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Ustad Rashid Khan

Ustad Rashid Khan of Rampur Sahaswan gharana

The Correct Answer is Amjad Ali.

• Amjad Ali Khan is an Indian classical sarod player, best known for his clear and fast ekhara taans.
• He was born into a classical musical family and has performed internationally since the 1960s.
• He was awarded India's second-highest civilian honour Padma Vibhushan in 2001.

Swapan Chowdhury:-

• Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri is an Indian tabla player and is considered to be one of the all-time great masters of the instrument.
• He received the American Academy of Artists Award and was a nominee for the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame.
• In 1996, Swapan Chaudhuri received the Sangeet Natak Academy Award from the President of India, the highest awards for Classical Music in India. In 2019, he received the Padma Shri, one of India's highest honour from the Indian government.

Zakir Hussain:-

• Zakir Hussain is an Indian tabla virtuoso, composer, percussionist, music producer, film actor.
• He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1988, and the Padma Bhushan in 2002, by the Government of India presented by President Abdul Kalam.
• He was also awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1990, given by the Sangeet Natak Academy.

Problems of jute textile industry.
(i) Demand for jute products has decreased due to synthetic substitutes in national and international markets.
(ii) India faces a problem of shortage of raw jute as most of the jute growing areas went to Bangladesh after partition.
(iii) Outdated machinery and methods of processing jute.

When a party or coalition of parties gets a clear majority in the elections, the President has to appoint the leader of the majority party or the coalition that enjoys majority support in the Lok Sabha. When no party or coalition gets a majorty in the Lok Sabha, the President exercise his discretion. The President appoints a leader who in his opinion can muster majority support in the Lok Sabha. In such a case, the President can ask the newly appointed to prove majority support in the Lok Sabha within a specified time.

C. The formation of the ‘United Kingdom of Great Britain’

The mansabdari system worked fine till the death of Akbar. Under this system, the mansabdars maintained a fixed number of soldiers in return for which they got jagirs. However, after Akbar’s death, the number of mansabdars grew but not enough jagirs were available. This resulted in the infestation of corruption in the system. The mansabdars often did not maintain the required number of soldiers which further weakened the Mughal army.

In addition, the Mughal army did not change with the changing times. The Mughal rulers did not try to reform, modernise or strengthen the army and it continued to use old equipment and techniques of warfare. Unlike the Europeans, the Mughals did not have a navy and did not make any efforts to develop one.

sugar industry are based on sugarcane as the raw materials, which are very heavy. so industry are close to its producing areas. moreover sugar cane is a perishable and weight losing product. it should be processed without delay to prevent losing of sugar content,.therefore, industries are located very close to it's producing areas.

India countries was one of the richest country in the world uptill the 18^th century.

Correct option is C) trying

(c) One who purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief

(a) Indirectly talking about an issue

Correct option is A) butt in

The final stage in the process of energy resource utilization is Disposal of waste material. 

Shifting cultivation is related to Tribel Economy.

Uttar Pradesh has the highest percentage of its agricultural area under canal irrigation.

Swadeshi was the idea put forward by leaders to prevent the drain of India’s wealth.

The Harappa's had commercial relations with Mesopotamia.

Correct option (A) Tamil Nadu

Explanation:

Tamil Nadu is the first and the only state in India which as made rooftop rainwater harvesting structure compulsory to all the houses across the state.

Kepler’s laws of planetary motion :

a) The orbit of a planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the foci. 

 b) The line joining the planet and the Sun sweeps equal areas in equal intervals of time. 

c) The square of period of revolution of planet around the Sun is directly proportional to the cube of the mean distance of a planet from the Sun.

The Gorakhpur distric of Uttar Pradesh is known as Jawa of India.

a) The instrument shown in figure is generator. 

b) This machine is used to generate electricity. 

c) The generator generates electricity through following transformations :

Mechanical Energy → Electrical Energy

a) The atomic number of this element is 20. 

b) The group of this element 2. 

c) This element belongs to fourth period. 

The importance of artificial satellites : any three points of importance of artificial satellite is related to weather, communication, broadcasting, navigation, defence, observation (any there points each point carries 1 mark) 

Environment Pollution means the release of Harmful substances and contamination of environment.

1. Primary activities 

2. Secondary activities 

3. Teritiary activities 

4. Quatemary activities.

A satellite can be defined as a body that orbits the earth or other planet which has been sent from the Earth into space theses are of vital importance to life on earth. 

1. The 20^th century is also known as space age. With the advancement in science and technology artificial satellites has marked a new era in the history of global telecommunication.

2. The Geo-stationary satellites are positioned at a height of about 36,000 km in the sky.

3. Radio and Television networking over entire India are done through satellite technology. So, it is popularly called as ‘space age communication technique’.

4. The world’s first artificial satellite, the sputnik. I was launched by the soviet union in 1957.

5. Very recently India has launched a satellite IRS P-2 into the orbit successfully from the country’s space port at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.

6. Satellite construction and launching is carried out as a part of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The ISRO centre is located at Bangalore,

7. The satellite launching centres are located near Hassan in Karnataka.

8. National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) Hyderabad is responsible for reception, processing of data from remote sensing satellites

1. Industries helps in removing poverty and unemployment. 

2. The economic strength of a country is judged by the develepment of its industries. 

3. It contributes about 78 percent of our foreign exchange earning. 

4. Industries involve from the making of Machines euipement and tools for the automobiles, ships, aircrafts etc.

• The regular and uniform supply of water is essential. 
• The water should fall from a sufficient height. 
• It requires huge capital investment to purchase machines. 
• A ready available market should be there.

Some of the most important common problems of rural settlements are –

• Supply of water is most inadequate. People in the rural areas particularly in mountain and desert region walks for long distances to Fetch drinking water. 
• The Water borne disease such as cholera, jaundice etc, are the common problems. Many rural areas are facing the problems of natural diasters which occur frequently such as floods and droughts. 
• Agriculture areas are severely affected due to lacking of irrigation. 
• Being dominated by agriculture the effects of droughts are severe and have effects which strech for many years. 
• The rura 1 houscs are lacking toilet and disposal facilities of solid aster/gar bages which cause health related problems. 
• The houses are made up of mud, wood and thatch which are damaged by heavy rains & floods. They require proper maintainance every year. 
• Most of the houses do not have proper ventilation and the design of the houses also includes animaL shed with fodder storage. 
• The rural settlements are lacking roads and other modern communications.

• The regular and uniform supply of water is essential. 
• The water should fall from a sufficient height. 
• It requires huge capital investment to purchase machines. 
• A ready available market should be there.

Raising of food as well as commercial crops and keeping of lives stock is called “Mixed farming”. It has been introduced in 1951.

The movement of people from one place to another place is known as Migration.

Causes of Migration : Migration is caused by a variety of factors including economic, social and political factors. 

Some of them are briefly discussed below.

• Marriage: Every girl has to migrate to her husband’s place after marriage, thus the entire female population of India has to migrate over short or long distance. 
• Employment : The agricultural base of rural areas does not provide employment to all the people living here. In contrast,urban areas provide vast scope for employment in industries, trade, transport & services. Hence people like to migrate towards the urban areas.
• Education : Educational facilities are very low in the rural areas especially those of higher education and rural people have to migrate to the urban centers for this purpose. 
• Lack of security: Large number of people have migrated out of Jammu and Kashmir and Assam during the last few cars due to disturbed conditions there. In this situation, people would like to migrate towards well secure areas.

The various ways in which MNCs set up, or control, production in other countries are by buying out domestic companies or making the latter work for them. Sometimes, MNCs buy mass produce of domestic industries, and then sell it under their own brand name, at much higher rates, in foreign countries. MNCs look towards developing nations to set up trade because in such places, the labour and manufacturing costs are much lower.

(i). B- Bhakra Nangal

(ii). A. Assam

(iii). C. Tehri

(iv). A. Rice

1. (B) Bhakra Nangal
2. (A) Assam
3. (C) Tehri
4. (A) Rice

Answer: Switzerland, USA and Australia

'Coming Together' refers to the form of federalism where small individual states come together to form a Union or Nation. In this type of federalism the states have individual identity and have majority of control over their governance. USA, Switzerland and Australia are countries which combined different states together to form a country and hence an example for 'Coming Together' federation.

PDS has been abandoned in the country since 2007 is an incorrect statement.

• Public distribution system (PDS) is an Indian food Security System established under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution.
• It evolved as a system of management of scarcity through the distribution of food grains at affordable prices.
• It is operated under the joint responsibility of the Central and the State Governments.
• Under the PDS, presently the commodities namely wheat, rice, sugar, and kerosene are being allocated to the States/UTs for distribution.
• Some states/UTs also distribute additional items of mass consumption through the PDS outlets such as pulses, edible oils, iodized salt, spices, etc.
• From the 1970s, it had evolved into a universal scheme for the distribution of subsidized food.

• Revamped Public Distribution System (RPDS) was launched in June 1992 with a view to strengthen and streamline the PDS as well as to improve its reach in the far-flung, hilly, remote, and inaccessible areas where a substantial section of the underprivileged classes lives.
• In June 1997, the Government of India launched the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) with a focus on the poor.
• Under TPDS, beneficiaries were divided into two categories:
  • Households below the poverty line or BPL
  • Households above the poverty line or APL.

Railways  is an example of public sector enterprise.

Correct option (A) Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh

Explanation:

The Krishna-Godavari dispute is due to the objections raised by Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh government. 

The correct answer is Large area, which reduces pressure.

• Wooden sleepers (timber) are used under the rail and it produces a large area, which reduces pressure. Hence, the correct option is 1.

• There are many kinds of wood that can be used as the railroad sleeper in the world, but not every kind of wood can be used.
•  At the different sections of the tracks, for example, common track section, turnout track section, bridge track section, etc.,
• wood can be divided into hardwood and softwood according to the hardness of wood texture.
• Hardwood railway sleepers are made chiefly from oak, beech, and hornbeam.
•  softwood railway sleepers from Scots pine, maritime pine (Pines pinaster), and larch.

• Timber sleeper used:
  • Railway sleepers can be used in lots of different applications, from raised beds and planters to retaining walls and water features.
  • Railway sleepers are a great alternative to using brick or stone and look absolutely amazing, giving your garden area a rustic feel.
• Railroad construction, wood rail sleeper, steel rail sleeper, and concrete rail sleeper are the three most common rail sleepers.
  • Tracing the source, the rail sleeper originates from a wooden sleeper.
  • In the past 100 years, wood rail sleepers are the widest rail sleepers in the railroad, especially in heavy rail and bridge rail.
  • With the development and technical requirements of railroad construction, rail sleepers are now made of varieties materials, such as steel, concrete, and rubber.

In The Red-Headed League, Sherlock Holmes takes the case of Mr. Jabez Wilson, a businessman who operates a pawn shop in Saxe-Coburg Square. After accepting the case, Holmes and Watson head downtown to investigate the Square. They take the subway and disembark at Barbican Station.

The Correct Answer is Bhilai, Durgapur, Rourkela.

• Durgapur Steel Plant is one of the integrated steel plants of Steel Authority of India Limited, located in Durgapur, West Bengal.
• It was set up in 1959 with the help of the United Kingdom.
• The Rourkela Steel plant was set up in collaboration with German firms viz. Krupp and Demag.
• It started in 1961.
• The Bhilai Steel Plant was set up with the technical assistance of the Soviet Union in September 1967.

• Steel is an iron alloy that contains around 0.2% to 2.1% Carbon.
• In 1870 a small plant was founded by James Erskine in the jungles of Kulti to make iron.
• This produced only Cast Iron.
• Salem Steel Plant, a unit of Steel Authority of India Limited, is a steel plant involved in the production of stainless steel in 1981.
• It is located along the Salem — Bangalore National Highway 44 in the foothills of Kanjamalai in Salem district, Tamil Nadu, India.

• IISCO Steel Plant of Steel Authority of India Limited is an integrated steel plant located at Burnpur, a neighborhood in Asansol city, in the Asansol subdivision of Paschim Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India.
• It was established in 1918.
• Bengal Iron Works Company became Burrakar Iron Works in 1881 and was renamed Bengal Iron and Steel Company in 1890.
• Later in 1926 the company again changed its name to Bengal Iron Company Ltd.
• The name of the town where TISCO was founded by Jamshedji was given by Lord Chelmsford in 1919.
• New steel plants were started at Salem in Tamil Nadu, Vijayanagar in Karnataka, and Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.

The correct answer is South West winds.

• India receives most of its rainfall from the southwest monsoon winds.
• Indian monsoon blows from the northeast during cooler months and reverses direction to blow from the southwest during the warmest months of the year.
• This process brings large amounts of rainfall to the region during June and July.

• Southwest Monsoon Season – June to mid-September.
• Southwest Monsoon Season is also known as the hot-wet season.
• Sudden onset is an important feature of South West Monsoons.
• With the onset of monsoons, the temperature falls drastically and humidity levels rise.

Correct answer is amusement park