RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

He is credited with the Samaranganasutradhara on architecture and mechanics and the Saraswatikanthabharana on poetics, and with the Bhojashala at Dhar and the great lake and Shiva temple at Bhojpur.

The Chandelas ruled Jejakabhukti, the Bundelkhand region, from Khajuraho and Mahoba, and built the Khajuraho group of temples in the Nagara style between about 950 and 1050; the Lakshmana temple belongs to Yasovarman, the Vishvanatha temple to Dhanga and the great Kandariya Mahadeva temple to Vidyadhara.

In the First Battle of Tarain in 1191 Prithviraja III of Ajmer defeated Muhammad Ghori, who was wounded and carried from the field.

The Kavirajamarga, meaning the royal road of poets, is the earliest surviving work on poetics in Kannada and is attributed to Amoghavarsha I, in whose long reign the Rashtrakuta court at Manyakheta became a centre of Kannada and Jain learning.

The Kailasa temple at Ellora, cave sixteen, was cut downwards out of a single mass of rock in his reign in the eighth century and is the largest monolithic temple in the world, dedicated to Shiva and carved with scenes from the epics.

The Pala rulers were the last great royal patrons of Buddhism in India, and Dharmapala founded Vikramashila in present-day Bhagalpur district of Bihar and also revived Nalanda and founded Odantapuri.

He was raised to the throne about 750 by the chiefs of Bengal to end a period of disorder that the Khalimpur copper plate describes with the word matsyanyaya, the law of the fishes, in which the strong devour the weak.

Kannauj on the upper Ganga had been Harsha's capital, and whoever held it was accepted as the paramount power of north India, so the Gurjara-Pratiharas, the Palas and the Rashtrakutas fought over it for more than a century.

Rana Kumbha of the Sisodia house of Mewar was both a builder and a scholar: he raised the fort of Kumbhalgarh and the Vijaya Stambha at Chittorgarh and wrote on music, the Sangeet Raj being the best known of his works, along with commentaries on the Gita Govinda.

The Pratiharas held western India and Rajasthan, the natural route from Arab-held Sindh into the Ganga plain.

The Chahamanas, known in later tradition as the Chauhans, ruled from Shakambhari and then from Ajmer, and their most famous ruler was Prithviraja III, the Rai Pithora of the ballads, who defeated Muhammad Ghori at Tarain in 1191 and was defeated and killed by him there in 1192.

Section 29A, inserted by amendment in 2018, lists disqualifications, chiefly for promoters and connected persons whose accounts have been classified as non-performing, for undischarged insolvents and for persons disqualified as directors, so that a defaulting promoter cannot buy the company back cheaply through the very process his default caused.

The Committee of Creditors is made up of the financial creditors of the company, with voting shares in proportion to the debt owed to each, and a resolution plan is approved only when creditors holding at least sixty-six per cent of the voting share vote for it; the same majority…

The Committee on the Financial System of 1991 and the Committee on Banking Sector Reforms of 1998, both under him, recommended prudential norms for income recognition and provisioning, a minimum capital to risk-weighted assets ratio, a lower statutory liquidity ratio and cash reserve ratio, entry for new private banks and…

The Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act of 1993 set up the Debt Recovery Tribunals, with Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunals above them, to take bank recovery suits out of the ordinary civil courts where they had been pending for years.

The Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act of 2002 lets a secured creditor issue a notice to a defaulting borrower and then take possession of and sell the secured asset without going to court, and it also provides for asset reconstruction companies that buy…

Section 12 of the Code gives the resolution process 180 days from the date of admission, allows the adjudicating authority to extend it once by up to 90 days on a resolution of the Committee of Creditors, and the amendment of 2019 added the outer limit of 330 days, which…

Created under the Code of 2016, it registers and oversees insolvency professionals, insolvency professional agencies and information utilities, and makes the regulations under which the resolution process runs, which makes it both a regulator and a rule-maker.

For companies and limited liability partnerships the application for insolvency is filed before the Tribunal, which admits or rejects it, declares the moratorium and appoints the interim resolution professional; appeals lie to the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal and then to the Supreme Court.

The Code was passed in 2016 on the recommendations of the Bankruptcy Law Reforms Committee and replaced a scatter of older laws, among them the Sick Industrial Companies Act and parts of the Companies Act, with a single time-bound process in which control passes from the defaulting promoter to the…