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Which office holder presides over CSIR by virtue of the post?Read the answer and worked solution →Which minister is the ex-officio Vice President of CSIR?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1967 CSIR developed which first Indian tractor with indigenous know-how?Read the answer and worked solution →Which popular Indian tractor did CSIR develop in 1987?Read the answer and worked solution →What is Saheli, invented by CSIR?Read the answer and worked solution →Flosolver, designed by CSIR, was India's first parallel processing what?Read the answer and worked solution →SARAS, designed with CSIR laboratories, is a how-many-seater plane?Read the answer and worked solution →CSIR set up the first-ever Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, accessible in how many international languages?Read the answer and worked solution →CSIR successfully challenged a US patent claim on which two Indian products?Read the answer and worked solution →The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize was established by CSIR in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →CSIR rejuvenated the century-old refinery at which Indian place using molecular distillation?Read the answer and worked solution →National Science Day in India is celebrated on which date every year?Read the answer and worked solution →National Science Day marks the discovery of which effect?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year did C. V. Raman receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year did the Government of India declare 28 February National Science Day?Read the answer and worked solution →The DRDO functions under which Indian ministry?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was the DRDO formed through a merger of earlier bodies?Read the answer and worked solution →Who became the first Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence in July 1948?Read the answer and worked solution →The Prithvi missile was developed under which programme in the 1980s?Read the answer and worked solution →DRDO's first major surface-to-air missile project of the 1960s was named what?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was a separate Department of Defence Research and Development formed?Read the answer and worked solution →Which philosopher is linked with the rationalist approach during the Scientific Revolution?Read the answer and worked solution →The term scientific method emerged in which century?Read the answer and worked solution →Which scientist proposed that DNA might be a triple helix?Read the answer and worked solution →Which X-ray photograph by Rosalind Franklin helped confirm that DNA is helical?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kind of process is the scientific method described as?Read the answer and worked solution →Whose 1752 kite-flying experiment did Georg Richmann try to replicate before being killed?Read the answer and worked solution →Peer review assesses what about a piece of research?Read the answer and worked solution →Which thinker used falsifiability to separate science from astrology?Read the answer and worked solution →If test results contradict a hypothesis's predictions, what happens to the hypothesis?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which office holder presides over CSIR by virtue of the post?

  1. President of India
  2. Prime Minister
  3. Science Minister
  4. Finance Minister
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Correct answer: B. Prime Minister

The Prime Minister is the ex-officio President of CSIR, while the Science and Technology Minister is Vice President.

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Which minister is the ex-officio Vice President of CSIR?

  1. Defence Minister
  2. Home Minister
  3. Science Minister
  4. Finance Minister
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Correct answer: C. Science Minister

The Minister of Science and Technology serves as CSIR's ex-officio Vice President.

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In 1967 CSIR developed which first Indian tractor with indigenous know-how?

  1. Sonalika
  2. Swaraj
  3. Eicher
  4. Kubota
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Correct answer: B. Swaraj

The Swaraj tractor of 1967 was based completely on indigenous know-how from CSIR.

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