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RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

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.

RRB NTPC GK Questions with Answers

Q7741.Indian HistoryAsked in: SSC GD Constable · 16 Nov 2021, Shift 1Medium

Who among the following founded the newspaper 'Sambad Kaumudi'?

  1. A.Rash Bihari Bose
  2. B.Raja Ram Mohan Roy
  3. C.Shishir Kumar Ghosh
  4. D.Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
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Correct answer: B. Raja Ram Mohan Roy

The correct answer is B, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, who brought out Sambad Kaumudi in Bengali in 1821 and the Persian weekly Mirat-ul-Akhbar the next year, closing the latter in protest against the Licensing Regulations of 1823.

Q7743.Indian EconomyMedium

Foreign direct investment and portfolio investment are recorded in which part of India's balance of payments?

  1. A.Current account
  2. B.Capital account
  3. C.Errors and omissions
  4. D.Revenue account
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Correct answer: B. Capital account

The correct answer is B, the capital account, more precisely the capital and financial account, which records transactions that change a country's assets and liabilities abroad; investment flows, loans and banking capital all sit here.

Q7744.Indian EconomyEasy

The term hot money in the context of foreign investment refers to

  1. A.foreign direct investment in manufacturing
  2. B.short-term portfolio flows that can leave quickly
  3. C.currency printed to meet a fiscal deficit
  4. D.remittances sent home by migrant workers
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Correct answer: B. short-term portfolio flows that can leave quickly

Hot money is the name given to short-term portfolio capital that chases returns from one market to another and can be withdrawn within days, pushing up share prices and the rupee while it comes in and pulling both down when it goes.

Q7745.Indian EconomyMedium

Press Note 3 of 2020 requires prior government approval for foreign investment from

  1. A.all members of the Commonwealth
  2. B.countries that share a land border with India
  3. C.countries listed as tax havens
  4. D.all countries outside the WTO
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Correct answer: B. countries that share a land border with India

An entity of such a country, or an investor who is a citizen of or situated in one, may invest only through the government route whatever the sector, and the rule also covers a transfer of ownership that results in such beneficial ownership.

Q7746.Indian EconomyHard

Participatory Notes are issued by

  1. A.the Reserve Bank of India to foreign banks
  2. B.registered foreign portfolio investors to overseas investors
  3. C.Indian companies to their foreign promoters
  4. D.the government to sovereign wealth funds
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Correct answer: B. registered foreign portfolio investors to overseas investors

Participatory notes are offshore derivative instruments issued by foreign portfolio investors registered with SEBI to clients abroad who want exposure to Indian shares without registering in India themselves; the underlying shares are held by the issuing investor.

Q7747.Indian EconomyHard

SEBI merged Foreign Institutional Investors and Qualified Foreign Investors into a single class of Foreign Portfolio Investors in which year?

  1. A.2010
  2. B.2012
  3. C.2014
  4. D.2016
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Correct answer: C. 2014

The correct answer is C, 2014, when the SEBI Foreign Portfolio Investors Regulations came into force and the three older categories, namely foreign institutional investors, their sub-accounts and qualified foreign investors, were merged into one class registered in risk-based tiers.

Q7748.Indian EconomyEasy

In which of the following is Foreign Direct Investment prohibited in India?

  1. A.Insurance
  2. B.Lottery business
  3. C.Telecom services
  4. D.Single brand retail trading
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Correct answer: B. Lottery business

The FDI policy lists a small set of prohibited activities: the lottery business, gambling and betting including casinos, chit funds, Nidhi companies, trading in transferable development rights, real estate business and the construction of farm houses, the manufacture of cigars, cheroots and cigarettes, and activities closed to private investment such…

Q7749.Indian EconomyMedium

Under the automatic route of FDI

  1. A.prior approval of the Reserve Bank of India is needed
  2. B.prior approval of the administrative ministry is needed
  3. C.no prior approval of the government or the RBI is needed
  4. D.investment is capped at twenty-six per cent in every sector
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Correct answer: C. no prior approval of the government or the RBI is needed

Under the automatic route the foreign investor needs no prior permission from either the government or the Reserve Bank of India; the Indian company simply reports the inflow and the issue of shares to the Reserve Bank within the prescribed time.

Q7751.Indian EconomyMedium

The Consolidated FDI Policy of India is issued by

  1. A.the Reserve Bank of India
  2. B.the Securities and Exchange Board of India
  3. C.the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
  4. D.the Ministry of Finance
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Correct answer: C. the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade

The correct answer is C, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, a department of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, which was known as the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion until it was renamed in 2019.

Q7753.Indian EconomyEasy

Foreign Direct Investment differs from Foreign Portfolio Investment mainly because FDI

  1. A.is made only by governments
  2. B.gives the investor a lasting interest and a say in management
  3. C.is routed through the current account of the balance of payments
  4. D.can be withdrawn on any trading day
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Correct answer: B. gives the investor a lasting interest and a say in management

Foreign direct investment is made to acquire a lasting interest in an enterprise abroad, conventionally measured as ten per cent or more of the voting power, and with it comes a say in how the company is run; portfolio investment buys shares and bonds without any such control.

Q7754.GeographyHard

The Sir Creek dispute is between India and which country?

  1. A.China
  2. B.Bangladesh
  3. C.Pakistan
  4. D.Myanmar
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Correct answer: C. Pakistan

Sir Creek is a tidal creek in the marshland of the Rann of Kutch, where India and Pakistan read the boundary resolution of 1914 differently, one side placing the boundary in the middle of the channel and the other on its eastern bank; the stretch matters because it affects the…

Q7756.GeographyMedium

The Ten Degree Channel separates which two island groups?

  1. A.Lakshadweep and the Maldives
  2. B.Andaman and Nicobar
  3. C.Minicoy and Lakshadweep
  4. D.Great Nicobar and Sumatra
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Correct answer: B. Andaman and Nicobar

The correct answer is B, the Andaman and the Nicobar groups, which lie on either side of the Ten Degree Channel in the Bay of Bengal, the name coming from the ten degree north parallel along which it runs.

Q7757.GeographyEasy

India is separated from Sri Lanka by

  1. A.the Ten Degree Channel
  2. B.the Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar
  3. C.the Eight Degree Channel
  4. D.the Duncan Passage
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Correct answer: B. the Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar

The correct answer is B, the Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar, the shallow waters between Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, with the chain of sandbanks called Adam's Bridge or Rama Setu running between Rameswaram and Talaimannar.

Q7758.GeographyMedium

The McMahon Line demarcates the boundary between

  1. A.India and Nepal
  2. B.India and Bhutan
  3. C.India and China
  4. D.India and Bangladesh
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Correct answer: C. India and China

The line was drawn at the Simla Convention of 1914 by Sir Henry McMahon, then the Foreign Secretary of British India, in an agreement with Tibet; China has never accepted it, which is the root of the dispute in that sector.

Q7759.GeographyEasy

The Radcliffe Line is the boundary between

  1. A.India and China
  2. B.India and Pakistan
  3. C.India and Myanmar
  4. D.Pakistan and Afghanistan
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Correct answer: B. India and Pakistan

The line was drawn in 1947 by Sir Cyril Radcliffe, who chaired the boundary commissions that divided Punjab and Bengal, so the same line also forms the India-Bangladesh boundary, Bangladesh having been East Pakistan until 1971.