IBPS PO Mains 2016 - English Language

IBPS PO Mains 2016 - English Language - Important Points

A. The reference was to China, a country that has been courting Pakistan for several years through a number of means including assistance in its nuclear programme.

B. After the Uri attacks, Pakistan’s special Kashmir envoy MushahidHussain Syed declared that the US was a waning power, suggesting that Pakistan was seeking out other allies.

C. The most important concern relates to the possible conflict in Pakistan between votaries of economic development and supporters of militancy.

D. This corridor—which includes road, rail and port infrastructure—is expected to allow China to avoid the vulnerable Indian Ocean route currently used to transport oil from the Gulf.

E. Of late, there has been much talk of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) that stretches from the autonomous region of Xinjiang to the Gwadar port.

A. India recently ratified the Paris Agreement, assuring it a seat at the 55/55 table

B. ratification by at least 55 countries and accounting for at least 55% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions was required for the agreement to come into force

C. where countries will negotiate the mechanisms and provisions under the agreement.

D. With the ratification, India has demonstrated leadership in climate negotiations but left some with concerns about signing an agreement without realizing its full implications.

E. There are certain targets India wants to achieve and to achieve that there is a need to allocate mitigating burden among states and also prioritize adaptation efforts.

A. Corporate Social Responsibility has entered India's legal corridors.

B. Given the need for proper legal help for a diverse section of society even the PM, in his address at the Bar Council's centenary celebrations earlier this year, urged lawyers to take on more pro bono cases.

C. Top law firms and lawyers are doing pro bono so that they can give back to society.

D. In India, traditionally, pro bono legal work was carried out by lawyers who had dedicated themselves to helping society.

E. There are a number of socially aware and generous souls who are increasingly lending their expertise for pro bono work.

A. A look at the historical data on forecasts made by the IMF in its World Economic Outlook (WEO) reports seems to suggest that optimism bias may be the bigger culprit.

B. The large negative forecast errors in the recession years skewed the historical averages.

C. Over the past few years, the growth forecasts made by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have displayed one consistent pattern

D. the forecasts are rosy at the start of the year, then revised downwards towards the end of the year, and the actual estimates of real growth turn out to be even lower.

E. Has predicting the fate of the global economy become more difficult in a volatile post-crisis world, or does the IMF suffer from an inherent optimism bias?

A. India has 13 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world, according to the World Health Organization.

B. The government should redouble its efforts to combat climate change, which will naturally slash not just greenhouse-gas emissions but particulates as well.

C. Every year, more than half a million people are estimated to die prematurely because of air pollution.

D. While air quality tends to worsen around this time of year as millions of Indians light firecrackers to celebrate the Diwali festival, the problem isn’t limited by season or geography.

E. This week, air pollution in New Delhi has been truly off the charts: Tiny particulates, which are especially deadly, topped 999 micrograms per cubic meter—40 times what is considered safe and beyond what the scale was designed to measure.