Railway GK Questions 2026

That is the count the Ministry of Home Affairs gave for the period from 2019 up to August 2026, during which returning absconders was pursued as a national priority through global outreach, close coordination between agencies and diplomacy.

That was the false name under which the narco-trafficking kingpin secured citizenship of Türkiye, and behind it he continued sending heroin and methamphetamine into India from Afghanistan.

Navpreet Singh, named by the Ministry of Home Affairs as a hardened kingpin of the narcotics trade, had settled in Türkiye and taken Turkish nationality under the invented identity of Navab Virk.

Passed after the Revolt of 1857, this Act ended the rule of the East India Company and transferred the government of India to the Crown.

At Mehrgarh the excavators found the remains of square and rectangular houses built of hand-made mud bricks, each divided into small compartments that appear to have been used to store grain.

The petiole is the stalk that joins a leaf blade to the stem; it belongs to the leaf, not to the flower, and a leaf without one is called sessile.

An aquifer is a body of rock or loose sediment that is both saturated with groundwater and permeable enough to let that water move freely, so a well sunk into it keeps yielding water.

Potassium permanganate is a neutral compound, so the oxidation numbers of all its atoms must add up to zero. Potassium, an alkali metal, is always +1, and each of the four oxygen atoms is -2, giving the oxygens a total of -8.

The Goods and Services Tax was announced for the first time in the Union Budget for 2006-07, presented by the then Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, who proposed 1 April 2010 as the date for rolling it out.

The Sabarmati rises in the Aravalli Range in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan, then flows south-west across Gujarat and empties into the Gulf of Khambhat in the Arabian Sea after a course of about 371 km.

Coulomb friction, also called dry friction, is the resistance that acts when two solid surfaces touch each other with no lubricant between them.

In electroplating the article to be coated is made the cathode, the plating metal serves as the anode, and both are dipped in an electrolyte containing a salt of that metal.

Balance is controlled by the inner ear, which holds the vestibular apparatus alongside the organ of hearing. It is made of three semicircular canals set at right angles to one another and two small sacs, the utricle and the saccule.

The speed of any wave is its frequency multiplied by its wavelength, so here 200 Hz times 2 m gives 400 metres per second.

HTTP, the HyperText Transfer Protocol, is the application-layer protocol a browser uses to ask a web server for a page and to receive the HTML, images and scripts that make it up.

HTML has no separate checkbox element at all. Every simple form control is written with the single input tag, and the type attribute decides what the browser draws, whether that is text, password, radio, checkbox, submit, file or hidden.

A concave lens, also called a diverging lens, spreads out the rays that fall on it and so can never bring them to a real focus.

Wetting is decided by a contest between two forces: cohesion, the attraction among the molecules of the liquid itself, and adhesion, the attraction between the liquid and the solid surface.

PPP is a data-link layer protocol that carries data directly between two nodes over a single link, such as a telephone line, a leased line or a serial cable.

Most renewable sources depend on the weather, so the power they give is intermittent rather than steady. Solar panels make nothing at night and little under thick cloud, wind turbines stop when the wind drops, and hydropower falls away in a weak monsoon.