RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

Alexander the Great died in 323 BCE at Babylon, aged about thirty-two, on his way back from the Indian campaign.

Mountains are built by endogenic forces, the forces that act from inside the earth and raise, bend or break the crust.

The Act of 1935 ended dyarchy in the provinces, granted provincial autonomy and placed the whole provincial administration under ministers answerable to elected legislatures.

Prithviraja III, the Chahamana or Chauhan ruler of Ajmer and Delhi, defeated Muhammad Ghori in the First Battle of Tarain in 1191; he is the Prithviraj Chauhan of popular memory.

France has twelve time zones, more than any other country, because its overseas departments and territories are scattered across the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic and the Caribbean.

The Home Rule Movement began in 1916, when two leagues were set up to demand self-government for India within the British Empire.

The Second Backward Classes Commission, headed by B. P. Mandal, recommended 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes in central government services and public undertakings.

Balban took the title Zil-i-Ilahi to claim that the sultan rules as the shadow of God on earth, a claim that placed him far above his nobles.

Bali Trutiya, also written Bali Tritiya, is an Odia festival kept mainly by married women of Odisha in the month of Bhadrab.

An ordinary incandescent bulb is filled with an unreactive gas, nitrogen usually mixed with argon, so that the white-hot tungsten filament does not burn away.

Vikramaditya VI ruled the Western Chalukya kingdom of Kalyani, and his court poet Bilhana wrote the Vikramankadevacharita on his life.

In a web address the part before the colon and the two slashes names the protocol, so http, the HyperText Transfer Protocol, is the set of rules by which a browser asks a server for a page and the server answers.

Census 2011 put the rural sex ratio at 949 females per thousand males and the urban sex ratio at 929, while the figure for the country as a whole was 943, the highest since 1951.

Smallest to largest, Europe covers about 10.2 million square kilometres, Antarctica about 14 million, South America about 17.8 million and North America about 24.7 million.

The first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement met at Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, in September 1961, and twenty-five countries took part.

Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy, announced his partition plan on 3 June 1947, which is why it is also called the June Third Plan.

The Liberal leader Tej Bahadur Sapru, working with M. R. Jayakar, brought Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin to the table and is remembered as the mediator of the pact.

Parliament frames a charge, takes evidence and gives the President a hearing, so the two Houses act like a court even though they are law-making bodies.

The memorandum of understanding for developing an urban forest in Bhopal under the Morvan Project was exchanged between KRIBHCO and the Madhya Pradesh State Biodiversity Board during the programme.

Per capita milk availability in the country has risen by about 58 per cent, from around 307 grams a day in 2014-15 to about 485 grams a day at present, and India is now the world's largest milk producing country.