RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

The Chalukyas of Badami began as feudatories of the Kadambas of Banavasi and broke away as the Kadamba power declined.

Tanjore, or Thanjavur, was the capital of the Cholas and not of the Chalukyas, so this pair is wrongly matched.

Piklihal and Utnur are South Indian Neolithic settlements, famous for the ash mounds their cattle-keeping people left behind.

Dignaga and Nathamuni are matched rightly while Aryadeva is not, so exactly two pairs are correct.

Ajanta and Lepakshi both carry painting on their walls and ceilings, while Sanchi does not, so the first two alone fit.

Only the first statement holds, so the other combinations fall away. India follows single citizenship and a single domicile, which means a person is a citizen of India alone and not separately of a state, unlike the United States where a citizen also belongs to a state.

Neither of these belongs to the six orthodox systems, so this is the pair that stands outside. The six systems, called the Shad Darshanas, are Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Mimamsa and Vedanta, and all six accept the authority of the Vedas.

A parliamentary system rests on the executive answering to the legislature, so the council of ministers stays in office only while it keeps the confidence of the House.

Every one of the three descriptions gets a detail wrong, so the fourth option is the only one left.

Upholding and protecting the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India is listed as a duty of every citizen, so the provision sits among the Fundamental Duties and not in any other part.

The Tenth Schedule carries the anti-defection provisions, so a legislator who deserts the party on whose ticket he or she was elected can be disqualified under it.

Mehrgarh, on the Bolan river in the Kachi plain of Baluchistan, is the earliest known farming village in the Indian subcontinent, occupied from about 7000 BCE.

When the British left in 1947, India had, besides the provinces under direct British rule, about 565 princely states whose rulers had accepted British paramountcy.

Plant tissues are first divided into meristematic tissue, whose cells keep dividing, and permanent tissue, whose cells have stopped dividing and have taken a fixed shape and job.

The middle ear holds three tiny bones, the smallest in the human body, called the malleus, the incus and the stapes, which in everyday English are the hammer, the anvil and the stirrup.

Sound is a mechanical wave: it travels only when the particles of a medium push against their neighbours, so the closer and more tightly bound those particles are, the faster the disturbance is passed on.

A unisexual flower carries only one kind of reproductive organ, either stamens or a pistil, while a bisexual flower carries both.

At sunset the Sun is close to the horizon, so its light travels through a much thicker layer of atmosphere before it reaches the eye.

Fly ash is the fine, powdery residue that rises with the flue gases when pulverised coal is burnt to raise steam in a coal-fired power station.

The correct answer is Monika Juma, named as the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, met by the minister to discuss cooperation against narcotics and organised crime and stronger legal and judicial partnerships.