Railway GK Questions 2026

Bhartiya Rail Bijlee Company Limited was formed as a joint venture between NTPC and the Ministry of Railways to build a coal fired station at Nabinagar in Aurangabad district, with most of its power dedicated to the traction and other needs of the railways.

Barauni in Begusarai district grew into an industrial centre around its oil refinery and fertiliser works, and the thermal station built there in the early decades after independence was the first large generating station of the state.

The Kahalgaon super thermal power station, run by NTPC, stands at Kahalgaon on the Ganga in Bhagalpur district of eastern Bihar, close to the coal routes from the Jharkhand and Bengal fields and to the river that supplies its cooling water.

The Tirhut canal is the main eastern canal of the Gandak project and takes its name from the old Tirhut region of north Bihar.

The Kosi comes down from Nepal carrying an enormous load of silt, drops it on the flat plain and so keeps raising its own bed.

The Kosi barrage stands at Bhimnagar in Supaul district, where the river enters India from Nepal.

The Gandak barrage was built at Valmiki Nagar in West Champaran district, on the border with Nepal, under an agreement between the two countries.

Dehri on Sone lies in Rohtas district, and the Indrapuri barrage was built there in place of the old anicut, being completed in 1968.

Work on the Sone began in the colonial period with an anicut across the river at Dehri in Rohtas district, and the system has been extended ever since, the Indrapuri barrage replacing the old anicut in 1968.

The correct answer is B, Pavapuri, in Nalanda district of Bihar, where a marble temple stands in a lotus tank at the spot held to be the place of his nirvana; Diwali is observed by Jains as the anniversary of that event.

The Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew scripture, is kept as a scroll in the synagogue and read aloud in worship; Judaism traces itself to Abraham and Moses and holds Jerusalem as its holy city.

The correct answer is A, the Bahai faith, founded by Bahaullah in nineteenth century Persia, whose scripture is the Kitab-i-Aqdas and whose Indian house of worship is the marble building at New Delhi shaped like a lotus in bloom, open to people of every religion and holding no images.

The migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina in the year 622 is called the Hijra, and the Islamic lunar calendar counts its years from it, which is why its years are marked Hijri.

The correct answer is B, Confucius, the Chinese teacher whose conversations and sayings were gathered by his disciples into the Analects, a work on duty, family order, learning and good government that shaped Chinese official life for centuries.

The correct answer is B, agiary, the Parsi fire temple in which a consecrated flame is kept burning as the symbol of truth and purity; the highest grade of such a temple is called an Atash Behram, and most of them in India are in Gujarat and Mumbai, where Parsi…

The correct answer is A, Rishabhanatha, also called Adinath, the first of the twenty-four Tirthankaras of the present age, whose symbol is the bull and who is mentioned even in some Hindu texts.

The correct answer is C, Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Guru, who compiled the Adi Granth in 1604 and installed it in the Harmandir Sahib at Amritsar.

The correct answer is B, Zoroastrianism, the faith founded by Zoroaster in ancient Persia and followed in India by the Parsis, whose place of worship is the fire temple or agiary and whose scripture is the Zend Avesta.

The correct answer is C, Sarnath, near Varanasi, where the Buddha preached to his first five disciples in the deer park; the event is called the Dharmachakrapravartana, the turning of the wheel of law, and it is from the Sarnath lion capital that India took its state emblem.

The Tripitaka, meaning three baskets, is the Buddhist canon written in Pali and divided into the Vinaya Pitaka on monastic discipline, the Sutta Pitaka of the Buddha's discourses and the Abhidhamma Pitaka of philosophical analysis.