Question No : 1

India continues to _______ energy _______; 31 million rural households and about five million urban households are still to be connected to the grid — the _______ in any single country.

(1) Harness, deficiency, highest

(2) Harbor, poverty, lowest

(3) Harbor, poverty, highest

(4) Strive, deficiency, lowest

(5) Strive, rich, moderate

Question No : 2

Given the context, it is uncertain whether the _______ of electrifying all ‘willing households’ by March 2019 would _______into universal _______ to electricity

(1) Goal, transform, reach

(2) Goal, translate, access

(3) Target, transform, touch

(4) Willingness, translate, reach

(5) Target, transform, demand

Question No : 3

Electrification in India _______ followed an approach of expansion, often driven _______ political considerations, without much _______on capacity augmentation and making the grid future ready.

(1) Has, by, emphasis

(2) Have, with, focus

(3) Have, to, consideration

(4) Have, into, focus

(5) Has, with, emphasis

Question No : 4

Moreover, many States have failed to _______ the limited funding. Current allocations under the DeenDayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) and Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS), _______ augment rural and urban distribution networks, respectively, _______ only a fraction of the requirement.

(1) Use, for, are

(2) Utilise, to, is

(3) Reuse, for, was

(4) Utilize, to, are

(5) Use, to, are

Question No : 5

The Sri Lankan Army has _______ a special unit to _______ itself against allegations of grave human rights _______ at the end of the island’s decades-long ethnic war.

(1) Established, redraw, violations

(2) Formed, defend, abuses

(3) Set up, safeguard, violations

(4) Established, defend, violations

(5) Formed, redraw, abuses

Question No : 6

The government under then President Mahinda Rajapakse, who _______ the offensive, faced international _______ for refusing to acknowledge what the UN called _______ allegations.

(1) Ordered, censure, credible

(2) Requested, pressure, valid

(3) Urged, pressure, genuine

(4) Ordered, pressure, valid

(5) Charged, censure, genuine

Question No : 7

Pressure on the British Government to_____ a policy that has led to highly skilled Indians being _____the right to remain in Britain because of minor errors in their tax returns has continued to build as thousands have signed up to a petition ______action by Britain’s new home secretary Sajid Javed.

(1) Review, denied, urging

(2) Look into, welcomed, demand

(3) Review, advantaged, demanding

(4) Review, told, requesting

(5) Look after, told, urging

Question No : 8

It comes after Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes told a parliamentary _______ that she would _______the issue, after concerns were raised by MPs about highly skilled migrants, particularly of South Asian origin, being _______ an indefinite leave to remain in the U.K. because they had made minor changes to their tax submissions.

(1) Assembly, look, welcomed

(2) Committee, look into, denied

(3) Committee, look after, welcomed

(4) Assembly, look at, sacrificed

(5) Assembly, look after, denied

Question No : 9

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has _______ state-run lender Dena Bank from _______ fresh credit in view of _______ financial health due to mounting non-performing assets (NPAs).

(1) Denied, delivering, deteriorating

(2) Prevented, giving, proliferateing

(3) Accessed, extending, proliferateing

(4) Barred, extending, deteriorating

(5) Denied, giving, deteriorating

Question No : 10

The U.S. plans to _______ sanctions _______ Iran, which pumps about 4% of the world’s oil, after abandoning a deal reached in late 2015 that limited Tehran’s nuclear _______ in exchange for the removal of U.S. and European sanctions.

(1) Introduce, with, deal

(2) Reintroduce, against, ambitions

(3) Reintroduce, for, armour

(4) Push, against, deal

(5) Reintroduce, for, warhead