Railway GK Questions 2026

Sulphur dioxide dissolves in rainwater to form sulphuric acid, a main cause of acid rain. Burning coal and oil in power stations, smelters and vehicles releases sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen into the air.

The so-called lead of a pencil is a mix of graphite and clay; it contains no lead metal. Graphite is a crystalline form, or allotrope, of carbon.

A liquid has no shape of its own, so it must be measured inside a vessel that expands at the same time.

G has the same value everywhere in the universe, for any two masses. The relation is Newton's law of universal gravitation: every two bodies attract each other with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

The Kelvin and Fahrenheit scales read the same at about 574.25, which is about 301 degrees Celsius. The scales are linked by K = C + 273 and F = (9/5)C + 32.

The lens of the human eye is a converging (convex) lens, not a diverging one, so statement A is not correct.

The rod becomes negative because it gains electrons from the wool. When two materials are rubbed together, only electrons move, because they are the loosely held outer particles of atoms.

This is the Clausius statement of the second law. Rudolf Clausius stated that heat cannot by itself pass from a colder body to a hotter one; work must be done to make it do so.

Jharkhand has railway divisions such as Ranchi and Dhanbad, but no zonal headquarters. Indian Railways is organised into zones, each headed by a General Manager, and every zone is split into divisions.

Bats send out ultrasonic squeaks and listen for the echoes to locate obstacles and prey. This method is called echolocation.

The Dhanbad-Jamshedpur region is known for coal, iron and steel, not cotton textiles. Cotton mills grew where raw cotton, a humid climate, capital, cheap power and markets came together.

A rainbow forms when raindrops split white sunlight into its seven colours. When sunlight enters a raindrop, it is refracted, and because each colour bends by a different amount, the colours spread apart.

Washing soda is the crystalline form of sodium carbonate, Na2CO3·10H2O, sodium carbonate decahydrate. Sodium carbonate is made from common salt by the Solvay (ammonia-soda) process.

While presenting the dividend, the Chairman-cum-Managing Director set out the corporation's results for the year: revenue of Rs 3,767 crore and profit after tax of Rs 159 crore, describing both as robust growth over the previous financial year.

The National Small Industries Corporation Limited is described as a Schedule 'A' Mini Ratna company, and it functions under the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, whose two ministers received its dividend for the year.

The Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the corporation, Dr Subhransu Sekhar Acharya, presented a dividend of that amount on 28 October 2026 to the Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Jitan Ram Manjhi, and the Minister of State, Shobha Karandlaje, with the Secretary of the ministry, Bharat Khera, and senior…

At the inauguration of the mart the Union Tourism Minister gave the growth of tourism in the region in plain numbers: domestic tourist visits to the eight north eastern states stood at 95.65 lakh in 2019 and reached 1.51 crore in 2025, which works out to a rise of roughly…

Speaking to the press at Tawang, the Union Minister for Tourism and Culture said the fourteenth edition had brought together 43 international buyers drawn from 22 countries, and he described this as the highest international buyer participation the mart has ever recorded.

The fourteenth edition of the International Tourism Mart began at Tawang on 29 October 2026 and runs for three days until 31 October.

NISHTHA stands for National Initiative for School Heads' and Teachers' Holistic Advancement, a programme to train school teachers and heads.