Railway GK Questions 2026

Rice is mainly a kharif crop, and in West Bengal and the neighbouring states farmers grow three rice crops in a year: aus in the pre-monsoon and early monsoon season, aman in the main monsoon season with a winter harvest, and boro in winter and spring.

Insulin lets glucose leave the blood and enter body cells, especially muscle and fat cells, and so it lowers the blood sugar level.

The SA node, a small patch of special muscle in the wall of the right atrium, produces the electrical impulse that starts each heartbeat, which is why it is called the pacemaker of the heart.

The equivalent weight of a base is its molecular weight divided by its acidity, which is the number of replaceable hydroxide ions in one molecule.

Jute needs a hot and humid climate, heavy rainfall and the fresh alluvial soil that river floods renew every year, conditions found in the Ganga–Brahmaputra delta and the plains of eastern India.

When iron(III) oxide is heated with aluminium powder, aluminium takes away the oxygen, and the reaction gives out so much heat that the iron produced is molten: Fe2O3 + 2Al → 2Fe + Al2O3 + heat.

The correct answer is Chandigarh, the common capital of the two states, which is why the Commission could meet both governments separately on the same day.

Compliance with it was reviewed with both Punjab and Haryana, because moving brick kilns to pellets and briquettes made from paddy straw creates steady demand for the residue and takes away the reason to set fields on fire.

He chaired the two separate review meetings the Commission held at Chandigarh with the governments of Punjab and Haryana, going through enforcement on the ground, district preparedness and the use of crop residue machinery.

They co-organised the dedicated ministerial session at which state energy and agriculture ministers presented their approaches to scaling up agrivoltaics, showcased investment opportunities and discussed adapting the PM-KUSUM scheme to local crops.

The whole point of agrivoltaics is that farming continues under and around the solar panels, so the draft policy fixes a high floor for the share of each site that must stay fit for cultivation, and pairs it with safeguards on farmer consent and crop insurance.

Its Deputy Chief Minister told the ministerial track that the state is giving final shape to an Agrivoltaics Policy 2026 built around a target of 1 GW by 2030, under which at least ninety per cent of a project site must remain cultivable, farmer consent and crop insurance are protected…

The conference is run every year by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs under that policy, through the Institute of Urban Transport (India), and the policy itself stresses capacity building at state and city level while promoting equitable and sustainable urban transport systems.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is holding both events at Hotel Mayfair Sanctuary in the Odisha capital, with the state government as partner, and the curtain-raiser press conference was also held there.

The ministry's joint secretary announced this theme for the two-day conference in Bhubaneswar, and said sessions would look at sustainable low-carbon public transport, integration of modes, first and last mile connectivity, Mobility as a Service and real-time technology for passengers.

Speaking as Union Rural Development Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced central approval for that many permanent houses for eligible poor families in Haryana, with Rs 1,343.06 crore sanctioned for the purpose, and handed the formal letter to Haryana Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Minister Shyam Singh Rana on the stage.

The Minister asked vice-chancellors of agricultural universities, the Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, scientists and officials to leave their laboratories and offices and reach villages between 22 October and 30 November 2026, holding meetings with farmers on soil health and balanced nutrient use.

The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare and Rural Development chose this historic town for the launch of the soil health campaign, and farmers at the venue took a collective pledge to apply fertiliser in balance and to stop setting fire to crop residue.

The Prime Minister used the antibiotic precursor Penicillin G as an illustration of how long-term policy can rebuild a lost industry.

The Prime Minister took up this framing directly and said it raises two questions: why the existing order is slipping and why legacy systems cannot answer today's challenges, and what role India plays in a world that is changing.