Railway GK Questions 2026

Appointed in 1957 to examine the working of the community development programme, it reported that development could not succeed without democratic decentralisation and recommended a three-tier structure: the gram panchayat at the village level, the panchayat samiti at the block level and the zila parishad at the district level, with…

The First Backward Classes Commission was appointed in January 1953 under Article 340 with Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar, known as Kaka Kalelkar, as chairman, and it submitted its report in 1955.

Every major Indian education commission has held that a child learns best in the language spoken at home.

The Second Backward Classes Commission, known as the Mandal Commission after its chairman Bindheshwari Prasad Mandal, was appointed on the first of January 1979 by the Janata Party government of Morarji Desai under Article 340 of the Constitution.

A fifty-one per cent attack is one in which a single party commands a majority of the resource that decides consensus, which is the mining power in a proof of work chain and the staked coins in a proof of stake chain.

The Central American country passed a Bitcoin Law in June 2021 and became, in September 2021, the first state anywhere to give bitcoin the status of legal tender alongside the United States dollar, which it already used as its currency.

The digital rupee, written as e-rupee, is the digital form of sovereign currency issued by the Reserve Bank of India.

From July 2022 a person paying any consideration for the transfer of a virtual digital asset must deduct tax at source at one per cent of that consideration, a provision introduced by the Finance Act of 2022 so that the tax department can see the volume and the parties in…

The Finance Act of 2022 inserted a definition of the virtual digital asset into the Income Tax Act and taxed income from the transfer of such an asset at a flat thirty per cent, plus the applicable surcharge and cess.

A blockchain is a ledger whose identical copies are held by many nodes, with new entries grouped into blocks, each linked to the previous one by its hash, and added only when the network agrees by a consensus rule.

The transactions in a block are hashed in pairs, the resulting hashes are hashed in pairs again, and the process repeats until a single hash remains; that hash is the Merkle root, named after Ralph Merkle, and it is stored in the block header.

Ethereum was described by Vitalik Buterin in a white paper of 2013 and the network went live in 2015.

In proof of work, the computers called miners compete to find a nonce that makes the hash of the proposed block meet a difficulty target.

The bitcoin protocol fixes the total supply at twenty-one million coins. New coins enter circulation only as the reward paid to whoever adds a block, and that reward is halved every two hundred and ten thousand blocks, which works out to roughly every four years, so issuance falls geometrically towards…

Bitcoin uses the SHA-256 hash function, part of the Secure Hash Algorithm family, which turns an input of any length into a fixed output of two hundred and fifty-six bits.

The paper titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System was circulated in 2008 under the name Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonym whose owner has never been established, and it set out how a chain of hashed blocks and proof of work could prevent double spending without any trusted third party.

Like the Rajya Sabha, a Legislative Council is a continuing body: it is not subject to dissolution, each member holds office for six years, and one-third of the members retire every second year, so the house is renewed in stages.

Article 170 provides that the Legislative Assembly of a state shall consist of not more than five hundred and not fewer than sixty members chosen by direct election from territorial constituencies, with lower minimums permitted by law for small states such as Goa, Sikkim and Mizoram.

The jurisdiction of the Kerala High Court, which sits at Kochi, extends over the state of Kerala and the union territory of Lakshadweep, whose capital is Kavaratti.

When the old High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad was bifurcated with effect from the first of January 2019, the Telangana High Court continued at Hyderabad and a separate High Court for Andhra Pradesh began functioning at Amaravati.