ISS (Statistical Services) General Studies: Questions 103 - 110 of 157

a. Lagoon

• A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by barrier islands or reefs.
• Lagoons are commonly divided into coastal lagoons and atoll lagoons.

• A shallow artificial pond used for treating or storing liquid waste material or for collecting flood waters.
• Lagoons provide habitat …

Article 143 of the Constitution of India, 1950 provides that the President of India may obtain the opinion of the Supreme Court of India on questions of fact or of law, which is of public importance.

• It՚s not binding on the Supreme Court to answer questions raised in the reference. On such reference from the P…

a. Dilip Pilgaonkar

• He was born in Pune.
• He was appointed as one of the interlocutors on Kashmir by the Union Government.
• He worked as the Editor of The Times of India for many years with 48years of experience in Journalism.

B. Krishna Poonia

• She was born on 5^th May 1977. An internation…

It is the low temperature freezing (usually at -196 degree Celsius) of a human corpse. The Corpse is hoped to be resuscitated in future. The procedure can only begin once the clinical death of the patient is confirmed.

• Cry protectants are used to prevent ice formation during cryopreservation.
• After going verification, the corpse is unlikel…

• India is one of the few countries in the world endowed with a huge natural and mineral resources. The east India is covered by dense forests and sloppy mountains.
• In the west, it has Malwa plateau, sloppy mountain ranges of great Himalayas. In the north, it has been surrounded by the Great Himalayan Ranges. In the south, it is surrounded by the Decc…

A. Allauddin Khilji՚s market reforms

• The market reforms were the most revolutionary and remarkable reform of the Allauddin Khilji.
• The market reforms were done so as to maintain a large and efficient army for keeping the Mongols in check according to Barni (a Muslim Political thinker of the Delhi Sultanate) .
• The prices of articles of daily use like v…

• Bio fertilizers being more cost effective as compared to chemical fertilizers increases the nutrients of plants when applied to their seeds, plant surface or soil. The promotion of bio fertilizers in India is mainly carried out by the National Bio fertilizer Development Centre (set up in 1987) .
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• Invisible Web is also known as deep web, hidden web which are parts of the World Wide Web. The contents are not indexed by the standard web search engines.
• Surface web is opposite to the deep web accessible to anyone using the internet. Michael K. Bergman coined the term deep web in 2001 as a search indexing term.
• The contents of the deep web is hidd…