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Consider the following statements:
1) Aadhaar metadata cannot be stored for more than three months.
2) State cannot enter into any contract with private corporation for sharing of Addhaar data.
3) Aadhaar is mandatory for obtaining insurance products.
4) Aadhaar is mandatory for getting benefits funded out of the Consolidated Fund of India.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following statements is not correct?

Direction: Read the following seven passages and answer the items that follow each passage. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only.
Passage - 1
Political theorists no doubt have to take history of injustice, for example, untouchability, seriously. The concept of historical wrongs that continue into the present in some form or the other and tend to resist repair. Two reasons might account for resistance to repair. One, not only are the roots of injustice buried deep in history, injustice itself constitutes economic structures of exploitation, ideologies of discrimination an modes of representation. Two, the category of historical injustice generally extends across a number of wrongs such as economic deprivation, social discrimination and lack of recognition. This category is complex, not only because of the overlap between a number of wrongs, but because one or the other wrong, generally discrimination, tends to acquire partial autonomy from others. This is borne out by the history of repair in India.
What is the main idea that we can infer from the passage?

With reference to the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), consider the following statements: 1) IRNSS has three satellites in geostationary and four satellites in geosynchronous orbits. 2) IRNSS covers entire India and about 5500 sq. km beyond its borders. 3) India will have its own satellite navigation system with full global coverage by the middle of 2021. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

With reference to the Parliament of India, consider the following statements: 1. A private member's bill is a bill presented by a Member of Parliament who is not elected but only nominated by the President of India. 2. Recently, a private member's bill has been passed in the Parliament of India for the first time in its history. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Direction: Read the passage and answer the items that follow the passage. Your answers to these items should be based on the passage only.
What climate change will undeniably do is cause or amplify events that hasten the reduction of resources. Competition over these diminishing resources would ensue in the form of political or even violent conflict. Resource-based conflicts have rarely been overt and are thus difficult to isolate. Instead, they take on veneers that appear more politically palatable. Conflicts over resources like water are often cloaked in the guise of identity or ideology.
What does the above passage imply?