3086: What is/are the purpose/purposes of the 'Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate (MCLR)' announced by RBI?

1. These guidelines help improve the transparency in the methodology followed by banks for determining the interest rates on advances.
2. These guidelines help ensure availability of bank credit at interest rates which are fair to the borrowers as well as the banks.

Select the correct answer using the code given below.
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
3087: Which of the following can be said as the 'Theory of Darwin'

(a) Survival of the fittest and struggle for existence

(b) Weak and strong always maintain a fixed proportion

(c) Different species do not arise by genetic mutation

(d) None of these
3088: Which one of the following archaeologists initially discovered the Mohanjedaro site of the Indus valley civilisation?

(a) Sujohu Marshall

(b) Daya Ram Sahni

(c) Rakhal Das Banerji

(d) Sir Mortimer Wheeler
3089: Consider the following:

1. Deification of the Buddha
2. Treading the path of Bodhisattvas
3. Image worship and rituals

Which of the above is/are the feature/ features of Mahayana Buddhism?

(a) 1 only

(b) 1 and 2 only

(c) 2 and 3 only

(d) 1, 2 and 3
3090: Fawazil in the Sultanate period meant

(a) extra payment made to the nobles

(b) revenue assigned in lieu of salary

(c) excess amount paid to the exchequer by the iqtadars

(d) illegal exactions extracted from the peasants