Banking GK Questions 2026

Indian air, land and naval forces moved into Goa, Daman and Diu from 17 to 19 December 1961 in Operation Vijay, and 19 December is observed as Goa Liberation Day.

On that day the Goa, Daman and Diu Reorganisation Act of 1987 came into force, Goa became the twenty-fifth state of the Union, and Daman and Diu continued as a separate union territory; 30 May is kept as Goa Statehood Day.

The nine storey Vijay Stambha was raised in 1448 by Rana Kumbha of Mewar to mark his victory over Mahmud Khilji of Malwa, and its storeys are covered with sculptured figures of gods and scenes, which is why it is also read as a gallery of Hindu iconography.

The Lotus Temple at Kalkaji in Delhi was completed in 1986 to a design by the architect Fariborz Sahba, and its twenty seven marble petals are grouped in threes to form nine sides with nine doors, since the Bahai houses of worship are always nine sided and open to people…

India Gate, 42 metres high, was designed by Edwin Lutyens and completed in 1931 as the All India War Memorial, carrying the names of soldiers who died in the First World War and the Third Anglo Afghan War.

The Howrah Bridge joins Kolkata with Howrah across the Hooghly, was opened to traffic in 1943, and is a riveted steel cantilever bridge built without nuts and bolts, which is the detail papers most often test.

The Bhupen Hazarika Setu, also called the Dhola Sadiya bridge, runs 9.15 kilometres over the Lohit, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, and joins Dhola in Assam with Sadiya towards Arunachal Pradesh; it was opened in 2017 and is the longest bridge over a river in India.

The bridge crosses the gorge of the Chenab in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir on the Udhampur to Srinagar and Baramulla railway line, and its deck stands about 359 metres above the bed of the river, higher than the Eiffel Tower, which makes it the highest railway arch…

The statue of Thiruvalluvar stands on a small island off Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, beside the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, and its height of 133 feet was chosen to match the 133 chapters of the Tirukkural, the poet's work on ethics, wealth and love.

The 57 foot statue on Vindhyagiri hill at Shravanabelagola in the Hassan district of Karnataka portrays Bahubali, also called Gomateshwara, the son of the first Jain tirthankara Rishabhanatha, and it was raised about the year 983 by Chavundaraya, a minister of the Western Ganga kingdom.

He founded the city of Hyderabad and built the Charminar in 1591, a square building about 56 metres high with four arches and four minarets, one at each corner, which is why it carries that name.

Qutb-ud-din Aibak laid the foundation of the Qutub Minar and completed only its first storey, and his successor Iltutmish added the storeys above, bringing the minaret to its height of 72.5 metres, which makes it the tallest brick minaret in the world.

The Statue of Unity stands 182 metres high on Sadhu Bet island in the Narmada near the Sardar Sarovar dam in the Narmada district of Gujarat, was sculpted by Ram V. Sutar, and was unveiled on 31 October 2018, the birth anniversary of Patel.

The Hawa Mahal at Jaipur was built in 1799 by Sawai Pratap Singh of the Kachhwaha house, and was designed by Lal Chand Ustad as a five storey screen of red and pink sandstone with hundreds of small jharokha windows.

It is the broad low break in the Western Ghats, about thirty kilometres wide, through which road and rail run between Kerala and Tamil Nadu and through which the summer winds blow inland, which is why the rainfall pattern on either side of it differs.

The great hornbill, a large forest bird of the Western Ghats with a heavy yellow bill and a casque above it, is the state bird of Kerala, and the state animal is the Indian elephant, the state flower the golden shower called kanikonna and the state tree the coconut palm.

Kerala grows most of the natural rubber produced in India, with the Kottayam region at its centre, and the Rubber Board of India works from Kottayam.

Vasco da Gama reached Kappad on the Malabar coast in 1498, having sailed round the Cape of Good Hope, and was received by the Zamorin, the ruler of Calicut; this was the first sea route opened from Europe to India.

The Kerala High Court sits at Ernakulam and its jurisdiction covers both the state of Kerala and the union territory of Lakshadweep, which has no high court of its own.

Onam falls in the Malayalam month of Chingam, is kept over ten days with the chief day called Thiruvonam, and marks the harvest along with the remembered visit of the king Mahabali, with flower carpets, the sadya meal, boat races and the Pulikali dance.