Food myths mean a legendary story about food with or without a determinable basic of fact or a natural explanation. What to eat, when to eat, and how often to eat are such questions which usually confuse.

Some food myths are as follows:

1. Potatoes make you fat
2. Drinking water in between your meals will mess up your digestion
3. Fat free products will help you in losing weight
4. Egg increases cholesterol levels
5. The peel of fruits & vegetables contains no nutrients
6. Having milk immediately after eating fish
7. Starve yourself if you want to lose weight
8. Eating ghee after pregnancy
9. Exercise makes you to eat more
10. It’s necessary to have Carbohydrate – load before races
11. All sports drinks are the same
12. Supplement are necessary for maximum performance

On July 7, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal announced a major CBSE syllabus reduction with 30% of the syllabus slashed for the year 2020-21 for classes 9 to 12 because of the reduction in classroom teaching time due to the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown.

CBSE has rationalized the syllabus with the help of suggestions from NCERT and the same has been notified by a new CBSE notification as well.

Deleted syllabus of CBSE Class 12 Mathematics

In Motihari court trial, the magistrate said he would not deliver judgement for several days. Gandhi was allowed to remain free. But several days later the written communication from the magistrate informed Gandhi that the Lieutement Governor of the province had ordered the case to be dropped. Thus, the civil disobedience had triumphed, the first time in modern India.

John Maynard Keynes

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money was written by the English economist John Maynard Keynes. The book, generally considered to be his magnum opus, is largely credited with creating the terminology and shape of modern macroeconomics.

Functions of the RBI

• The issuer of Currency: The RBI is the only authorized body that can issue currency in the country. So they print, distribute and regulate the flow of currency in the economy.
• Banker to the Government: Even the Central and State government need basic banking functions. The RBI provides them with these facilities like depositing monies, remittances etc. It can also make advances and provide loans to the government whenever necessary.
• Banker to other Banks: The Reserve Bank of India also supervises all other commercial banks in the country. It provides financial assistance to these banks like short-term loans and advances. The RBI also will dictate interest rates and the CRR limits to the commercial banks.
• Regulator of Foreign Exchange: It is the function of the RBI to maintain the value of the rupee in the global economy. It does so by acting as the custodian of foreign exchange reserves in the country. It maintains enough reserves to battle against fluctuations.
• Controls Credit in the Economy: This can be said to be the primary function of the Reserve Bank of India, the control of credit and money in the market. It uses qualitative and quantitative methods to either expand or contract the available credit in the economy according to circumstances.

159 countries
Membership : 159 countries are currently members of the WTO. The following 24 countries are currently negotiating their WTO membership (by date of application). 31 accessions have been completed since the WTO was established in 1995.

Full question:

In the present COVID-19 times, many economists have raised their concerns that Indian economy may have to face a deflationary situation, due to reduced economic activities in the country. Suppose you are a member of the high powered committee constituted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). You have suggested that as the supervisor of commercial banks, ................ (restriction/release) of the money supply be ensured, by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

Answer:

release

This question is from 2020-21 sample paper

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An intentional termination of a pregnancy before it reaches full term is called medical termination of pregnancy (MTP). It is an induced abortion.  In India, MTP is legalized but with certain riders, so that people do not misuse it. These riders and restrictions have been put in place so that illegal female feticides can be controlled and monitored. However, in some countries, MTP is still not accepted or legal as there are many religious, ethical and social issues involved.

MTP is mainly done to get rid of unwanted pregnancies that arise out of casual unprotected *** or sometimes even failure of the contraceptives or even unfortunate incidents of rape.

There are also other medical reasons when MTP is performed. When there is an issue in the pregnancy or the developing fetus, which is likely to be fatal for both the other and the fetus, then MTP is done. MTP is generally safe during the first trimester of the pregnancy.

In India, MTP is legal. It is advised when the pregnancy is harmful to both the fetus and the mother. The other conditions when MTP is advised are to get rid of unwanted pregnancies due to casual *** or failure of the contraceptives.

The town planning of the Harappan civilization upholds the fact that the civic establishments of the city were highly developed. They followed a system of centralized administration.

Settlements of Harappans with Town planning

● Harappa or Mohenjodaro in Pakistan

● Kalibangan, Lothal or Sarkotada in India 

“Product mix” means the total number of products and items that a particular marketer offers to the market.

MAJOR COMPONENTS OF PRODUCT MIX ARE

1. Branding
2. Packaging
3. Labeling

Pollination is processed by the agent which transfers pollen from the pollen sac or anther to the stigma or ovule in the flower. Pollination done by snails is called malacophily. Such type of flowers is called as malacophilous. These flowers achieve pollination only by the help of snails and slugs.

The Fifth Report was submitted to the British Parliament in 1813. It was called the Fifth Report as it was the fifth in a series of reports about the working of East India Company. The core issue of the Fifth Report was the administration and activities of the East India Company. This report had 1002 pages. About 800 pages were in the form of appendices which included petitions of zamindars and ryots, reports of Collectors, statistical tables on revenue returns and the official notes on the revenue and judicial administration of Bengal and Madras.

In the figure, when a charge q is placed at corner A of the cube, it is being shared equally by 8 cubes
∴ total flux through the faces of the given cube=​q​/8ε0

(a)Causes : Students started agitation due to rising prices, food scarcity, unemployment and corruption.

(b)Leadership: Jayaprakash Narayan joined the movement on the condition that the movement will remain non violent and will not limit to Bihar.

(c) Demands : Jayaprakash Narayan demanded the dismissal of Congress government in Bihar and gave a call for total revolution in the social, economic and political spheres in order to establish true democracy.

(d) Activities : (i) A series of bandhs, gheraos and strikes were organised.

(ii) In March, Jayaprakash Narayan led a people’s march to the Parliament.

Students organized the movement against: 
1. Rising prices of food grains, cooking oil and other essential commodities. 
2. Corruption in high places. 
Assess Role played by Jai Prakash Narayan: 
Satyagraha was organized by Jayaprakash Narayan for Indira Gandhi’s resignation, he appealed to people not to obey illegal and immoral orders by a massive demonstration on 25 June 1975. All these changed the political mood of the country against Congress.