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The eastern and western limits of the Himalayas are defined by the Yarlung Tsangpo and which river?Read the answer and worked solution →The Himalayas keep northern India warm in winter by blocking which winds?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Himalayan syntaxis lies on the northwestern corner of the Indian continent?Read the answer and worked solution →Cape Comorin is the former name of which place?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is a gulf on India's coast?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Indian river system has the largest catchment?Read the answer and worked solution →Temperatures in India rose by about how many degrees Celsius between 1901 and 2018?Read the answer and worked solution →The south-west monsoon season in India lasts from which period?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Indian state receives most of its annual rain in the north-east monsoon season?Read the answer and worked solution →Which belt's northward shift towards India helps trigger the summer monsoon?Read the answer and worked solution →Which landform keeps frigid, dry Arctic winds out of the Indian subcontinent?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 1960s drive used Borlaug-based wheat to reach food self-sufficiency?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two consecutive years of severe drought pushed India to reform its farm policy in the 1960s?Read the answer and worked solution →The initial Green Revolution gains in wheat centred on which group of states?Read the answer and worked solution →Which genetically modified crop's hybrids came to cover most of India's cotton-growing areas?Read the answer and worked solution →Which scientist, a Green Revolution leader, got the Bharat Ratna in 2024?Read the answer and worked solution →Between 1970 and 2011, agriculture's share of India's GDP fell from 43 percent to about what?Read the answer and worked solution →Post-independence land reform abolished which system of intermediary landlords?Read the answer and worked solution →The traditional Indian season called varsha corresponds to which season?Read the answer and worked solution →Which state ranges from subtropical humid to alpine climates across 450 to 6500 m?Read the answer and worked solution →The foggy winter conditions of the Indo-Gangetic Plain are described as the hallmark of which season?Read the answer and worked solution →Which village in Meghalaya's Khasi Hills records the highest annual average rainfall in Asia?Read the answer and worked solution →The autumn weather pattern from October to December is alternatively known as which monsoon cycle?Read the answer and worked solution →Widespread replication of the cooperative Amul pattern made India the world's leading producer of what?Read the answer and worked solution →The Indian landmass split away from which ancient supercontinent 125 million years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →RRB NTPC · Indian Agriculture PracticesRead the answer and worked solution →RRB NTPC · Physiographic FeaturesRead the answer and worked solution →RRB NTPC · Monsoons and BarriersRead the answer and worked solution →RRB NTPC · Landforms and River BasinsRead the answer and worked solution →

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The eastern and western limits of the Himalayas are defined by the Yarlung Tsangpo and which river?

  1. Ganges
  2. Indus
  3. Sutlej
  4. Kosi
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Correct answer: B. Indus

The Indus and the Yarlung Tsangpo mark the range's western and eastern limits.

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The Himalayas keep northern India warm in winter by blocking which winds?

  1. Cold Asian winds
  2. Southwest monsoon
  3. Western disturbances
  4. Warm sea breezes
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Correct answer: A. Cold Asian winds

The range blocks frigid katabatic winds flowing down from Central Asia.

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Which Himalayan syntaxis lies on the northwestern corner of the Indian continent?

  1. Namche Barwa
  2. Nanga Parbat
  3. Gurla Mandhata
  4. Dhaulagiri
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Correct answer: B. Nanga Parbat

Nanga Parbat marks the northwestern syntaxis, with Namche Barwa in the northeast.

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