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A. Indians obviously care for medicinal plants because they know so much about them and have done a lot of work on their applications. B. The living folk traditions in the rural communities as well as the scholarly traditions of the codified knowledge systems i.e.,Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Tibetan emphasize the fact that the use of medicinal plants is still a living tradition. C. No other medicinal culture in the world has so extensive, detailed and deep an understanding about the medicinal value of plants. D. The people of India had an incredible knowledge of phyto-medicine driven apparently by a tremendous passion for the study of medicinal plants.

A. Except recuding the number of vehicles on the road there seems to be no possible solution. B. Reacting to the alarming findings in the report published by the centre for science and Environment, the supreme court in an unprecedented move proposed sweeping changes and restrictions, ranging from suspension of vehicle licenses to keeping automobiles off the road in order to check pollution levels. C. Vehicular pollution has emerged a front-runner among other major pollutants in metropolises and major cities. D. Pollution caused by vehicles is snow-balling and causing a major threat to city dwellers.

A. The healthy and positive effects of yoga make people revere this ancient science. B. Yoga, an ancient discipline, has gained relevance in today’s world as a means of attaining a balance between body, mind and soul. C. Yoga has been made a part of the school education in Northern India and studies have revealed that by practising yoga the students become more self-confident and there has been a significant increase in their power of concentration, reasoning and analysis. D. In the modern world where depression, stress and psychosomatic problems have become the order of the day, practising yoga seems to be the most viable solution to problems in living.

A. Human resource is the key word today. B. The information age renders such a characterisation fallacious; a country’s wealth lies in its people, particularly in the development of their mental apacities. C. Human Resource Development, the department that includes education, has become one of the most important and controversial in the government. D. A rich country with poor people, was the traditional way of characterising India referring to its vast natural resources,flourishing paddy fields, forests, mineral wealth, a land where even the dust is golden in the ancient metaphor.

A. Environmental pollution has adversely affected lives of people – be it through the air they breathe or the water they drink. B. It is a matter of regret that some of our most profitable industries have seriously impacted on the environment causing permanent damage. C. One of the great products of forest in India are the 300 rivers and perennial streams that are not just born within but flow out to provide drinking water and irrigation for large tracts of land. D. As forests have been excessively exploited great negative changes have taken place in our water regimes both underground and overground, thereby depicting that an environmental catastrophe is about to tear the country apart and millions will suffer.