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Answer: Option C. -> Jalalabad
Answer: (c)
Tora Bora is a cave complex situated in the White Mountains of eastern Afghanistan, in the Pachir Wa Agam District of Nangarhar province, west of the Khyber Pass and 10 km (north of the border of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan.
It is close to Jalalabad. It was known to be an important area for the Taliban and insurgency against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
Answer: (c)
Tora Bora is a cave complex situated in the White Mountains of eastern Afghanistan, in the Pachir Wa Agam District of Nangarhar province, west of the Khyber Pass and 10 km (north of the border of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan.
It is close to Jalalabad. It was known to be an important area for the Taliban and insurgency against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
Answer: Option B. -> Both 1 and 2
Answer: (b)
The southeast trade winds in the southern hemisphere and the northeast trade winds in the northern hemisphere meet each other near the equator. The meeting place of these winds is known as the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ).
In the month of July, the ITCZ shifts to 20°- 25° N latitude and is located in the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the South-West monsoons blow from the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. NITCZ is the zone of clouds and heavy rainfall.
Answer: (b)
The southeast trade winds in the southern hemisphere and the northeast trade winds in the northern hemisphere meet each other near the equator. The meeting place of these winds is known as the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ).
In the month of July, the ITCZ shifts to 20°- 25° N latitude and is located in the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the South-West monsoons blow from the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. NITCZ is the zone of clouds and heavy rainfall.
Answer: Option B. -> Kerala and Tamil Nadu
Answer: (b)Cardamom hills are the most southern hills of India. It is situated at the border of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Answer: (b)Cardamom hills are the most southern hills of India. It is situated at the border of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Answer: Option D. -> Where Rashtrapati Bhavan is situated
Answer: (d)
Raisina Hill is an area of Lutyens’ Delhi, New Delhi, housing India’s most important government buildings, including Rashtrapati Bhavan, the official residence of the President of India and the Secretariat building housing the Prime Minister’s Office and several other important ministries.
It is surrounded by other important buildings and structures, including the Parliament of India, Rajpath, Vijay Chowk and India Gate.28) The term "Raisina Hill" was coined following the acquisition of land from 300 families from X and Malcha villages.
About 0.001 acres of land was acquired under the "1894 Land Acquisition Act" to begin the construction of the Viceroy’s House.
Answer: (d)
Raisina Hill is an area of Lutyens’ Delhi, New Delhi, housing India’s most important government buildings, including Rashtrapati Bhavan, the official residence of the President of India and the Secretariat building housing the Prime Minister’s Office and several other important ministries.
It is surrounded by other important buildings and structures, including the Parliament of India, Rajpath, Vijay Chowk and India Gate.28) The term "Raisina Hill" was coined following the acquisition of land from 300 families from X and Malcha villages.
About 0.001 acres of land was acquired under the "1894 Land Acquisition Act" to begin the construction of the Viceroy’s House.
Answer: Option A. -> 3 1 2 5
Answer: (a)
Answer: (a)
Answer: Option C. -> Srinagar
Answer: (c)
All latitudes from 22.5 degrees North to 22.5 degrees South of the equator receive vertical or direct rays twice every year as the tilted earth circles the sun.
Tropic of Cancer is the determining line for finding out whether a city in India will get vertical rays of the Sun or not.
Since Srinagar lies to the north of the Tropic of Cancer, it never gets the vertical rays of the Sun.
Answer: (c)
All latitudes from 22.5 degrees North to 22.5 degrees South of the equator receive vertical or direct rays twice every year as the tilted earth circles the sun.
Tropic of Cancer is the determining line for finding out whether a city in India will get vertical rays of the Sun or not.
Since Srinagar lies to the north of the Tropic of Cancer, it never gets the vertical rays of the Sun.
Answer: Option D. -> Northward
Answer: (d)
Answer: (d)
Answer: Option A. -> Shivalik - Lesser Himalaya - Great Himalaya
Answer: (a)
Answer: (a)
Answer: Option D. -> Aravalli
Answer: (d)
The Aravalli Range, literally meaning 'line of peaks', is a range of mountains in western India and eastern Pakistan running approximately 800 km from northwest to southwest across Indian states of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Gujarat and Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh.
It is one of the world's oldest mountain ranges. It dates back to the pre-Indian subcontinental collision with the mainland Eurasian Plate.
Answer: (d)
The Aravalli Range, literally meaning 'line of peaks', is a range of mountains in western India and eastern Pakistan running approximately 800 km from northwest to southwest across Indian states of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Gujarat and Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh.
It is one of the world's oldest mountain ranges. It dates back to the pre-Indian subcontinental collision with the mainland Eurasian Plate.
Answer: Option D. -> Both the statements are individually true and Statement II is the correct explanation of Statement I
Answer: (d)
Option (d) is correct and statement II is the correct explanation of statement I.
Answer: (d)
Option (d) is correct and statement II is the correct explanation of statement I.