Directions for questions 1 to 4: The sentences given in each of the following questions, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is indicated with a number. Choose the most logical order of sentences that constructs a coherent paragraph and indicate the correct sequence in the box provided below each question.According to latest data available, project costs have exceeded the original estimates by as much as 45%.The country is being told that various public-sector projects are delayed and will suffer consignment cost overruns.According to reports, something like 300 mega and major projects will now cost the exchequer anything upto `100,500 crore against an estimated `60,000 crore at the time of the original conception of the projects.Apart from overruns, delays can account for anything from one to nine months.

Directions for questions 1 to 4: The sentences given in each of the following questions, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is indicated with a number. Choose the most logical order of sentences that constructs a coherent paragraph and indicate the correct sequence in the box provided below each question.With 75 percent of the space rented to the multinationals, this exhibition had the participation of 13 companies from Europe.With 50 companies participating and looking at the $30 billion Indian market in the telecommunication sector, for the next eight years the latest technology was on display.Against the backdrop of a sweeping wave of liberalisation, this proved a bonanza for the multinationals and their Indian partners to exhibit their bag of telecommunication technology.India Comm'92  the second international exhibition and conference on tele-communication and computer equipment, systems and related services, was organised recently.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.1. It's business as usual for the military; total global military expenditure reached US$2443 billion in 2023, an increase of 6.8% in real terms from 2022, says the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) — the steepest year-on-year increase since 2009.2. We, like most of Asia south of the Himalaya, are now living on the heating planet which experts have long warned of and science has projected for decades.3. Meanwhile, as if nothing untoward was happening, wars in Ukraine and Gaza are — besides death, destruction and misery — producing staggering amounts of greenhouse gases.4. On a slow, sweltering summer afternoon at the edge of a forest in deep rural northern Thailand, the brain fever bird is doing my head in with its insistent, rising call.

Directions for questions 1 to 3: The sentence given in each of the following questions, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is indicated with a number. Choose the most logical order of sentences that constructs a coherent paragraph and mark the correct sequence in the box provided below each questionThe most important change was the phasing out of the system of the issue of ad hoc treasury bills by the Government to the Reserve Bank of India.Under such an arrangement, the RBI virtually lost control over regulating money supply and the fiscal dominance was completeThe institutional framework within which monetary policy operated underwent far – reaching change.This innocuous set-up had the effect of automatically monetizing the fiscal deficit of the centreUnder that system, whenever the cash balances of the Government fell below a particular level, it could issue these ad hoc treasury bills and replenish its cash balances.

Directions for questions 1 to 3: The sentences given in each of the following questions, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is indicated with a number. Choose the most logical order of sentences that constructs a coherent paragraph, and mark the correct sequence of numbers in the box provided below each question.On April 3, however, Australian Prime Minister John Howard and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao oversaw the signing in Canberra of a bilateral nuclear deal.The political message could not have been more vivid in exposing the limitations of the US influence over Australia.Political and not just economic diplomacy fashioned China’s early-April agreement with Australia to buy its uranium for nuclear power generation.In March, the US had launched a political level forum for dialogue with Australia and Japan in a bid to checkmate China in the Asia Pacific region.Revealing indeed was the triumph of not only China’s strategy but also Australia’s autonomy as regards the United States.

Question No. 1Directions for questions 1 to 4: The sentences given in each of the following questions, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is indicated with a number. Choose the most logical order of sentences that constructs a coherent paragraph and indicate the correct sequence in the box provided below each question.Military aid is self-defeating not because generals are less trustworthy than other men but because dependence on outside support is a contradiction in terms for a military establishment.It was a Roman historian who remarked that a general who takes a subsidy will soon start looking for a higher bidder.The more lavish the military aid from the outside, the more deeply will it be resented.Military aid as a tool of policy is older than recorded history.Its results were always questionable.It is the task of the military to make its country independent and to keep it so.