Railway GK Questions 2026

Oil was struck at Digboi in the upper Assam valley in the nineteenth century, the first successful well in India, and the refinery built beside it is the oldest working refinery in the country.

The Koderma and Gaya belt, spread over Jharkhand and Bihar, is the richest mica producing area of India, and Nellore in Andhra Pradesh and the Ajmer region of Rajasthan follow it.

The Khetri belt in the Jhunjhunu region of Rajasthan is one of India's main copper mining areas, the other being Malanjkhand in Madhya Pradesh, with Singhbhum in Jharkhand as the third.

The Panchpatmali plateau in the Koraput region of Odisha carries thick beds of bauxite, the ore from which aluminium is obtained, and the refinery and smelter complexes of the region were built to use it.

Magnetite is the finest quality of iron ore, black in colour, with excellent magnetic properties, which is why it is valued in the electrical industry as well as in steel making.

The Bailadila range in the Dantewada region of southern Chhattisgarh holds high grade haematite, and its ore has long been carried by a dedicated line to the port of Visakhapatnam for export as well as to the steel plants of the region.

The Neyveli field in the Cuddalore region of Tamil Nadu is the country's best known lignite mine, worked by open cast methods, and the thermal stations built beside it burn the lignite where it is dug because this soft brown coal is not worth carrying far.

It is the hardest and most lustrous coal, holds the highest percentage of carbon, gives the greatest heat and burns almost without smoke.

The International Court of Justice sits in the Peace Palace at The Hague in the Netherlands, and it is the only principal organ of the United Nations not based in New York.

By the middle of 1991 India's foreign exchange reserves had fallen to about one billion dollars, enough to pay for only about two weeks of imports, and the country stood close to default on its external payments.

BIMSTEC, the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, has seven members: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

The circular flow of income in a simple economy has only two sectors, households and firms, and it shows two streams running in opposite directions.

Article 350-B provides that there shall be a Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities appointed by the President, and the post is known in practice as the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities.

Stagflation is the awkward state in which prices keep rising while output stagnates and unemployment stays high, so the usual trade-off between inflation and unemployment breaks down.

Mayonnaise is an emulsion: very small droplets of oil are beaten into a watery liquid of egg yolk with vinegar or lemon juice, and the droplets stay spread out instead of separating into a layer.

The Seventh Constitutional Amendment Act, 1956 inserted this article on the recommendation of the States Reorganisation Commission and created the office of the Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities, known in practice as the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities.

Coal India, the largest coal producing company in the world, was granted Maharatna status in 2011 and remains on the list.

Stoichiometry is the branch of chemistry that measures how much of each reactant is used up and how much of each product is formed in a reaction, working from the balanced chemical equation.

Article 165 of the Constitution says the Governor shall appoint a person qualified to be a judge of a High Court as the Advocate General of the state, and he is the highest law officer of the state, the counterpart of the Attorney General at the Centre.

In the Gupta and post-Gupta period the empire was divided into bhuktis, which were provinces, and inscriptions call the governor of a bhukti an uparika or uparika-maharaja, usually a prince or a trusted noble.