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1. Which intervention is allowed by an individual state against the other state?

A. Principal of Self Defense

B. War

C. Negotiation

D. Peaceful Defense

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2. Which UN article allows collective intervention based on the humanitarian ground?

A. Article 1, 55 and 56

B. Only article 1

C. Only article 56

D. Only article 55

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3. Which article of the UN Charter, member states are to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the UN

A. Article 2(4)

B. Article 2(6)A

C. Article 2(8)

D. Article 2(3)

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4. Which Treaty led the birth of modern State?

A. Treaty of Westphalia

B. Treaty of Vienna

C. Treaty of London

D. Treaty of Uruguay

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5. Which alternative words used to connote “border”?

A. Bordered States

B. Frontiers and Boundary

C. Frontier Region

D. Boundary of States

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6. What does it mean “ “it was the meeting point between savagery and civilisation” and not just related to “border warfare and the chase”?

A. Borders

B. Boundary

C. Frontiers

D. Territory

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7. What do you mean “ Vernaculization” of border?

A. Borderless States

B. Away from territorial edges and peripheries

C. Frontier region

D. None of the above

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8. Thicker barrier means….

A. Enable free flow of goods and capitals but not individuals

B. Free flow of individuals

C. Free flow of goods and individuals

D. None of the above

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9. Durand Line is

A. Between India and Pakistan

B. Between India SriLanka

C. Between Pakistan and Afghanistan

D. Between India and Bangladesh

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10. When did the exchange of enclaves was finalised with the demarcation of 6.1 km of the border facilitating India’s handing over of 111 enclaves to Bangladesh and in turn receiving 51 enclaves in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar.

A. 31 July 2014

B. 31 July 2015

C. 30 July 2016

D. 30 July 2015

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11. How many unresolved territorial disputes all over the world?

A. 70

B. 80

C. 90

D. 75

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12. How much percentage of sovereign States having unresolved territorial disputes?

A. 40%

B. 50%

C. 60%

D. 70%

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13. Where did International Conference on Water and Environment held in 1992?

A. London

B. Stockholm

C. Dublin

D. Berlin

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14. How much percentage of Indian land mass lies within its major and medium inter-state rivers?

A. 76%

B. 85%

C. 80%

D. 92%

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15. How much percentage of river water flowing in the Indian subcontinent?

A. 4 per cent

B. 3 per cent

C. 3.4 per cent

D. 5 per cent

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16. The Availability of freshwater in India depends upon……

A. Seasonal rain and Storage capacity

B. Dam capacity

C. Water Flow

D. River regeneration

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17. The utilisable resource availability in the country in the Brahmaputra valley …….

A. 18,417 cubic metres

B. 18, 317 cubic metres

C. 18,211 cubic metres

D. 18,111 cubic metres

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18. The Utilisable resource availability in the Sabarmati basin…..

A. 90 cubic metres

B. 180 cubic metres

C. 190 cubic metres

D. 160 cubic metres

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19. What are the alternative sources for the availability?

A. Sea Water

B. Ponds and Lakes

C. Desalination of sea and surface water

D. De-silting lakes

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20. “A riparian state can do what it pleases with its waters without regard to its effect on other co-riparian state and no riparian state has a right to demand the continued flow of water from other states”. What is the name of the theory?

A. Theory of absolute territorial sovereignty

B. Theory of territorial sovereignty

C. Theory of rights

D. Theory of natural water flow

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