2436: Consider the following statements:
1. Warren Hastings was the first Governor General who established regular police force in India on British pattern.
2. A Supreme Court was established by Regulating Act, 1773.
3. The Indian Penal Code came into effect in the year 1860.
Which of the following statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 1 and 3
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 3
2437: Wangari Maathai, the Nobel Prizes winner from Kenya is known for her contribution to which one of the following ?
(a) Child development
(b) Journalism
(c) Sustainable development
(d) International economics
2438: Other than Venezuela, which one among the following from South America is a member of OPEC?
(a) Bolivia
(b) Argentina
(c) Brazil
(d) Ecuador
2439: With reference to land reforms in independent India, which one of the following statements is correct?
(a) The ceiling laws were aimed at family holdings and not individual holdings.
(b) The major aim of land reforms was providing agricultural land to all the landless.
(c) It resulted in cultivation of cash crops as a predominant form of cultivation.
(d) Land reforms permitted no exemptions to the ceiling limits.
2440: Fiscal deficit in the Union Budget means
(a)the sum of budgetary deficit and net increase in internal and external borrowings
(b) the difference between current expenditure and current revenue
(c) the sum of monetized deficit and budgetary deficit
(d) net increase in Union Government's borrowing from the Reserve Bank of India