The Research Design and Standards Organization is the R&D wing of which one of the following organizations ?
- A.Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- B.Indian Space Research Organization
- C.Indian Railways
- D.Defence Research and Development Organization
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, Indian Railways. The Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) is the sole research and development wing of the Ministry of Railways.
RDSO is headquartered at Lucknow. It was formed in 1957 by merging the Central Standards Office and the Railway Testing and Research Centre. It designs and sets standards for locomotives, coaches, wagons, track, signalling and bridges, approves vendors and tests new rolling stock before it enters service. Trial runs of new high-speed trains, such as the Vande Bharat sets, are carried out under its supervision.
A is wrong because BARC at Trombay, Mumbai, is the nuclear research centre of the Department of Atomic Energy. B is wrong because ISRO is the space agency under the Department of Space, headquartered at Bengaluru. D is wrong because DRDO works on weapons and defence systems for the Ministry of Defence and has its own network of laboratories.
Exam tip: RDSO, Lucknow, is to Indian Railways what DRDO is to the armed forces.
Practice Questions
View allWhich one of the following is applicable to collision-coalescence process of precipitation?
- A.Clouds which do not extend beyond the freezing level
- B.Clouds which extend beyond the freezing level
- C.All types of clouds
- D.Cirrocumulus cloud
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Collision-coalescence is the way rain forms in warm clouds, whose tops stay below the level where water freezes. In such clouds all droplets are liquid.
Read the full explanation →Identify the type of drainage pattern on the basis of the given characteristics :
1. It represents the most common pattern of streams and their tributaries
2. It occurs in areas of uniform rock type and regular slope
3. A map, or aerial photograph, shows a pattern like the veins on a leaf— smaller streams join the main stream at an acute angle
Select the correct answer.
- A.Dendritic
- B.Radial
- C.Trellis
- D.Centripetal
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A pattern that looks like the branches of a tree or the veins of a leaf, formed on uniform rock with a regular slope, is dendritic.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following Indian States has recorded negative growth population as per Census 2011?
- A.Manipur
- B.Mizoram
- C.Tripura
- D.Nagaland
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Nagaland was the only Indian state whose population fell between 2001 and 2011; its decadal growth rate in Census 2011 was about −0.6 per cent.
Read the full explanation →Piecing together the puzzle of geologic time to create and analyze historical maps of the Earth is known as
- A.paleoclimatology
- B.paleogeomorphology
- C.paleolithology
- D.paleogeography
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Paleogeography is the study of the Earth's geography in the geological past, and its main product is a set of maps showing where continents, oceans, mountains and shorelines lay at different times.
Read the full explanation →Mahendragiri, the highest peak of the Eastern Ghats, is located in which one of the following states?
- A.Andhra Pradesh
- B.Odisha
- C.Telangana
- D.Tamil Nadu
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Mahendragiri, about 1,501 metres high, stands in the Gajapati district of southern Odisha, close to the Andhra Pradesh border.
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