RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is C, Chagatai Turkish, which was Babur’s mother tongue; the memoirs are also called the Tuzuk-i-Baburi, and Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan translated them into Persian during Akbar’s reign, which is how they reached the wider Mughal court.

Its value lies in what the official chronicles leave out: the life of the household, the journeys of the women of the family and the quarrels among the princes, described by someone who was present.

His other works include the Qiran-us-Sadain on the meeting of Bughra Khan and Kaiqubad, the Miftah-ul-Futuh on Jalaluddin Khalji, the Nuh Sipihr in praise of India, and the Tughlaq Nama.

It traces history from the beginning of the world down to his own day and is the main source for the early sultans of Delhi, including Razia.

The correct answer is B, Abul Fazl, one of the nine jewels of Akbar’s court, who wrote the Akbarnama in three volumes; the Ain-i-Akbari is its third volume and is a gazetteer of the empire in five books, describing the departments, the provinces, the revenue, the coinage, the army and…

It bars the holding of certain offices after a member ceases to be one, and its first clause makes a retiring chairman of the Union Public Service Commission ineligible for any further employment either under the Government of India or under a state government.

The Royal Commission on the Superior Civil Services in India, headed by Lord Lee of Fareham and reporting in 1924, recommended the setting up of a statutory Public Service Commission, and the first Public Service Commission in India was accordingly established on 1 October 1926 under the Government of India…

Article 315(2) says that if the legislatures of two or more states pass resolutions to that effect, Parliament may by law provide for the appointment of a Joint State Public Service Commission to serve the needs of those states.

The Commission recommends; the appointing authority of the government issues the appointment.

Article 316(2) fixes a six-year term for every Public Service Commission but two different retiring ages: sixty-five years for a member of the Union Public Service Commission and sixty-two years for a member of a State Commission or of a Joint Commission, and in each case the earlier of the…

Article 323(2) requires a State Commission to present to the Governor an annual report of the work done by it, and the Governor then places it before the state legislature together with a memorandum explaining the cases, if any, in which the Commission's advice was not accepted and the reasons…

Article 322 makes the expenses of the Union Public Service Commission, including the salaries, allowances and pensions payable to or in respect of its members and staff, charged expenditure on the Consolidated Fund of India.

It is the opening article of the group on Public Service Commissions and says that there shall be a Public Service Commission for the Union and a Public Service Commission for each state, with the further provision that two or more states may have a Joint Commission created by Parliament…

Article 317(1) provides that the chairman or any other member of a Public Service Commission, whether of the Union or of a state, shall be removed from office only by order of the President on the ground of misbehaviour, and only after the Supreme Court has held an inquiry on…

Article 321 allows additional functions to be conferred on a Public Service Commission, and it names two different authorities for the two kinds of Commission: Parliament may extend the functions of the Union Public Service Commission, while the legislature of a state may extend the functions of that state's Public…

Article 316(2) says that a member of the Union Public Service Commission holds office for a term of six years from the date on which he enters upon his office, or until he attains the age of sixty-five years, whichever is earlier.

The chairman of the Union Public Service Commission is removed by the President under Article 317, and for misbehaviour only after the Supreme Court has held an inquiry on the President's reference and reported against him.

He began the Self-Respect Movement in 1925 to free the non-Brahmin castes from priestly domination and ritual, promoting marriages without priests, widow remarriage and the use of Tamil in place of Sanskrit.

An Anglo-Indian teacher at Hindu College, Calcutta, he encouraged his students to question every received belief, and the group of radicals who gathered round him came to be called Young Bengal.

He founded the Prarthana Samaj, the prayer society, at Bombay in 1867 on lines close to those of the Brahmo Samaj, and it worked for widow remarriage, the education of women, the raising of the age of marriage and the removal of caste barriers.