Railway GK Questions 2026

The teams moved on city hubs and border stretches in these three States: Aizawl and Champhai in Mizoram, the Indo-Myanmar border trading town of Zokhawthar, operative bases at Churachandpur in Manipur, and the Cachar transit corridor in Assam.

The bureau planned the operation and led it in the early hours of 23 October 2026, working under a single command with Mizoram Police and the Enforcement Directorate.

Air near the ground is denser than air higher up, so sunlight bends as it passes through the atmosphere and reaches us while the Sun is still just below the horizon.

In Newton's second law, F = ma, the force on a body is proportional to its acceleration, and the constant linking the two is the body's mass.

The Scottish scientist discovered penicillin in 1928 at St Mary's Hospital in London. Fleming noticed that a mould, Penicillium notatum, had accidentally grown on a culture plate of Staphylococcus bacteria and had killed the bacteria around it.

Specific heat capacity is the heat needed to raise the temperature of a unit mass of a substance by one degree, not simply the heat needed to raise its temperature.

Buoyancy, or upthrust, is the upward force a fluid exerts on any object immersed in it. A fluid presses on an object from all sides, but the pressure grows with depth, so the push on the lower surface is greater than the push on the upper surface.

For lenses in contact the powers add: 2.5 D + (−2.0 D) = +0.5 D, and the focal length is 1/0.5 = +2.0 metres.

Fibrinogen is a soluble plasma protein that is turned into insoluble fibrin threads, which form the mesh of a blood clot.

Rajiv Gauba referred to Moving Towards Effective City Governance as a report developed jointly by NITI Aayog and that ministry, and he used its recommendations as the backbone of his address: directly elected mayors with terms of five years, a Mayor-in-Council system, municipal elections held on time, and the devolution…

Setting out NITI Aayog's Growth Hub initiative, Rajiv Gauba pointed to the Urban Challenge Fund of 1 lakh crore rupees announced in the budget of 2025-26, meant to develop cities as hubs of growth.

Drawing on the report Moving Towards Effective City Governance, prepared jointly by NITI Aayog and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Rajiv Gauba said States must devolve all 18 functions to urban local bodies in line with the 74th Amendment, naming master planning, water supply, fire services and traffic…

Addressing the closing session of the 2nd National Urban Conclave, Rajiv Gauba, Member of NITI Aayog, said that nearly half of all Indians are expected to be living in urban areas by 2050, and that the urban population would therefore climb from roughly 50 crore at present to 85 crore.

India does not have the largest railway network in the world; the United States has the longest, followed by China and Russia, with India in fourth place.

The eyes of a potato are nodes with buds, and only a stem bears nodes and buds, so they prove that the potato is a modified stem.

It is the batch file that MS-DOS runs automatically, line by line, every time the computer starts. A batch file is a plain text file of DOS commands with the.BAT extension.

The first option names the preparatory phase instead, which ran from 15 to 30 September 2026 and was used to map targets across units, regional offices and joint ventures, so it is a close distractor rather than the answer.

Reporting the position as on 23 October 2026, the company said it had taken up 180 campaign sites for cleanliness against a target of 145, cleared 24,96,193 square feet of space against the 24,15,786 square feet proposed, and disposed of 1,272 metric tonnes of scrap against a target of 1,266.22…

This edition of the campaign places a dedicated emphasis on handling institutional electronic waste in an environment-friendly way, and the work is done in keeping with the E-Waste Management Rules, 2022.

The purpose of the campaign is to settle the habit of cleanliness in government offices and to bring down the stock of pending matters, and offices are scored on space management, scrap disposal, record management, best practices, improvement of premises, environment-friendly working and citizen-centric steps.