Static GK is not a separate section in RRB Group D, but it decides most of the paper's recall marks. General Science is 25 questions of Physics, Chemistry and Life Sciences at 10th standard (CBSE) level as per CEN 09/2025, and the 20 General Awareness questions lean on the standing facts behind the news: the sport, the award, the institution, the state, the river or the scientist an event touches. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for RRB Group D. The General Science notes go topic by topic through motion and force, work, energy and power, gravitation, heat, light, sound, electricity and magnetism, atomic structure and the periodic table, chemical reactions, acids, bases and salts, metals and non-metals, and carbon compounds, and the Life Sciences notes cover cells, the human body, nutrition, diseases, plants and genetics. The static GK notes cover Indian Railways zones and facts, national symbols, first and largest in India and the world, awards and honours, important days, books and authors, sports GK, art and culture, and the basics of Indian Polity, Geography, History and the Economy. Each note is short facts and tables that can be revised in one sitting. Read a note, then solve its quiz and the previous-year questions on this site to check what stayed.
Which buffalo breed of Haryana is known as the black gold of the state?
The Murrah is a jet black buffalo with short tightly curled horns, bred in Rohtak, Jind, Hisar and the neighbouring districts.
Read the full explanation →The National Dairy Research Institute of India is located in which city of Haryana?
The National Dairy Research Institute, a deemed university under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, has its main campus at Karnal and works on dairy cattle and buffalo breeding, milk processing and dairy technology.
Read the full explanation →Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, one of the largest agricultural universities in Asia, is located at which place?
The agricultural university of Haryana was set up at Hisar soon after the state was formed and was later named after Chaudhary Charan Singh.
Read the full explanation →Which crop led the first phase of the Green Revolution in India?
The first high yielding varieties available to Indian farmers were dwarf wheats, and they were planted in the irrigated north western plains where water and fertiliser could be supplied on time.
Read the full explanation →Who is known as the father of the Green Revolution in India?
He was the geneticist who brought the Mexican dwarf wheat to India, worked with Indian breeders to adapt it, and persuaded the government and the farmers to take it up, so he is called the father of the Green Revolution in India.
Read the full explanation →The dwarf high yielding wheat varieties that began the Green Revolution in India were first bred in which country?
The dwarf wheat varieties Lerma Rojo and Sonora 64 were bred in Mexico at the research programme where Norman Borlaug worked, and seed of these varieties was imported into India in the mid nineteen sixties.
Read the full explanation →Haryana came into existence as a separate state on which date?
Haryana was carved out of the Hindi speaking districts of the former state of Punjab on that day, and the date is observed every year as Haryana Day.
Read the full explanation →Gandak river is associated with which one of the following river systems?
The Gandak rises in the Nepal Himalaya, where it is called the Narayani or the Sapta Gandaki, enters India at Valmiki Nagar in West Champaran and flows south east across north Bihar to join the Ganga opposite Patna, near Sonpur and Hajipur.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements about power generation in Bihar is correct?
Bihar lies close to the coalfields of Jharkhand and West Bengal, and its large stations at Kahalgaon, Barh, Nabinagar, Barauni and Muzaffarpur all burn coal.
Read the full explanation →The Bansagar dam on the Son river is a joint project of which states?
The Bansagar dam was built on the Son in Shahdol district of Madhya Pradesh, and because the river flows on into Uttar Pradesh and then joins the Ganga in Bihar, the three states signed an agreement to share its water and its cost.
Read the full explanation →The Nabinagar power plant of Bhartiya Rail Bijlee Company Limited in Bihar is a joint venture of NTPC with which organisation?
Bhartiya Rail Bijlee Company Limited was formed as a joint venture between NTPC and the Ministry of Railways to build a coal fired station at Nabinagar in Aurangabad district, with most of its power dedicated to the traction and other needs of the railways.
Read the full explanation →Which is the oldest large thermal power station of Bihar?
Barauni in Begusarai district grew into an industrial centre around its oil refinery and fertiliser works, and the thermal station built there in the early decades after independence was the first large generating station of the state.
Read the full explanation →The Kahalgaon Super Thermal Power Station is situated in which district of Bihar?
The Kahalgaon super thermal power station, run by NTPC, stands at Kahalgaon on the Ganga in Bhagalpur district of eastern Bihar, close to the coal routes from the Jharkhand and Bengal fields and to the river that supplies its cooling water.
Read the full explanation →The Tirhut canal is a part of which irrigation project of Bihar?
The Tirhut canal is the main eastern canal of the Gandak project and takes its name from the old Tirhut region of north Bihar.
Read the full explanation →Which river of Bihar has traditionally been called the Sorrow of Bihar?
The Kosi comes down from Nepal carrying an enormous load of silt, drops it on the flat plain and so keeps raising its own bed.
Read the full explanation →The Kosi barrage at Bhimnagar lies in which district of Bihar?
The Kosi barrage stands at Bhimnagar in Supaul district, where the river enters India from Nepal.
Read the full explanation →The barrage of the Gandak project, built jointly with Nepal, stands at which place?
The Gandak barrage was built at Valmiki Nagar in West Champaran district, on the border with Nepal, under an agreement between the two countries.
Read the full explanation →The Indrapuri barrage, built across the Sone at Dehri, is located in which district of Bihar?
Dehri on Sone lies in Rohtas district, and the Indrapuri barrage was built there in place of the old anicut, being completed in 1968.
Read the full explanation →Which is the oldest and largest canal irrigation system of Bihar?
Work on the Sone began in the colonial period with an anicut across the river at Dehri in Rohtas district, and the system has been extended ever since, the Indrapuri barrage replacing the old anicut in 1968.
Read the full explanation →Mahavira, the twenty-fourth Tirthankara of Jainism, attained nirvana at
The correct answer is B, Pavapuri, in Nalanda district of Bihar, where a marble temple stands in a lotus tank at the spot held to be the place of his nirvana; Diwali is observed by Jains as the anniversary of that event.
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