Railway GK Questions 2026

The International Mobile Equipment Identity is a fifteen-digit number assigned to every handset, made up of a code identifying the type approval of the model, a serial part and a final check digit.

The SIM is a small smart card issued by the operator that stores the subscriber identity, the authentication keys used to prove that identity to the network, and a limited amount of contact and message data.

A telephone conversation requires both parties to speak and listen at the same time, so a mobile link must carry traffic in both directions together.

LTE is the radio access technology of fourth generation mobile networks, standardised by the Third Generation Partnership Project.

A nineteenth century scholar and reformer, he compiled Hemkosh, which was the first Assamese dictionary to be arranged on etymological lines and which fixed much of the modern spelling of the language; the work was published after his death.

Manvini Bhavai is his novel of rural Gujarat during a devastating famine, written from the inside of peasant life, and it is the work for which he received the Jnanpith Award.

A leading writer of the Jonaki era that began with the magazine of that name in 1889, he wrote humour, satire, plays and the much loved collection of folk tales Burhi Aair Sadhu, meaning Grandmother Tales, and he composed O Mur Apunar Desh, which is now the state song of…

The fifteenth and sixteenth century Vaishnava saint founded the Ekasarana faith and shaped much of Assamese cultural life: he composed the devotional songs known as Borgeet, wrote the one-act plays called Ankiya Nat that are staged as Bhaona, gave rise to the dance tradition now called Sattriya, and wrote the…

Writing in the fourteenth century, he put the Ramayana into Assamese verse in seven books, which is what the name Saptakanda records, and the work is counted among the first translations of the epic into any modern Indian language.

He is called the father of Odia fiction and of modern Odia prose and is titled Utkala Byasa Kabi, and his novel Chha Mana Atha Guntha is a sharp, ironic account of how a scheming landlord dispossesses a poor weaver couple of their small plot of land.

The fifteenth century poet composed the Odia Mahabharata, along with the Chandi Purana and the Vilanka Ramayana, and in writing the epic in the speech of ordinary people rather than in Sanskrit he earned the title Adikavi, the first poet of Odia.

Her poem Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu calls on the old poet of Heer to speak again over the suffering of Partition, her novel Pinjar tells the story of an abducted woman of those years, and she received the Jnanpith Award in 1981 for the collection Kagaz Te Canvas.

His Heer, composed in 1766, is the version of the tragic love story of Heer and Ranjha that is still sung and quoted across Punjab, and it is the answer whenever an examiner names the qissa.

He published Saraswatichandra in four parts between 1887 and 1901, and the long social novel about a learned young man and the world around him is treated as the work with which the modern Gujarati novel begins.

Narsinh Mehta was a fifteenth century devotional poet of Gujarat who is honoured as the Adi Kavi, the first poet of the language, and his bhajan Vaishnav Jan To lists the qualities of a true devotee, which is why Gandhi made it part of the daily prayer at his ashram.

Article 343(2) allowed English for only fifteen years, to 25 January 1965, and Article 343(3) left it to Parliament to continue it by law.

Article 371J, inserted by the Ninety-eighth Amendment Act, 2012, provides a separate development board for this backward region, with reservation in education and in state government posts for people domiciled there, and it is the latest addition to the 371 series.

It was inserted by the Thirteenth Amendment Act, 1962, when Nagaland was created as a state, and it protects Naga customary law and procedure, the ownership and transfer of land and its resources, and gives the Governor a special responsibility for law and order in the state.

Article 351 is a directive to the Union to promote the spread of the Hindi language and to develop it so that it may serve as a medium of expression for all the elements of the composite culture of India.

Article 348(2) allows the Governor of a state, with the previous consent of the President, to authorise the use of Hindi or of any other language used for the official purposes of the state in the proceedings of the High Court having its principal seat in that state.