Rule Number 373 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business says: “The Speaker if is of the opinion that the conduct of any Member is grossly disorderly, may direct such Member to withdraw immediately from the House for the remainder of the day’s sitting.” Therefore, statement 1 is correct.

Rule 374A: It is invoked by Speaker for automatic suspension of a member of the House – for five consecutive sittings or the remainder of the session, whichever is less in the event of grave disorder occasioned by a Member. Therefore, statement 2 is not correct.

The Sarkaria Commission was set up in 1983 under the chairmanship of RS Sarkaria.

It gave its final report in 1987.

It made 247 recommendations related to Central state relations that were against over-centralisation or under centralisation. 

Sarkaria Commission Recommendations:

• Centre should consult state while making law on Concurrent list.
• CM should be consulted in the Governor’s appointment.
• Net proceeds of the Corporation tax must be shared with states.
• Governor should have fixed tenure. He cannot dismiss the Council of ministers when it commands a majority.
• Commission of enquiry against state ministers can only be set up after Parliament’s demand.
• Surcharge on Income tax should not be levied by Centre except for a specific purpose.
• Commissioner for linguistic minorities should be activated.
• A permanent Inter-State Council under A-263 should be instituted.
• When President withhold his assent on state bills then the reason should be communicated.
• The centre should have powers to deploy armed forces even without the consent of the states however state should be consulted.

The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea.

It lies to the east of the Caucasus Mountains and to the west of the vast steppe of Central Asia.

• It is bounded by Kazakhstan to the northeast, Russia to the northwest, Azerbaijan to the west, Iran to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southeast.

Election Commission of India issued revised guidelines for publishing details of criminal antecedents by candidates and the political parties regarding candidates nominated by them.

The first publicity will be within the first four days of the last date of withdrawal of candidature. Second publicity will be within the 5th to 8th day of the last date of withdrawal. The third publicity will be from 9th day till the last day of the campaign which is two days prior to the date of poll. Therefore, statement 1 is correct.

The Commission clarified that uncontested winner candidates, as well as the political parties who nominate them, shall also publicise the criminal antecedents if any, as prescribed for other contesting candidates and political parties. Therefore, statement 2 is correct.

For the development of Surface Coal Gasification in India, a Steering Committee has been constituted under the chairmanship of Dr. V.K. Saraswat, Member, NITI Aayog comprising of members from the Ministry of Coal.

Union Coal Ministry organized a webinar on Coal Gasification and Liquefaction.

• The force that blood exerts against the wall of a vessel is called Blood pressure.
• The pressure of blood is much greater in arteries than in veins.
• The pressure of blood inside the artery during contraction (ventricular systole) is called systolic pressure.
• The pressure of blood inside the artery during relaxation (ventricular diastole) is called diastolic pressure.
• It is caused by the constriction of arterioles, resulting in increased resistance to blood flow.
• A sphygmomanometer is used to measure blood pressure.

• Gobi Desert is a great desert and semidesert region of Central Asia.
• The Gobi (from the Mongolian Gobi, meaning “waterless place”) stretches across huge portions of both Mongolia and China.
• Much of the Gobi desert is not sandy desert but bare rock.
• The Gobi desert is bounded by the Altai Mountains and the grasslands and steppes of Mongolia on the north, and Tibetan Plateau to the southwest, and by the North China Plain to the southeast.

When light shines onto a bubble it seems to change colour.

Not like those seen during a rainbow, that arises from differential refraction, the colors are seen during a soap bubble that arises from interference of light reflecting off the front and back surfaces of the thin film.

DNA was first recognized and identified by the Swiss biologist, Johannes Friedrich Miescher in 1869 during his research on white blood cells.

DNA: DNA is a double helical long polymer of deoxyribonucleotides. The length of DNA is usually defined as a number of nucleotides (or a pair of nucleotides referred to as base pairs) present in it. This is also the characteristic of an organism.

A barometer is an instrument which is used to measure atmospheric pressure above or below the sea level.

Mercury is an element used in a barometer to measure atmospheric pressure.

When the barometer is taken down into a coal mine the mercury level in the barometer rises.

When we move down the earth's crust the temperature will increase, there is very less availability of wind so warmth is not able to distribute the temperature and moderate it.