Arts (English Medium) Class 12 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

The most serious challenge before the states is pursuing economic development without causing further damage to the global environment. How could we achieve this? Explain with a few examples.

The most serious challenge before the states is pursuing economic development without causing further damage to the global environment. How could we achieve this? Explain with a few examples.

Read the following passage and answer the questions below :

“In the early years of Independence, two contradictory tendencies were already well advanced inside the Congress Party. On the one hand, the national party executive endorsed socialist principles of state ownership, regulation and control over key sectors of the economy in order to improve productivity and at the same time curb economic concentration. On the other hand, the national Congress government pursued liberal economic policies and incentives to private investment that was justified in terms of the sole criterion of achieving maximum increase in production”. - Francine Frankel

(a) What is the contradiction that the author is talking about? What would be the political implications of a contradiction like this?

(b) If the author is correct, why is it that the Congress was pursuing this policy? Was it related to the nature of the opposition parties?

(c) Was there also a contradiction between the central leadership of the Congress party and its state level leaders?

Which of the following statements about the Grand Alliance of 1971 is correct? The Grand Alliance ______ 

Would you consider the anti-arrack movement as a women’s movement? Why?

What were the main provisions of the Punjab accord? In what way can they be the basis for further tensions between the Punjab and its neighbouring States?

Trace the emergence of BJP as a significant force in post-Emergency politics.

In which country are the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki located?

The USSR was able to test its first atomic bomb in ____________.

Which is not the main county of Axis powers?

Which is not the main county of the Allied Forces during Second World War.

In which year U.S.A. dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Who became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985?

The total number of members represented in the General assembly is ____________.

The United Nations was founded on:

The decisions of the UN Security Council are made by an affirmative vote of any ___________.

Which of the following organisations is meant for Children?

The office of the UN General Assembly:

Identify from the following options that is one of the official language of the UN?

The Grand Alliance of the opposition of 1971.