Railway GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is B, the Gangetic river dolphin, declared the National Aquatic Animal in 2009; it is nearly blind and navigates by echolocation, and Project Dolphin was announced in 2020 for its conservation along with other river and marine dolphins.

The correct answer is B, the elephant, declared the National Heritage Animal in 2010 in recognition of its place in Indian culture and of the need to protect its habitat and corridors; Project Elephant had already been launched for it in 1992.

The cheetah is the only large mammal India is known to have lost in historical times, and the government declared it extinct in the country in 1952, a few years after the last wild Asiatic cheetahs were shot.

Kuno was chosen for its open grassland and scrub, the habitat a cheetah hunts in, and for its prey base of chital and chinkara.

It was created by the amendment of the Wild Life (Protection) Act in 2006, which gave Project Tiger a statutory footing, and it approves tiger conservation plans, notifies core and buffer areas with the states and conducts the national tiger estimation.

Project Tiger began on 1 April 1973 with a small group of reserves, Jim Corbett among the first, and introduced the idea of a strictly protected core area with a buffer zone of regulated use around it.

Habeas corpus is refused where the detention is lawful, where the proceeding is for the contempt of a legislature or a court, where the detention has been ordered by a competent court, and where the detention is outside the territorial jurisdiction of the court approached.

Article 32 appears in Part III and is a Fundamental Right in its own right, which is why a petition under it cannot be refused once a breach of another Fundamental Right is established.

Judicial review, together with the independence of the judiciary, the removal of judges by impeachment, the written preamble and Fundamental Rights, is among the features the makers of the Indian Constitution took from the American system, where the Supreme Court asserted the power in Marbury v. Madison in 1803.

In Minerva Mills v. Union of India the Supreme Court struck down the provisions inserted by the 42nd Amendment Act of 1976 which had declared that no constitutional amendment could be called in question in any court and had given Parliament unlimited amending power, holding that both judicial review and…

Article 226 empowers every High Court to issue directions, orders or writs, including the five writs, for the enforcement of Fundamental Rights and for any other purpose, and that last phrase is what makes the High Court's writ jurisdiction wider than the Supreme Court's. Option A is wrong because Article…

Quo warranto, meaning by what authority, asks a person occupying a public office to show the legal basis of the claim to it, and because an unlawful occupation of public office is a public wrong, the courts allow any interested person to apply, not merely one who has suffered a…

Mandamus means we command, and it is issued to a public body or official to perform a public duty that it has refused to perform.

Prohibition means to forbid. It is issued by a superior court to a lower court or a tribunal to stop it from continuing with a proceeding that lies beyond its jurisdiction, so by its nature it can be directed only at bodies exercising judicial or quasi-judicial functions, never at an…

Article 32 guarantees the right to move the Supreme Court for the enforcement of Fundamental Rights and empowers the Court to issue directions, orders and writs for that purpose, which is why it is titled the right to constitutional remedies and why Dr B. R. Ambedkar described it as the…

Habeas corpus can be issued by the Supreme Court under Article 32, where it is a remedy for the breach of the Fundamental Right to personal liberty, and by every High Court under Article 226, which covers Fundamental Rights and any other purpose as well.

Certiorari is Latin for to be certified or to be informed, and the writ does exactly that: a higher court calls up the record of a case from a lower court or tribunal, either to transfer the matter to itself or to quash an order already passed because of excess…

Nagabhata I founded the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty in the eighth century in the region of Malwa and Rajasthan and is remembered for checking the Arab advance from Sindh, a success the inscriptions describe in heroic terms.

Pulakeshin I founded the Chalukya dynasty of Badami in the middle of the sixth century, made Vatapi, the modern Badami in Karnataka, his capital, and performed the Ashvamedha sacrifice.

The Satavahanas, who rose in the Deccan after the Mauryas, were founded by Simuka and ruled from Pratishthana, the modern Paithan on the Godavari in Maharashtra; their greatest king, Gautamiputra Satakarni, is praised in the Nashik inscription of his mother Gautami Balashri.