Mount Everest is the Earth’s highest mountain, with a peak at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) above sea level. In 1865, Everest was given its official English name by the Royal Geographical Society upon a recommendation by Andrew Waugh, the British Surveyor General of India.

Correct Option: C

Mount Everest is the Earth’s highest mountain, with a peak at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) above sea level. In 1865, Everest was given its official English name by the Royal Geographical Society upon a recommendation by Andrew Waugh, the British Surveyor General of India.

Shri Gemini Roy (April 1887 – 24 April 1972): an Indian painter; Bhuvneshwari Kumari: a former woman squash champion of India; Qureshi Alla Rakha Khan: popularly known as Alla Rakha (29 April 1919 – 3 February 2000) was an Indian tabla player; and Medha Patkar: is an Indian environmental activist.

Correct Option: A

Shri Gemini Roy (April 1887 – 24 April 1972): an Indian painter; Bhuvneshwari Kumari: a former woman squash champion of India; Qureshi Alla Rakha Khan: popularly known as Alla Rakha (29 April 1919 – 3 February 2000) was an Indian tabla player; and Medha Patkar: is an Indian environmental activist.

The Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage are established by UNESCO aiming to ensure the better protection of important intangible cultural heritages worldwide and the awareness of their significance. Through a compendium of the different oral and intangible treasures of humankind worldwide, the program aims to draw attention to the importance of safeguarding intangible heritage, which has been identified by UNESCO as an essential component and a repository of cultural diversity and creative expression. Tirupathi-Tirumala temples is not on the UNESCO’s list of World Cultural Heritages.

Correct Option: D

The Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage are established by UNESCO aiming to ensure the better protection of important intangible cultural heritages worldwide and the awareness of their significance. Through a compendium of the different oral and intangible treasures of humankind worldwide, the program aims to draw attention to the importance of safeguarding intangible heritage, which has been identified by UNESCO as an essential component and a repository of cultural diversity and creative expression. Tirupathi-Tirumala temples is not on the UNESCO’s list of World Cultural Heritages.

Dairying has become an important secondary source of income for millions of rural families and has assumed a most important role in providing employment and income generating opportunity. Indian Dairying is unique in more than one ways. It ranks first with its 185.2 million cattle & 97.9 million buffaloes accounting for about 51 percent of Asia’s and about 19 per cent of world’s bovine population. It also ranks first in milk production with a production of 100.9 million tonnes in 2002.

Correct Option: D

Dairying has become an important secondary source of income for millions of rural families and has assumed a most important role in providing employment and income generating opportunity. Indian Dairying is unique in more than one ways. It ranks first with its 185.2 million cattle & 97.9 million buffaloes accounting for about 51 percent of Asia’s and about 19 per cent of world’s bovine population. It also ranks first in milk production with a production of 100.9 million tonnes in 2002.

India had by then emerged as the leading producer of milk country in world with a a share of 14 per cent in the world. The industry had been recording an annual growth of 4% during the period 1993-2005, which was almost 3 times the average growth rate of the dairy industry in the world.

Correct Option: D

India had by then emerged as the leading producer of milk country in world with a a share of 14 per cent in the world. The industry had been recording an annual growth of 4% during the period 1993-2005, which was almost 3 times the average growth rate of the dairy industry in the world.