Railway GK Questions 2026

Fundamental Duties were inserted by the 42nd Constitutional Amendment of 1976, passed during the Emergency when Indira Gandhi was Prime Minister.

The shehnai is called a mangal vadya, an instrument of auspicious occasions, because it is played at weddings, temple rituals and processions.

Of the four leaders listed, Chandra Shekhar had the shortest run, from 10 November 1990 to 21 June 1991, a little over seven months.

President Sukarno of Indonesia was the chief guest at India's first Republic Day on 26 January 1950, the day the Constitution came into force.

After India, Nepal has both the largest number of Hindus and the largest Hindu share of any country, with roughly four out of five Nepalis following the faith.

Champa was the capital of the Anga mahajanapada, and its site lies near modern Bhagalpur in Bihar, where the Champa river meets the Ganga.

The India opener was named ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year for 2021 and received the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy in January 2022.

Participants at the programme were sensitised about the use of eco-friendly clay idols and were advised to avoid immersing idols made of Plaster of Paris, or carrying harmful chemical colours, in drinking water tanks.

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research organised its awareness and cleanliness initiatives at its institutions as part of these activities, with the focus placed on cleanliness after Ganesh Visarjan, clean public spaces and responsible waste management.

At these two institutes, one in Jharkhand and the other in Maharashtra, biodegradable offerings such as flowers and other puja samagri were collected and segregated from the rest of the festival waste, and the compostable material was then processed at composting facilities to prepare organic manure.

The bureau has signed a memorandum of understanding with this organisation, and the awareness programme held at Mandsaur was organised as a follow-up to it.

The bureau held Jan Sunwayi, or public hearing, programmes at Neemuch and Mandsaur so that the grievances of opium cultivators could be redressed promptly and without their having to travel far, and more than 450 cultivators took part in the two sittings taken together.

This is the outreach under which the bureau sensitises students and young people about the harmful effects of drug abuse, the measures that prevent it, and the part the young can play in building a drug-free society.

The Rajasthan unit searched an international parcel that had come from the United States and found the hydroponic cannabis hidden in four packets inside an air circulator box.

Every article recovered in these cases, meaning the poppy straw, the opium, the hydroponic cannabis, the cash, the vehicles and the country-made pistol, was seized under the relevant provisions of this Act, and further investigation into sources, destinations and supply channels is proceeding under it.

This is the total quantity of poppy straw, known regionally as doda chura, recovered by the Rajasthan unit across the whole set of operations, alongside 9.6 kg of opium and 1.9 kg of hydroponic cannabis.

Pressure is the force acting on unit area, that is P equals F divided by A, so for the same force a larger area of contact means smaller pressure.

Atmospheric pressure at sea level is about 1.013 into 10 to the power 5 pascal, which presses with roughly the weight of one kilogram on every square centimetre of our body, so it is very large and not negligible at all.

Biogas is produced when cattle dung, crop waste and sewage are broken down by bacteria in a closed tank without air, a process called anaerobic digestion.

A dargah is the tomb of a Sufi saint, built over his grave and visited by people of every faith who tie threads, offer flowers and pray for their wishes.