Railway GK Questions 2026

. A simple astronomical (refracting) telescope uses two convex, that is convergent, lenses.

Functional group isomers have the same molecular formula but different functional groups. Alkyl halides such as C2H5Cl can only contain the halogen group, so no other functional group can be built from the same formula; they show chain and position isomerism instead.

Helicobacter pylori is a spiral-shaped bacterium that lives in the lining of the stomach. It survives the strong acid by producing the enzyme urease, which makes ammonia around it, and it inflames and weakens the protective mucus layer, so acid can damage the wall and cause a peptic ulcer.

Cardiac muscle, found only in the wall of the heart, is made of cylindrical cells that branch and join with one another, and each cell usually has one central nucleus.

. For a stone whirled in a circle, the string pulls it towards the centre, while the stone moves along the circle, tangent to it at every instant.

The Vice-President said he was satisfied that negotiations on India's association with it had been concluded, and he mentioned this while speaking of cooperation in technology, research and innovation.

The Vice-President used this phrase for the proposed Free Trade Agreement between India and the European Union, expressed the hope that it would be signed within this year, and asked the visiting members for the support of the European Parliament in bringing it to completion.

Its delegation, led by Mr David McAllister, was received by the Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman at Parliament House in New Delhi, and the talk ranged over trade, technology, research and the broader partnership between India and the European Union.

Punatsangchhu-I is the project of that size, and the two ministers noted that dam work there has moved steadily since concreting resumed in April 2026.

Four bilateral meetings were held on the margins of the week, and Japan was not among them.

This was the installed electricity capacity of the country as on 30 September 2026, and of it about 308 GW, or roughly 55 per cent, came from non-fossil sources.

The projection of about 23 crore senior citizens by that year is the reason given for strengthening institutional machinery and community participation under Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana.

Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana was launched in 2021 and it took in that earlier plan, widened its scope and brought a number of separate measures for older persons under a single umbrella scheme of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

This amount has been released as grant-in-aid to 755 projects running under the Integrated Programme for Senior Citizens, which is a component of the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana, and it covers the quarter that ended on 30 September 2026 in the financial year 2026-27.

The Buildathon was conducted by the Department of School Education and Literacy of the Union Ministry of Education along with these two partners, with the aim of pushing creative problem solving, entrepreneurship and scientific curiosity among school students.

This is the number of project submissions recorded across the Idea Track and the Prototype Track, and it is the figure on which the Guinness World Records certification as the largest innovation solution competition rests.

The Guinness World Records certification for Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025 was given under exactly this title, and it rests on the 2,87,967 project submissions that school students sent in under the Idea and Prototype tracks.

NPPA works under the Department of Pharmaceuticals, which is one of the departments of that ministry, and it is the body that fixed the revised maximum retail prices for anti-cancer medicine brands effective from 9 November 2026.

The correct answer is 9 November 2026, the date from which the revised maximum retail prices become effective for the 543 brands on the published list.

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority has published a list of 543 brands of anti-cancer medicines with their revised maximum retail prices, and those rates have to be charged from 9 November 2026.