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Consider the following statements about Dornier 228, which India has recently handed over to Seychelles and select the correct answers:
1. The Dornier 228 is manufactured by the DRDO.
2. It is a highly reliable, multi-purpose, fuel efficient rugged, lightweight twin turbo prop aircraft with a retractable tricycle landing gear.
3. It is a frontline surveillance platform for applications like maritime reconnaissance, intelligence, warfare, search and rescue, pollution control and transport.  

A computer cookie is a small text file placed on computers by a website. Which among the following can be the use of cookie?
1. Cookies can carry viruses.
2. Cookies can be used to maintain data.
3. Cookies can be used to track internet user ’s web browsing.
4. Cookies can install malware on the host computer. ​

Consider the following statements about Ethernet and select the correct answers:
1. Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for wide area networks (WANs)
2. Data rates over Ethernet can be upto 100 gigabits per second.
3. Ethernet has a good degree of compatibility. 

ISRO space vision 2025 includes:
1. Satellite based communication and navigation systems mainly for rural connectivity.
2. Space science mission for better understanding of solar system and universe.
3. Reusable Launch Vehicles Technology demonstrator mission leading to Two-stageTo-orbit-(TSTO).
4. Planetary explorations to Mars and Venus. Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:
1. A Ramjet is a form of an air-breathing using the engine ’s forward motion to compress incoming air, without a rotary compressor.
2. Ramjets cannot move an aircraft from standstill.
3. A subsonic combustion Ramjet or Scramjet is a variant of a Ramjet air-breathing.

Consider the following statements:
1. European Space Agency (ESA) has joined the NASA ’s Euclid Mission to be launched in 2020.
2. Euclid Mission is a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.

Q. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Recently, India successfully test-fired ‘Nirbhay ’. Consider the following statements in the above context:
1. Nirbhay is the country ’s second supersonic cruise missile, the first being Brahmos.
2. It is a 3-stage surface-to-air missile and is inspired by the technology of ‘Lakshyaaircraft ’.
3. It is also called ‘treetop missile ’as its shape is similar to the stem of a tree.
4. The missile has a good loitering capability.
5. The missile is designed by the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) of DRDO.

Q. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which of the following is/ are correct about the dwarf planets?
1. A dwarf planet is a planetary-mass object that is neither a planet nor a satellite.
2. A dwarf planet is a celestial body in direct orbit of the Sun that is massive enough for its shape to be controlled by gravitation, but that unlike a planet has not cleared its orbital region of other objects.
3. Dwarf planets are any astronomical objects orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and were not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet.
4. Dwarf planets are formed out of cosmic dust grains that collide and stick to form larger and larger bodies.

Which of the following is equal to 1 Mars year?
1. 23 Earth months
2. 686.65 days
3. 1.88 Earth years

An Anglo-German team of astronomers has discovered a new planet orbiting a nearby Sun at just the right distance for an Earth-like climate that could support life. The name of new planet is