Creative Writing – 142 – Comprehension Exercise

Creative Writing – 142 Comprehension Questions Conviction rate in human trafficking cases declining (Source: The Hindu dated Feb 18) Activists call for robust inter-State investigations Twice every week, two women from Basanti in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas, visit a local non-governmental organisation at the … Read more

Creative Writing – 140 – Comprehension Exercise

Creative Writing – 140 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension exercises with answers [Source : WP] Two Israeli military officers were removed from their positions immediately and a third will be formally censured in the death of a 78-year-old Palestinian American man who was detained at a checkpoint … Read more

Creative Writing – 136 – Comprehension Exercise

Creative Writing – 136 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension exercise for senior students Question Passage Source – The Washington Post As Sikka Khan tells it, he was struck by tragedy, but also fortune, in 1947. He was a 6-month-old orphan, the son of Muslim laborers caught in … Read more

Creative Writing – 135 – Comprehension Exercise

Creative Writing – 135 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension questions for senior school Question Passage Source – TIME The results of fossil-fuel-based, centralized, power-plant strategies of the past 50 years speak for themselves: high levels of pollution and slow rollouts due to high construction and fuel costs. … Read more

Creative Writing – 134 – Comprehension Exercise

Creative Writing – 134 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension exercise for senior school Question Passage Sourced from TIME You bring your feverish baby to the hospital in the middle of the night. The nurse asks you to go home to get a flashlight. When the flashlight batteries … Read more

Creative Writing – 133 – Comprehension Exercise

Creative Writing – 133 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension exercise for senior students Question Passage Source – BBC In a pocket of north Indian wilderness, the rhino is helping to bring peace and pride back to a community healing from ethnic conflict. The call came at midnight … Read more

Creative Writing – 131 – Comprehension Exercise

Creative Writing – 131 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension questions with answers Question Passages taken from NYT “Something wrong” was a euphemism for working with the Americans. Billions of dollars in foreign-aid money were pouring into Afghanistan to promote “democracy-building” and other U.S. projects. Young women in … Read more