Directions: In each of the following questions one paragraph has been given with a blank in it followed by five options. You are required to fill in the blank with the most appropriate option in order to form a coherent and meaningful paragraph.
1) Union minister and Lok Sabha MP from Bongaon Shantanu Thakur has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention to “safeguard the lives of Hindu minorities” in Banglade .
A. In a letter to PM Narendra Modi, Union minister Shantanu Thakur claimed many Hindu temples, shops and households were vandalised in Bangladesh.
B. The development comes after reports of attacks on Hindu temples, some shops and households in Bangladesh’s Khula district.
C. Thakur appealed to PM Narendra Modi to look into the matter saying people belonging to the community in that area of Bangladesh were under threat.
D. The incident took place in Shiali village in RupshaUpazila following a heated altercation between Hindu and Muslim residents.
E. None of the above
2)___________,has got an automated teller machine after 53 years of the first installation of such a cash dispenser globally, an official of the health facility said.
A. A hospital in Meghalaya, where ATM inventor John Adrian Shepherd-Barron was born in 1925,
B. The access to an ATM in the facility will help patient parties and staffers immensely,
C. The first ATM was installed at a bank in London in 1967. Reg Varney, one of the stars of a popular TV show became the first person to withdraw cash.
D. The ATM is special as the inventor of automated teller machine was born in this hospital 96 years ago
E. None of the above
3)__________released by the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. The triennial rankings of youth development found India among the top five risers on the index between 2010 and 2018.
A. India is ranked 122nd on a new Global Youth Development Index measuring the condition of young people across 181 countries,
B. The top five risers from 2010 to 2018 were Afghanistan, India, Russia, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso,
C. The index, which draws on multiple data sources, was to be released at the now- postponed Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in 2020.
D. The index shows advances in youth’s participation in peace processes and their education, employment, inclusion and health care since 2010,
E. None of the above
