Correct Answer :   Goa

Correct Answer :   Fourteen days

Rajya Sabha can delay the Finance Bill sent for its consideration by the Lok Sabha for maximum period fourteen days.

Correct Answer :   Prime Minister

The rank of the different ministers is determined by the Prime Minister, according to whose advice the President appoints the Ministers [ Art 75(1) ] and also allocates business among them [ Art 77 ].

Correct Answer :   To provide identity to Indian residents

Correct Answer :   Gram Panchayat

Under the chairmanship of Ashoka Mehta, the Janata Government appointed a committee on Panchayat Raj system in December 1977. They have made 132 recommendations to revive and strengthen the declining Panchayati Raj system in the country. As a result of this report, the Indian states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and West Bengal passed new legislation.

Correct Answer :   Right to permanent housing

Correct Answer :   Census

Redistricting is the process of drawing electoral district boundaries in the United States.

The state legislature has primary responsibility for creating a redistricting plan, in many cases subject to approval by the state governor.

Redistricting has to follow certain criteria to be accepted:

* compactness
* contiguity
* equal population
* preservation of existing political communities
* partisan fairness
* racial fairness

The practice of gerrymandering involves the manipulation of district drawing in aims to leave out, or include, specific populations in a legislator's district to ensure his/her reelection.

Gerrymandering is the practice of drawing district lines to achieve political gain for legislators.

Correct Answer :   Nirmala Sitharaman

Nirmala Sitharaman, who took oath as the new Cabinet member in september 2017 under Narendra Modi, has been given the Defence Ministry portfolio. Incidentally, she has become the first dedicated woman defence minister of India and only the second woman to hold the crucial ministry after Indira Gandhi.

Correct Answer :   B.R Ambedkar

The Supreme Court of India has been entrusted in upholding this article, Article 32 or heart as the soul of the Constitution of India as rightly addressed by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar who has been a pioneer in the speculations and creation of our Constitution.

Correct Answer :   M. Karunanidhi

Muthuvel Karunanidhi was an Indian writer and politician who served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for five terms and twenty years between 1969 and 2011. He passed away on 7th August in Kauvery Hospital due to prolonged illness.