Question No : 1

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a formal criminal ____ notice against Congress president Rahul Gandhi for ____ the comment “chowkidar chor hai” to the court judgment of April 10, upholding the maintainability of the Rafale fighter aircraft deal case review ____

(1) contempt, attributing, petitions

(2) order, attesting, petitions

(3) misleading, formulation, plea

(4) insult, vouching, order

(5) conduct, attribution, petitions

Question No : 2

Japan’s ____ Emperor Akihito on Tuesday visited the tomb of his father on the outskirts of Tokyo, in one of the last official ceremonies before his ____ on April 30. Akihito, 85, and Empress Michiko, 84, ____ the mausoleum of the former emperor, Hirohito, in the Musashino Imperial Graveyard in Hachioji, reports Efe news.

(1) outgoing, abdication, visited

(2) incoming, impeachment, watched

(3) incumbent, renunciation, viewed

(4) outliving, retirement, viewed

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

Some women who ____ across the world to join the Islamic State group’s “caliphate” are pleading to return home, ____ regret and saying they were deceived by the militants’ propaganda. Their pleas point to the ____ issues of what to do with the tens of thousands of former IS members left after the fall of the militants.

(1) visited, feeling, vibrant

(2) fled, exhibiting, blatant

(3) travelling, exhibition, blessing

(4) travelled, expressing, thorny

(5) ran, feeling, superficial

Question No : 4

____ of access to safe abortion clinics, particularly public hospitals, and stigma and ____ toward women, especially young, unmarried women seeking abortion, ____ to this.

(1) bounty, behavior, render

(2) excess, attitudes, bolster

(3) dearth, behavior, render

(4) lack, attitudes, contribute

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

It is ____ to examine the narrow ways in which political parties have addressed reproductive rights. For example, the Congress manifesto says the party will pass suitable ____ to make registration of marriages compulsory and to enforce the law ____ child marriages.

(1) revealing, legislation, prohibiting

(2) mesmerizing, law, commemorating

(3) astonishing, bill, cancelling

(4) soothing, legislation, canceling

(5) None of these

Question No : 6

Doctors ____ to perform abortions on young women or ____ that they get consent from their parents or spouses ____ no such requirement by law. This forces many women to turn to clandestine and often unsafe abortions.

(1) has refused, demand, although

(2) refuse, demand, despite

(3) refusing, request, despite of

(4) refusal, order, in spite

(5) regret, demand, despite

Question No : 7

Interviewed four foreign women who ____ the caliphate and are now among tens of thousands of IS family members, mostly women and children, crammed into squalid camps in northern Syria ____ by the U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces who ____the fight against the extremist group.

(1) restrained, monitoring, spearheaded

(2) protested, monitor, formulated

(3) joined, overseen, spearheaded

(4) failed, overseeing, led

(5) none of these

Question No : 8

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s ____ interestingly focuses on women’s menstruation and says it will ____ that all reproductive and menstrual health services are easily _____ to all women across India.

(1) propaganda, insure, available

(2) propaganda, ensure, availability

(3) manifested, insure, issue

(4) manifesto, ensure, available

(5) none of these

Question No : 9

In her ____, the complainant spoke of specific incidents, harassment of a specific nature, and against a specific person. Nothing in her sworn affidavit can on the face of it be ____ as a general derogatory statement of the Supreme Court as an institution, nor as the general behavior of judges of the Supreme Court. If there is an allegation against a specific person who ____ a high office, it is not an assault on the office

(1) complaint, constructed, deemed

(2) affidavit, explored, deemed

(3) affidavit, construed, occupies

(4) Letter, constructed, occupancy

(5) None of these

Question No : 10

The vast ____ of the victims were Sri Lankan, many from the island nation’s Christian minority. Their names and other details of their lives were slow to ____ in and difficult to report, in part because authorities ____ most social media after the blasts.

(1) majority, trickle, blocked

(2) minority, depict, stopped

(3) major, drop, had blocked

(4) maximum, depict, blocked

(5) None of these