RRB Group D GK Questions 2026

The Tropic of Cancer crosses Madhya Pradesh almost through the middle, running past Ratlam, Ujjain, Bhopal, Vidisha, Sagar, Jabalpur and Shahdol, so the state is divided nearly in half by it and more districts of Madhya Pradesh are touched by the line than in any other state.

The Sixth Schedule, read with Article 244, lets the tribal areas of these four states run Autonomous District Councils with their own powers over land, forests, village administration, inheritance and customary law, such as the Bodoland Territorial Council in Assam and the Khasi Hills council in Meghalaya.

The Hornbill festival is held at Kisama near Kohima and opens on 1 December, the day Nagaland became a state in 1963; it brings the major Naga tribes together and is called the festival of festivals, and the hornbill of its name is the bird that appears in Naga headgear…

Majuli lies in the Brahmaputra in Assam, upstream of Jorhat, and is the largest river island; it is also the seat of the Vaishnavite satras founded in the tradition of Srimanta Sankardeva, and it was made a district of Assam, the first island district of the country.

Tripura juts into Bangladesh, which wraps around its north, west and south, so the state is joined to India only along its eastern side, where it meets Assam and Mizoram.

Article 371A was inserted when Nagaland was created and protects Naga customary law and practice, land and resources, so that an Act of Parliament on these matters applies to the state only if its Assembly so decides, and it gives the Governor a special responsibility for law and order.

Keibul Lamjao lies on the southern part of Loktak Lake near Imphal and floats on phumdis, the thick mats of soil and rotting plant matter that drift on the water.

Assam lies at the heart of the region and touches Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya and West Bengal, that is seven Indian states, besides the foreign neighbours Bhutan and Bangladesh.

The Council was set up by the North Eastern Council Act, 1971, started functioning in 1972 as the planning and advisory body for the region, and has had its secretariat at Shillong ever since; it works under the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region.

The corridor runs through the northern districts of West Bengal around the town of Siliguri and is only about twenty kilometres wide at its narrowest, which is why it is nicknamed the Chicken's Neck.

Both had been Union Territories since 1972, Arunachal Pradesh after the North East Frontier Agency was renamed and Mizoram after the Mizo hills were separated from Assam, and both were raised to statehood on the same day in February 1987.

The Seven Sisters are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura, the seven states that were carved out of the old Assam province and its Union Territories between 1963 and 1987.

Bhabha persuaded the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust to fund an institute for fundamental research in physics and mathematics, which began in 1945 at Bombay, and he went on to head the atomic energy programme, which is why he is called the father of the Indian nuclear programme.

Baden-Powell, a British army officer, held the first experimental camp in 1907 and published Scouting for Boys, from which the movement grew; in India the Bharat Scouts and Guides was formed in 1950 by the merger of the earlier bodies.

Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity at Calcutta in 1950 for the care of the destitute, the sick and the dying; she received the Bharat Ratna and the Nobel Peace Prize, and the order spread to many countries.

The Swiss businessman Henry Dunant, moved by what he saw after the battle of Solferino, led the founding of the Red Cross at Geneva in 1863 and the drafting of the first Geneva Convention; he was awarded the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, and World Red Cross Day is…

The Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research at Bombay was set up by the Reserve Bank of India as an advanced research and teaching centre in development economics and was inaugurated in 1987; it is a deemed university that works on energy, environment and macroeconomic policy.

Sircar, a physician of Calcutta, founded the association in 1876 so that Indians could do original research in science rather than only learn it, and it was in its laboratory that C. V. Raman did the work that won the Nobel Prize.

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis founded the Indian Statistical Institute in 1931, devised the Mahalanobis distance and the method of large scale sample surveys, and shaped the Second Five Year Plan; National Statistics Day is observed on his birthday, 29 June.

Phule founded the Satyashodhak Samaj, the society of truth seekers, at Pune in 1873 to work against caste oppression and priestly domination; he and Savitribai Phule had already opened schools for girls and for the depressed classes.