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UPSC PRELIMINARY MOCK TEST 256
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List I List II
- Tabo Monastery Himachal Pradesh
- Kardang Monastery Southern India
- Rumtek Monastery Himachal Pradesh
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It is located in the Tabo village of Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh. It was founded in 996 CE in the Tibetan year of the Fire Ape.
Kardang Monastery or Gompa is a famous Drukpa Lineage monastery, and is the most important monastery the Lahaul valley, India. The monastery is a huge white building bedecked with prayer flags.
Rumtek Monastery is currently the largest in Sikkim. It is home to the community of monks and where they perform the rituals and practices of the Karma Kagyu lineage. "
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Agni Missile | |
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Trishul Missile | |
Prithvi Missile |
Trishul, with its quickest reaction time, high frequency operation, high maneuverability, high lethal capability and multi-roles for three services, is state-of-the-art system providing considerable advantage to the Armed forces. This system has gone through development flight trials for army and sea skimmer trials for navy. The final evaluation is in progress before user trials.
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- Birds
- Bats
- Insects
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It can take place via various agents like Anemophily (wind-pollinated), Hydrophily (water-pollinated), Entomophily (insect-pollinated), Ornithophily (bird-pollinated), Chiropterophily (bat-pollinated) and Malacophily (slug- and snail-pollinated).
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Statement 3 is correct. When you cross the IDL from west to east, you subtract a day, and if you cross the line from east to west, you add a day.
Statement 2 is incorrect. The International Date Line is located from the prime meridian (0$^\circ$ longitude) about 180$^\circ$ east (or west) of Greenwich. It is not straight but zigzags to avoid political and country borders and to not cut some countries in half.
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- The West Asia peace plan was recently unveiled by U.S. President Trump.
- It plans to revive the stalled two-state talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
- It seeks to give the Israelis an expansive state with Jerusalem as its "undivided capital" and tight security control over a future Palestinian state.
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