Topics to be covered from Hindu Paper dated on Thursday January 10^th 2013     

Topic	Page No.
Runaway grandmother sparked savage skirmish on LoC	1
No merit in Sahara review plea, rules Supreme Court	1
Playing with fire	10
A sop that does not help	10
India – Pakistan dialogue must continue	11
‘Cash transfers can help make India less unequal, but are not a magic bullet’	11
He gave us back our dignity	11
India summons Pakistani envoy, lodges strong protest against killing of soldiers	12
Petroleum Ministry preses for fuel price hike to wipe out subsidy	13
Car sales may barely grow this fiscal	16
Adhere to rules or face action, SEBI chief warns corporate	16
Crisil sees 6.7% growth in 2013-14	17
Case system: an indigenous invention in South India?	17
‘Number Theory can popularise mathematics’	18
Statisticians are an integral part of clinical trials	18

Topics to be covered from Hindu Paper dated on Friday January 11^th 2013     

Topic	Page No.
India shoots down Pak talk of U.N. probe	1
Cauvery panel rejects TN demand for more water	1
Trinamool waves “yellow card” as Governor stands by remakrs against government	11
The rapist in the mirror	12
When India had 1,500 fast track courts	13
We must be more open in evaluating our heritage	13
LoC firing: Defence Ministry ‘clarifies’, The Hindu responds	13
We have no intention of escalating tensions : Pakistan	14
Iran, U.N. envoy hold talks ahead of Geneva meet	16
SBI chief bats for rate cut	17
India’s trade with China falls 12%	18
Lincoln leads Oscars race, tailed closely by Life of Pi	22

Questions

1.Assertion (A):Bulb is filled with Nitrogen gas to create inert atmosphere.

Reason (R):Nitrogen gas prevents vaporisation of Tungsten filament.

(a)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

(b)Both A & R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A. 

(c)A is true but R is false.

(d)A is false but R is true.

2.Arrange the following electromagnetic waves in accordance with decreasing wave length of light.

1.X-rays2.Infra Red

3.Microwaves4.Cosmic rays

Choose the correct option:

Code:

(a)2, 1, 3 and 4(b)4, 2, 1  and 3

(c)3, 1, 2 and 4(d)3, 2, 1 and 4

3Match the following:

BooksAuthors

1.Diplomacy Indian StyleA.K P Fabian

2.Public Policy & CitizenB.AntonetteBurton

3.Brown Over BlackC.Stephen P

Cohen

4.The Future of PakistanD.Arvind

Sivaramakrishan

Code:

     1234

(a)ABCD

(b)ADBC

(c)CADB

(d)CDBA

4.Match the following:

NameSports

1.Sarita DeviA.Cricket

2.Aditya MehtaB.Badminton

3.DavWhatmoreC.Boxing

4.SainaNehwalD.Snooker

Code:

     1234

(a)CDAB

(b)ADCB

(c)DCAB

(d)BACD

5.Match the following:

Features Source

1.Procedure for amendment A.Japan

of Constitution

2.Due Process of Law          B.South Africa

3.Fundamental rights           C.Irish Constitution

4.DPSP                                D.USA

Code:

     1234

(a)ABCD

(b)BADC

(c)BACD

(d)ABDC

Election

Elections Commission :

1. The superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of the electoral rolls for, and the conduct of, all elections to Parliament and to the Legislature of every State and of election to the offices of President and Vice-President held under this Constitution shall be vested in the Election Commission.

2. The Election Commission shall consist of the Chief Election Commissioner and such number of other election Commissioners as the President may fix from time to time.

3. The Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners shall be appointed by the President subject to the laws made by Parliament for that purpose.

4. The Chief Election Commissioner shall be the Chairman of the Commission.  

5. In view of the increasing work lead of the Commission during the general elections to Parliament or State Legislatures, the President may appoint Regional Commissioners after consultations with the Chief Election Commissioner.

6. The conditions of service and tenure of office of the Election Commissioners and Regional Commissioners shall be determined by the President, subject to the provisions of any law made by Parliament.  

7. The chief Election Commissioner shall not be removed from his office except in the like manner and on the like grounds as a judge of the Supreme Court. The service conditions of the Chief election Commissioner shall not be varied to his disadvantage after his appointment.

8. Any Election Commissioner or a Regional Commissioner shall not be removed from office except on the recommendation of the Chief Election Commissioner.

9. The President or the Governor of a State shall make available to the Election Commission such shall as may be necessary for the discharge of its functions. (Art. 324)

Questions

1.Match the List-I with the List-II and choose the correct answer using the code given below:

(List-I)(List-II

Mix Metal(Components)

1.Stainless SteelA.Lead, Tin

2.BrassB.Copper, Tin

3.BronzeC.Copper, Zinc

4.SolderD.Iron, Nickel, Chromium

Code:

1234

(a)ABCD

(b)BCDA

(c)CDBA

(d)DCBA

2.Consider the following statements:

1.The Second law of motion states that the rate of the change of momentum of an object is proportional to the applied force in the direction of force.

2.The third law of motion states that when one object exerts a force on another object the second object instantaneously exert a force back on the first, these two forces are always equal in magnitude and in similar direction.

Choose the correct option:

Code:

(a)Only 1(b)1 and 2

(c)Only 2(d)None of the above

3.Assertion (A):To hear an Echo minimum distance should be approx 17 meter.

Reason (R):What ever one hear, it persists in ear for 1/10th of a second only.

(a)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

(b)Both A & R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A. 

(c)A is true but R is false.

(d)A is false but R is true.

4.Assertion (A):Sound produced by whistle is not pleasant to ears.

Reason (R):Whistle produces only odd harmonies of sound.

(a)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

(b)Both A & R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A. 

(c)A is true but R is false.

(d)A is false but R is true.

Appropriation Bill: Under the Constitution, no money can be withdrawn from the consolidated Fund of India without enactment of law by the Parliament. In pursuance of this, a Bill incorporating all the demands for Grnats voted by the Lok Sabha, along with the expenditures, charged on the consolidated fund, is introduced in the Lok Sabha. The Bill is known as the Appropriation Bill. The Bill, as the name itself suggests, intends to give legal authority to the government to appropriate expenditure from and out of the Consolidated Fund.

After the Bill is passed by the Lok Sabha. The Speaker certifies it as a Money Bill and transmits it to the Rajya Sabha.

Finance Bill: All the financial proposals of the Government of the following year and incorporated in a Bill known as the Finance Bill which ordinarily introduced in the Lok Sabha every year immediately after the Budget is presented. It gives effect to the financial proposals of the government as also to supplementary financial proposals for any period ¹².

This Bill has to be considered and passed by the Parliament and assented to by the President within 75 days after it is introduced. ¹³

Vote of Account: It is necessary that the government should keep enough finance with, it to run the administration of the country, until the demands are voted by the Parliament. A special provision, therefore, has been made for what is called the Vote on Account, which empowers the Lok Sabha to make any grant in advance for a part of any financial year, pending the completion of the budgetary process. ¹⁶

Questions

1.According to Suresh Tendulkar report, poverty in India is:

(a)42.4% rural areas, 28.7% in urban and 37.8% all India level.

(b)42.8% in rural area, 28.7% is urban area and 32% all India level.

(c)41.8% in rural areas, 25.7% in urban areas and 37.2% all India level

(d)25.7% in rural areas, 41.8% in urban area and 37.2% an India level.

2.Which of the followings are included in the Prime Minister's new 15 Point Programme for Welfare of minorities.

1.Enhancing opportunities for Education.

2.Equitable share in Economic Activities and Employment.

3.Improving the conditions of living of minorities.

4.Prevention and control of Communal riots

Code:

(a)1, 2 and 3(b)1, 3 and 4

(c)2, 3 and 4(d)1, 2, 3 and 4

3.Consider the following statements regarding MGNREGA and Choose the correct option:

1.It was launched on February 2, 2006 from Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh.

2.It provide a legal guarantee of 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to every adult member  of rural household.

3.At least one third of the beneficiaries shall be woman who have registered and requested for work under the scheme.

4.It has the potential to increase the purchasing power of rural poor, reduce distress migrations and to create useful assets in rural India.

Code:

(a)1, 2 and 4(b)1, 3 and 4

(c)2, 3 and 4(d)1, 2, 3 and 4

4.Match the following:

SchemesAims

1.SJSRYA.Empowering Adolescent Girls

2.SABLAB.Health Insurance Cover

3.RAYC.Urban Employment

4.RSBYD.Slum Free India

Code:

1234

(a)CABD

(b)DABC

(c)DCAB

(d)CADB

5.The waves in which the particles of the medium oscillate along the direction of wave propagation is called:

(a)Mechanical Wave

(b)Transverse Wave

(c)Longitudinal Wave

(d)Progressive Wave