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(i) India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wanted to nurture a scientific temper and bring about the nation’s progress. 

(ii) From this perspective, he set up the Indian Atomic Energy Commission on 10th August, 1948. 

(iii) Dr Homi Bhabha was appointed as the first Chairman of the Commission.

(iv) The objectives of the commission were to produce electricity from atomic energy, increase the yield of food grains and make them last longer, set up the technology for achieving this and develop nanotechnology.

Correct option is (b) Pune

(i) The department of telecommunications under the Ministry of Communications started the telex service in 1963 to transmit typed messthe country to another rapidly. 

(ii) In 1969, the telex service started in Devanagari script in Delhi. 

(iii) Later, it spread all over the country. 

(iv) This service began to be used in different fields. With the rise of internet after 1990, the significance of this service reducedages from one part of 

Wrong Pair : Factories manufacturing Heavy Water – Chittaranjan in Bardwan

Correct option is (b) Education

Wrong Pair : ONGC – established in 1998

Correct option is (b) 2000

Correct option is (c) 1998

Wrong Pair: Indian Space Research Organisation was established – 15th August 1959

Correct option is (d) Apsara

(i) This Company was set up in 1987 to generate electricity from atomic energy. 

(ii) The objective of the company is to master and develop the technology to generate safe, cheap and environmentally profitable power and make the country self-sufficient.

Correct option is (b) Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Correct option is: (a) Buddhism

Yes, I have seen both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata as TV serials.

I think that Odysseus was cunning and used underhand methods to win the war. The war should have been fought and won honestly, not by the use of a trick. Odysseus should not have given such advice and the Greeks should not have taken it.

Sage Valmiki is considered to be the author of ‘The Ramayana’ and Ved Vyasa is considered to be the author of ‘The Mahabharata’.

Correct option is (b) Region

Correct option is (a) Pokhran

Epics were transmitted from generation to generation through songs and recitals for many years before they were actually written down.

Dr. Hawking is an authority on profound subjects of science. Numerous honorary doctorates and awards have been bestowed upon him. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He has authored many books dealing with his awesome ideas. His book ‘A Brief History of Time’ is one of best selling books of our times.

Men stood in groups at street corners and started discussing about the situation. Everyone was talking and speculating and rushing about in a frenzy. Some congratulated themselves for already taking out their money or never having put their money in the Bank. Some speculated that Seth Govind Ram’s excessive indulgence was the reason of crash.

SSC exams have been postponed for uncertain period. This news was not published by SSC Board.

Mr Kishore asked Deep Chand if he had heard the latest.

a. Nathu: 

Nathu was a sweeper working with the Pipalnagar Bank, owned by Seth Govind Ram. He was annoyed because the Bank had not paid his salary though they were the last days of the month. He was sweeping hurriedly and carelessly because he was not happy with the owner. He was thinking of leaving that job.

b. Mrs Srivastava was Sitaram’s customer and was the lady of the house he visited. She gave some instructions to the ayah and the cook and then went the Pipalnagar market place, to make her usual tour of the cloth market. At one end of the bazaar she met her friend Mrs Bhushan. They both complained of the hot summer and they talked about a sample of cloth. Then Mrs Srivastava told Mrs Bhushan that Seth Govind Ram’s bank could not pay their sweeper for over a month. She seems to be very talkative lady and was the root cause of the rumour about Pipalnagar Bank.

c. Seth Govind Ram was the owner of the Pipalnagar Bank. A rumour was spread that the bank was about to go bankrupt. There was chaos among the people of Pipalnagar. Seth was holidaying in Kashmir and the manager of the Bank was in dilemma as he was unable to contact Seth Govind Ram who was on his houseboat in Kashmir. There were rumours about Seth’s absence in Pipalnagar.

d. Sitaram: Sitaram was a washerman’s son. He used to deliver freshly pressed clothes to every home. He plodded barefoot along the road to deliver a big bundle of clothes on his head. He was a helpful person. He was glad that he would be of service to both, a customer and his friend, Nathu.

He was calling out to Nathu.

He sped across the road to the general merchant’s store where there was a telephone.

Yes, I think Mr Bhushan was absolutely right to compare his wife with a bee in flower garden. We know that bees buzz from flower to flower in gardens for collecting honey. He knew that his wife similarly used to visit many shops for selecting her clothes or only to have a look at them.

midday meal 

large shady tamarind tree

1. customary 

2. hoisted 

3. stationary 

4. bankrupt

(a) sweeper, hooligan, beggar, declare, locker – declare 

(b) hurriedly, carelessly, salary, definitely, suddenly – salary 

(c) imminent, latest, pavement, awful, shocking – pavement 

(d) morning, scattering, raising, collecting, shouting – morning

1. The news of the collapse of the bank spread through Pipalnagar like wildfire and people rushed to the bank to withdraw their money. 

2. By noon, the bank had exhausted all its ready cash. 

3. This put the manager of the bank in a dilemma because emergency funds could only be obtained from another bank that was thirty miles away and he wasn’t sure that he would be able to convince the crowd to wait that long. 

4. He was also worried because he had no way of contacting the owner of the bank, Seth Govind Ram, on his houseboat in Kashmir.

a. Sitaram said to Nathu.

b. Mr Bhushan said this to his wife.

c. Some of the crowd said to the manager.

Kamal Kishore said this to Deep Chand.

He hides in Pipalnagar

No other summer in the history of Pipalnagar was so hot as that.

Somebody’s bad behaviour or arrogance makes me angry. When I get annoyed I do not react with harsh words or any violent action. I try to keep myself cool and try to bring to his/her notice, the wrong he/she is doing with me. I shall take time: and prove him/her wrong.

The steps were swept by him.

Sitaram was a hardworking young boy. He ‘ was always ready to help others and sympathetic towards suffering people. He felt happy to serve his customer and his friend

Mrs Bhushan went in search of her husband who was sitting in front of Kamal Kishore’s photography shop.

Romeo’s rude hand would be made blessed when it touches Juliet’s hand.

Juliet wants Romeo to be cut out in little stars after her death.

Romeo addressed Juliet as the yonger lady.

According to Juliet, Romeo will lie upon the wings of night and come gliding to her.

Juliet believes that Romeo, after being set up among the stars in heaven, will make the face of heaven beautiful and charming. Then, the whole world would fall in love with night.

Juliet calls Romeo ‘day in the night’ because his presence will shine out against the darkness.

Romeo, according to Juliet, 

After Juliet’s death, when Romeo goes to heaven as a star, he will make heaven so fine that people will stop worshipping the garish sun.

Juliet, who has married Romeo in secret, is waiting impatiently for the arrival of night and along with with it her love, Romeo, when their marriage will get consummated. Now, Juliet is intensely in love with Romeo and feels passionate for him to possess her so that she can own ‘love’. But the ‘day’ appears to be moving very slowly and she apparently blames the sun for delaying her union with Romeo. Secondly, her natural longing to be with Romeo makes her blame the sun for being ‘lurid’ and obtrusively bright

Once the night arrives, and along with it Romeo, their love gets consummated. After her death she expects Romeo to go to the heavens like a star. She believes that her Romeo will make the face of heaven so fine that the whole world will fall in love with night.