1761: Assertion (A)
Finance Commission aims to safeguard the fiscal autonomy of the States.
Reason (R)
Finance Commission is constituted every fifth year.
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true
1762: The National Housing Bank was set up in India as a wholly owned subsidiary of which one of the following ?
(a) State Bank of India
(b) Life Insurance Corporation of India
(c) Reserve Bank of India
(d) ICICI Bank
1763: Arrange the following fertilisers according to the decreasing order of their nitrogen content:
I. Ammonium sulphate
II. Ammonium nitrate
III. Potassium nitrate
IV. Urea
(a) IV, II, III, I
(b) IV, II, I, III
(c) IV, III, II, I
(d) II, IV, III, I
1764: Which one of the following objectives is not embodied in the Preamble to the Constitution of India?
(a) Liberty of thought
(b) Economic liberty
(c) Liberty of expression
(d) Liberty of belief
1765: In ancient Indian Buddhist monasteries, a ceremony called Pavarana used to be held. It was the
(a) occasion to elect the Sanghaparinayaka and two speakers one on Dhamma and the other on Vinaya
(b) confession by monks of their offences committed during their stay in the monasteries during the rainy season
(c) ceremony of initiation of new person into the Buddhist Sangha in which the head is shaved an when yellow robes are offered
(d) gathering of Buddhist monks on the next day to the full moon day of Ashadha when they take up affixed abode for the next four months or rainy season