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1. NOTA’ option is available to voters in which of the following elections:
  1. Lok Sabha elections
  2. Rajya Sabha elections
  3. State Assembly elections
  4. State Council elections
Select the correct Answer using the codes given below: (a) 1 and 3 only (b) 2 and 4 only (c) 1 only (d) 1, 2, 3, and 4
2. Which of the following does tantamount to Sedition? (a) Political dissent (b) Right to offend (c) Expressing different or conflicting ideas of Indian nation (d) Threatening the security of State or of public.
3. Roy and Kavi are working on an assignment. Roy takes 6 hours to type 32 pages on a computer, while Kavi takes 5 hours to type 40 pages. How much time will they take, working together on two different computers to type an assignment of 110 pages? (a) 8 hours 15 minutes (b) 10 hours (c) 7 hours 50 minutes (d) 6 hours 40 minutes 4. Lead, ingested or inhaled, is a health hazard. After the addition of lead to petrol has been banned, what still are the sources of lead poisoning?
  1. Smelting units
  2. Pens and Pencils
  3. Paints
  4. Hair oils and Cosmetics
Select the correct answer using the codes given below: (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1 and 3 (c) 2 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 5. The proteinous part of the enzyme is called (a) Holoenzyme (b) Cofactor (c) Apoenzyme (d) Coenzyme ANSWERS 1. (a) ''NOTA'' or ''none of the above'' is a ballot option provided in the elections to Indian voters. Through NOTA, a citizen has the right to not vote for any candidate contesting the elections. NOTA is an option is direct elections like Lok Sabha and State Assemblies. Whereas elections to Rajya Sabha and State Councils are Indirect elections. 2. (d) As per Section 124A of IPC, Sedition is an act that brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards the Government established by law in India by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise. As per this Section, a person is liable to be punished with imprisonment for life or imprisonment up to three years with fine. An act is a seditious act only if it includes :
  1. Disruption of public order
  2. Attempt to violently overthrow a lawful government
  3. Threatening the security of State or of public.
Following does not amount to Sedition:
  1. Political dissent
  2. A thought non-consonant with the government and its policies
  3. Expression of frustration over the state of affairs e.g. racist state or gender biased state
  4. Expressing different or conflicting ideas of Indian nation
  5. Right to offend
  6. Peaceful protest
3. (a) 4. (a)  5. (c) 


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