സിവില്‍ സര്‍വ്വീസ് പരീക്ഷ: ഏതൊക്കെ രാജ്യങ്ങള്‍ തമ്മിലുള്ള ഉടമ്പടിയാണ് ‘ഓസ്‌ലോ ഉടമ്പടികൾ’ ?

Answer (d)

Statement 1 is not correct. Article 30 grants rights to establish and administer educational institutions to both religious and linguistic minorities.
Statement 2 is not correct. The term ‘minority has nowhere been defined in the Constitution.

Answer (b)

    US Constitution- Fundamental rights, independence of the judiciary, judicial review, impeachment of the president, removal of Supreme Court and high court judges, and post of vice-president.
    Australian Constitution- Concurrent List, freedom of trade, commerce and intercourse, and a joint sitting of the two Houses of Parliament. 
    The Constitution of India provides for a single integrated judiciary with the Supreme Court at the apex of the judicial system. The single system of courts, adopted from the Government of India Act 1935, enforces both central laws as well as state laws. 
    The Emergency provisions are also adopted from the Government of India Act 1935.

Answer (a)

    It is the wind Descending on the Leeward Side of the mountain and is heated adiabatically.
    In mountainous regions, during the day the slopes get heated up and air moves upslope and to fill the resulting gap the air from the valley blows up the valley. This wind is known as the valley breeze.
    During the night the slopes get cooled and the dense air descends into the valley as the mountain wind. 
    The cool air, of the high plateaus and ice fields draining into the valley, is called katabatic wind.

Answer(b)

    The State of India’s Environment 2019 in Figures is an exclusive data-driven analysis of major developmental and environmental sectors. 
    SoE 2019 in Figures is an annual quantified statement of environmental statistics and analysis put together by Down To Earth magazine, which the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) helps publish.
    The datasets can be used by the media to investigate compelling stories, ask better questions to policymakers to drive them to come up with better policies for sustainable development agenda.

Answer (a)

Statement 1 is correct. The Balance of Payments (BoP) records the transactions in goods, services, and assets between residents of a country with the rest of the world for a specified time period typically a year.
Statement 2 is not correct. While calculating the Balance of Payments, both government transactions and private transactions are included.

Answer (a)

    Exports are goods and services that are produced in one country and sold to buyers in another country.
    The visit of foreign nationals to India is amounted to export because this will bring foreign currency to India.

Answer (a) 

The reference to the Age of sixteen Mahajanapadas can be found in the Buddhist AnguttaraNikaya. Sutta Pitaka, one among the Tripitaka of Buddhism is divided into the following sections: 
o    AnguttaraNikaya which comprises the numerical. 
o    DighaNikaya, which comprises the long discourses. 
o    KhuddakaNikaya which comprises a minor collection. 
o    MajjhimaNikaya, which comprises the middle length. 
o    SamyuttaNikaya which comprises the connected discourses of Buddha. 

Answer (d)

    Oslo Accords are a series of agreements between Israel and the Palestinians signed in the 1990s. 
    Oslo I (1993) is formally known as the Declaration of Principles (DOP). The pact established a timetable for the Middle East peace process. It planned for an interim Palestinian government in Gaza and Jericho in the West Bank. 
    Oslo II is officially called the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza (1995), expanded on Oslo I. The question of Jerusalem was left undecided under the Oslo Accords.

Answer (d)

Statement 1 is correct. Primordial Black Holes (PBH) were formed during the Hot Big Bang phase. It is believed that they are formed as a result of collapsing radiations as opposed to the collapse of massive stars, which is the case of any other black hole. 
Statement 2 is correct. Primordial black holes could have initial masses ranging from 10−8 kg (the so-called Planck relics) to more than thousands of solar masses. 
Statement 3 is correct. In September 2019, a report by scientists proposed the possibility of a primordial black hole the size of a tennis ball existing in the extended Kuiper Belt. 

Answer (d)

    The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on (GRACE-FO) mission is a successor to the original GRACE mission, which began orbiting Earth on March 17, 2002. 
    GRACE-FO will continue the work of tracking Earth’s water movement to monitor changes in underground water storage, the amount of water in large lakes and rivers, soil moisture, ice sheets and glaciers, and sea level caused by the addition of water to the ocean. 
    These discoveries provide a unique view of Earth’s climate and have far-reaching benefits to society and the world’s population.