DCNS recently won a contract to design 12 submarines for Australia also. |
P: the leak might have occurred at India's end, |
Q: Kalvari went for sea trials in May, 2016 |
R: French shipbuilder DCNS, which designed the submarine, |
S: the submarine's underwater sensors, above- water sensors, combat management system, torpedo launch system and specifications, |
Arrange P, Q, R and S to make a correct sentence, the last part of which has been given in italics marked . |
P: from China to London and on to Brazil, |
Q: whose hair is beginning to thin and ham-strings are starting to pop, |
R: through injury, under pressure, |
S: as a wide-eyed 21-year-old sensation and a man in maturity |
S5: Usain Bolt has changed the game and changed the way we watch it. |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
They have been called patriarchal, formulaic and light-weight - and that's the polite description. But an academic is making the case for Mills & Boon romances to be considered as feminist texts that are the literature of protest rather than mere escapism. |
Val Derbyshire said the books should be read by women and men with pride rather than guilty embarrassment. |
"It is such a shame that they have been so vilified, and that people treat them as trash and the black sheep of the literary family," she added. "There really is literary value in them, which is why I continue to read them." |
Derbyshire is to lead two events at Sheffield University's Festival of the Mind next month, in which she will make the literary and feminist case for the thousands of books in Mills & Boon's vast back catalogue. |
"They are definitely not anti-feminist," she argued. Instead, they are largely stories of feminist triumph, with the brooding male hero often forced to acknowledge his sexism and change his ways. |
The novels also tackle important issues head-on, the ac-ademic said. For example, Time Fuse (1985), by Derby-shire's favourite Mills & Boon author, the prolific Penny Jordan, tackles the subject of rape, exposing the shocking way it was dealt with by courts and how women were blamed. |
Another criticism of the books is that they are formulaic. Again, Derbyshire said that people need to read them. "Penny Jordan wrote 187 novels over three-and-a-half decades. She couldn't have remained so enduringly popular if she was churning out the same things. She was innovating all the time." |
Derbyshire was 14 when she read her first Mills & Boon, Escape from Desire (1982) by Jordan. She is a doctoral researcher at Sheffield, studying the works of the 18th-century Romantic poet and novelist. Charlotte Turner Smith, a writer who also used romantic fiction as the literature of protest. |
Mills & Boon was created in 1908 by Gerald Mills and Charles Boon. Beginning as a general publisher, it made romance its principal concern in the 1930s and has gone on to publish thousands of easy-reading novels with titles such as Staff Nurses in Love, Tethered Liberty, Italian |
Invader and The Trouble with Trent. |
Derbyshire believes historians should also read the Mills & Boon books because they are so of their time, capturing contemporary anxieties and societal and fashion trends that are often forgotten. Anyone studying the social history of the late 70s, for example, could do worse than read Roberta Leigh's Man without a Heart, a book rich with romance and developments in the British car industry. |
More than anything, Derbyshire urged readers not to feel ashamed. "There is a huge amount of snobbery," she said. "It exists not just in academia and literature circles but generally. Some people do not feel comfortable sitting on a bus reading a Mills & Boon and that is a shame. If you have never read one, how can you know?" |
Which of the following is the 'principal concern' of the Mills and Boon books? |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
They have been called patriarchal, formulaic and light-weight - and that's the polite description. But an academic is making the case for Mills & Boon romances to be considered as feminist texts that are the literature of protest rather than mere escapism. |
Val Derbyshire said the books should be read by women and men with pride rather than guilty embarrassment. |
"It is such a shame that they have been so vilified, and that people treat them as trash and the black sheep of the literary family," she added. "There really is literary value in them, which is why I continue to read them." |
Derbyshire is to lead two events at Sheffield University's Festival of the Mind next month, in which she will make the literary and feminist case for the thousands of books in Mills & Boon's vast back catalogue. |
"They are definitely not anti-feminist," she argued. Instead, they are largely stories of feminist triumph, with the brooding male hero often forced to acknowledge his sexism and change his ways. |
The novels also tackle important issues head-on, the ac-ademic said. For example, Time Fuse (1985), by Derby-shire's favourite Mills & Boon author, the prolific Penny Jordan, tackles the subject of rape, exposing the shocking way it was dealt with by courts and how women were blamed. |
Another criticism of the books is that they are formulaic. Again, Derbyshire said that people need to read them. "Penny Jordan wrote 187 novels over three-and-a-half decades. She couldn't have remained so enduringly popular if she was churning out the same things. She was innovating all the time." |
Derbyshire was 14 when she read her first Mills & Boon, Escape from Desire (1982) by Jordan. She is a doctoral researcher at Sheffield, studying the works of the 18th-century Romantic poet and novelist. Charlotte Turner Smith, a writer who also used romantic fiction as the literature of protest. |
Mills & Boon was created in 1908 by Gerald Mills and Charles Boon. Beginning as a general publisher, it made romance its principal concern in the 1930s and has gone on to publish thousands of easy-reading novels with titles such as Staff Nurses in Love, Tethered Liberty, Italian |
Invader and The Trouble with Trent. |
Derbyshire believes historians should also read the Mills & Boon books because they are so of their time, capturing contemporary anxieties and societal and fashion trends that are often forgotten. Anyone studying the social history of the late 70s, for example, could do worse than read Roberta Leigh's Man without a Heart, a book rich with romance and developments in the British car industry. |
More than anything, Derbyshire urged readers not to feel ashamed. "There is a huge amount of snobbery," she said. "It exists not just in academia and literature circles but generally. Some people do not feel comfortable sitting on a bus reading a Mills & Boon and that is a shame. If you have never read one, how can you know?" |
Which of the following is not the criticism generally raised against the mills and Boon books? |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
They have been called patriarchal, formulaic and light-weight - and that's the polite description. But an academic is making the case for Mills & Boon romances to be considered as feminist texts that are the literature of protest rather than mere escapism. |
Val Derbyshire said the books should be read by women and men with pride rather than guilty embarrassment. |
"It is such a shame that they have been so vilified, and that people treat them as trash and the black sheep of the literary family," she added. "There really is literary value in them, which is why I continue to read them." |
Derbyshire is to lead two events at Sheffield University's Festival of the Mind next month, in which she will make the literary and feminist case for the thousands of books in Mills & Boon's vast back catalogue. |
"They are definitely not anti-feminist," she argued. Instead, they are largely stories of feminist triumph, with the brooding male hero often forced to acknowledge his sexism and change his ways. |
The novels also tackle important issues head-on, the ac-ademic said. For example, Time Fuse (1985), by Derby-shire's favourite Mills & Boon author, the prolific Penny Jordan, tackles the subject of rape, exposing the shocking way it was dealt with by courts and how women were blamed. |
Another criticism of the books is that they are formulaic. Again, Derbyshire said that people need to read them. "Penny Jordan wrote 187 novels over three-and-a-half decades. She couldn't have remained so enduringly popular if she was churning out the same things. She was innovating all the time." |
Derbyshire was 14 when she read her first Mills & Boon, Escape from Desire (1982) by Jordan. She is a doctoral researcher at Sheffield, studying the works of the 18th-century Romantic poet and novelist. Charlotte Turner Smith, a writer who also used romantic fiction as the literature of protest. |
Mills & Boon was created in 1908 by Gerald Mills and Charles Boon. Beginning as a general publisher, it made romance its principal concern in the 1930s and has gone on to publish thousands of easy-reading novels with titles such as Staff Nurses in Love, Tethered Liberty, Italian |
Invader and The Trouble with Trent. |
Derbyshire believes historians should also read the Mills & Boon books because they are so of their time, capturing contemporary anxieties and societal and fashion trends that are often forgotten. Anyone studying the social history of the late 70s, for example, could do worse than read Roberta Leigh's Man without a Heart, a book rich with romance and developments in the British car industry. |
More than anything, Derbyshire urged readers not to feel ashamed. "There is a huge amount of snobbery," she said. "It exists not just in academia and literature circles but generally. Some people do not feel comfortable sitting on a bus reading a Mills & Boon and that is a shame. If you have never read one, how can you know?" |
'Derbyshire believes historians should also read the Mills & Boon books?? Which of the following arguments Derbyshire put forth in favour of her statement? |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
They have been called patriarchal, formulaic and light-weight - and that's the polite description. But an academic is making the case for Mills & Boon romances to be considered as feminist texts that are the literature of protest rather than mere escapism. |
Val Derbyshire said the books should be read by women and men with pride rather than guilty embarrassment. |
"It is such a shame that they have been so vilified, and that people treat them as trash and the black sheep of the literary family," she added. "There really is literary value in them, which is why I continue to read them." |
Derbyshire is to lead two events at Sheffield University's Festival of the Mind next month, in which she will make the literary and feminist case for the thousands of books in Mills & Boon's vast back catalogue. |
"They are definitely not anti-feminist," she argued. Instead, they are largely stories of feminist triumph, with the brooding male hero often forced to acknowledge his sexism and change his ways. |
The novels also tackle important issues head-on, the ac-ademic said. For example, Time Fuse (1985), by Derby-shire's favourite Mills & Boon author, the prolific Penny Jordan, tackles the subject of rape, exposing the shocking way it was dealt with by courts and how women were blamed. |
Another criticism of the books is that they are formulaic. Again, Derbyshire said that people need to read them. "Penny Jordan wrote 187 novels over three-and-a-half decades. She couldn't have remained so enduringly popular if she was churning out the same things. She was innovating all the time." |
Derbyshire was 14 when she read her first Mills & Boon, Escape from Desire (1982) by Jordan. She is a doctoral researcher at Sheffield, studying the works of the 18th-century Romantic poet and novelist. Charlotte Turner Smith, a writer who also used romantic fiction as the literature of protest. |
Mills & Boon was created in 1908 by Gerald Mills and Charles Boon. Beginning as a general publisher, it made romance its principal concern in the 1930s and has gone on to publish thousands of easy-reading novels with titles such as Staff Nurses in Love, Tethered Liberty, Italian |
Invader and The Trouble with Trent. |
Derbyshire believes historians should also read the Mills & Boon books because they are so of their time, capturing contemporary anxieties and societal and fashion trends that are often forgotten. Anyone studying the social history of the late 70s, for example, could do worse than read Roberta Leigh's Man without a Heart, a book rich with romance and developments in the British car industry. |
More than anything, Derbyshire urged readers not to feel ashamed. "There is a huge amount of snobbery," she said. "It exists not just in academia and literature circles but generally. Some people do not feel comfortable sitting on a bus reading a Mills & Boon and that is a shame. If you have never read one, how can you know?" |
?The novels also tackle important issues head on...' Which of the following options supports the statement given above? |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
They have been called patriarchal, formulaic and light-weight - and that's the polite description. But an academic is making the case for Mills & Boon romances to be considered as feminist texts that are the literature of protest rather than mere escapism. |
Val Derbyshire said the books should be read by women and men with pride rather than guilty embarrassment. |
"It is such a shame that they have been so vilified, and that people treat them as trash and the black sheep of the literary family," she added. "There really is literary value in them, which is why I continue to read them." |
Derbyshire is to lead two events at Sheffield University's Festival of the Mind next month, in which she will make the literary and feminist case for the thousands of books in Mills & Boon's vast back catalogue. |
"They are definitely not anti-feminist," she argued. Instead, they are largely stories of feminist triumph, with the brooding male hero often forced to acknowledge his sexism and change his ways. |
The novels also tackle important issues head-on, the ac-ademic said. For example, Time Fuse (1985), by Derby-shire's favourite Mills & Boon author, the prolific Penny Jordan, tackles the subject of rape, exposing the shocking way it was dealt with by courts and how women were blamed. |
Another criticism of the books is that they are formulaic. Again, Derbyshire said that people need to read them. "Penny Jordan wrote 187 novels over three-and-a-half decades. She couldn't have remained so enduringly popular if she was churning out the same things. She was innovating all the time." |
Derbyshire was 14 when she read her first Mills & Boon, Escape from Desire (1982) by Jordan. She is a doctoral researcher at Sheffield, studying the works of the 18th-century Romantic poet and novelist. Charlotte Turner Smith, a writer who also used romantic fiction as the literature of protest. |
Mills & Boon was created in 1908 by Gerald Mills and Charles Boon. Beginning as a general publisher, it made romance its principal concern in the 1930s and has gone on to publish thousands of easy-reading novels with titles such as Staff Nurses in Love, Tethered Liberty, Italian |
Invader and The Trouble with Trent. |
Derbyshire believes historians should also read the Mills & Boon books because they are so of their time, capturing contemporary anxieties and societal and fashion trends that are often forgotten. Anyone studying the social history of the late 70s, for example, could do worse than read Roberta Leigh's Man without a Heart, a book rich with romance and developments in the British car industry. |
More than anything, Derbyshire urged readers not to feel ashamed. "There is a huge amount of snobbery," she said. "It exists not just in academia and literature circles but generally. Some people do not feel comfortable sitting on a bus reading a Mills & Boon and that is a shame. If you have never read one, how can you know?" |
?...Derbyshire urged readers not to feel ashamed; What logic Derbyshire did not give in support of her 'urging'? |
Find the analogy. |
If ?E? is related to ?Z? then '3' is related to: |
Change the voice. |
Many people begin new projects in January. |
Identify the type of the sentence given below. |
It seems too good to be true, nevertheless it is a fact. |
Give the correct question tag. |
Nobody's been told, ______? |
Given below is a sentence in four parts. One of the parts contains a grammatical error. Find the part. |
I was standing (i)/at the bus stop (ii)/waiting for him (iii)/ since eight O'clock.(iv) |
Identify the type of clause for the underlined part of the sentence given below. |
Whatever happens keep calm. |
Improve the sentence by changing its underlined portion. |
Many boys in our class were of kind who would be a nuisance everywhere. |
Combine the given sentences by using an infinitive. |
We must finish this exercise. There are still three sentences. |
Give the appropriate filler. |
It is time________. |
Change the narration. |
He said, 'Let's wait for her return.' |
Given below is an article in jumbled form, marked |
P, Q, R, S. Arrange the jumbled parts, between A and B, to make it sensibly readable. |
A: At the all-party conference in New Delhi, and later in his August 15 Independence Day address to the nation, the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, referred to the people of Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). On both occasions, Modi also talked about human rights violations in Pakistan-occupied Balochistan. His statement came a day after Pakistan's Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, dedicated his country's Independence Day celebrations to the freedom of |
Kashmir from Indian rule. |
P: Pakistan has responded to India's approach with staged demonstrations in Gilgit-Baltistan and Balochistan condemning Modi. In Skardu, teachers brought students as young as six-year-old to the streets to raise anti-India slogans, which points to state indoctrination against the neighbouring country. One government official, Shams Mir, while addressing a rally in Gilgit, vowed to turn the protesting children into suicide bombers against India. |
Q: Pakistani media might not agree with this assessment, but the majority of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan would expect their elected representatives to expose the culprits in the Pakistani government and military who incarcerate their youth for demanding rights, loot their natural resources, encroach upon their private lands to build the China-led economic corridor (CPEC), hurt local cultural identity and national character through a policy of assimilation and block our trade routes towards Ladakh to impose economic isolation and dependence. Such policies only expose the double standards of Pakistan's rulers who routinely advocate better trade relations with India through Punjab. |
R: PM Modi's statement was well-received by Indian political parties including the Indian National Congress. The current Bangladesh government and former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai supported the statement, causing concern in Pakistan's leadership circles. On Thursday, August 19, India announced a five-point agenda to resume talks with Pakistan, one of which proposes a discussion on the vacation of Pakistan's illegal occupation of Gilgit-Baltistan and PoK. |
S: Instead of building colleges and universities in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan's establish-ment keeps the region's students ignorant by spreading myths and uses them as foot soldiers against India, USA and Afghanistan. While Pakistani occupiers expect the people of Gilgit-Baltistan to spew venom against India, they shamelessly block basic constitutional rights enjoyed by the people of Ladakh, Kashmir and Jammu to the locals. |
B: The fact that the Indian Constitution recognises the people of Gilgit-Baltistan as its citizens is often lost in the continuing stalemate in Kashmir. The statement of PM Modi is in keeping with his constitutional duty as head of the government and provides a fresh opportunity to resolve a conflict that is holding back the entire region. |
Direction: Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions. |
He succeeded___ of perseverance and sheer hard work. |
Direction: Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions. |
Don't loiter ___the street. |
Give the parts of speech for the word underlined in the sentence below. |
I don't think...er...wait... let me call my boss. |
Direction: Give the synonyms for the words underlined in the sentences below. |
Our posterity shall hold us responsible for the devastation caused by cutting of trees. |
Direction: Give the synonyms for the words underlined in the sentences below. |
I don't mean to be flippant but there is no nice way to kill a terrorist. |
Fill in the blank as per subject-verb agreement. |
The difficult situation in which I found myself |
_______ not made easy by her constant nagging. |
Fill in the blank with the correct determiner. |
It is an established fact that the transcendental American poets and philosophers, who lived in the latter half of the nineteenth century were _______influenced by Indian philosophy. |
What comes next in the given series? |
BEH KNQ TWZ? |
Direction: Give the antonym of the words written in capital letters below. |
CULMINATE |
Direction: Give the antonym of the words written in capital letters below. |
FLAGITIOUS |
The underlined words in the given sentence represent which type of degree? |
No other democracy in the world is as large as India. |
Judge the right words. |
How many of the books published each year in India make a _________contribution towards improving men's ______with each other? |
Direction: Out of the given alternatives identify the one that best expresses the meaning of the phrase/idiom underlined in the given sentences. |
Before the actual interview, Sultan was truly in his elements. |
Direction: Out of the given alternatives identify the one that best expresses the meaning of the phrase/idiom underlined in the given sentences. |
He had to eat a humble pie owing to his misdeeds. |
Fill in the blank with correct modal. |
You who seek wisdom _____ be humble. |
Give one word substitution to the following. |
One who hates marriage |
Select the combination of numbers so that the |
Letters arranged accordingly will form a meaningful word. |
Two statements are given below. Read both the statements and decide which of the given options correctly depicts the relationship between the two statements. |
Statements: |
I: Now-a-days people in rural India are also brand conscious. |
II: Indian economy is observing remarkable growth. |
Fill in the blank with correct order of adjectives. |
He is ______, ______, ______, |
Identify the figure of speech. |
Sweet and calm as is a sister's kiss. |
If: |
(i) P@Q means P is the mother of Q |
(ii) P$Q means P is the husband of Q |
(iii) P#Q means P is the sister of Q |
(iv) P*Q means P is the son of Q |
Then, which shows that R is the daughter of T? |
Direction: Read the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
There are five men A, B, C, D and E and six women P, Q, R, S, T and U in a group. A, B and R are advocates; C, D, P, Q and S are doctors and the rest are teachers. Some teams are to be selected from amongst these eleven persons, subject to the following conditions: |
(i) A, P and U have to be together. |
(ii) B cannot go with Dor R. |
(iii) E and Q. have to be together. |
(iv) C and T have to be together. |
(v) D and P cannot go together. |
(vi) C cannot go with Q. |
If the team is to consist of one advocate, two doctors, three teachers and C may not go with T, the members of the team will be: |
Direction: Read the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
There are five men A, B, C, D and E and six women P, Q, R, S, T and U in a group. A, B and R are advocates; C, D, P, Q and S are doctors and the rest are teachers. Some teams are to be selected from amongst these eleven persons, subject to the following conditions: |
(i) A, P and U have to be together. |
(ii) B cannot go with Dor R. |
(iii) E and Q. have to be together. |
(iv) C and T have to be together. |
(v) D and P cannot go together. |
(vi) C cannot go with Q. |
If the team is to consist of one male advocate, one male doctor, one lady doctor and two teachers, the members of the team will be: |
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