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Comprehension Questions from BBC article on Muslim marriage and an aggrieved wife’s prayer before Delhi high court for redress BBC article … Polygamy: Muslim women in India fight ‘abhorrent’ practice A 28-year-old Muslim woman’s petition to a court, seeking to prevent her husband from taking … Read more
Sports bank helps Arunachal town kick the habit New facilities have weaned youth away from drugs in Miao The fight against drugs in a small town in the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh is riding on a bank of sports equipment. Soon after taking charge … Read more
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 in the West Bank last month, … Read more
Comprehension exercise for senior students ..(with answers) Source: 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 the chaos of India’s partition. Sadiq, his 10-year … Read more
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS FOR SENIOR SCHOOL.. (with answers) (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. Instead, we need to focus on minigrid-based … Read more
Comprehension questions… (Faqueer 3) with answers [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 Kabul could make hundreds of … Read more
Comprehension .. moderate difficulty .. (with answers).. On the day of the BBC’s open auditions, she took a bus across town. Eight women and girls sat waiting to try out, all of them poised and evidently experienced. Faqeer read her lines, but kept shrinking away … Read more
Comprehension exercise – moderate difficulty—with answers [Passage taken from NYT] In July, 2001, Zarmina Faqeer, a sixteen-year-old Afghan refugee living in the Pakistani border town of Peshawar, learned that the BBC radio soap opera “New House, New Life” was seeking an actress for one of … Read more
Read the following piece and answer all the comprehension questions given underneath: Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all. … Read more
In the third part of The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag Comprehension Series, we move deeper into this exciting chapter. If you haven’t gone through the second part yet, click here to do so now. Q1. Describe the room where the forty goats and the boy … Read more