07-08-2021 MCQs Test

1. Who has the power to modify the list of notified STs?

1. The Constitution empowers the President to specify the Scheduled Tribes (STs) in various states and union territories.
2. Parliament can modify the list of notified STs.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

2. Consider the following statements about the Mekedatu project:

1. It involves building a balancing reservoir in Andhra Pradesh.
2. It is a multipurpose (drinking and power) project with estimated cost of the project is Rs 9,000 crore.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

3. What is retrospective taxation?

4. Where is Agalega island?

5. Consider the following statements about the Diego Garcia:

1. It is an island of the British Indian Ocean Territory, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom.
2. The French were the first Europeans to find it and it was then settled by the Portuguese in the 1790s.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

6. What is Karenia Brevis?

7. Consider the following statements about the Indus Water Treaty(IWT):

1. It was signed between then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and former Pakistan President Ayub Khan on 19th September 1960.
2. The Treaty was brokered by the World Bank.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

8. What is a Patent?

9. Which of the following statements is/are incorrect about the EOS-03?

10. Who was Surendranath Banerji?