RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

On 5 February 1922 a crowd at Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur district of the United Provinces set fire to a police station and twenty two policemen died.

The programme of non-cooperation was first approved at the special session held in Calcutta in September 1920 and was ratified at the regular annual session at Nagpur in December 1920, which also changed the Congress constitution and made provincial committees on a linguistic basis.

Aruna Asaf Ali hoisted the national flag at Gowalia Tank in Bombay on 9 August 1942, after the arrest of the senior leaders, and then went underground to direct the movement along with Jayaprakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohia, which earned her the name Heroine of the 1942 movement.

The All India Congress Committee, meeting at Gowalia Tank in Bombay, passed the Quit India resolution on 8 August 1942, and Gandhi gave his Do or Die speech the same evening.

The socialist leader Yusuf Meherally, who had been Mayor of Bombay, coined the words Quit India, just as he had coined Simon Go Back in 1928, and the Congress adopted the phrase for its resolution of 8 August 1942.

The World Development Report is the Bank's annual study, each edition devoted to one theme of development such as jobs, water, migration or the use of data, and the Bank also publishes the Global Economic Prospects.

TRIPS is one of the agreements that came out of the Uruguay Round and is administered by the WTO; it lays down minimum standards for patents, copyright, trademarks and geographical indications, and it is enforceable through the WTO dispute settlement system, which is what makes it different from earlier treaties.

It is composed of the trade ministers of all member countries, meets at least once every two years and may take decisions on any matter covered by the WTO agreements; the first conference was held at Singapore in 1996 and the one at Doha in 2001 launched the Doha Development…

The Special Drawing Right, created by the IMF in 1969 as a supplementary reserve asset, takes its value from a basket of five currencies only: the US dollar, the euro, the Chinese renminbi, the Japanese yen and the pound sterling.

The correct answer is C, the IDA, the International Development Association, founded in 1960 to lend to the poorest countries on concessional terms, that is interest free credits and grants with long repayment periods, which is why it is called the soft loan window of the World Bank.

The World Economic Outlook is the IMF's survey of the world economy, carrying growth, inflation and current account projections for its member countries, and the Fund also publishes the Global Financial Stability Report and the Fiscal Monitor.

GATT was signed in 1947 by twenty three countries, India among them, and came into force on 1 January 1948 as a treaty with a small secretariat rather than a full organisation.

The WTO works from Geneva, where the GATT secretariat had been housed before it, and its head carries the title Director-General.

The IMF has its headquarters in Washington DC in the United States, and the World Bank Group stands across the street from it in the same city, which is why both are often described together as the Washington institutions.

In July 1944 delegates of forty four allied nations, including India, met at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire in the United States and agreed to create the International Monetary Fund for monetary cooperation and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for reconstruction lending, which is why the two are…

The World Trade Organization came into being on 1 January 1995 as the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and India, which had been a party to GATT since 1948, became a member of the WTO on that very first day, which makes it a founding member.

The census is taken under the Census Act of 1948 by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, which works under the Ministry of Home Affairs, and census is a Union subject so the responsibility is wholly that of the central government.

It is the only census year in which the population of India actually declined, the cause being the influenza epidemic of 1918 along with famine and outbreaks of plague and cholera.

The correct answer is B, Sikkim, whose population in Census 2011 was about 6.1 lakh, the smallest of any state; among the union territories the smallest was Lakshadweep with about 64,000 people.

The correct answer is A, Kerala, with a literacy rate of 93.91 per cent, the highest among the states, the result of a long history of schooling, missionary and princely state education and high female literacy.