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Identify the correct combination of statements with regard to banking in India.<br>1. For many years the presidency banks had acted as quasi-central banks.<br>2. The Bank of Hindustan was liquidated during 1829-32.<br>3. General Bank of India was an unsuccessful bank and was dissolved in 1791.<br>4. Bank of Calcutta was renamed as Bank of Bengal in 1921.

Correct Answer: 1, 2 and 3

Identity the correct combination of statements with regard to banking in India:
1. The Presidency banks had acted as quasi - central banks for many decades in India.
2. The Bank of Hindustan was liquidated during 1829-32.
3. General Bank of India was an unsuccessful bank and was dissolved in 1791.
4. Bank of Calcutta was renamed as Bank of Bengal in 1921.

Which of the following statements are true in context of scheduled banks?
1. All banks which are included in the Second Schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 are Scheduled Banks.
2. These banks comprise Scheduled Commercial Banks and Scheduled Co-operative Banks.
3. Scheduled Commercial Banks in India are categorized into five different groups - SBI, Nationalised Banks, Regional Rural Banks, Foreign Banks and Other Indian Scheduled Commercial Banks in the private sector.
4. Scheduled Co-operative Banks consist of Scheduled State Co-operative Banks and Scheduled Urban Co-operative Banks.

Defining green banking is relatively easy. It means promoting environment -friendly practices and reducing your carbon footprint from your banking activities. This comes in many forms : using online banking instead of branch banking; paying bills online, opening up CDs (certificates of deposit) and money market accounts at online banks instead of large multi-branch banks. A green bank takes the biggest steps to support local green initiatives. Any combination of the above personal banking practices can help the environment. In this respect, online banks and smaller community banks have better track records than larger banks .However, these larger banks may be induced to go green . According to the passage, larger, multi -branch banks .

How does shadow banking differ from commercial banking?
1. While commercial banks are tightly regulated, shadow banking is not well regulated.
2. Shadow banking cannot create money.
3. While liabilities of commercial banks are insured, shadow banking liabilities are not insured.
4. While commercial banks access to central bank liquidity in the times of distress, shadow banking does not have such resource.
Select the correct answer:

Which of the following statements are true in context of Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR)?
1. They are regulated under Banking Regulation Act 1949.
2. It is mandatory for all scheduled commercial banks, local area banks, Primary (Urban) co-operative banks (UCBs), state co-operative banks and central co-operative banks in India to maintain the SLR.
3. Banks get a return on SLR.

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct, regarding the duties and rights of the Attorney-General for India in performance of his duties?
1. The Attorney-General for India shall give advice to the Government of India upon legal matters.
2. The Attorney-General for India shall have a right to audience in all Courts in India.
3. The Attorney-General for India shall have the right to speak in the proceedings of either House.
4. The Attorney-General for India shall not be liable to any proceedings in any court in respect of anything said by him in Parliament or any committee thereof.

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
______________________ the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the government had purchased assets of struggling banks with a view _______________ ensuring that they did not collapse taking ____________________ them the rest of the financial system. These assets __________________ later at a profit by the government! The U.S. government had acted smartly, while in the Indian case the banks now find themselves ______________________ with loans made by them to an individual with negative net worth. (TARP), the government had purchased assets of struggling banks with a view _______________

I. Bengal Nawab was captured and put to death by Mir Jafar in the Battle of Plassey, 1757.
II. After Mir Qasim, Nizam-ud-daula was made the Nawab of Bengal.
III. The same person acted as the deputy Dewan on behalf of the East Indian Company and as Deputy Subedar on behalf of the Bengal Nawab.
IV. In 1767, British Government ordered the East India Company to pay £400,000 per year.

Which of these statement(s) is/are correct related to the Bengal Politics during the 18th century?

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.
Fever in the season of dengue is sending Calcuttans scurrying to hospitals for admission, triggering a shortage of beds that has forced some private health care institutes to even postpone planned surgeries. Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals on the Bypass had 504 patients in its care as on Thursday of whom 70 had been admitted with fever. Belle Vue Clinic had 180 patients, 32 of them with dengue. Calcutta Medical Research Institute had 350 patients 60 of them with fever. The number of people admitted for treatment of fever caused by dengue or any undiagnosed illness has been rising every day across hospitals for more than a fortnight. "There has been heavy pressure on all private hospitals for admission of dengue and cases of unknown fever since the beginning of August. Now it is a surge," said Pradip Tondon, President of the Association of Hospitals of Eastern India. In July, four to five patients were getting admitted with fever on an average in every hospital. The number has since ballooned with the Calcutta Municipal Corporation apparently in denial about the extent of the dengue outbreak and the Government focused on playing down the threat. Such has been the rush of patients with fever that some hospitals are calling up people to postpone admissions planned in advance, mostly for surgeries. "We have told many people to come only when we call them to confirm availability of beds," said an official at Belle Vue.
The Government's "playing down the threat" means

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.
Fever in the season of dengue is sending Calcuttans scurrying to hospitals for admission, triggering a shortage of beds that has forced some private health care institutes to even postpone planned surgeries. Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals on the Bypass had 504 patients in its care as on Thursday of whom 70 had been admitted with fever. Belle Vue Clinic had 180 patients, 32 of them with dengue. Calcutta Medical Research Institute had 350 patients 60 of them with fever. The number of people admitted for treatment of fever caused by dengue or any undiagnosed illness has been rising every day across hospitals for more than a fortnight. "There has been heavy pressure on all private hospitals for admission of dengue and cases of unknown fever since the beginning of August. Now it is a surge," said Pradip Tondon, President of the Association of Hospitals of Eastern India. In July, four to five patients were getting admitted with fever on an average in every hospital. The number has since ballooned with the Calcutta Municipal Corporation apparently in denial about the extent of the dengue outbreak and the Government focused on playing down the threat. Such has been the rush of patients with fever that some hospitals are calling up people to postpone admissions planned in advance, mostly for surgeries. "We have told many people to come only when we call them to confirm availability of beds," said an official at Belle Vue.
The word 'ballooned' implies