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Bollywood is the informal term (61) used for the Hindi-language film industry (62) in Mumbai, India. The term is (63) incorrectly used to refer to the (64) of Indian cinema; it is only a (65) of the Indian film industry. Bollywood is the (66) film producer in India and one of the largest (67) of film production in the (68). The name is a portmanteau of Bombay (the (69) name for Mumbai) and Hollywood, the (70) of the American film industry.

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In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered . These numbers are printed below the passage and against each , five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out appropriate word in each case.
Addressing the Indian community in Djibouti City, President Kovind, who is the first Indian (111) to visit Djibouti, spoke about India’s high growth (112) and said it is opening new opportunities for collaboration. “The rise of India is opening new (113) for collaboration. Our diaspora has an important role in building bridges between India and the world,” he said. Mr. Kovind, who arrived on Tuesday on the first (114) of his four.day visit to Djibouti and Ethiopia, his (115) trip abroad since taking office, asked the Indian diaspora not to leave their roots. “We should not ignore or (116) our roots, no matter where we stay,” he said. He said its a great honour for him to be the first Indian president to visit the African country. “This is no coincidence but a (117) decision. Our relations with beautiful continent of Africa are (118) in our hearts,” he said. “Ocean that connects us may be Indian in name, but belongs to all of us. Let it bind us together, as it had centuries ago,” he said. The president also thanked Djibouti for helping India in evacuating Indians from Yemen in 2015. “Operation Rahat that we carried out from Djibouti spotlights our (119) commitment to our people abroad,” he said. Operation Rahat, the name given to the evacuation process in Yemen, was (120) from the African nation of Djibouti, which lies on the other side of the Gulf of Aden from Yemen. The camp office in Djibouti, a country neighbouring Yemen and across the Red Sea, was set up to ensure smooth implementation of Operation Raahat. The evacuees were taken to Djibouti from where they were brought back to India in Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft.

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Cash worth (111) Rs 7,000 crore was deposited in bank accounts (112) demonetisation and later withdrawn by companies, which are now deregistered, according to union minister P P Chaudhary. Bolstering efforts to (113) on the black money menace, the government has (114) off the names of more than 2.24 lakh companies from official records and data mining is progressing to (115) whether these entities were used as (116) for illicit fund flows. Against this (117), Chaudhary on Wednesday said it has been (118) that just about three per cent of the 2.24 lakh struck off companies had deposited around “Rs 6,000 to 7,000 crore” in bank accounts during demonetisation and later the amount was (119). “It (the number of such companies) is only three per cent of the total 2.24 lakh companies. It may be more... Data mining is going on,” the Minister of State for Corporate Affairs said. In November last year, the government cancelled old Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 currency notes as legal (120) as part of larger efforts to fight the black money problem and corruption. The corporate affairs ministry, which is implementing the Companies Act, has been deregistering entities that have not been carrying out business activities for a long period as well as defaulted on compulsory filings.

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In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered . These numbers are printed below the passage and against each , five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out appropriate word in each case.
After 20 years in India, (111) a “refugee” tag that led her from one camp to another, it was only in December 2016 that Edward Selyn, 55, returned home. Until a few days ago, she was among a group of people seated under a tent in Mullikulam village in Mannar, in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province, protesting in the (112) heat for a month, demanding that the Sri Lankan Navy release her land. She was displaced in 1996 with her entire family, after the civil war broke out. Now, eight years after the war ended and months after her (113), Ms. Selyn has not stopped feeling displaced.
“I had all my documents and deeds, but still could not get back to the land where my home was. I did not think we would come back to such a (114),” she says. Several thousand acres of formerly civilian-owned or occupied land across the conflict-affected Northern and Eastern Provinces remained with the Sri Lankan armed forces after the war ended in 2009, severely (115) post-war resettlement in Sri Lanka. Right to return- After waiting for decades, frustrated northern Tamils and Muslims (116) a wave of protests in the past few months, asking for their lands. Pressured by their (117) agitations, the military began returning land in different areas, and on Saturday (April 29) released Ms. Selyn’s land. The Resettlement Ministry claims that the armed forces have so far released 70,000 acres of land they held, but no one knows exactly how much yet remains under their control, or when exactly those lands might be released.
Neither the national unity government nor the Ministry was (118) in communicating with the affected people, leaving them in the dark about their future. A couple of hundred metres away from Ms. Selyn’s protest were nearly 100 Muslim men seated in a large semicircle, outside a pale green mosque in Marichchukaddi village of Musali. Their protest, too, is about the right to return. After the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam expelled them from the north in the early 1990s, thousands of Tamil-speaking Muslim families were displaced to other parts of the island for nearly three decades. And just as some of them had begun (119) in their areas of origin, amid the (120) optimism after some land was released, a heavy blow struck them by way of a recent gazette notification. The hastily drafted notification suddenly expanded the limits of the Wilpattu National Park, in Sri Lanka’s North Western and North Central Provinces, declaring their adjoining villages “forest reserve”, out of bounds to them. “The linking of the wildlife forest and our former homes is new and very unfair,” Ali Khan, one of the protesters, complains. “We lived in those villages for generations, no one encroached on the forest area.”
The situation Ms. Selyn faced or Mr. Khan is in is symptomatic of the grossly woeful resettlement project that the Mahinda Rajapaksa administration, formerly in power, flagged off. A militarised state apparatus hung over on its war “victory”, attempts by the state to settle Sinhala villagers in the North and East, and recurring bureaucratic lethargy have effectively stalled resettlement for scores of families.

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