Static General Knowledge makes up the rest of the General Awareness section in RRB NTPC, and the notices name its topics: General Science and Life Science up to Class 10, History of India and the freedom struggle, Physical, Social and Economic Geography of India and the world, Indian Polity and Governance, Indian Economy, Art and Culture, Indian Literature, Monuments and Places, Flora and Fauna, Famous Personalities, the UN and other world organisations, environmental issues, Transport Systems in India, Important Government and Public Sector Organisations, Common Abbreviations, and Basics of Computers and Computer Applications. RRB frames these as short factual questions: the unit of a physical quantity, the year of a battle, the article of the Constitution, the river a city stands on, the full form of an abbreviation, the headquarters of an organisation. GK24's GK notes on this page cover each topic in English and Hindi, arranged the way the syllabus lists them, with the facts RRB tends to ask placed first. Work through one topic at a time, note the lists (national parks, dances, articles, schedules, awards), and pair each topic with its quiz on GK24 to check what has stayed with you.
Water gas is a mixture of :
Water gas is made by passing steam over red-hot coke, and the reaction C + H₂O → CO + H₂ gives carbon monoxide and hydrogen in roughly equal volumes.
Read the full explanation →In humans, the exit of partially digested food from the stomach into the small intestine is regulated by which one of the following structures/processes?
A ring of muscle at the lower end of the stomach, the pyloric sphincter, opens and closes to let food pass into the small intestine a little at a time.
Read the full explanation →Why was PM-DAKSH subsumed under PMKVY from 2024-25?
PM-DAKSH was an additionality to PMKVY, and every job role used for skill training under it was taken from the Skill India Digital Hub portal, where PMKVY job roles are also listed.
Read the full explanation →Under PM-DAKSH, what minimum share of trained candidates had an institute to place, failing which its third instalment was forfeited?
After a course finished, the training institute had to provide wage employment or self-employment to at least that share of the candidates it had trained.
Read the full explanation →How many candidates were trained under PM-DAKSH between 2020-21 and 2023-24?
That many candidates were trained under PM-DAKSH in the years from 2020-21 to 2023-24.
Read the full explanation →PM-DAKSH, now subsumed under PMKVY, was a scheme of which ministry?
PM-DAKSH was a Central Sector Scheme of that ministry, and its Department of Social Justice and Empowerment ran it through three corporations, NSFDC, NBCFDC and NSKFDC, which reimbursed training costs to the institutes.
Read the full explanation →Which policy document is being released at the Fisheries Investors and Exporters Conclave 2026?
This is a state policy, and its purpose is to ease investment across the parts of the fisheries value chain: hatcheries, fish seed and feed, reservoir and cage fisheries, aquatic animal health, processing, cold-chain infrastructure, logistics, value addition and market development.
Read the full explanation →The Centre has notified Madhya Pradesh as which of the following?
Madhya Pradesh has been notified in that category by the Centre, and the tag fits a state whose fisheries rest on large standing water bodies rather than on the sea.
Read the full explanation →What was India's total fish production in 2024-25?
That is the level India's fish production reached in 2024-25.
Read the full explanation →In which city is the Fisheries Investors and Exporters Conclave 2026 being held?
The Fisheries Investors and Exporters Conclave 2026 is being organised on 23 October 2026 at Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, by the state's Department of Fisheries together with the Department of Fisheries under the Union Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements regarding Carnot engine is/are correct?
1. It is an irreversible engine operating between two temperatures T1 (source) and T2 (sink).
2. Its efficiency is given by η = 1 − T2/T1, where T1 is the temperature of source and T2 is the temperature of sink.
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A Carnot engine is an ideal reversible engine, not an irreversible one, and its efficiency is 1 − T2/T1 with temperatures in kelvin.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following does not generally obey Hooke's law?
Clay is a plastic material: it deforms permanently under even a small force, so its stress is not proportional to its strain.
Read the full explanation →Which one among the following statements is correct?
When only conservative forces do work on a system, the sum of its kinetic and potential energy stays the same; this is the principle of conservation of mechanical energy.
Read the full explanation →The seasonal variations in the amount of solar energy that any place on the Earth receives are influenced by
Because the axis is tilted and keeps pointing the same way as the Earth goes round the Sun, each place gets more sunlight in one half of the year and less in the other.
Read the full explanation →For a particle in uniform circular motion (radius R and angular velocity ω), the magnitude and direction of acceleration, respectively are
In uniform circular motion the speed stays the same but the direction keeps turning, and that change needs an acceleration pointing to the centre.
Read the full explanation →1 gigabyte in binary system is equivalent to
In the binary system every step up the ladder of memory units is a factor of 2 raised to 10, that is 1024, so one gigabyte holds 1024 megabytes.
Read the full explanation →A uniform current-carrying narrow solenoid produces
Inside a long, narrow solenoid the field lines run straight and parallel and are evenly spaced, which is the picture of a uniform field.
Read the full explanation →The Bundeli ballad cycle Alha Khand, on the warriors Alha and Udal, is credited to which poet?
Jagnik was the bard of Mahoba who is credited with composing the ballad cycle on Alha and Udal, the two warrior brothers who served the Chandela ruler Parmal and fought Prithviraj Chauhan.
Read the full explanation →The Iqbal Samman of the Madhya Pradesh government is given for creative writing in which language?
The Iqbal Samman is one of the national awards run by the culture department of Madhya Pradesh, and it honours creative and critical writing in Urdu.
Read the full explanation →The well known Hindi poem Satpura ke Ghane Jungle was written by whom?
Born at Tigaria in the Narmadapuram country, he wrote Satpura ke Ghane Jungle, a poem whose slow repeated lines imitate the drowsy depth of the Satpura forest, and it is among the best known descriptive poems in modern Hindi.
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