Railway GK Questions 2026

A disease that stays constantly present at a steady baseline level in a particular area, without being brought in from outside, is called endemic.

Among the four states listed, Tamil Nadu has the most seats in the Council of States (Rajya Sabha), with 18.

The Kolkata Metro is run by Indian Railways as its own zone, the Metro Railway, with its headquarters in Kolkata.

Neutrons sit inside the nucleus with protons; it is the electrons that move around the nucleus. The neutron was discovered by James Chadwick in 1932, and he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for it in 1935.

Resistivity is a property of the material and its temperature, not of the wire's shape, so every copper wire has the same resistivity.

Maithili was added to the Eighth Schedule by the 92nd Amendment Act of 2003, along with Bodo, Dogri and Santali; this was the most recent addition to the list.

The Durand Line is the roughly 2,640 km boundary between Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was fixed in 1893 by an agreement between Sir Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and Amir Abdur Rahman Khan of Afghanistan, to mark the limits of their spheres of influence.

Sulphuric acid has two replaceable hydrogen atoms, so its equivalent mass is 98 ÷ 2 = 49 g, and 49 g in one litre makes exactly one gram-equivalent per litre.

Gravitational force varies inversely with the square of the distance, so doubling the distance cuts the force to one-fourth.

Iodine is a non-metal, yet its solid crystals have a shiny, metallic lustre, which makes it the standard exception taught in school chemistry.

UN peacekeeping troops wear light blue helmets or berets, which is why they are called the Blue Helmets. Peacekeepers are military, police and civilian personnel sent by member countries to serve in missions authorised by the UN Security Council.

The Preamble reads 'Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic', so 'socialist' comes before 'secular', while the order of ideals is justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.

During the meeting with the President of the Korea Marine Equipment Research Institute, the minister described the centre as a national platform for exactly these functions, adding that testing and certification carried out within India, with Korean technical expertise, would help Indian-made marine equipment meet international standards and prepare Indian…

The aim set out during the Busan meetings is to make India a globally competitive hub for shipbuilding, shipping and maritime services by that year, which also marks a century of independence.

Its Shipping Deputy Minister, Marina Hadjimanolis, met the Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal, at Busan and repeated her country's backing for India's effort to secure European Union recognition for eligible Indian ship-recycling facilities.

It was launched during the inaugural and technical sessions on the first day of the forum.

The Delhi Declaration on Local Action for Global Climate Goals 2026 is the outcome document of the forum, and it will be adopted on 28 October 2026 before being carried to the climate conference at Antalya.

The two-day forum opened there on 27 October 2026 and is organised by ICLEI South Asia with the National Institute of Urban Affairs, with support from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

The programme had four Rugby Sevens matches in all, and two of them were mixed-team fixtures in which national players from India and New Zealand played alongside one another as teammates rather than as opponents.

The series at Rajgir formed part of this initiative, which marks a century of sporting ties between India and New Zealand and uses sport to strengthen cultural and diplomatic links between the two countries.