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How does shadow banking differ from commercial banking?
1. While commercial banks are tightly regulated, shadow banking is not well regulated.
2. Shadow banking cannot create money.
3. While liabilities of commercial banks are insured, shadow banking liabilities are not insured.
4. While commercial banks access to central bank liquidity in the times of distress, shadow banking does not have such resource.
Select the correct answer:
Consider the following statements regarding the satellite imaging:
1. The satellite orbit is fixed in the inertial space
2. During successive across-track imaging, the earth rotates beneath the sensor
3. The satellite images a skewed area
Which one of the following statements is/are correct?
A satellite revolves around the earth in a circular orbit with a velocity “v”. What is the total energy of the satellite? Let “m” be the mass of the satellite.
What is the periapsis radius of a satellite travelling in a hyperbolic trajectory? The satellite’s speed is two times the hyperbolic excess speed. The eccentricity of the trajectory is 1.2. The radius of satellite from center of earth is 36,613 km.
Which of the following statements are true in context of scheduled banks?
1. All banks which are included in the Second Schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 are Scheduled Banks.
2. These banks comprise Scheduled Commercial Banks and Scheduled Co-operative Banks.
3. Scheduled Commercial Banks in India are categorized into five different groups - SBI, Nationalised Banks, Regional Rural Banks, Foreign Banks and Other Indian Scheduled Commercial Banks in the private sector.
4. Scheduled Co-operative Banks consist of Scheduled State Co-operative Banks and Scheduled Urban Co-operative Banks.
Statement : Exporters in the capital are alleging that commercial banks are violating a Reserve Bank of India directive to operate a post shipment export credit denominated in foreign currency at international rates from January this year.

Courses of Action :
I. The officers concerned in the commercial banks are to be suspended.
II. The RBI should be asked to stop giving such directives to commercial banks.
Name the first country to launch world's first 6G satellite named 'UESTC' satellite (Star Era - 12) with an aim to test communications from space?
Consider the following statements.
1. The time period of satellite does not depend on the radius of the orbit.
2. The orbital velocity is inversely proportional to the square root of the radius of the orbit.
3. The orbital velocity of a satellite increases with the radius of the orbit.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?
Consider the following statements regarding satellite DNA and choose the correct answer:
1. Satellite or Repetitive DNA consists of short identical genes which are repeated in tandem several hundred or thousand times
2. Such DNA is found in the region of the chromosome adjacent to the centromere
3. It is easy to separate repetitive DNA by ultracentrifugation
In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives. Starting late-2014, scientists of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) working _______ satellite data tracking the rift found that the defect in the Larsen C was growing _________. By 2016 the crack became 70 miles long and 300 feet ________. By January 2017 it measured 109 miles in length and 1,500metres in breadth. On July 12, it broke. The broken shelf, now __________ official iceberg, was massive, indeed the ____________-ever such iceberg, weighing 1.1trillion tons and measuring 2,200 square miles. Administration (NASA) working _______ satellite data tracking