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Which act gives the security forces the right to arrest or shoot people under suspicion of being involved in anti-national activities?

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  1. Territorial Army Act

  2. Probation of Offenders Act

  3. Arms Act

  4. AFSPA

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Correct Option: D

Which Supreme Court judge was appointed by the government to look into the possibilities of revoking the ASFPA in Manipur?

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  1. J.M. Panchal

  2. Sabyasachi Mukharji

  3. BP Jeevan Reddy

  4. T.S. Thakur

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Correct Option: C

In which year was arrack officially banned?

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  1. September 1993

  2. August 1993

  3. November 1993

  4. October 1993

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Correct Option: D

In which year did Manipur sign the merger agreement with India?

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  1. 1945

  2. 1949

  3. 1947

  4. 1950

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Correct Option: B

What is arrack?

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  1. Cigarette

  2. Low cost liquor

  3. Drug

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: B

In which year was the nuclear bomb dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

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  1. 1947

  2. 1950

  3. 1948

  4. 1945

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped its first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The bomb was known as Little Boy. Three days after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9 a 21-kiloton plutonium device known as Fat Man.

The Vietnam war started in the year _______ and ended in the year _______.

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  1. 1955-1973

  2. 1948-1975

  3. 1948-1973

  4. 1955-1975

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The United States battled North Vietnam and its adherents in the longest conflict in American history, known as the Vietnam War. The war ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later in 1975. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict.

In which year was the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) signed?

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  1. 1980

  2. 1991

  3. 1989

  4. 1995

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

After the failure of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), a treaty was signed in 1991 which was called the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). START negotiated the largest and most complex arms control treaty in history, and its final implementation in late 2001resulted in the removal of about 80 percent of all strategic nuclear weapons then in existence.

Anti-Arrack movement was started in ______ district of Andhra Pradesh.

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  1. East Godavari

  2. Nellore

  3. Srikakulam

  4. Vijayanagaram

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Correct Option: B

_________ was the president of USA who signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

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  1. George H.W. Bush

  2. Jimmy Carter

  3. Ronald Reagen

  4. Bill Clinton

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, known as START, was signed on July 31, 1991 by U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. START negotiated the largest and most complex arms control treaty in history, and its final implementation in late 2001 resulted in the removal of about 80 percent of all strategic nuclear weapons then in existence.