Indian States & UTs GK Questions with Answers – Page 9

The Siachen glacier lies at the head of the Nubra valley in the eastern Karakoram and is the longest glacier of that range; the Nubra river issues from it and joins the Shyok, which joins the Indus.

Maharaja Hari Singh, the last Dogra ruler of the princely State, signed the Instrument of Accession on 26 October 1947 after tribal raiders backed from across the border entered the State, and Indian troops were airlifted to Srinagar the next day.

Hanle in eastern Ladakh, within the Changthang Cold Desert Wildlife Sanctuary, already hosts the Indian Astronomical Observatory of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, and the surrounding area was notified in 2022 as India’s first Dark Sky Reserve to keep artificial light from spoiling the night sky for astronomy and for…

The treaty signed in 1960 with the World Bank as a party gave the three western rivers to Pakistan and the three eastern rivers, the Ravi, the Beas and the Sutlej, to India for unrestricted use.

Jahangir laid out the Shalimar Bagh on the shore of the Dal lake in 1619 for Nur Jahan, and it is the largest of the Mughal gardens of Srinagar, built on terraces with a central water channel.

Kalhana wrote the Rajatarangini in Sanskrit verse in the twelfth century as a history of the rulers of Kashmir from legendary times to his own day, and it is regarded as the earliest connected historical narrative produced in India; later writers continued it.

Pampore in Pulwama district, on the karewa uplands beside the Jhelum, produces most of Kashmir’s saffron and is called the saffron town of India; the crop received its Geographical Indication tag in 2020 for its high crocin content and deep colour.

Zoji La lies on the Srinagar–Leh highway between Sonamarg and Drass and is the gateway from the Kashmir valley to Ladakh; the Zojila tunnel is being built beneath it to keep the road open through winter.

Dachigam, which lies just east of Srinagar and whose name means ten villages, is the last stronghold of the Hangul, the only red deer found in India.

Wular lake lies in Bandipora district of the Kashmir valley and is fed and drained by the Jhelum, which rises at Verinag and is known locally as the Vyeth; the lake acts as a natural flood basin for the river and is a Ramsar site.

The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 gave the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir a Legislative Assembly but made Ladakh a Union Territory without a legislature, administered by a Lieutenant Governor.

The Act was passed by Parliament in August 2019 but the appointed day on which the former State ceased to exist and the two Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and of Ladakh came into being was 31 October 2019.

Yuksom, in the west of the state, is where three Tibetan lamas consecrated Phuntsog Namgyal as the first Chogyal in 1642, founding the dynasty that ruled until 1975; the name means the meeting place of three learned ones, and the Norbugang throne and the nearby Dubdi monastery mark the spot.

The state began phasing out chemical fertilisers and pesticides in the mid two thousands, converted its whole cultivated area to certified organic management, and was declared India first fully organic state in 2016; the policy won a Future Policy Gold Award from the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World…

At 8,586 metres it stands on the border of Sikkim and Nepal, is the highest peak in India and the third highest in the world after Everest and K2, and is worshipped as a guardian deity in Sikkim, which is why climbers stop short of the actual summit.

Sikkim had been a kingdom under the Chogyals of the Namgyal dynasty, with India responsible for its defence and external affairs; the thirty-fifth amendment of 1974 made it an associate state, and after a referendum in April 1975 the thirty-sixth amendment made it the twenty-second state of India with effect…

Kokborok, whose name means the language of the people, is spoken by the Tripuri and related communities and is an official language of the state along with Bengali and English; it belongs to the Tibeto-Burman family, unlike Bengali, which is Indo-Aryan, and the two sit side by side in the…

Unakoti is a hillside near Kailashahar in the north of the state covered with huge rock-cut images of Shiva, Ganesha, Nandi and others, carved into the rock face and dated to roughly the seventh to ninth centuries; the name comes from the legend that Shiva passed the night here with…

Neermahal stands in the middle of Rudrasagar Lake at Melaghar, about fifty kilometres from Agartala, and was built in the nineteen thirties by Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya as a summer palace; it mixes Hindu and Mughal elements with Islamic arches and is described as the only water palace in…

Agartala lies close to the Bangladesh border in the west of the state and holds the Ujjayanta Palace, built by Maharaja Radha Kishore Manikya at the turn of the twentieth century and now the state museum; it is the second largest city of the north-east after Guwahati.