Railway GK Questions 2026

Article 219 says that every person appointed to be a judge of a High Court shall, before he enters upon his office, make and subscribe an oath or affirmation before the Governor of the state, or some person appointed in that behalf by him, in the form set out in…

Article 217(1) of the Constitution says that a judge of a High Court shall hold office until he attains the age of sixty-two years.

The United Provinces High Courts (Amalgamation) Order took effect on 26 July 1948 and merged the Chief Court of Oudh, which sat at Lucknow, into the Allahabad High Court.

The court was inaugurated on 17 March 1866 at Agra as the High Court for the North-Western Provinces, under the authority of the Indian High Courts Act, 1861.

It was inaugurated on 17 March 1866 as the High Court for the North-Western Provinces at Agra, and it is the oldest High Court in the country in continuous existence under that description.

Article 222(1) says that the President may, after consultation with the Chief Justice of India, transfer a judge from one High Court to any other High Court, and clause (2) provides for a compensatory allowance to a judge so transferred.

The Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta and Up-Lokayukta Act of 1981 created the office to inquire into allegations of corruption and abuse of office against ministers and public servants of the state.

Article 165 says that the Governor of each state shall appoint a person who is qualified to be appointed a judge of a High Court to be Advocate-General for the state, that he shall hold office during the pleasure of the Governor, and that he shall receive such remuneration as…

It provides that every High Court shall have superintendence over all courts and tribunals throughout the territory in relation to which it exercises jurisdiction, except a court or tribunal constituted under a law relating to the Armed Forces.

It is issued by a High Court under Article 226, or by the Supreme Court under Article 32, to a public official, a public body, a corporation or an inferior court, directing it to perform a public duty that it has refused or failed to perform.

The Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission was set up in 1956, when the state itself was formed, and its office is at Indore.

Chhattisgarh was carved out of Madhya Pradesh on 1 November 2000 under the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000, and the High Court of Chhattisgarh was established at Bilaspur, so the districts of that region ceased to be under the Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur.

The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 created the state of Madhya Pradesh from that date out of the Central Provinces and Berar, Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh and Bhopal, and the High Court of Madhya Pradesh was constituted with its principal seat at Jabalpur and Benches at Indore and Gwalior.

It was established on 2 January 1936 by Letters Patent as the High Court of Judicature at Nagpur for the Central Provinces and Berar, which until then had been under a Judicial Commissioner rather than a High Court.

When the High Court of Madhya Pradesh was constituted at Jabalpur on 1 November 1956, permanent Benches were provided at Indore and at Gwalior, and they have functioned there since.

The High Court of Madhya Pradesh has its principal seat at Jabalpur, where it was constituted on 1 November 1956 under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956.

The phrase came from the defections of 1967 in the newly formed state, when Gaya Lal, a member of the Legislative Assembly, changed his party three times within a fortnight, and the comment made on the occasion gave the language a lasting expression for floor-crossing.

Article 164(4) provides that a minister who for any period of six consecutive months is not a member of the legislature of the state shall at the expiration of that period cease to be a minister.

Haryana has 10 parliamentary constituencies for the Lok Sabha and 5 seats in the Rajya Sabha, the latter allotted under the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution and filled by the elected members of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha voting by a single transferable vote.

It allows the Governor to promulgate an ordinance when the Legislative Assembly of the state is not in session and he is satisfied that circumstances exist which make immediate action necessary.