Railway GK Questions 2026

Plaster of Paris mixed with water sets within minutes into a hard mass, which is why doctors use it to make casts that hold broken bones in place.

Saurabh Chaudhary is an Indian pistol shooter who competes in the 10 metre air pistol event. Born in 2002 in a farming family of Kalina village near Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, he burst onto the scene as a teenager.

Many sellers of an identical product, none of whom can change the price, is the definition of a perfectly competitive market.

Farming needs large areas of land, while most non-farm work, such as a shop, a dairy, transport or small manufacturing, can be carried out on very little land.

In grasses the intercalary meristem lies at the base of the leaf blades and internodes, between tissues that are already mature.

Evaporation from the leaves pulls a continuous column of water up the xylem, and cohesion and adhesion keep that column from breaking.

It is the only set in which each organism eats the one before it, so energy passes along a single feeding line.

The Kajli or Kajliyan fair of Mahoba is held just after Raksha Bandhan and recalls the battle in which the Bundelkhand heroes Alha and Udal are said to have defended the town; the Alha ballads of the region are sung at it.

Bateshwar lies in Agra district on the Yamuna, where a long row of Shiva temples stands along the ghat; its Kartik Purnima fair is both a bathing fair and one of the biggest animal fairs of Uttar Pradesh, and the Jain tirtha of Shauripur is close by.

Dewa, in Barabanki district, holds the dargah of the Sufi saint Haji Waris Ali Shah, and its annual fair in Kartik draws a large crowd and a well-known mushaira, with Hindus and Muslims both taking part.

The Ramlila of Ramnagar, patronised by the Kashi Naresh, is staged across the town itself, with different localities standing for Ayodhya, Janakpur, Chitrakoot and Lanka, and it runs for about a month from Bhadrapada.

Dev Deepawali falls on the full moon of Kartik, fifteen days after Diwali, when lakhs of earthen lamps are lit on the steps of the Varanasi ghats and floated on the river; the Ganga Mahotsav of music and crafts closes on the same day.

The Nauchandi Mela of Meerut is held on the ground that holds both the Nauchandi Devi temple and the dargah of Bale Miyan, and it begins on the Sunday after Holi.

Lathmar Holi is played between Barsana, remembered as the village of Radha, and Nandgaon, remembered as the village of Krishna: the men of Nandgaon come to Barsana and the women of Barsana drive them back with sticks, which gives the festival its name.

The Magh Mela is held every year on the sands of the Sangam at Prayagraj, running from Paush Purnima to Mahashivratri, and pilgrims who live there through the month under a fixed discipline are called kalpvasis.

Maha Shivratri falls on the Chaturdashi of the dark half of Phalguna, which comes in February or March, and in Uttar Pradesh it is the closing bathing day of the Magh Mela at Prayagraj and the biggest night of the year at the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi.

All four Kumbh sites hold a full Kumbh once in about twelve years, but only the two on the Ganga, Prayagraj and Haridwar, also hold an Ardh Kumbh at the halfway point of about six years.

The Kumbh Mela was added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2017, and it is the element most often quoted from India on that list along with Ramlila, Vedic chanting, Kutiyattam, Chhau, Yoga and Navroz.

Of the four Kumbh sites, Nashik and the neighbouring Trimbakeshwar stand on the Godavari, which rises at Trimbakeshwar itself; the Nashik Kumbh comes when both Jupiter and the Sun are in Leo.

The Jat cultivators of the Shekhawati belt agitated against raised rents from 1922 to 1935, held the Jat Prajapati Mahayagya at Sikar in 1934, and were fired on at Kudan village in Sikar on 25 April 1935.