Railway GK Questions 2026

All three are adaptations of desert plants (xerophytes) that cut down water loss through transpiration. Plants lose most of their water through the leaves, so desert plants change their leaves to save it.

LiFi (Light Fidelity) sends data wirelessly by switching LED light on and off far too fast for the eye to notice, and it can be many times faster than WiFi.

At the Chennai jubilee the Prime Minister said India is preparing to host the Commonwealth Games of 2030, and that alongside it the country is carrying forward the dream of hosting the Olympics in 2036.

The Prime Minister said that in the QS Rankings of 2015 only 14 universities from India found a place, and that the latest edition of those rankings carries 52 Indian names.

Speaking at the jubilee, the Prime Minister said the count of universities in the country stood at about 750 in 2014 and has since crossed 1,300, a near doubling in roughly a decade.

The institution started that year as a single small school in the West Mambalam locality of Chennai, with only seven children on its rolls, no permanent building and very limited resources.

Around 120 participants from India and other countries joined the workshop, and the gathering deliberately mixed early career researchers with senior scientists, subject experts, journal editors and professionals from a range of scientific and institutional backgrounds.

This is the stated vision guiding the Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave in its 2026 edition.

He gave the pivotal address, setting out the conclave's vision and strategic objectives and arguing that the convergence of science, technology and policy is central to India's future development and to building a strong research ecosystem.

The workshop for early career researchers, titled 'The ECR Nexus: Connecting Voices, Tools, and Science to Society', was held at IITM Pune in Meghdoot Hall, and the same event served as the curtain-raiser for the Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave.

Poppy straw is a narcotic substance covered by this law, so both the Neemuch case and the Mandsaur case were registered under its provisions and all three arrests were made under it.

When the Tata truck with a Rajasthan registration number was stopped on the Gandhisagar-Bhanpura road on 9 October 2026 and taken to the CBN office at Garoth for a detailed search, officers found 3,280.72 kg of poppy straw underneath 100 bags of wheat that were being carried as cover cargo.

The Madhya Pradesh unit of the Central Bureau of Narcotics ran two operations in the week to 11 October 2026, and the quantities recovered in them add up to this figure.

The two occupants of the car admitted in their statements that the gold had entered India over the Indo-Bangladesh border and was being taken to Hyderabad, which matches the Kolkata starting point of the journey.

The car revealed nothing on a first inspection, and only a long, systematic rummaging of the interior brought to light a space that had been specially fabricated beneath the leg room of the seat beside the driver.

DRI, which functions under the Ministry of Finance, is the central agency that gathers intelligence on smuggling and acts on it, and it carried out this interception at Visakhapatnam after chasing a car travelling from Kolkata towards Hyderabad.

The Prime Minister noted that the fearless voice of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan during the Emergency was itself noteworthy, placing it alongside his concern for good governance and for reaching people at the margins of society.

The Prime Minister paid homage to him on his birth anniversary, which falls on the same date as that of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan, and described him as an outstanding nation-builder who showed in thought and in action that genuine change starts at the grassroots.

The Prime Minister Office tribute issued on his birth anniversary refers to him throughout as Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan, and in short as Loknayak JP, the word meaning leader of the people.

The Ministry has said that after the Bhumi Pujan, the ceremonial groundbreaking and the unveiling of the foundation stone at Keylong, native Himalayan saplings will be planted under this initiative, and that the ceremony will also include a scientific exhibition, the launch of the institutional video and website of the…