Railway GK Questions 2026

In February 2019, on the direction of the Government, the pricing authority capped trade margins on 42 selected non-scheduled anti-cancer drugs, using Paragraph 19 of the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013.

Two bodies have distinct roles here, and the question turns on telling them apart.

The Department of Pharmaceuticals expects the cap on margins for non-scheduled anti-cancer medicines to save patients about Rs 2,500 crore every year, mainly by reducing what they spend from their own pockets on treatment.

The Government has approved a ceiling on the margins charged while non-scheduled anti-cancer medicines move through the supply chain to the patient, and that ceiling is fixed at 30 per cent of the MRP.

Wood Despatch of 1854 was a scheme of education, and it is often called the Magna Carta of English education in India.

A cell whose nucleus is well organised and bounded by a nuclear membrane is called a eukaryotic cell. The word comes from the Greek eu, meaning true, and karyon, meaning kernel or nucleus.

Indian forces entered Goa in December 1961 in Operation Vijay, ending four and a half centuries of Portuguese rule. The Portuguese had held Goa since 1510, when Afonso de Albuquerque took it, and they refused to leave after 1947 even though the French had handed over their settlements.

Atomic number 59 is praseodymium, a lanthanide, and the lanthanides and actinides together make up the f-block. A block is named after the sub-shell that the last electron enters.

Silica, or silicon dioxide, is one of the chief mineral constituents of the continental crust of the earth. The continental crust is made largely of granitic rock, which geologists call sial because silica and alumina dominate it.

Jawaharlal Nehru hoisted the national flag over the Lahori Gate of the Red Fort on 15 August 1947, and every Prime Minister has addressed the nation from its ramparts on Independence Day since.

The Chinese pilgrim Hiuen Tsang reached Kanchi around 640 CE, when Narasimhavarman I was on the Pallava throne. Narasimhavarman I, who ruled about 630 to 668 CE, took the title Mamalla, meaning great wrestler, and gave his name to Mamallapuram.

Concrete is the building material made by mixing cement with coarse aggregate such as gravel, fine aggregate such as sand, and water.

These monsoon forests cover the largest part of India, so they are the most widespread forest type in the country.

Gandhi started Indian Opinion at Durban in 1903 to put the case of Indians settled in South Africa before the public.

Gautamiputra Satakarni was the greatest ruler of the Satavahana dynasty, which held the Deccan in the 2nd century CE. He ruled roughly from 106 to 130 CE, with Pratishthana (modern Paithan on the Godavari) as his capital.

On the east, India has a land boundary with Myanmar and Bangladesh. India shares land borders with seven countries.

The Garo, Khasi and Jaintia hills lie in Meghalaya and together form the Meghalaya plateau. This plateau is a detached block of the peninsular plateau, separated from the main Chota Nagpur plateau by the Malda gap.

Four Indian states touch Bhutan: Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. The India-Bhutan boundary is about 699 kilometres long.

The Khetri copper belt lies in the Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, in the north-eastern part of the state. Khetri is the best known copper field of India and is worked by Hindustan Copper Limited.

Aluminium is the most abundant metal in the crust of the earth, making up about eight per cent of it by weight.