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The Voice of India was an English journal started in Bombay in 1883 by Dadabhai Naoroji, who later merged it with the Indian Spectator; Gokhale was not its editor.

Charvaka, also called Lokayata, is the materialist school of Indian philosophy linked with the sage Brihaspati. It accepts perception as the only valid source of knowledge, denies the soul, rebirth and the authority of the Vedas, and holds that the body is made of four elements.

The phrase 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam', meaning 'the whole world is one family', comes from a verse of the Maha Upanishad (chapter 6, verse 72).

The Gwalior Prashasti is a Sanskrit eulogy of the Gurjara-Pratihara king Mihira Bhoja (Bhoja I, about 836–885 CE), and its composer was the poet Baladitya.

Adding hydrogen across the double or triple bond of an alkene or alkyne turns it into a saturated alkane; this reaction is called hydrogenation and it needs a catalyst.

Thyroxine is an animal hormone, made by the thyroid gland in the neck, and it controls the rate of metabolism in the human body.

SAGY is run by the Ministry of Rural Development, not the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, so statement 1 is wrong.

In the Brønsted–Lowry theory an acid is any substance that gives away a proton, that is a hydrogen ion (H⁺), to another substance.

Tiger Triumph was the first tri-service exercise between India and the United States, held in November 2019 off the coast of Andhra Pradesh, with a harbour phase at Visakhapatnam and a field phase near Kakinada.

The Luhri Hydro-Electric Project is a run-of-the-river scheme on the Satluj (Sutlej) in Himachal Pradesh, on the stretch between the Shimla and Kullu districts.

The Kutch region of Gujarat is one of the driest parts of India, with low and highly uncertain rainfall, often below 40 cm a year, and failures of the monsoon in many years.

After Gandhi called off the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1922, the Congress split over the next step. The pro-changers, led by C.R.

The Great Indian Desert, or Marusthali, lies to the north-west of the Aravalli hills in western Rajasthan. It is believed that during the Mesozoic era, the age of the dinosaurs some 250 to 66 million years ago, this region lay under the sea.

The Pallavas, who ruled the Tondaimandalam region around Kanchipuram, issued their earliest copper-plate grants, such as the Mayidavolu and Hirahadagalli plates of Shivaskandavarman, in Prakrit.

Two trends of the periodic table decide the order. Going down a group, atomic radius increases because each new period adds an electron shell; so sodium, in period 3, is larger than lithium, in period 2, of the same group 1.

The surface circulation of the oceans is organised into huge, roughly circular loops called gyres, one in each major ocean basin.

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a network of membrane tubes and sacs inside the cell. Part of it is studded on the outside with tiny granules called ribosomes, which give it a dotted, rough look under an electron microscope; this part is the rough ER.

Operation Spider's Web was carried out by Ukraine, not India, in June 2025: small drones hidden in trucks were driven deep inside Russia and launched against several air bases, damaging long-range bombers.

The post of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) was created in December 2019 on the advice of the Kargil Review Committee and later expert groups, and the first CDS took office on 1 January 2020.

When an acid such as hydrochloric acid dissolves in water, it splits into ions: hydrogen ions (H⁺, which join water molecules as hydronium ions, H₃O⁺) and negative ions such as chloride (Cl⁻).