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Sort the three organsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Working of institutions bingoRead the answer and worked solution →About how many people were secretly held by US forces at the Guantanamo Bay prison?Read the answer and worked solution →Guantanamo Bay is an area near which country, controlled by the American Navy?Read the answer and worked solution →Which organisation reported torture of Guantanamo prisoners?Read the answer and worked solution →In Saudi Arabia, the testimony of one man is considered equal to that of:Read the answer and worked solution →Kosovo, before the split, was a province of:Read the answer and worked solution →The Serb nationalist leader whose government carried out the Kosovo massacre was:Read the answer and worked solution →Milosevic was tried for crimes against humanity by the:Read the answer and worked solution →Rights are reasonable claims of persons recognised by society and:Read the answer and worked solution →The Indian Constitution provides for how many Fundamental Rights?Read the answer and worked solution →Laws applying in the same manner to all regardless of status is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The Constitution says reservations for backward classes are:Read the answer and worked solution →In 1999, which journalist wrote a series in The Hindu on untouchability still practised against Dalits?Read the answer and worked solution →Police detain a man at night. Within how many hours must they bring him before the nearest magistrate?Read the answer and worked solution →Forced labour rendered free or at nominal pay is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The Constitution prohibits employing in factories or mines a child below the age of:Read the answer and worked solution →A secular state is one that:Read the answer and worked solution →Indian secularism practises an attitude of what towards all religions?Read the answer and worked solution →Every person has a right to profess, practice and:Read the answer and worked solution →Which right did Dr Ambedkar call the heart and soul of the Constitution?Read the answer and worked solution →The National Human Rights Commission was set up by law in:Read the answer and worked solution →The NHRC is appointed by the:Read the answer and worked solution →As on 10 December 2018, State Human Rights Commissions existed in how many states?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the freedomsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the life without rightsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the rights numbersRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the rights wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Allowed or bannedRead the answer and worked solution →

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Sort the three organs

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Items
  1. Group
    Legislature
    Item
    Lok Sabha
  2. Group
    Legislature
    Item
    Rajya Sabha
  3. Group
    Legislature
    Item
    Money bills
  4. Group
    Executive
    Item
    PM
  5. Group
    Executive
    Item
    Cabinet
  6. Group
    Executive
    Item
    Ministers
  7. Group
    Judiciary
    Item
    Supreme Court
  8. Group
    Judiciary
    Item
    High Court
  9. Group
    Judiciary
    Item
    Impeachment
Groups
  1. Item
    Legislature
  2. Item
    Executive
  3. Item
    Judiciary
Instructions
Drop each clue onto legislature, executive or judiciary.
_Source: syllabus Democratic Politics I, Chapter 4, Working of Institutions._

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Type the number

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Questions
  1. Answer
    27
    Question
    Per cent jobs reserved by the 1990 order
  2. Answer
    1979
    Question
    Year the Mandal Commission was appointed
  3. Answer
    11
    Question
    Judges who heard the Indira Sawhney case
  4. Answer
    14
    Question
    Days Rajya Sabha can delay a money bill
  5. Answer
    25
    Question
    Ministers in the Cabinet, about
  6. Answer
    6
    Question
    Months a non-MP minister has to get elected
Instructions
Type the number only.
_Source: syllabus Democratic Politics I, Chapter 4, Working of Institutions._

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Working of institutions bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Order that announced 27 per cent quota.
    Item
    Office Memo
  2. Clue
    Backward Classes Commission of 1979.
    Item
    Mandal
  3. Clue
    Both Houses sit together.
    Item
    Joint session
  4. Clue
    Vote that makes all ministers quit.
    Item
    No confidence
  5. Clue
    Member of the permanent executive.
    Item
    Civil servant
  6. Clue
    Inner ring of about 25 ministers.
    Item
    Cabinet
  7. Clue
    The President's role.
    Item
    Nominal head
  8. Clue
    Only way to remove a judge.
    Item
    Impeachment
  9. Clue
    Court plea for public interest.
    Item
    PIL
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Democratic Politics I, Chapter 4, Working of Institutions._

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