Railway Freight Loading Grows 5.4 Per Cent in August 2026

The correct answer is 137.9 million tonnes. Indian Railways loaded that quantity during August 2026 and recorded a year-on-year growth of 5.4 per cent. Freight revenue in the same month rose by 6.27 per cent over the corresponding month of the previous year, which shows that the freight business strengthened in value as well as in volume. The loading was driven by demand from coal, iron ore, steel, fertilizers and other commodity groups. Option A, 130.9 million tonnes, is the figure for August 2025 and is therefore the base year figure rather than the answer. Option C and option D carry tonnages that do not appear in the release at all. Questions of this type usually place the current year figure and the base year figure side by side, so learn both numbers and keep them in the right order.

The correct answer is 149. Five new Gati Shakti Cargo Terminals were commissioned during August 2026, which took the cumulative count to this figure at the end of the month. The five new terminals are at Shivlakha in Gujarat, Nalli in Tamil Nadu, Shaktinagar in Uttar Pradesh, Deoragram in Madhya Pradesh and Brajrajnagar in Odisha. These terminals bring freight handling closer to production and consumption centres, improve last-mile connectivity for industry and speed up the evacuation of goods from industrial locations. Option A and option D are close but wrong counts, and option B repeats the number of Rakshabandhan special trips run between 25 and 31 August 2026. Figures from the same release are often used as distractors in this way, so tie each number firmly to the thing it measures.

The correct answer is 86. During August 2026 fourteen Amrit Bharat services were converted from special trains into regular trains, and that conversion took the total number of Amrit Bharat services to this figure. The services connect Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and other important regions of the country. Among the routes named are Subedarganj to Lokmanya Tilak Terminus, Gorakhpur to Bandra Terminus, Gorakhpur to Delhi Junction, Ahmedabad to Bhagalpur, Prayagraj Junction to Udhna Junction and Dhanbad to Coimbatore. The Ahmedabad to Bhagalpur link joins Gujarat with Bihar, while the Dhanbad to Coimbatore service links eastern India with southern India. Options A, B and D give totals that the release does not support. Remember the count of services added and the running total together.