RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

An army man wounded by bullets in the war of 1965, he took to swimming during his recovery and won the fifty metre freestyle event at the Heidelberg Games of 1972 in a world record time, giving India its first Paralympic gold medal, which remained the country’s only one for…

The motto was adopted along with the emblem of three Agitos, the red, blue and green curved shapes that sweep around a central point; agito is Latin for I move, and together the symbol and the motto stand for movement and for athletes converging from every direction.

The International Paralympic Committee was founded in 1989 as the world governing body of the movement, and it has been based at Bonn since then; it organises the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games and recognises the national Paralympic committees.

He was a neurologist who had left Germany for England and was put in charge of a spinal injuries unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where he used sport as part of the treatment of soldiers paralysed in the Second World War; on 29 July 1948, the opening day of the…

The Games held at Rome in 1960, with about four hundred athletes from twenty-three countries, are recognised as the first Paralympic Games, and the event has been held every four years since.

It is a leaf-shaped flap of cartilage at the root of the tongue that swings down and covers the opening of the windpipe every time food is swallowed, so that the bolus is guided into the oesophagus instead of the trachea; when it fails we choke and cough.

Most of the carbon dioxide produced by the tissues enters the red blood cells, where the enzyme carbonic anhydrase combines it with water to form carbonic acid, which at once splits into hydrogen and bicarbonate ions; the bicarbonate then travels in the plasma to the lungs, where the reaction is…

It is a dome-shaped sheet of muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdomen, and when it contracts it flattens, which increases the volume of the chest, lowers the pressure inside the lungs and draws air in; the intercostal muscles between the ribs assist by lifting the rib cage…

The right lung is divided into three lobes, an upper, a middle and a lower, while the left lung has only two, because the heart is tilted towards the left side of the chest and takes up room there; the left lung even carries a notch called the cardiac notch…

The gastric glands secrete hydrochloric acid, which makes the contents of the stomach strongly acidic; pepsin can work only in such a medium, and the acid also kills most of the bacteria swallowed along with food.

At roughly six to seven metres it is by far the longest part of the nine-metre alimentary canal, it is where digestion is completed by pancreatic and intestinal juices, and its inner wall carries millions of finger-like villi that give a vast surface for absorbing glucose, amino acids, fatty acids…

Bile is made in the liver, stored and concentrated in the gall bladder and poured into the duodenum, and it carries bile salts and bile pigments but not a single digestive enzyme.

It is secreted by the three pairs of salivary glands and breaks starch into the smaller sugar maltose, which is why starch is the only class of food whose digestion actually begins in the buccal cavity.

It is the largest gland as well as the heaviest internal organ of the human body, it lies in the upper right part of the abdomen, and its chief contribution to digestion is bile, which is stored in the gall bladder and emulsifies fat.

Inhalation, also called inspiration, is the phase of breathing in which the diaphragm flattens and the intercostal muscles pull the ribs up and out, so the chest cavity enlarges, the pressure inside the lungs falls below the pressure of the atmosphere and oxygen rich air rushes in through the nostrils…

The United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization jointly created the panel in 1988 to give governments a common scientific basis for climate policy.

The tiger range countries met at a summit in St Petersburg in Russia in 2010 and agreed to work towards doubling the number of wild tigers, and 29 July was adopted as International Tiger Day, also called Global Tiger Day, at that meeting.

On the night of 2 and 3 December 1984 methyl isocyanate leaked from a pesticide plant at Bhopal and killed thousands of people in the surrounding settlements, and India keeps 2 December as National Pollution Control Day in memory of the victims and as a reminder of the need for…

The index is academic work, produced by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy together with a centre at Columbia University, and it ranks countries on indicators of environmental health and ecosystem vitality.

Its central measure, the Living Planet Index, is prepared with the Zoological Society of London and shows how populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians have changed over time.