RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

India observes the day as Gandhi Jayanti, and the United Nations adopted the same date in 2007 as the International Day of Non-Violence in recognition of the method of non-violent struggle that Gandhi used.

World Tourism Day has been observed on this date since 1980 by the World Tourism Organization, the United Nations body for tourism, and each year a member country hosts the main celebration with a chosen theme.

International Literacy Day was declared by UNESCO in 1966 and has been observed every year since to remind governments of the work left in teaching people to read and write.

The day, formally the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, marks the signing of the Montreal Protocol on 16 September 1987, the agreement under which countries agreed to stop using chlorofluorocarbons and other substances that thin the ozone layer.

He was the engineer behind the Krishna Raja Sagara dam and the flood protection works of Hyderabad, served as Diwan of Mysore and was given the Bharat Ratna in 1955.

On 14 September 1949 the Constituent Assembly decided that Hindi written in the Devanagari script would be an official language of the Union, a decision that later became Article 343 of the Constitution, and that date is kept every year as Hindi Diwas.

He was a philosopher and a teacher who became the first Vice President and the second President of India, and when his students wished to celebrate his birthday he asked that the day be kept for teachers instead.

Holding the Ctrl key and clicking anywhere inside a sentence selects that whole sentence, from its first letter to the full stop that ends it, and the selected sentence can then be deleted, moved or formatted in one action.

The Format Painter is the paintbrush shaped button in the Clipboard group of the Home tab.

With a word or a phrase selected, Ctrl + K opens the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, where the selected text can be linked to a web address, to another file, to a place inside the same document such as a heading or a bookmark, or to an email address.

With the cursor on a word, Shift + F7 opens the thesaurus pane, which lists synonyms and, for many words, antonyms, and lets the chosen word be inserted in place of the original.

The ribbon, a strip of tabs each divided into groups of related commands, was introduced across Microsoft Office in the 2007 release and took the place of the drop down menu bar and the floating toolbars used until then.

The Table of Contents command is the first group of the References tab.

A page break ends the current page at the position of the cursor and pushes everything after it to the top of the next page, so that a new chapter or a new heading always begins on a fresh page even if the matter above it is later edited.

Pressing F7 opens the spelling and grammar checker, which moves through the document word by word, marks a word it does not find in its dictionary and offers a list of suggestions, with the choice of ignoring the word once, ignoring it everywhere or adding it to the dictionary.

Justified alignment stretches the spaces between the words of every full line so that the text touches both the left and the right margin and the paragraph looks like a rectangle.

The Mailings tab holds Start Mail Merge, Select Recipients, Insert Merge Field, Preview Results and Finish and Merge, along with the Envelopes and Labels commands.

From Word 2007 onwards a document is saved by default in the Office Open XML format, whose extension is.docx. The format stores the document as compressed XML parts, which makes the file smaller and easier for a damaged file to be recovered from than the older binary format.

A new blank document in Microsoft Word 2016 opens in the Calibri font at a size of 11 points, and the same pair of defaults is used from Word 2007 through Word 2019.

The Nobel Peace Prize of 2014 was shared by Kailash Satyarthi, who has worked for decades against child labour and founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan, and Malala Yousafzai, who campaigned for the right of girls to go to school.