Railway GK Questions 2026

The eye of a tropical cyclone is the roughly circular column of calm, descending air at its centre, usually a few tens of kilometres across, where the pressure is lowest, the winds are light and the sky is often nearly clear.

SAGA-220 was built by the Indian Space Research Organisation in 2011 using graphics processing units, so that pair is correct.

A supercomputer's performance is stated in FLOPS, the number of floating point calculations it completes in a second, which is why the figures appear as teraflops, petaflops and exaflops; a petaflop is a thousand trillion such operations a second.

Pratyush was installed at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune in 2018, with a companion system, Mihir, at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, and the pair was acquired to run high-resolution models for monsoon forecasting, cyclone tracks and climate studies.

The National Supercomputing Mission, approved in 2015, is steered jointly by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the Department of Science and Technology, and it is implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing at Pune together with the Indian Institute of Science at Bengaluru.

PARAM Shivay, commissioned in 2019 at the Indian Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, was the first supercomputer installed under the National Supercomputing Mission, which was approved in 2015.

The Education and Research Network, ERNET, was begun in 1986 by the Department of Electronics with support from the United Nations Development Programme to link universities, the Indian Institutes of Technology and research laboratories, and it carried the first academic internet traffic in India.

ECIL was set up at Hyderabad in 1967 under the Department of Atomic Energy to make electronic equipment for the atomic energy programme, and it produced the TDC series, the Trombay Digital Computers, for laboratory and industrial use.

The HEC-2M, brought from Britain, was installed at the Indian Statistical Institute in 1955 and is counted as the first computer to work in India; the institute later added a Soviet URAL machine and in 1966 built the ISIJU with Jadavpur University.

C-DAC was established at Pune in 1988 under the Department of Electronics, with a mission to design and build an indigenous supercomputer after the United States declined to supply a Cray machine to India.

Vijay Bhatkar led the team at C-DAC that built PARAM 8000 in 1991 and is therefore described as the architect of India's PARAM series of supercomputers.

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing was set up at Pune in 1988 with the specific task of building an indigenous supercomputer after India was refused an American Cray machine, and in 1991 its team completed PARAM 8000, a parallel computer assembled from transputer processors.

The TIFR Automatic Calculator was completed at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai in 1960 and is counted as the first digital computer designed and built in India; Jawaharlal Nehru gave it the name TIFRAC.

The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway line in the world, about 9,289 km from Moscow, with through services from St. Petersburg, to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast of Russia.

Cashew does best on light, well drained, slightly acidic red laterite soil, which is why it is grown on the coastal plains and hill slopes of Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Tamil Nadu.

Onam is the harvest festival of Kerala and is kept in the Malayalam month of Chingam, which falls in August and September.

Convection is the transfer of heat by the bodily movement of the particles of a fluid. The part that is heated expands, becomes lighter and rises, and colder, denser fluid sinks to take its place, so a circulating convection current is set up.

Aihole, on the Malaprabha river in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, was the first capital of the early Chalukyas, the dynasty founded by Pulakeshin I in the sixth century.

In its middle course, over the gentle slope of the plain, a river loses the power to cut downward and begins to swing from side to side.

A desert shows the largest difference between day and night temperature, called the diurnal range, because dry sand heats up quickly in the day and the cloudless, moisture-free air lets that heat escape just as quickly after sunset.