Railway GK Questions 2026

Amul, the brand of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation born out of the Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union at Anand, uses The Taste of India.

Tata Steel, set up at Jamshedpur in 1907 as Tata Iron and Steel Company, used the line We Also Make Steel to say that besides steel it had built a town, schools, hospitals and institutions, so the product was only part of the story.

Bank of India, founded at Mumbai in 1906 by a group of businessmen and nationalised in 1969, uses Relationships Beyond Banking.

Union Bank of India, which was inaugurated at Mumbai in 1919 by Mahatma Gandhi, uses Good People to Bank With.

Canara Bank, founded at Mangaluru in 1906 by Ammembal Subba Rao Pai, uses Together We Can, and the line is easy to fix in memory because the last word repeats the bank's own name.

Bank of Baroda, founded in 1908 by Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda, calls itself India's International Bank because it has long carried the widest network of overseas branches among Indian public sector banks.

Punjab National Bank, founded at Lahore in 1894 and the first Indian bank started wholly with Indian capital, uses the line The Name You Can Bank Upon, which plays on the word bank as both a noun and a verb.

The Ranji Trophy, begun in 1934-35 and named after Ranjitsinhji, is India's premier first-class cricket championship, played between teams representing states and a few institutional sides selected by the BCCI, not between privately owned city franchises.

The Hockey India League began in 2013 under Hockey India, and Ranchi Rhinos won the first final; the league was notable for buying the world's best players at auction and for bringing international hockey to Indian cities for several weeks each winter.

Ultimate Kho Kho was launched in 2022 as the first franchise league for kho kho, and the Odisha Juggernauts won the inaugural season.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India launched the Women's Premier League in 2023 with five franchises, and Mumbai Indians won the first final against Delhi Capitals at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.

The Kolkata franchise, then partnered with the Spanish club Atletico Madrid, beat Kerala Blasters in the 2014 final with a goal in stoppage time, and the club was later renamed ATK.

The Indian Super League was launched in 2014 with franchises in eight cities and is run under the All India Football Federation, which from the 2019-20 season recognised it as the country's top football division, with the I-League below it.

Jaipur Pink Panthers won the inaugural Pro Kabaddi League final of 2014 against U Mumba, and the team's association with a film star owner gave the new league much of its early publicity.

The Pro Kabaddi League began in 2014, organised by Mashal Sports along with the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India, and it was built deliberately on the franchise model of the IPL, with city teams, a player auction and a television contract.

Rajasthan Royals, led by the Australian leg spinner Shane Warne, won the 2008 final against Chennai Super Kings at the Dr D. Y. Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, and they remain the only team to win the title in the league's first attempt with the smallest purse of that season.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India announced the Twenty20 league in 2007 and the first season was played in 2008, with Lalit Modi as the first chairman and commissioner.

India keeps 2 December as National Pollution Control Day because the leak of methyl isocyanate at Bhopal began on the night of 2 December 1984; the day is used to review pollution control laws and to remember those killed.

Parliament passed it under Article 253, to give effect to the Stockholm Conference decisions, and in the direct shadow of the Bhopal leak of December 1984.

The Tohoku earthquake of 11 March 2011 shut the reactors down as designed, but the tsunami that arrived minutes later flooded the emergency diesel generators at the Fukushima Daiichi plant on Japan's Pacific coast.