RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

Microfinance means small loans to poor households that banks treat as too risky, so a large loan is the opposite of the idea.

Maharashtra began its Jail Tourism scheme on 26 January 2021, Republic Day, at the Yerawada Central Jail in Pune, making it the first state in the country to open a working prison to visitors.

In the SDG India Index 2023-24, the fourth edition brought out by NITI Aayog in July 2024, the states' composite scores ran from 57 at the bottom to 79 at the top, with Uttarakhand and Kerala sharing the highest score of 79 and Bihar the lowest at 57.

The Smart Cities Mission was launched on 25 June 2015 by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for 100 cities, chosen through a two-stage City Challenge competition in which states nominated cities and the cities then sent in their own proposals.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics broke up in 1991: a failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in August that year destroyed the centre's authority, the republics declared independence one after another, and on 25 December 1991 Gorbachev resigned.

A Lok Adalat works by bringing the two sides to a settlement, so it can only handle matters the parties are free to compromise.

On 20 March 1927 Dr B R Ambedkar led thousands of Dalits to the Chavdar tank at Mahad in Maharashtra and drank its water, asserting the right of the depressed classes to use a public water source.

The Prime Minister announced the National Hydrogen Mission in his Independence Day speech from the Red Fort on 15 August 2021, with the aim of making India a hub for producing and exporting green hydrogen.

Zoji La, usually written Zojila, is the pass on the Srinagar–Kargil–Leh highway at about 3,528 metres in the Zanskar range, and it is the only road link between the Kashmir valley and Ladakh.

NATO is the military alliance of European and North American states, formed by the North Atlantic Treaty signed at Washington on 4 April 1949 by twelve founding members, and its membership has grown in rounds since then.

YONO, short for You Only Need One, is the State Bank of India's digital banking app, launched in November 2017.

Bodo is the language of the Bodo people of the Brahmaputra valley and is spoken mainly in the Bodoland Territorial Region of western Assam.

The Orient Express ran from Paris in France to Istanbul in Turkey, crossing Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade and Sofia, so almost the whole of its roughly 3,000 km line lay inside Europe.

Tropical evergreen forests need more than 200 cm of annual rainfall with a short dry season, and in India the western slopes of the Western Ghats get exactly that from the south-west monsoon.

Minerals that are washed out of their parent rock and settle in the sand and gravel of a river bed, flood plain or valley floor are called placer deposits.

Till 1949 the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, sitting in London, was the highest court of appeal for cases arising in British India.

The Ministry of Tourism held that many Swachhata Campaign programmes across the country during the fifth edition of the Special Campaign, and the other three options are simply nearby numbers with no basis.

The correct answer is 92,749 square feet, the space the Ministry of Tourism reported as freed during the previous edition of the campaign.

The campaign has always worked on cleanliness and the clearing of pending matters, and in this edition the government has laid special stress on handling electronic waste effectively.

Special Campaign 6.0 is undertaken across the Government of India in two stages, and this is the window for the implementation phase.