Railway GK Questions 2026

He founded ISKCON in New York in 1966. Born Abhay Charan De in Calcutta in 1896, he sailed to the United States at the age of sixty-nine with a few rupees and a trunk of books, and began chanting the Hare Krishna mantra in a park in Manhattan.

The 1983 Cricket World Cup was hosted by England, and the final was played at Lord's in London. India, led by Kapil Dev, beat the West Indies by 43 runs in that final on 25 June 1983, scoring only 183 and then bowling the holders out for 140.

CFCs release chlorine in the stratosphere, and that chlorine destroys ozone. CFCs were used as refrigerants, in aerosol sprays and in foam.

Muga silk is produced only in Assam and is the state's best known textile. It comes from the semi-domesticated silkworm Antheraea assamensis, which feeds on som and soalu leaves in the Brahmaputra valley.

It was started in Calcutta in 1780 and was the first printed newspaper in India. James Augustus Hicky brought it out as a weekly and called it the Bengal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser.

Barium compounds such as barium nitrate give fireworks and signal flares a bright green flame. The colour comes from a flame test.

He painted 'My Mother', a portrait done in the soft wash technique he made famous.

Expanding exports, drawing in investment and gaining easier access to markets abroad were all described as contributions towards that goal for Uttar Pradesh.

Greater Noida also figures in the speech for another reason worth remembering, the expansion of a large robotics manufacturing facility there, which the Minister offered as an illustration of modern industrial growth in the state.

The state's annual exports stand at roughly Rs 2 lakh crore at present, and the stated goal is to take that figure to Rs 5 lakh crore by 2030, which means more than doubling the value of goods sold abroad.

The purpose is twofold: the armed forces get their missiles delivered on time, and DRDO is freed to concentrate on research and development while industry takes up the production load.

The comparison the Minister drew is the part worth memorising: the same allocation stood at around Rs 2.53 lakh crore in 2013-14, which makes option A a real figure but from the wrong year, and therefore the most attractive distractor in the set.

After the earlier goal of Rs 30,000 crore in annual defence exports was met in the previous year, the government fixed a higher goal of Rs 50,000 crore to be reached by 2029.

Supplies went to more than 100 countries, which is why the Defence Minister described the country as moving from being an importer to a trusted global supplier.

India works 12 major ports and 217 non-major ports, so the total covers both categories together.

Claims up to that level are met from the pool's accumulated reserves together with its reinsurance recoveries, and the government's guarantee is activated only once those reserves have been completely used up.

The correct answer is the General Insurance Corporation of India, better known as GIC Re, which has taken charge as Pool Manager and Administrator and handles the pool's day-to-day running, its performance reporting and its operational systems.

This is the total value of risk the pool is able to write, and it makes the pool the first domestic maritime insurance arrangement of that size in India.

The Constitution (First Amendment) Act was passed in 1951, a little over a year after the Constitution came into force.

The ending 'al' marks an aldehyde, so propanal is the three-carbon aldehyde, CH3CH2CHO. An aldehyde carries the group -CHO at the end of the carbon chain, with the carbonyl carbon attached to a hydrogen.