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The travelers set out for the town although it was getting dark because
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According to the passage, the financial markets in emerging market economies, including India, had an adverse impact in recent years due to: Weak global economic prospects.
- Uncertainties in the international financial markets.
- Sovereign risk concerns in the Euro area.
- Bad monsoons and the resultant crop loss.
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The need for policy intervention to mitigate risks in agriculture is because
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You are in charge of implementing the Family Planning programme in an area where there is strong opposition to the present policy. You want to convince the residents of the need for keeping small families. What would be the best way of communicating this message?
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While traveling in a Delhi-registered commercial taxi from Delhi to an adjacent city (another State), your taxi driver informs you that as he has no permit for running the taxi in that city, he will stop at its Transport Office and pay the prescribed fee of Rs. 40 for a day. While paying the fee at the counter, you find that the transport clerk is taking an extra Rs. 50 for which no receipt is being given. You are in a hurry for your meeting. In such circumstances, what would you do?
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According to the passage, malnutrition in children can be reduced
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A person lives in a far-off village which is almost two hours by bus. The villager’s neighbor is a very powerful landlord who is trying to occupy the poor villager’s land by force. You are the District Magistrate and busy in a meeting called by a local Minister. The villager has come all the way, by bus and on foot, to see you and given an application seeking protection from the powerful landlord. The villager keeps on waiting outside the meeting hall for an hour. You come out of the meeting and are rushing to another meeting. The villager follows you to submit his application. What would you do?
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