RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

Charkhi Dadri was carved out of Bhiwani district and notified as the twenty-second district of Haryana on 1 December 2016; both districts now lie in the Rohtak division.

Sirsa, in the south-west of the state on the Punjab and Rajasthan borders, is the largest district of Haryana by area and also the least densely peopled.

Kaithal belongs to the Karnal division along with Karnal and Panipat, and not to the Ambala division. The Ambala division is made up of four districts, Ambala, Kurukshetra, Panchkula and Yamunanagar, so Options A, B and C are all part of it and cannot be the answer.

Mahendragarh is the one district of Haryana whose headquarters does not sit in the town after which the district is named: its administration works from Narnaul, while Mahendragarh town is a tehsil headquarters within the same district.

The Government of Haryana notified Charkhi Dadri, carved out of Bhiwani district, as the twenty-second district of the state on 1 December 2016, and it remains the newest district.

Haryana is administered as six revenue divisions, namely Ambala, Rohtak, Hisar, Gurugram, Karnal and Faridabad, each headed by a Divisional Commissioner of the Indian Administrative Service who supervises the Deputy Commissioners of the districts under that division.

The fifth edition of the Khelo India Youth Games was held in Madhya Pradesh in 2023, with events spread over Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Ujjain and other towns, and Mallakhamb, the state sport, was among the games included.

Syed Mushtaq Ali of Indore was the first Indian to score a Test century outside India, at Manchester in 1936, and he played his domestic cricket in the Holkar side that dominated the Ranji Trophy in the nineteen forties; the national Twenty20 tournament carries his name.

Shankar Laxman of Mhow, the cantonment town near Indore, kept goal for India in the Olympic Games of 1956 and 1964, both won, and of 1960, when India took the silver, and he received the Arjuna Award and the Padma Shri, a rare honour for a goalkeeper of that time.

Sachin Tendulkar scored two hundred not out against South Africa there on 24 February 2010, the first double century in the history of one day international cricket, and the ground is named after Captain Roop Singh, the hockey player of Gwalior who won Olympic gold with India in 1932 and…

The Kishore Kumar Samman honours work in cinema, in acting, direction, music or allied crafts, and it is named after the singer and actor Kishore Kumar, who was born at Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh, so the state attaches his name to its film honour.

The Tansen Samman is presented at the Tansen Samaroh held every year at Gwalior, near the tomb of Tansen, the singer of Akbar’s court who came from that region, and it honours work in Hindustani classical music.

The Kalidas Samman, instituted in 1980, moves between these four fields from year to year, the plastic arts covering painting and sculpture, and it belongs with the Kalidas Samaroh held at Ujjain, the city connected with the poet Kalidas.

The Vishwamitra Award honours coaches of Madhya Pradesh whose trainees have won medals at the national or international level, and the name is taken from Vishwamitra, the teacher of Rama, which fits an award for teaching rather than for playing.

The Eklavya Award is the junior sports honour of Madhya Pradesh and is given each year to young sportspersons under nineteen who have done well at the national level, the name recalling the young archer of the Mahabharata who taught himself.

It is the highest sports honour of Madhya Pradesh and is given to outstanding senior sportspersons of the state, usually for performance at the national and international level in the preceding year.

The old gymnastic art in which the performer does poses on a fixed wooden pole, a hanging pole or a rope was declared the state sport of Madhya Pradesh in 2013, and the state trains players in it through schools and academies.

At Bhedaghat near Jabalpur the Narmada runs in a narrow gorge between cliffs of marble, and a short distance upstream it drops as the Dhuandhar falls, the smoke cascade, so named for the spray thrown up by the fall.

The station at Bhopal that was called Habibganj was rebuilt with private participation, the first station in the country to be developed in that way, and it was renamed after Rani Kamlapati, the Gond queen connected with the history of Bhopal.

Mahakaleshwar stands at Ujjain on the bank of the Shipra, where the bhasma aarti is performed with ash, and Omkareshwar stands on the island of Mandhata in the Narmada in Khandwa district, where the 108 foot Statue of Oneness of Adi Shankaracharya was unveiled in 2023.