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During El Nino, one of the following cold ocean currents gets replaced
A) Labrador Cold Current B) Benguela Cold Current
C) Humboldt Cold Current D) Canaries Cold Current

Which one of the following statements is/are correct about Alluvial Soil ?
i. The alluvial soils vary in nature from sandy loam to clay.
ii. Khadar is the new alluvium and is deposited by floods annually.
iii. Bhangar represents a system of older alluvium.
iv. They are loamy and clayey in the lower and middle Ganga plain and the Brahmaputra
valley.
A) Only i, ii and iii B) Only ii
C) Only ii and iv D) All of the above (i, ii, iii and iv)

Alist of Public Sector Units (PSUs) in Kerala and their location is given below. Which
one of them is not correctly matched ?

A) Kerala State Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Ltd. : Kalavoor, Alappuzha

B) The Travancore Cochin Chemicals Ltd. : Udyogmandal, Kochi

C) Kerala Clays and Ceramic Products Ltd. : Pappinisseri, Kannur

D) Steel and Industrial Forgings Ltd. : Kolathara, Kozhikode

What is the Theme of World Water Day 2022 ?
A) Groundwater : Making the invisible visible
B) Valuing Water

C) Water and Climate Change

D) Leaving no one behind

Of the following which statement is/are correct in the case of Commercial Papers

(CPs) issued in India ?

i. Banks issue CPs to finance either the fixed assets or the permanent working capital
of normal or expanding business activity.

ii. The issues of CPs are mostly in large denominations and they may be sold through

direct placement with lenders or investors.

The yield on CPs is not market-determined. Usually, it is much lower than the yield

on TBs of the same maturity.

iv. The issue of CPs represents the strengthening of the process of “securitization’

and the weakening of the process of “financial intermediation”.
A) Only i and iii B) Only iiandiv = C) Onlyi andii D) Only iii and iv