Railway GK Questions 2026

Each hexadecimal digit stands for exactly four binary digits, so a two-digit hex number becomes an eight-bit binary number. Here C is 12 in decimal, which is 1100 in binary, and 6 is 0110.

The atomic number of an element is by definition the number of protons in its nucleus, so an atomic number of 11 means 11 protons.

Flash memory, ROM and a hard drive all keep their contents after the power is switched off, and that is exactly what non-volatile means.

Two laws of 2011 did the work together: the Orissa (Alteration of Name) Act changed the name of the state to Odisha, and the Constitution (113th Amendment) Act changed Oriya to Odia in the Eighth Schedule, which lists the languages of India.

Odissi grew out of the temple dance of Odisha, from the Mahari tradition of women dancers in the Jagannath temple and the Gotipua tradition of boys dressed as girls dancing outside it, and its sculptural poses echo the carvings of Konark and Bhubaneswar.

The Sukinda valley in the Jajpur district holds the bulk of India chromite, the ore of chromium used in stainless steel and in chrome plating, and the belt is the reason India figures at all in world chromite output.

The Gahirmatha coast of the Kendrapara district, a marine sanctuary adjoining Bhitarkanika, holds the largest known nesting ground of the Olive Ridley sea turtle, where lakhs of females come ashore together in the mass nesting called arribada.

Rourkela, in the Sundargarh district, was built with West German collaboration under the Second Five Year Plan and was the first integrated steel plant set up in the public sector in India.

Deomali, in the Koraput district of southern Odisha, rises to about one thousand six hundred and seventy two metres and is the highest point in the state.

Hirakud was built across the Mahanadi above Sambalpur, work beginning in 1947 and the project being dedicated in 1957, and it stands as independent India first major multipurpose river valley project.

The Sun Temple at Konark was raised in the thirteenth century by Narasimhadeva I of the Eastern Ganga dynasty, conceived as the chariot of the sun god with twenty four carved wheels drawn by seven horses.

The Hathigumpha or elephant cave inscription, cut into the Udayagiri hill near Bhubaneswar, is the record of Kharavela, the Jain king of the Mahameghavahana line of Kalinga.

The Mauryan emperor Ashoka invaded Kalinga in about the eighth year of his reign, around 261 BCE, and the slaughter it caused turned him to Buddhism and to the policy of dhamma.

Chilika, spread along the coast of the Puri, Khordha and Ganjam districts, is the largest brackish water lagoon in India, cut off from the Bay of Bengal by a long sandbar.

Orissa was separated from the Bihar and Orissa Province and made a province in its own right on 1 April 1936, and the day is kept every year as Utkal Divas.

The failure of the Palai Central Bank of Kerala in 1960, coming on top of trouble at other small banks, badly shook public confidence and pushed Parliament into passing the Deposit Insurance Act, 1961, under which cover began on 1 January 1962.

Insurance with the Corporation is compulsory for all commercial banks, including the branches of foreign banks working in India, for local area banks and regional rural banks, for payments banks and small finance banks, and for state, central and primary urban co-operative banks.

Every account a depositor holds in the same right and the same capacity in one bank is added together, across all its branches, and the five lakh rupee limit is then applied to that total of principal and interest.

The Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (Amendment) Act, 2021 created an interim payment so that the depositors of a bank placed under all inclusive directions need not wait for the bank to be wound up.

The Act allows the Corporation, with the previous approval of the Reserve Bank of India, to raise the premium only as far as fifteen paise a year for every hundred rupees of assessable deposits, so fifteen paise is the statutory ceiling.