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• Consider the following pairs:

  Traditional Craft/Product State

  1. Pochampally Silk – Telangana
  2. Thewa Art – Rajasthan
  3. Himroo Silk – Maharashtra

  Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

  • 1 and 2 only
  • 2 and 3 only
  • 1 and 3 only
  • 1, 2 and 3

• Which one of the following statements about the Battle of Plassey (1757) is correct?

  • The battle was fought between the English East India Company and the combined forces of the Nawab of Awadh and the Mughal Emperor.
  • The victory at Plassey enabled the English East India Company to emerge as a major political power in Bengal through the installation of Mir Jafar as Nawab.
  • The Battle of Plassey resulted in the immediate grant of Diwani rights over Bengal, Bihar and Orissa to the Company.
  • The battle was won primarily due to the numerical superiority of the Company's forces over the Nawab's army

• Consider the following pairs:

  National Highway Connecting Places

  1. NH 44 – Srinagar – Kanyakumari
  2. NH 27 – Porbandar – Silchar
  3. NH 16 – Mumbai – Chennai

  Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

  • 1 and 2 only
  • 2 and 3 only
  • 1 and 3 only
  • 1, 2 and 3

• With reference to Biochar, consider the following statements:

  1. It can be used as a component of the growing medium in vertical farming.
  2. Its application in soil can enhance the activity of nitrogen-fixing microorganisms.
  3. It improves the water-retention capacity of the growing medium.

  Which of the statements given above are correct?

  • 1 and 2 only
  • 2 and 3 only
  • 1 and 3 only
  • 1, 2 and 3

• Project Nimbus, recently seen in the news, is a cloud computing project jointly developed by which of the following companies?

  • Microsoft and Oracle
  • IBM and Intel
  • Google and Amazon
  • Meta and Apple