Railway GK Questions 2026

BEE is an attached statutory body of the Ministry of Power, and its Governing Council is chaired by the Union Minister of Power.

That Act created the Bureau of Energy Efficiency as a statutory body and gave it the power to prescribe efficiency standards, run the labelling programme and prepare the building code; the Bureau came into existence on 1 March 2002 under the Ministry of Power.

The correct answer is A, C-DAC, Pune, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, which besides building India's PARAM series of supercomputers created the GIST range of Indian language technology, including the add-on card and software that let ordinary computers display and print Indian scripts, and the LEAP Office suite…

The Technology Development for Indian Languages programme, known as TDIL, develops and distributes fonts, dictionaries, corpora, optical character recognition, speech and machine translation tools for Indian languages, and it maintains a data centre from which these resources are shared.

Every Devanagari consonant carries an inherent short vowel, and the virama cancels it, giving the bare consonant; when a bare consonant is followed by another consonant the rendering engine joins the two into a conjunct or half form, which is why the virama is the key character in Devanagari text…

Standard ASCII uses seven bits, and two raised to the power seven is 128, which covers the uppercase and lowercase English letters, the ten digits, punctuation and thirty-three control characters.

UTF-8 is a variable width encoding: code points up to U+007F take one byte, the next range takes two bytes, code points from U+0800 up to the end of the Basic Multilingual Plane take three bytes, and anything beyond that plane takes four.

The correct answer is A, Mangal, the Devanagari Unicode font shipped with Windows and the font that government typing tests pair with the InScript layout; later Windows versions also carry Nirmala UI, Aparajita, Kokila and Utsaah as Unicode Devanagari fonts.

Kruti Dev places Devanagari glyphs on the code positions of English letters, so the computer stores ordinary ASCII characters while the reader sees Hindi; open the file on a machine without that font and the text appears as meaningless Roman letters and symbols, and it cannot be searched or indexed.

InScript, short for Indian Script, is the standard layout notified by the Government of India and built into Windows, Linux, macOS and Android; it places vowels and matras under the left hand and consonants under the right in the dictionary order of the script, so the same layout works for…

ISCII was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards as IS 13194 in 1991; it is an 8-bit code whose lower 128 positions are the same as ASCII and whose upper 128 positions carry an Indian script, a single table serving ten scripts because they share the phonetic order inherited…

This block of 128 code points holds the Devanagari consonants and independent vowels, the dependent vowel signs or matras, the virama, the nukta, the danda and double danda, and the Devanagari digits; characters added later sit in a separate Devanagari Extended block.

The correct answer is A, the Unicode Consortium, a non-profit body of software companies, governments and individual experts that publishes the Unicode Standard, assigns code points to characters and releases a new version with new scripts and symbols from time to time.

The correct answer is A, Pandharpur, on the Bhima river in Solapur district, where Vithoba or Vitthal, a form of Vishnu, is enshrined; Warkaris walk there in the great pilgrimage procession called the wari, carrying the palanquins of their saints, and the sect produced Jnaneshwar, Namdev, Eknath and Tukaram with…

The Dasha Mahavidyas are the ten great forms of the goddess in Tantric Shaktism, the list beginning with Kali and Tara and including Tripura Sundari, Bhuvaneshvari, Bhairavi, Chhinnamasta, Dhumavati, Bagalamukhi, Matangi and Kamala.

The Devi Mahatmya, known also as the Durga Saptashati or Chandi Path from its seven hundred verses, is a section of that Purana; it narrates the goddess slaying Mahishasura, Shumbha and Nishumbha, and is recited through Navaratri, which is why it is treated as the first full statement of the…

The correct answer is A, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the sixteenth century Bengali saint whose movement is called Gaudiya Vaishnavism after Gauda, the old name of Bengal; its philosophy of Achintya Bheda Abheda holds the soul to be inconceivably both different from and identical with God, and its practice is the congregational…

The correct answer is B, Ramanuja, who taught Vishishtadvaita or qualified non-dualism, in which the individual soul and the world are real and dependent on God rather than illusory, and who organised Sri Vaishnavism around Srirangam, giving the Tamil hymns of the Alvars a place beside Sanskrit scripture.

The correct answer is A, Basavanna, a minister and social reformer who led the Lingayat movement, gathered thinkers in the assembly called the Anubhava Mantapa, and whose followers wear a personal ishtalinga and reject caste, priesthood and temple ritual; the movement's literature is the body of Kannada vachana poems by…

The correct answer is B, Andal, the only woman among the twelve Alvars, whose Tiruppavai and Nachiyar Tirumozhi are sung in Vaishnava temples, especially in the month of Margazhi, and who is worshipped at Srivilliputhur.