Answer: A) Indu Malhotra Explanation: Supreme Court collegium has selected senior advocate Indu Malhotra as the first woman lawyer to be directly appointed as a judge of the apex court. Along with Malhotra, Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice KM Joseph has also been promoted as a Supreme Court justice. Malhotra holds the distinction of being only the second woman in Supreme Court’s history to be designated as a senior advocate in 2007. In all, Malhotra is going to be the seventh woman judge since independence to make it to the Supreme Court. At present, Justice R Banumathi is the lone woman judge in the apex court.

Parallel structure means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance and to help the reader comprehend what is being written.. This can happen at the word, phrase, or clause level. The usual way to join parallel structures is with the use of coordinating conjunctions such as "and" or "or."

Answer: D) 6 Explanation: The process of System development life cycle goes through a series of stages in step wise fashion that almost every developing company follows. Known as the 'software development life cycle,' these six steps include:   1. Planning 2. Analysis 3. Design 4. Development & implementation 5.Testing & deployment and 6. Maintenance.

Answer: A) Laser Explanation: Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.  These are actually made to replace floppy disks that were used to store files and programs from the computer.   The format was originally developed to store and play only sound recordings but was later adapted for storage of data (CD-ROM).   These CD's uses Laser technology.

Answer: A) copper(II) hydroxide Explanation: Sodium chloride: The solubility rules tell you that all halides are soluble with the exception of those formed with siver, mercury, and lead ions. Since this is not the case here, sodium chloride will be soluble.   Silver nitrate: It is soluble because all nitrates are soluble, without exception.   Potassium sulfate: It is soluble because all sulfates are soluble with the exception of those formed with silver, calcium, barium, mercury, lead, and strontium ions.   Copper (II) hydroxyde: It is insoluble because all hydroxides are insoluble with the exception of those formed with alkali metal ions and barium.

Answer: A) Garba Explanation:

The reciprocal of a negative number is always a negative number. So that the number and its reciprocal multiply to 1.    All real numbers except 0 have reciprocals.

Answer: B) a surface exposed by a retreating glacier Explanation: