Railway GK Questions 2026

Sonepur in Saran district stands at Harihar Kshetra, where the Gandak comes down from the north and joins the Ganga opposite Patna.

It was the capital of the Licchavi clan, the leading member of the Vajji confederacy, and its assembly of clan heads is the reason it is described as one of the earliest republics in the world.

Known to the state as Shri Babu, he became the first Chief Minister of Bihar and held the office for many years after independence.

Gandhi went to Champaran in northern Bihar in 1917 at the repeated request of the cultivator Raj Kumar Shukla, to look into the tinkathia system under which peasants had to grow indigo on a fixed part of their holding for European planters.

The Buddha attained enlightenment under the bodhi tree on the bank of the Falgu at Bodh Gaya in the Gaya district.

It lies in the West Champaran district on the border with Nepal, in the basin of the Gandak, and forms the core of the Valmiki Tiger Reserve, the only tiger reserve of the state.

The Kosi rises in Nepal, carries an enormous load of Himalayan silt and keeps raising its own bed, so it spills over and abandons its channel again and again.

Jharkhand was created on 15 November 2000, the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda, out of the southern plateau districts of Bihar.

On 22 March 1912 the province of Bihar and Orissa was carved out of the Bengal Presidency, which gave Bihar a separate administrative identity for the first time.

The Reserve Bank opened at Calcutta in 1935 and moved its central office permanently to Bombay two years later, which is where the Governor sits and where policy is announced.

It makes the Reserve Bank the designated authority for the regulation and supervision of payment systems in India, so that no person may operate a payment system without its authorisation.

Since 1957 India has followed the Minimum Reserve System of note issue, under which the Reserve Bank must keep assets worth at least two hundred crore rupees against the notes in circulation, of which gold must be worth at least one hundred and fifteen crore rupees and the remainder may…

It is the classic central bank function: when a bank is solvent but short of cash and neither the market nor other banks will lend to it, the Reserve Bank lends against eligible securities so that a local shortage does not turn into a general panic and a run on…

The Committee was created by the amendment of the Reserve Bank of India Act in 2016.

The one rupee note is issued by the Government of India through the Ministry of Finance and carries the signature of the Finance Secretary, not of the Governor.

He was the first Governor of the Reserve Bank, taking charge when the Bank opened in 1935, and he had earlier been a managing governor of the Imperial Bank of India.

Formally the Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance, it reported in 1926 and recommended that the currency and credit functions then divided between the Government and the Imperial Bank be placed in a single central bank.

The Reserve Bank of India Act was passed in 1934 and the Bank began work on the first day of April in the following year, with its central office at Calcutta.

Policy rates are announced by the Reserve Bank, and since 2016 the decision is taken by its Monetary Policy Committee of six members under the chairmanship of the Governor.

The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 is the statute that created the Bank and it carries the provisions on the custody and deployment of the country's foreign exchange reserves, which the Bank holds and invests.