RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

The researchers identified four major environmental phases in the lake record, associated with key climate events that include the arid event of about four point two thousand years ago, the Roman Warm Period and the Little Ice Age.

Karela Lake is an oxbow lake at Hulas Khera in Mohanlal Ganj, near Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, and lies in the Central Ganga Plain.

Its scientists traced past environmental conditions at Karela Lake using stable isotopes, vegetation changes and archaeological and sedimentary records, and built a record stretching back about four thousand six hundred years.

Day one of the conference put five initiatives of the Himachal Pradesh government on display, namely Him Parivar, Sukhashraya, the Vidya Samiksha Kendra, Green Himachal and the Rajiv Gandhi Van Samvardhan Yojna, together covering health, social justice, education, environment and forest conservation.

Its Secretary delivered the welcome address and spoke of nominations received for the National Awards for e-Governance and the Prime Minister's Awards as evidence of innovation at the level of districts, States and ministries.

The conference opened in this town of Himachal Pradesh and brought together representatives of the Central Government, States and Union Territories along with experts on digital transformation and technology-enabled service delivery.

For the financial year 2026-27 the Centre has allocated this sum as central assistance for two hostel projects under the scheme, one for girls and one for boys, which together will provide accommodation for two hundred and sixty-four students.

PM-AJAY is run by this ministry and aims at the socio-economic and educational empowerment of Scheduled Caste communities through village infrastructure, livelihood promotion, education and better access to basic services.

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment stated that this many villages had been declared Adarsh Grams under the scheme by that date, reflecting its work on infrastructure, basic services and quality of life in Scheduled Caste-majority villages.

During the visit tied to the Joint Working Group meeting, the Indian delegation went to Mongolia's National Defence University and examined how the Cyber Security Training Centre, established there with Indian assistance, is functioning.

At the fourteenth Joint Working Group meeting in Ulaanbaatar, both delegations appreciated the successful conclusion of this exercise and treated it as evidence of how firmly the two armies have built their cooperation.

The fourteenth meeting of the Joint Working Group between the defence ministries of India and Mongolia took place in Ulaanbaatar, the Mongolian capital, on 16 October 2026, where the two delegations reviewed their running defence cooperation activities and identified new areas to work in.

A temperature in kelvin is the Celsius temperature plus 273 (more exactly 273.15). The Kelvin and Celsius scales have degrees of the same size, so a change of 1 °C equals a change of 1 K; only their zero points differ.

Common fertilisers supply nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (NPK); iron is a micronutrient that is usually not part of them. Plants need nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in large amounts, so these are called primary macronutrients, and fertilisers such as urea, DAP, MOP and NPK mixtures are made to supply them.

Litmus is a natural dye extracted from certain lichens, especially species of Roccella. A lichen is a partnership between a fungus and an alga (or a cyanobacterium): the alga makes food by photosynthesis, while the fungus gives shelter and absorbs water and minerals.

An ammeter measures the electric current flowing in a circuit, in amperes. An ammeter is always connected in series with the part of the circuit whose current is to be measured, so that the whole current passes through it.

If you hold a current-carrying straight wire in your right hand with the thumb pointing along the current, your curled fingers show the direction of the magnetic field lines around it.

Potassium and barium exchange their partner ions: K₂SO₄ and BaCl₂ swap ions to give KCl and BaSO₄. In a double displacement reaction two compounds exchange ions.

Statements 1 and 2 are correct; statement 3 is wrong because zinc is more reactive than iron.

Too little fluoride weakens tooth enamel and makes teeth prone to decay, known as dental caries. Fluoride becomes part of the enamel as fluorapatite, which resists the acids made by mouth bacteria from sugars.