2716: What is/are the most likely advantages of implementing 'Goods and Services Tax (GST)'?

1. It will replace multiple taxes collected by multiple authorities and will thus create a single market in India.
2. It will drastically reduce the 'Current Account Deficit' of India and will enable it to increase its foreign exchange reserves.
3. It will enormously increase the growth and size of economy of India and will enable it to overtake China in the near future.

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
2717: Which one of the following is also called Stranger Gas?

(a) Argon
(b) Nitrous oxide
(c) Xenon
(d) Neon
2718: Match List-I with List-II and Select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:

List-I(Persoan) List-II(Position/Organization)

A. Nancy Pelosi 1. WTO

B. Margaret Chan 2. Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives

C. Pascal Lasmy 3. WHO

D. Steve Ballmer 4. Microsoft


(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 4 1 3 2
(D) 2 3 1 4
2719: The given map relates to :

(a) Kanishka at the time of his death
(b) Samudragupta after the close of his South Indian campaign
(c) Ashoka towards close of his reign
(d) Empire of Thaneswar on the eve of Harsh's accession
2720: Economic growth in country X will necessarily have to occur if

(a) there is technical progress in the world economy

(b) there is population growth in X

(c) there is capital formation in X

(d) the volume of trade grows in the world economy