Statements:

1. The committee appointed by the Government on the fee structure of the professional courses has drastically reduced the fees of various courses in comparison to those charged in the last year.
2. The parents of aspiring students seeking admission to professional courses had launched a severe agitation protesting against the high fees charged by the professional institutes and the admission process was delayed considerably.

This is the only square in the group.

Sam is not drunk, so he must be ill.

HERMIT ? (4, 1, 6, 2, 3, 5 )

NATURE ? (4, 3, 2, 5, 1, 6)

All except 'Hydrogen' are metals.

Based on the conclusion table, (d) is the right answer

The first word is abba. second word will start from a and second n third letter will next alphabetical letter , similar for 3rd and 4th words also.
abba/acca/adda/aeea
Hence, Answer will be bacde and these letters will come in gap, respectively.

Both the statement have no connection with the given statement. Assumption I becomes disconnected because of the word 'only' while Assumption II is rubbish as the statement does not say anything about reading materials other than adventure stories. Hence, Assumptions I and II both are invalid.

Country and capital pair.