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Creative Writing – 127 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension exercise of moderate difficulty Question Passage taken from NYT In July, 2001, Zarmina Faqeer, a sixteen-year-old Afghan refugee living in the Pakistani border town of Peshawar, learned that the BBC radio soap opera “New House, New Life” was …
Creative Writing – 126 Comprehension Exercise Study the passages carefully and answer the questions Question Passages taken from The Washington Post Flowing from the capital, the highway begins without promise, a long, curving scar stretching across the navel of Afghanistan. Potholes. Ruts. A bridge destroyed …
Creative Writing – 125 Comprehension Exercise Read the BBC article and answer the questions that follow What’s behind suicides by thousands of Indian housewives? Why do thousands of Indian housewives kill themselves every year? According to the recently released data by the government’s National Crime …
Comprehension Exercise – 39. Read the following passages from the BBC and answer the questions underneath. Passage 1 India’s capital Delhi recorded its worst November air in at least six years, according to official data. The city recorded 11 days of “severe” pollution, up from …
Editorial Analysis – 20. Demystifying developed world’s climate financing OECD must come clean on the way it finances climate projects in developing nations and make good the shortfall As the world community gets ready to host the 26th Conference of the Parties of the UN …
Editorial Analysis – 19. This is an in-depth analysis of the October 16, 2021 Hindu Editorial titled ‘Fast forward: On Gati Shakti National Master Plan’. ‘Gati Shakti’ could move goods faster propelling the economy However, the real hurdle is to onboard all states to the …
Editorial Analysis – 18. Analysis of The Hindu October 2021 Editorial on RBI’s microfinance policy. RBI microfinance policy change proposals will hurt the poor The proposed guidelines will favour profit-driven private credit institutions at the cost of public sector banks. In June 2021, the Reserve …
Editorial Analysis – 17. Tata Sons set to take over the ailing Air India There are rumors in the grapevine that the Cabinet has green-signaled the take over of Air India by Tata Sons. Although some government spokesperson refuted the news, it is all but …
Editorial Analysis – 16. Below is an in-depth analysis of the October 2, 2021 Hindu Editorial titled ‘No Clean Sweep’. PM Modi’s renewed attempt to rejuvenate India’s urban centers Gandhiji in the formative years of his public life had realized that Indians and the places …
Editorial Analysis 15. In-depth analysis of the October 1, 2021 Hindu Editorial titled ‘Failing on food’. Walking inexorably towards emaciation – How PM-POSHAN can combat it better Creeping and rampant malnourishment among children calls for augmenting their food intake by providing wholesome mid-day meals in …