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Q. Which one of the following properties, classified specifically as ‘natural’, is the latest to be inscribed on the World Heritage List?Which one of the following properties, classified specifically as ‘natural’, is the latest to be inscribed on the World Heritage List?
a) Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks
b) Khangchendzonga National Park
c) Western Ghats
d) Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area
Q. Why is the Indian Sunderbans steadily losing its famed mangroves?
a) Prop roots of the mangrove trees are increasingly being cut by local communities to construct impermeable fencing against attacks by an increasing population of tigers
b) There is less fresh water flow, while the rate of sea level rise is increasing
c) Over-fishing is depriving the mangroves of its natural eco-balance
d) Dumping of toxic material into the river waters in Bangladesh find their way into the Indian side due to the mild variation in elevation of the entire Sunderbans
Q. The Vijay Kelkar Task Force’s report from 2003 was recently in the news. It is associated with
a) Indirect taxes
b) Border Infrastructure
c) Parliamentary privileges
d) Merging the railway budget with the general Union budget
Q. The Changthang plateau, where the the Changpa nomads reside, is in
a) Sikkim
b) Arunachal Pradesh
c) Himachal Pradesh
d) Jammu and Kashmir
Q. ‘Deep Blue’ and ‘Deep Mind’ are terms sometimes seen in the news in the context of
a) Mining Deep Seabed Mineral Resources
b) Artificial Intelligence
c) India’s Polar Regions Research Programme
d) Defense indigenisation