Question Discussion & Solution

UPDATE -  the number of wetlands in India has increased to 42.

Key Points

The Ramsar Convention:

• Ramsar Convention, 1971: on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands
• The Convention on Wetlands is an intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.
• The Convention was adopted in the Iranian city of Ramsar in 1971 and came into force in 1975. Since then, almost 90% of UN member states, from all the world’s geographic regions, have acceded to become “Contracting Parties”.
• India is a party to the Ramsar Convention. India signed under it on 1st February 1982.
• Chilika Lake (Orissa) and Keoladeo National Park (Rajasthan) were recognized as the first Ramsar Sites of India
• Sundarbans is the largest Ramsar Site of India
• On 2nd February 2021, India’s first Centre for Wetland Conservation and Management has been set up in Chennai.
• There are 42 wetlands in India that have international importance and hence recognized as the Ramsar Sites in India. Ramsar Sites are wetlands that have international importance.

Three Pillars:

• ​Under the “three pillars” of the Convention, the Contracting Parties commit to:
  • work towards the wise use of all their wetlands;
  • designate suitable wetlands for the list of Wetlands of International Importance (the “Ramsar List”) and ensure their effective management;
  • cooperate internationally on transboundary wetlands, shared wetland systems, and shared species.

The Montreux record:

• The Montreux Record is a register of wetland sites on the List of Wetlands of International Importance where changes in ecological character have occurred, are occurring, or are likely to occur as a result of technological developments, pollution, or other human interference.
• It is maintained as part of the Ramsar List.

Concept:

The GROUP BY statement groups rows that have the same values into summary rows, like "find the number of customers in each country".

The GROUP BY statement is often used with aggregate functions (COUNT, MAX, MIN, SUM, AVG) to group the result-set by one or more columns.

GROUP BY Syntax

SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE condition
GROUP BY column_name(s)
ORDER BY column_name(s);

The ORDER BY keyword is used to sort the result-set in ascending or descending order.

The ORDER BY keyword sorts the records in ascending order by default. To sort the records in descending order, use the DESC keyword.

ORDER BY Syntax

SELECT column1, column2, ...
FROM table_name
ORDER BY column1, column2, ... ASC|DESC;

Key Points

txtFirst + Last Name:

False, the + symbol is an illegal character for control names.

The remaining all are acceptable control in visual basic.

Hence the correct answer is btnCalc, txtAge, lblDistance.

The correct answer is Kalology.

Key Points

• The study of human beauty is called Kalology.
  • Kalology is the study of beauty and the ways in which beauty influences society.
  • This study is focused primarily on human attractiveness, rather than the broader field of aesthetics, and was popularized during the 19th century when philosophers attempted to codify beauty and create a uniform system for evaluating it.
  • A scale was even proposed, probably jokingly, which rated beauty in terms of the theoretical beauty of Helen of Troy, who allegedly had a face to launch 1,000 ships.

Additional Information

The correct answer is Bhup Singh.

• Bhup Singh was the real name of freedom fighter Vijay Singh Pathik.

​Key Points

• Vijay Singh Pathik
  • ​Vijay Singh Pathik, popularly known as Rashtriya Pathik, was an Indian revolutionary.
  • His real name was Bhup Singh.
  • He was among the first Indian revolutionaries who lit the torch of the freedom movement against British rule.
  • Much before Mohandas K. Gandhi initiated the Satyagrah movement, Pathik experimented during the Bijolia’s Kisan agitation.

Additional Information

• Being Indian Revolutionary and Satyagrahi, he was also a very well known Hindi poet, writer and journalist.
• He was the editor of Rajasthan Kesari and Naveen Rajasthan.
• He also started his own independent Hindi weekly, the Rajasthan Sandesh and the Nav Sandesh from Ajmer.