Railway GK Questions 2026

The Reserve Bank of India began as a shareholders' bank and was taken into public ownership on 1 January 1949 under the Reserve Bank (Transfer to Public Ownership) Act, 1948.

Francis Newton Souza founded the Progressive Artists Group at Bombay in 1947 along with S. H. Raza, M. F. Husain, K. H. Ara, S. K. Bakre and H. A. Gade.

Kalamkari takes its name from kalam, a pen, and kari, work. Its two centres are Srikalahasti, where the design is drawn freehand with a bamboo pen and the subjects come from temple mythology, and Machilipatnam, where carved wooden blocks print repeated floral and Persian derived patterns.

The Hamzanama, the romance of the adventures of Amir Hamza, was the first great project of Akbar's imperial atelier and took about fifteen years, its large folios painted on cloth by a team under Mir Sayyid Ali and Abdus Samad.

He painted Bharat Mata in 1905, during the Swadeshi movement against the partition of Bengal, showing a saffron clad four armed figure holding sheaves of paddy, a white cloth, a book and a rosary, the gifts of food, clothing, learning and faith.

Kangra painting is the most lyrical of the Pahari styles and reached its height in the late eighteenth century under Raja Sansar Chand of Kangra in present day Himachal Pradesh.

Jahangir was a close observer of nature and asked his artists to record unusual birds, animals and flowers, so the single study replaced the crowded manuscript page.

Painting in oil on canvas was unknown in India before European artists and the colonial art schools brought it in during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

He was a playwright, director and actor of the modern Indian theatre, best known for Charandas Chor and for working with folk performers of Chhattisgarh in his company Naya Theatre.

The Warli are a tribal community of the Palghar and Thane districts of northern Maharashtra, on the border of Gujarat.

The Bodhisattva Padmapani, holding a blue lotus, is painted on the left wall of the antechamber of Cave 1 at Ajanta in Maharashtra, with the Bodhisattva Vajrapani facing him.

Bani Thani was painted by Nihal Chand in the eighteenth century at Kishangarh in Rajasthan, under Raja Savant Singh, who wrote devotional poetry under the name Nagari Das.

Madhubani painting, also called Mithila painting, belongs to the Mithila region of northern Bihar around the districts of Madhubani and Darbhanga.

The US Open is played at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in the Flushing Meadows park of the New York borough of Queens, on hard courts, in the last week of August and the first of September.

Under the Rules of Tennis a court is 78 feet, about 23.77 metres, from baseline to baseline, and the length is the same whether singles or doubles is being played.

Points in a game are called fifteen, thirty and forty, and when both players reach forty the score is deuce.

In 1988 the German won the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, and then took the Olympic singles gold medal at Seoul, the first Games at which tennis was again a full medal sport.

The Australian won all four Majors in the same calendar year in 1962 as an amateur and did it again in 1969, in the second year of the Open Era, which no other man has matched.

Until that year the Majors were reserved for amateurs, and the best players of the day, once they turned professional, could no longer enter them.

Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi won the mixed doubles title at Melbourne Park in 2009, and that made Mirza the first Indian woman to win any Grand Slam title.