Railway GK Questions 2026

The Samvad is its platform for speaking directly to Gram Panchayat representatives, Village Water and Sanitation Committee members and villagers about keeping rural water supply schemes working.

The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, which works under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, organised the eleventh Sujal Gram Samvad as a virtual multilingual dialogue with Gram Panchayat representatives and village communities on operating and maintaining rural drinking water systems.

That leg, run by Train No. 64580, covers the distance in 2 hours 20 minutes, departing Saharanpur at 05:50 hrs and arriving at Meerut City at 08:10 hrs, making it the quickest of the four legs approved.

In the pair sanctioned for the Khurja section, Train No. 64573 runs from Khurja to Meerut City, leaving Khurja at 13:15 hrs and arriving at Meerut City at 17:20 hrs, a journey of 4 hours 5 minutes.

The two newly sanctioned MEMU services both begin or end at Meerut City: one pair links it with Khurja and runs as Train No. 64573/64574, and the other links it with Saharanpur and runs as Train No. 64580/64579.

A planimeter measures the area of any flat shape, however irregular its outline. The user simply traces the boundary of the shape on the map with the instrument's pointer, and a wheel and dial record the area swept, which is then multiplied by the square of the map scale.

High-speed steel is named 18-4-1 after the three metals added to it in that order: 18 per cent tungsten, 4 per cent chromium and 1 per cent vanadium, with iron making up the rest along with a little carbon.

Adrenaline, also called epinephrine, is made by the medulla of the adrenal gland and is the body's emergency hormone; it makes the heart beat faster and stronger and narrows the small blood vessels, so blood pressure rises within seconds.

The OSI model has seven layers and they are numbered from the bottom upwards, so Layer 1 is the physical layer, the one that actually carries bits over a copper cable, an optical fibre or a radio link.

The VGPP framework identifies that many types of permissible works, spread over the four thematic areas of the mission. A Viksit Gram Panchayat Plan is prepared with the participation of the Gram Sabha, which also recommends and approves it.

The Act was passed in 2025 and was brought into force on that date, after which it was rolled out in every rural area of the country.

The law provides a statutory guarantee of wage employment for 125 days in every financial year, and the guarantee is available to every rural household whose adult members volunteer for unskilled manual work.

The campaign was announced to protect soil health and the environment, and scientists together with other stakeholders are to take part in it.

Punjab in option A stands at the other end of the list with Rs 43 crore, the smallest of the ten sanctions announced.

At the conference the Union Agriculture Minister handed financial sanction letters under PM-RKVY to the agriculture ministers of ten states, and the total came to more than Rs 1200 crore.

Microfinance means small loans to poor households that banks treat as too risky, so a large loan is the opposite of the idea.

Maharashtra began its Jail Tourism scheme on 26 January 2021, Republic Day, at the Yerawada Central Jail in Pune, making it the first state in the country to open a working prison to visitors.

In the SDG India Index 2023-24, the fourth edition brought out by NITI Aayog in July 2024, the states' composite scores ran from 57 at the bottom to 79 at the top, with Uttarakhand and Kerala sharing the highest score of 79 and Bihar the lowest at 57.

The Smart Cities Mission was launched on 25 June 2015 by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for 100 cities, chosen through a two-stage City Challenge competition in which states nominated cities and the cities then sent in their own proposals.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics broke up in 1991: a failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in August that year destroyed the centre's authority, the republics declared independence one after another, and on 25 December 1991 Gorbachev resigned.