Situating Independent India | Set 3
1. WTO officially commenced on 1 January ......... under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the GATT, which commenced in 1948.
2. WTO's current Director-General is Pascal Lamy, who leads a staff
of over 600 people in............., Switzerland.
3. In............., India voted against the partition of Palestine at the
United Nations General Assembly.
4. India was the first Non‐Arab State to recognize PLO as sole and
legitimate representative of the Palestinian people in.............
5. India was one of the first countries to recognize the State of
Palestine in..............
6. In 1996, India opened its Representative Office to the Palestine
Authority in Gaza, which later was shifted to ............. in 2003.
7. Sri Lankans protested the presence of the IPKF, and the newly- elected Sri Lankan president Ranasinghe Premadasa demanded
its withdrawal, which was completed by March .............
8. On May 21, ................, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated and the
LTTE was alleged to be the perpetrator.
9. Interethnic conflict has hit India at the highest levels, with Prime
Minister ............... assassinated in 1984 by Sikh body guards.
10. It was from................, in September 1990, that LK Advani
launched his Somnath to Ayodhya rath yatra leaving a nationwide trail of violence in its wake.
11. In 1990 itself, there was major violence in .............. because of
Advani's rath yatra.
12. The demolition of the Babri Masjid on..............., 1992.
13. Communalism and Globalisation is the work of ....................