(B) A Scheme to provide laptops to all school girls
(C) A programme to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy
(D) provision of old age pension
Answer:
(C) A programme to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy
Explanation:
Digital India is a flagship campaign launched by the Government of India in 2015 to ensure that government services are made available to citizens electronically by improving online infrastructure.
32. Who among the following introduced the ‘Permanent Settlement’ system of revenue in Bengal?
(A) Cornwallis
(B) Henry Hardinge
(C) Wellesley
(D) Dalhousie
Answer:
(A) Cornwallis
Explanation:
Lord Cornwallis introduced the Permanent Settlement of Bengal in 1793, which fixed the land revenue to be paid by the Zamindars to the British East India Company in perpetuity.
33. The 2020 Nobel Literature Prize was awarded to
(A) Charles M Rice
(B) Michael Houghton
(C) Harvey J Alter
(D) Louise Gluck
Answer:
(D) Louise Gluck
Explanation:
The American poet Louise Glück was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”
34. The American woman of Indian origin to fly to space recently aboard VSS Unity is
(A) Geeta Gopinath
(B) Sunita Williams
(C) Kalpana Chawla
(D) Sirisha Bandla
Answer:
(D) Sirisha Bandla
Explanation:
In July 2021, aeronautical engineer Sirisha Bandla flew on the Virgin Galactic Unity 22 mission, making her the second India-born woman to go to space.
35. Bolshevik Revolution is associated with
(A) China
(B) Russia
(C) France
(D) Germany
Answer:
(B) Russia
Explanation:
The Bolshevik Revolution (or the October Revolution) took place in Russia in 1917, leading to the rise of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin.
