Monday, 12 September 2011

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Today's Important News: 12 September 2011

Posted: 11 Sep 2011 11:46 PM PDT


Today's Important News (12-09-2011)

The Hindu

National:

  1. Team Anna to undertake yatras, referendum on Jan Lokpal Bill
  2. Supreme Court upholds preventive detention order
  3. Civil society moves to improve maternal healthcare in Orissa

International:

  • No News

India & The World:

  1. India, Pakistan to continue dialogue process

Business News:

  1. Looking beyond the Doha Round
  2. Embarrassing surplus of wheat and rice
  3. The WTO — credible still

S&T, Environment, Defence: 

  1. Surge seen in advanced technology to help people with different abilities

  2. Fairness through openness: China uses IT-enabled transparency to prevent corruption

  3. Phase-I prime-boost AIDS vaccine trial shows modest immune response

Sports:

  1. India beats Pakistan, takes trophy

Others:

  • No News

Editorials & Articles:

  1. Trouble for the Space Station
  2. Ideology, facts and the push to the right
  3. Did 9/11 change the world forever?
  4. Signs of earliest life

The Times of India

National:

  1. Three yrs after 26/11, govt to kick-start coastal radar chain

International:

  • No News

India & The World:

  1. All the world is made up of 3,600 water treaties

Business News:

  1. NTP '11 to focus on consolidation
  2. SAIL set to ink JV with Posco

S&T, Environment, Defence:

  • No News

Sports:

  • No News

Others:

  • No News

Editorials & Articles:

  1. No looking back
  2. Gridlock nation

The Indian Express

National:

  1. CBI ready to get on board Lokpal as 'equal partner'

International:

  1. America now a nation under watch
  2. World has changed in surprising ways

India & The World:

Business News:

  1. After coal, 'go, no go' zones suggested ...

S&T, Environment, Defence:

  • No News

Sports:

  • No News

Others:

  • No News

Editorials & Articles:

  1. Job talk
  2. The riot solution
  3. Floating concerns
  4. When the House works

The Economist:

  1. So far, so pretty good
  2. Can it get worse?

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Today's Important News: 11 September 2011

Posted: 11 Sep 2011 11:45 PM PDT


Today's Important News (11-09-2011)

The Hindu

National:

  1. Communal Violence Bill treads on States' rights, says NDA
  2. Anna Hazare to seek electoral reforms

International:

  1. 'A more important question than a piece of real estate'
  2. Israeli embassy in Cairo stormed
  3. China seeks support for its own 'War on Terror'

India & The World:

  • No News

Business News:

  1. More rice but fewer pulses sown this kharif season
  2. Developers oppose 'draconian' Land Acquisition Bill

S&T, Environment, Defence: 

  1. Why is forensic science stunted and static in India?

Sports:

  1. Nadal, Murray complete semifinal line-up

Others:

  • No News

Editorials & Articles:

  1. Make full use of RTI

The Times of India

National:

  1. Minorities feel persecuted: PM
  2. A decade of living dangerously
  3. India scores points but loses lives
  4. Why we keep getting hit

International:

  1. The US is not and never will be at war with Islam: Barack Obama
  2. Client country's descent into chaos
  3. Uncle Sam's decline and rise of China
  4. Glocal Qaida 2.0 bigger threat to the world

India & The World:

  1. Post-9/11, US sought India's military help for Afghan ops
  2. Obama upbeat on US-India ties
  3. Washington-Delhi ties lack focus, says Congress body

Business News:

  • No News

S&T, Environment, Defence:

  • No News

Sports:

  • No News

Others:

  • No News

Editorials & Articles:

  • No News

The Indian Express

National:

  1. Need to tackle radicalisation: PM
  2. 'The world is scared of this unknown entity

International:

  • No News

India & The World:

Business News:

  • No News

S&T, Environment, Defence:

  • No News

Sports:

  • No News

Others:

  • No News

Editorials & Articles:

  • No News

The Economist:

  • No News

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(Paper) CDS: English Ordering Of Words In A Sentence Solved Exam Paper (II) : 2007

Posted: 11 Sep 2011 10:28 PM PDT


Combined Defence Services

CDS General English Solved Paper (II) : 2007
(ORDERING OF WORDS IN A SENTENCE)

Directions (For the 17 items which follow): In the following items, some parts of the sentence have been jumbled up. You are required to rearrange these parts which are labelled P, Q R and S to produce the correct sentence. Choose the proper sequence and mark in your Answer Sheet accordingly. Example 'Z' has been solved for you.

Z. It is well-known that
P : the effect
Q : is very bad
R : on children
S : of cinema
Which one of the following is the correct sequence ?
(a) P S R Q (b) S P Q R
(c) S R P Q (d) Q S R P

Explanation: The proper way of writing the sentence is "It is well-known that the effect of cinema on children is very bad." This is indicated by the sequence P S R Q and so (a) is the correct answer.

1. The old lady
P : wanted to sell her precious table
Q : having the capaci ty to pay a hugeamount as its price
R : to someone
S :with gold-coated legs and glossy surface
Which one of the following is the correct sequence ?
(a) Q S R P (b) P R S Q
(c) Q R S P (d) P S R Q

2. Reuter reports that soldiers
P : fought each other in the streets of the capital today
Q : crack down on demonstrators
R : of armies loyal to rival political factions
S : following the week-end military
Which one of the following is the correct sequence ?
(a) R P S Q (b) Q S P R
(c) R S P Q (d) Q P S R

3. I think it should be necessary for eggs
P : by the poulterer
Q : as soon as they are laid
R : to be stamped with the date
S : by the hen
Which one of the following is the correct sequence ?
(a) Q S P R (b) S Q P R
(c) S Q R P (d) Q S R P

4. How strange that a refugee
P : should fall in love
Q : when he had got to America
R : with a girl less than half his age
 S : who had by the skin of his teeth escaped death in Germany
Which one of the following is the correct sequence ?
(a) R Q P S (b) S P R Q
(c) R P Q S (d) S Q P R

5. I was
P : to see a mongoose
Q : just in time
R : with an egg in its mouth
S : scurrying across the grass
Which one of the following is the correct sequence ?
(a) SRQP (b) QPSR
(c) SPQR (d) QRSP

6. From my plane flying over Namibia
P : stretching 320 kilometres away
Q : a shore of pink and silver sand
R : I looked down at a haunting sight
S : edged by a line of smoking surf
Which one of the following is the correct sequence ?
(a) Q R P S (b) R Q S P
(c) Q R S P (d) R Q P S

7. His favourite subject
P : the secrets of life and of nature
Q : because Science reveals
R : happens to be Science
S : which men did not know in the past
Which one of the following is the correct sequence ?
(a) P S R Q (b) R Q P S
(c) P Q R S (d) R S P Q


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(Paper) CDS: English Ordering of Sentences Solved Exam Paper (II) - 2007

Posted: 11 Sep 2011 10:28 PM PDT


Combined Defence Services

CDS General English Solved Paper (II) : 2007
(ORDERING OF SENTENCES)

Directions (For the 15 items which follow): In the following each passage consists of six sentences. The first sentence (SI )and the final sentence (S6) are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

Example 'X' has been solved for you.
X. S1 : There was a boy named jack.
S6 : At last she turned him out of the house.
P : So the mother asked him to find work.
Q : They were very poor.
R : He lived with his mother.
S : But jack refused to work.
Which one of the following is the correct sequence ?
(a) R Q P S (b) P Q R S
(c) Q P R S (d) R P S Q

Explanation: The correct sequence in this example is R Q P S which is marked by (a). Therefore, (a) is the correct answer.

1. S1 : I did not know Nehru at all intimately
S6 : I t is more cor rect to use the word captivation than impression.
P : But his personality made an immediate impression at my very first meeting with him.
Q : Nor was the effect he made just an impression.
R : This impression did not change over the years.
 S : In fact, I had not even met him many times.
Which one of the following is the correct sequence ?
(a) S Q R P (b) R P S Q
(c) SPRQ (d) RQSP

2. S1 : What is freedom ?
S 6 : Some people feel that we actually sufferfrom what may be called choice fatigue.
P : There is so much choice that we find it difficult to choose.
Q : Fortunately, we are now living in a world full of choice.
R : Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice, we are not human beings but only inanimate objects.
S : Freedom is the right to choose.
Which one of the following is the correct sequence ?
(a) P Q R S (b) S R Q P
(c) P R Q S (d) S Q R P

3. S1 : A lower division clerk who has been  working in CPWD for the past 15 years, won Rs.1 crore in the recently launched programme 'Kaun Banega Crorepati'.
S6 : Because the publicity that he received was really disturbing him.
P : His fellow clerks in the department approached him wi th proposals to launch some joint projects.
R : But he shied away from both his friends and relatives. R : His relatives advised him to leave service and start his own business.
S : He listened to all patiently.
Which one of the following is the correct sequence ?
(a) P Q S R (b) SRPQ
(c) P R S Q (d) SQ PR

4. S1 : The 'touch-me-not' plant folds up its leaves whentouched.
S6 : The folding up of the leaves is controlled by the pulvinus.
P : How is the plant able, to do this?
Q : At the lower end of each leaf is a tiny swelling, called the pulvinus.
R : The pulvinus acts as the 'brain' or control centre of the leaf.
S : It is only 'in recent years that a possible answer has been found.
Which one of the following is the correct sequence ?
(a) R S Q P (b) P Q S R
(c) R Q S P (d) P S Q R


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