RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

It was the only one of the four sectors to shrink during the month, falling 5.6 per cent, and its index stood at 85.7, the lowest of the four.

Factory output measured by the Index of Industrial Production rose at that rate in August 2026 over the same month a year earlier, helped by manufacturing and by a strong showing from electricity and gas supply.

Dr Jitendra Singh said that reforms in the space sector and the growth of the private ecosystem have brought more than 400 Indian space start-ups into areas such as rocket building, satellite building and space applications.

It is named, along with SARAL, as a satellite jointly built by ISRO and CNES, and both were cited as milestones of a partnership that goes back to sounding rocket experiments of the 1960s. Oceansat-3 is wrong because it is an Indian ocean observation satellite of the Oceansat series and…

TRISHNA is described as the third joint satellite of India and France, and its realisation is progressing well. The two earlier joint satellites built by the Indian Space Research Organisation and the French space agency CNES are Megha-Tropiques and SARAL.

In a suspension the particles of the solute are large enough to be seen and do not dissolve; they stay spread through the liquid only while it is stirred and settle to the bottom when it is left standing.

Spirogyra is a green filamentous alga found in ponds, and when its filament grows long it simply breaks into two or more pieces.

A tissue is a group of cells that come from the same source, look alike and work together at one job.

Carbon occurs in nature in two ways, free and combined. In the free state the element stands alone, as in diamond, graphite and coal; diamond is pure carbon whose atoms are each joined to four others in a rigid three dimensional network, which is why it is the hardest natural…

The brain is divided into fore-brain, mid-brain and hind-brain, and the fore-brain is the main thinking part. Its largest portion is the cerebrum, whose folded outer layer holds separate areas for hearing, sight, smell and touch, for reasoning and memory, and for ordering voluntary movement.

Early Indian thinkers held that everything in the world is made of five basic elements, the panchamahabhuta: earth, water, fire, air and space or ether.

It is a reduction division: one parent cell with the full, diploid set gives four cells with half the number of chromosomes, the haploid set.

Malleability is the property by which a metal can be beaten into thin sheets without breaking, which is how aluminium foil and the sheets used in car bodies are made.

Mulching means covering the bare ground between plants with straw, dry leaves or crop waste, so that the soil holds moisture and raindrops cannot beat the topsoil loose.

Marble is a metamorphic rock, formed when limestone is changed deep inside the earth by great heat and pressure; the Taj Mahal is built of it.

Human beings are ureotelic, which means the main nitrogen waste they pass out is urea. When the body breaks down extra amino acids, ammonia is produced, and ammonia is highly poisonous even in small amounts.

The Seventh Schedule of the Constitution divides subjects into three lists. The Union List holds subjects only Parliament can legislate on, such as defence, foreign affairs, currency and railways.

Blood is filtered in the glomerulus of the nephron, and the filtrate that first enters the tubule still holds many useful substances.

A ligament is the connective tissue that joins one bone to another at a joint. It is very elastic and strong, and it holds the bones in place so that a joint can move without the bones slipping apart.

Abscisic acid is the one plant hormone in this list that slows growth instead of speeding it up, which is why it is often called the stress hormone of plants.