UNESCO’s Tentative List of World Heritage Sites

Seven new Natural Heritage Sites from across the country have been included in UNESCO’s Tentative List of World Heritage Sites, increasing India’s count on the Tentative List from 62 to 69 properties.

The Ministry of Culture informed that with this inclusion, India now has 49 cultural, 17 natural, and 3 mixed heritage properties.

The newly added sites include :-

▪️Deccan Traps at Panchgani and Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra
▪️Karnataka’s Geological Heritage of St. Mary’s Island Cluster
▪️Meghalayan Age Caves
▪️Naga Hill Ophiolite
▪️Andhra Pradesh’s Erra Matti Dibbalu
▪️Tirumala hills
▪️Kerala’s Varkala Cliffs

In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.

All the (1)/ furnitures also (2)/ burned down by the fire. (3)/ No error (4)

A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 4

The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.

The burning of / fossil fuels is / causing pollution / in recent time.

1. causing pollution

2. in recent time

3. fossil fuels is

4. The burning of

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Blowing smoke

1. To hide something

2. To lie to perplex others

3. To tease someone relentlessly

4. To burn something important

Select the most appropriate idiomatic expression to fill in the blank.

Anita keeps on repeating that she is innocent, but there is ____.

1. no smoke without fire

2. no pulling up of the socks

3. no rubbing of the shoulders

4. no love lost between

Select the most appropriate word for the given group of words.

A feeling of excitement or happiness.

1. Exhilaration

2. Desolation

3. Passion

4. Simulation

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

Merry, convivial, hearty and good humoured.

1. Jowl

2. Joyous

3. Jovial

4. Jubilee