Question
While India has resumed (A) international flights, red
tape left roughly 50 passengers stranded (B) for nearly 48 hours at Yangon airport as the baton (C) to allow chartered (D) flights passed on from the DGCA’s hands to the Ministry of Civil Aviation. In each question below, four words printed in bold type are given. These are numbered (A), (B), (C) and (D). One these words printed in bold might either be wrongly spelt or inappropriate in the context of the sentence. Find out the word that is inappropriate or wrongly spelt, if any. The number of the word is your answer. If the words printed in bold are correctly spelt and appropriate in the context of the sentence then mark (E), i.e. 'All Correct', as your answer.Solution
All the emboldened words are correct. While India has resumed international flights, red tape left roughly 50 passengers stranded for nearly 48 hours at Yangon airport as the baton to allow chartered flights passed on from the DGCA’s hands to the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
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