Railway GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, which organised the meeting on its own campus under the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

The project conforms to the norms of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and to the standards of the Indian Green Building Council, and on completion it is to be rated IGBC Gold.

The correct answer is Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Western Naval Command, who opened the residential accommodation for defence civilians, the Station Health Organisation, and the trunk utility and access works.

The Station Health Organisation complex inaugurated under Phase IIA augments the existing naval hospital INHS Patanjali to that capacity, so that the growing population of the base can be treated on site.

Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Western Naval Command, inaugurated residential, medical and utility works there under Phase IIA.

Describing how space technology serves development on earth, the Minister said India provides space-based information and support for disaster management to neighbouring countries, naming these three.

The discussion examined how a country can convert sovereign space capability into commercially competitive industry, attract private capital and build stronger supply chains while protecting national interests.

The Minister said the space sector was thrown open to private participation in 2019-2020 and that the five to six years since have already produced significant results, which is why the focus has shifted to building globally competitive commercial companies.

Dr Jitendra Singh told the roundtable that the Indian space economy, valued at roughly USD 9 billion at present, is expected to climb to USD 40-45 billion over the next seven to eight years as private capital, assured demand and quicker regulatory clearances take hold.

Mosses and liverworts have no xylem or phloem, so water moves through them cell to cell. Bryophytes, such as Funaria (a moss) and Marchantia (a liverwort), are called the amphibians of the plant kingdom because they live on land but need water for fertilisation.

Copper with dilute nitric acid gives copper nitrate, water and nitric oxide: 3Cu + 8HNO 3 → 3Cu(NO 3 ) 2 + 2NO + 4H 2 O. Nitric acid is a strong oxidising agent, so metals usually do not release hydrogen from it; instead the acid itself is reduced, and…

The heat needed is 50 cal to warm the ice to 0°C, 800 cal to melt it, and 200 cal to warm all 20 g of water to 10°C. Take the specific heat of ice as 0.5 cal/g°C, the latent heat of fusion of ice as 80 cal/g and the…

Vinegar is a dilute solution of ethanoic acid, commonly called acetic acid, in water. Vinegar contains about 5 to 8 per cent ethanoic acid (CH 3 COOH) and is made by the fermentation of sugar or alcohol by acetic acid bacteria.

Cells made by the meristem lose the ability to divide and take on a fixed shape, size and job, and this change is called differentiation.

In water plants, parenchyma cells enclose large air cavities; this special form is called aerenchyma, and it helps the plants float.

Iron is more reactive than copper, so it pushes copper out of copper sulphate, and the freed copper coats the nail brown.

Rutherford found the nucleus to be positively charged, not neutral. In his gold foil experiment of 1911, Rutherford fired alpha particles at a very thin sheet of gold.

Only statement III is wrong, because colloidal particles are too small to be seen with the naked eye. Mixtures are graded by particle size.

Sound travels faster in warmer air, so statement I is wrong, while II and III are right. The speed of sound in a gas is v = √(γP/ρ).

Fungal cell walls are built mainly of chitin, whereas plant cell walls are built of cellulose. Chitin is a tough polysaccharide made of units of N-acetylglucosamine, a sugar that carries nitrogen.