Railway GK Questions 2026

It carries 974 of the monitored projects, which is a little over half of the total count, with a revised cost of Rs 9.46 lakh crore, or about a quarter of the overall cost.

That is the headline figure of the Monthly Flash Report for September 2026, covering projects of Rs 150 crore and above spread over 17 central Ministries and Departments and tracked on the PAIMANA platform.

That is the intensity the India Meteorological Department expected when the system crossed the Andhra Pradesh and Yanam coasts by the forenoon of 28 October 2026.

The India Meteorological Department told the Committee that the storm would travel west-north-westwards and then turn north-westwards, crossing the Andhra Pradesh and Yanam coasts between these two points as a very severe cyclonic storm by the forenoon of 28 October 2026.

Cabinet Secretary Dr. T. V. Somanathan chaired its meeting to review how prepared the Centre and the coastal States were for the approaching cyclone, with Chief Secretaries of the affected States, the Union Home Secretary and the heads of the NDRF, the IMD and the Coast Guard taking part.

Of the total Acceptances of Necessity accorded in this meeting, roughly 82 per cent of the procurement is to be made from Indian industry, which places the clearance squarely within the drive for self-reliance in defence production.

In this round of clearances the Navy was approved to procure the Active Offboard Decoy System, which raises the credibility of anti-missile defence, especially against the modern anti-ship missiles that an adversary may use, and along with it other major naval platforms designed and constructed in India.

The Defence Acquisition Council that met on 26 October 2026 was chaired by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh, and it accorded Acceptance of Necessity to capital acquisition proposals of the three Services at an estimated cost of about Rs 2,12,000 crore.

All three kinds of wave reflect, carry energy and exert pressure, but only electromagnetic waves can travel through a vacuum.

Loktak Lake lies south of Imphal in Manipur and is the largest freshwater lake in North-East India. Loktak is famous for its phumdis, floating masses of soil, vegetation and decaying organic matter that drift on the water.

A kilogram-metre per second squared is mass times acceleration, which is force; it is the newton, not a unit of energy.

Coating iron or steel with a thin layer of zinc is called galvanisation, and it is the most common way to protect them from rusting.

Stretching the wire to twice its length makes its resistance four times larger, so at the same voltage the current falls to a quarter.

In his 1913 model of the atom, Bohr proposed that electrons move in certain fixed orbits, called stationary states, in which they do not radiate energy.

The field inside a long solenoid is directly proportional to the number of turns per unit length, so doubling n doubles the field.

A light year is the distance light travels in empty space in one year, so despite its name it measures length, not time.

Chilli is native to the Americas and reached India through the Portuguese in the sixteenth century, after their voyages linked the New World with Asia.

Kamarajar Port, earlier called Ennore Port, lies on the Coromandel Coast about 24 km north of Chennai. The port was built to take the load of coal imports off Chennai Port and to feed the thermal power stations of the Tamil Nadu electricity board.

Excavations at Kalibangan in Rajasthan found a row of fire altars, the clearest evidence of a fire ritual in the Harappan civilisation.

The stretch of a spring is proportional to the force on it, and the weight of the mass on the Moon is one-sixth of its weight on Earth.