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The correct answer is KKK.

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The correct answer is Bipin Chandra Pal.

Key Points

• Aurobindo Ghose felicitated Bipin Chandra Pal as 'the Prophet of Great Political Creed'.
• He also referred to him as 'one of mightiest prophets of nationalism'.
• Pal is known as the Father of Revolutionary Thoughts in India.
• As a journalist, Pal worked for Bengal Public Opinion, The Tribune and New India.

Key Points

• Ferns refer to a group of vascular plants that reproduce by spores.
• Salvinia is an aquatic fern that has a floating plant body.
• It can easily colonize a water body and hence is considered as one of the top invasive aquatic species.
• Some features:
• It has horizontal rhizomes and bear hairy structures on the leaf surface.
• Leaves are usually trimerous.
• The stiff hairs on floating leaf surface prevent them from wetting.
• The stem is sparsely branched with nodes and internodes.
• The sporophytic body do not have any roots.
• The submerged filiform leaves may help in absorption of nutrients.
• It is a heterosporous fern that produces 2 types of spores - microspores and megaspores.

Additional Information

• Adiantum - Also called maidenhair fern, it grows terrestrially in shady places.
• Dryopteris - Commonly known as wood fern, it is terrestrial or epipetric (growing on rocks).
• Equisetum - It is the genus of horsetails that prefer to grow along the banks of rivers or irrigation canals, but are terrestrial.

The correct answer is corporation tax.

Key Points

• Income tax, wealth tax and corporation tax are all direct taxes and levied by the central government.
• Sales tax, Excise duty, Land Revenue, Registration Fee, Excise on alcoholic liquors and custom duty are indirect taxes mostly in the hands of the state government.
• Professional tax,  levied by the state government, is a direct tax that is deducted from your gross salary by your employer.
• The Goods and Services Tax (GST) has replaced the Central and State indirect taxes such as VAT, excise duty and service tax.
• It was implemented from 1^st July 2017.

The correct answer is the Governor of the State.

Key Points

• Parallel to the Union Public Service Commission in the center, the State Public Service Commission works at the state level.
• Articles 315 to 323 in Part XIV of the Constitution deals with the composition, appointment, and removal of members, power and functions, and independence of a State Public Service Commission.
• The Chairman and members of the State Public Service Commission are appointed by the Governor of the State.
• The qualification of the chairman and other members is not specified in the constitution.
• However, one-half of the members of the commission should be such persons who have held office for at least ten years either under the government of India or under the Government of a state.

The correct answer is Mizoram.

Key Points

• The Molasse basin or North Alpine foreland basin is a foreland basin north of the Alps.
• It was formed during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs.
• The basin formed as a result of the flexure of the European plate under the weight of the orogenic wedge of the Alps that was forming to the south.
• In geology, the name "molasse basin" is sometimes also used in a general sense for a synorogenic (formed contemporaneously with the orogen) foreland basin of the type north of the Alps.
• Mizoram is also known as the Molasses basin because it is made up of unconsolidated deposits.
• With its mountainous geography, it contains many foreland basins which is a valley-type depressions running parallel to mountains.

The correct answer is concurrent list.

Key Points

• The seventh schedule under Article 246 of the constitution deals with the division of powers between the union and the states.
• It contains three lists- Union List, State List and Concurrent List.
• Centre has exclusive powers to makes laws on the subjects mentioned under the Union List of Indian Constitution.
• It has 100 subjects.
• The laws can be made on the subjects enumerated under the State List of the Indian Constitution exclusively by the State legislatures.
• It has 61 subjects.
• 42^nd amendment Act 1976 shifted below mentioned five subjects from State list to Concurrent List:
• Education
• Forests
• Protection of wild animals and birds
• Weights and measures and
• Administration of justice, constitution and organisation of all courts except the Supreme Court and the High Courts
• The concept of ‘Concurrent List’ in the Indian Constitution has been borrowed from the Constitution of Australia.
• Central Government and State Government both can make laws on the subjects mentioned under the Concurrent List.
• It has 52 subjects enumerated under it.
• While both Central and State Government can legislate on subjects mentioned under Concurrent List, however, in case of any conflict, the law made by the Central Government prevails.

The correct answer is Andhra Pradesh.

Key Points

• It is at a distance of about 15 Km from Kakinada on Kakinada Yanam Road.
• Coringa Sanctuary, named after a tiny village coringa in East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh a part of Godavari Mangroves was declared as a wildlife sanctuary by Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
• to conserve the mangrove vegetation of the estuary, extending in an area of about 235.Sq.Kms.
• It is located between 16o-30′ to 17o-00′ N latitudes and 82o-14′ to 82o-23’E longitudes.
• Mangroves are salt – tolerant forest ecosystems of tropical and sub – tropical intertidal regions of the world.
• They normally occur between high waterlevel and near about mean sea level along the sheltered shores, estuaries, tidal creeks, back-waters, lagoons, marshes and mud-flats.
• Mangroves are the plant communities occurring in inter-tidal zones along the coasts of tropical and subtropical countries.
• They are halophytes and adapt life in harsh coastal conditions.
• They contain a complex salt filtration system and complex root system to cope with salt water immersion and wave action.

The correct answer is Gulbadan Begum.

Key Points

• Gulbadan Begum was the sister of Humayun.
• She wrote the "Humayun-nama".
• It is the biography of Humayun who was the second Mughal Emperor.
• It is written in Persian language.

The correct answer is Ravi Kumar Dahiya.

Key Points

• Indian wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya clinched the gold medal at the Asian Wrestling Championships 2022 in Ulaanbaatar on April 23, 2022.
• This is Ravi Kumar Dahiya's third straight Asian Championships title.
• He registered a comprehensive 12-2 win by technical superiority over Kazakhstan's Rakhat Kalzhan in the 57kg men's freestyle final.