(b) Korea
(c) Taiwan
(d) Netherlands
175: In the context of the affairs of which of the following is the phrase "Special Safeguard Mechanisms" mentioned in the news frequently ?
(a) ASEAN-India Free Trade Agreement
(b) G-20 Summits
(c) World Trade Organisation
(d) United Nations Environment Programme
Explanation:
Safeguard mechanism is one of the three types of trade protection measures taken by World Trade Organization (WTO) members, alongside anti-dumping and countervailing measures. The safeguards are contingency restrictions on imports taken temporarily to deal with special circumstances such as a surge in imports. There are three types of the safeguards : (1) General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Article 19 and the Uruguay Round Safeguards Agreement; (2) Special (Agricultural) Safeguard: SSG: and (3) Special Safeguard Mechanism: SSM. SSM is an instrument to enable developing countries to increase their tariffs above the bound tariff rates commitments made in the Uruguay Round (or for new membr like China, the tariffs can be raised beyond the levels committed to WTO at the accession) in the event of a fall in price of imported products or an increase in the volume of imports beyond certain levels.
The issue of SSM in agriculture for developing countries has led to the collapse of the WTO mini-ministerial meeting in Geneva at the end of July, 2008.