Static GK in railway exams starts with one shared block: Class 10 science. Every RRB exam on GK24 tests it. Group D has 25 questions on Physics, Chemistry and Life Sciences of 10th CBSE level. JE has 30 in CBT-1 and another 15 on Physics and Chemistry in CBT-2. ALP tests General Science in CBT-1 and Basic Science and Engineering in CBT-2, and NTPC lists general science up to 10th inside General Awareness. Beyond science, the lists differ. NTPC names history and the freedom struggle, geography, polity, the economy, art and culture, environment, computers, abbreviations, transport systems in India, world organisations and government bodies. JE names geography, history and culture, polity, the economy and environmental issues, and adds computers and pollution control in CBT-2. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for railway exams in English and Hindi: General Science, History, Geography, Polity, Economy, Art and Culture, Environment, Computers and static GK, including Indian Railways. Each note is short facts and tables that can be revised in one sitting. Begin with the science notes, since they serve every railway exam, then add the static topics your exam lists, and test each note with its quiz.
Who led the Maratha army at the third battle of Panipat in 1761?
The Peshwa Balaji Baji Rao sent his cousin Sadashivrao Bhau north in command, with the Peshwa's son Vishwasrao as the nominal head of the expedition.
Read the full explanation →Which title did Hemu assume after capturing Delhi, shortly before the second battle of Panipat?
Hemu, also called Hem Chandra, rose from a trader and officer of the Sur house to be its chief general, defeated the Mughal governor at Delhi in 1556 and had himself crowned there with the old Indian imperial title Vikramaditya.
Read the full explanation →Who commanded the Mughal army at the second battle of Panipat in 1556 on behalf of the young Akbar?
Akbar was only about thirteen when Humayun died, and the campaign against Hemu was conducted by his guardian and regent Bairam Khan, who insisted on marching to Panipat rather than retreating to Kabul.
Read the full explanation →The first battle of Panipat in 1526 was fought between Babur and which ruler?
On 21 April 1526 Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last sultan of the Lodi dynasty, using field guns handled by Ustad Ali Quli and Mustafa Rumi behind a line of carts and the tulughma method of flanking attack.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the second battle of Tarain fought, in which Muhammad Ghori defeated Prithviraj Chauhan?
Ghori returned to Tarain a year after his defeat with a larger force of mounted archers, drew the heavy Rajput cavalry out of formation with a feigned retreat and destroyed it.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following Rajput rulers defeated Muhammad Ghori in the First Battle of Tarain in 1191 AD?
Prithviraj Chauhan III, the Chahamana ruler of Ajmer and Delhi, met Muhammad Ghori at Tarain, the modern Taraori in Karnal district of Haryana, in 1191.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following was one of the leaders who were instrumental in convincing Mahatma Gandhi about the need to start a non-cooperation movement in support of the Khilafat?
Shaukat Ali and his brother Muhammad Ali, the Ali brothers of Rampur in the United Provinces, led the Khilafat agitation and met Mahatma Gandhi to argue that the Khilafat cause and swaraj should be fought together.
Read the full explanation →In which year did the Khilafat Movement start?
After the defeat of Turkey in the First World War, Indian Muslims feared for the position of the Sultan of Turkey as Khalifa, and an All India Khilafat Committee was formed in 1919, holding its first conference at Delhi in November of that year.
Read the full explanation →Who became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1963, the first woman to head a state government in India?
A Congress leader who had taken part in the Quit India movement, she became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1963 and was the first woman to hold that office in any Indian state, which is how the question is usually framed.
Read the full explanation →Who led the Quit India movement in Ballia in August 1942, where a parallel administration was run for a few days?
During the Quit India movement the people of Ballia took over the district administration for a few days in August 1942 under Chittu Pandey, who is remembered as the Sher-e-Ballia.
Read the full explanation →Mangal Pandey, the sepoy hanged after the Barrackpore incident of 1857, belonged to which district of present-day Uttar Pradesh?
Mangal Pandey came from Nagwa village in Ballia district of the then United Provinces and was serving with the 34th Native Infantry at Barrackpore in Bengal, where in March 1857 he attacked his officers and was hanged.
Read the full explanation →The Lucknow Pact of 1916 was an agreement between which two bodies?
At their sessions held at Lucknow in 1916 the two bodies agreed on a joint scheme of reforms, with the Congress accepting separate electorates for Muslims, and the Moderates and Extremists of the Congress came together again in the same session.
Read the full explanation →Chandra Shekhar Azad died fighting the police on 27 February 1931 at which place?
Azad had rebuilt the revolutionary party as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association after the Kakori trial, and on 27 February 1931 he was surrounded by the police in Alfred Park at Allahabad and died there fighting.
Read the full explanation →Banaras Hindu University was founded in 1916 by which leader?
Malaviya, a Congress leader from Allahabad, founded the Banaras Hindu University in 1916 and served as its head for many years; the university remains the largest institution the national movement created in the province.
Read the full explanation →Who led the Kakori train action of 9 August 1925?
The Hindustan Republican Association, organised at Kanpur in 1924, needed funds for arms, and Bismil planned and led the stopping of a train carrying government money near Kakori, outside Lucknow, on 9 August 1925.
Read the full explanation →The Chauri Chaura incident of 4 February 1922, after which the Non-cooperation movement was withdrawn, took place in which district?
Chauri Chaura is a place in Gorakhpur district, where on 4 February 1922 a procession turned on the police and set fire to the police station, in which twenty-two policemen died.
Read the full explanation →Who led the revolt of 1857 at Lucknow in the name of her minor son Birjis Qadr?
A wife of the deposed Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, she took charge at Lucknow after the annexation of Awadh and had her young son Birjis Qadr proclaimed ruler, while the British garrison was besieged in the Residency.
Read the full explanation →The revolt of 1857 began with the rising of sepoys at which town on 10 May 1857?
On 10 May 1857 the sepoys of the Meerut garrison rose against their officers, released the comrades who had been jailed for refusing the new cartridges, and marched to Delhi, where they proclaimed Bahadur Shah Zafar their emperor.
Read the full explanation →Bangabhaban is the official residence of the President of which country?
Bangabhaban in Dhaka is the official residence of the President of Bangladesh. The name itself carries the clue, since Banga is the old name of the Bengal region, and the building served earlier as the residence of the governor of East Bengal.
Read the full explanation →The Potala Palace, the historic winter palace of the Dalai Lamas, is located in which city?
The Potala Palace rises above Lhasa, the chief city of Tibet, and was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from the seventeenth century.
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