CAPF (AC) 2012 (Paper-1) (Question 51-100)

Golden Quadrilateral

• It is a highway network that connects Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Chennai, thereby uniting India's major industrial, agricultural, and cultural centers.
• The project began in 2001.
• It was Phase 1 of the larger National Highway Development Project, which was initiated by the same administration in 1998.
• The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which is part of the Ministry of Road, Transport, and Highways, is in charge of it.
• When it was completed, the Golden Quadrilateral, which consisted of 5,846 km (3,633 mi) of four/six lane express roads, was the biggest highway project in India and the sixth-longest in the world.
• It is so named because it connects Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Chennai, forming a type of quadrilateral.
• The fundamental goal of these superhighways is to shorten the distance and time connecting India's four megacities.
• This project includes the North-South corridor connecting Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) and Kanyakumari (Tamil Nadu), as well as the East-West corridor connecting Silchar (Assam) and Porbandar (Gujarat).
• The network also connects other key metropolises such as Pune, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Kanpur, Surat in the north and Bengaluru, Visakhapatnam, and Bhubaneswar in the south.
• The increased speed limits were possible as a result of the systematic and planned strengthening of the track and its infrastructure by removing bottlenecks in these sections at a rapid pace.
• This featured stronger rails, the installation of 260-meter-long welded rail panels, and the upgrading of bends and slopes, among other things.
• The maximum speed restrictions on the High-Density Network (HDN) between Secunderabad and Kazipet (132 km) have already been increased to 130 kmph.

Blue Revolution in the field of agriculture is associated with improvement in the production of fish and marine products. Second green revolution is associated with development of horticulture and non-food crops including development of new plant varieties.
About White Revolution

• The package programme adopted to increase milk production is called the White Revolution in India.
• In India, it is also known as Operation Flood.
• This revolution in India occurred in 1970 when the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) was established to organise dairy development through cooperative societies.
• This revolution transformed India into one of the largest milk producers in the world, greatly enhancing the livelihood of dairy farmers and contributing to rural development.
• Prof. Verghese Kurien was the father of the White Revolution in India.

• It is a U.S. robotic vehicle designed to explore the surface of Mars.
  e It was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on Nov. 26, 2011, and landed on Aug. 5, 2012, after taking eight months and 10 days to reach the Red Planet.
• The roveris currently roaming Mars’ landscape looking for signs of life and learning about the Red Planet’s unique environment.
• The rover is part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission which tested a novel landing method that saw the spacecraft descend on a parachute before its landing system fired up its rockets and hovered as the rover was lowered down onto the surface.

Features:

• |tis about 3 metres long and weighs about 900 kg.
• It does not rely on solar cells for its energy needs but rather draws its electric power from a thermoelectric power generator, with the heat source being the radioactive decay of plutonium and the heat sink being Mars’s atmosphere.
• According to NASA, Curiosity has four main science goals in support of the agency’s Mars exploration program:
  -Determine whether life ever arose on Mars.
  -Characterize the climate of Mars

According to the Second Annual Employment-Unemployment Survey Report, 2011-2012 conducted by the Labour Bureau, Government of India the unemployment rate in the Country during the period has come down significantly to 3.8% which is lower than the previous year.

Most unemployed states include Goa and Kerala while Gujarat tops the list of least unemployed among all Indian States during 2011-12.

According to Einstein's special theory of relativity light is the fastest particle. Hence, probable discovery of any particle that moves faster than light may go against Einstein's special theory of relativity. This is the reason why discovery of Higgs boson may discard Einstein's special theory of relativity.

The President of India has recently given approval to establish separate High Courts in Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura in North-Eastern region.

• The High Court is the apex court in the judicial administration of a State under the integrated judicial system established by the Constitution of India.
• The High Courts have been envisaged as:
  o The highest court of appeal in the state
  o The guarantor of Fundamental Rights
  o The guardian of the Constitution of India, and
  o The interpreter of the Constitution of India.

A leap year comes after every four years.

∴ All the years which are divisible by 4 will be leap year.

∴ There are 9 leap years.

On the first attempt four coins are overturned. Now, six coins are left. In the next turn, four more are overturned. Now only two coins would be left, we take one more from the left over two coins and any three from the previously turned ones. Finally the left over coins and the three coins from the presiding step which have already been turned twice can be overturned. Thus, in four attempts, one can complete the process.

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P

Z

X

Y

"Z" will be at central position.

When A goes 100 meters, then B goes 90 meters.

∴ Ratio of speed of A/B = 100/90 ⇒ A/B 10/9

∴ A starts 10 meters behind the starting line.

∴ A will cover the distance = 100+10= 110 meters

In same time and with same speed B will cover the distance

= 110/10 × 9 = 99 meters.

So, in new race A beats B by 1 meter.