RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

The 103rd Amendment Act, 2019 allowed reservation of up to 10 percent for the Economically Weaker Sections in educational institutions and in government jobs.

Relative humidity compares the water vapour actually present in the air with the most the air could hold at that temperature, so both figures are needed.

Parts of all three states drain into the Ganga through its tributaries. The Ganga basin is the largest river basin of India, covering about a quarter of the country's area.

Pyruvate, the ion of pyruvic acid (CH3COCOOH), is a three-carbon molecule. It is formed at the end of glycolysis, the first stage of respiration, which takes place in the cytoplasm of every living cell.

For a photon, energy equals momentum multiplied by the speed of light, E = pc, so a momentum of 10 MeV/c gives an energy of exactly 10 MeV.

In Census 2011, Scheduled Tribes made up about 94.4 percent of Mizoram's population, the highest share among all the states.

The Eight Degree Channel runs roughly along the 8 degree north latitude in the Arabian Sea and separates Minicoy, the southernmost island of Lakshadweep, from the Maldives.

Cotton soaks up sweat well, and as that sweat evaporates from the cloth it takes heat away from the body and keeps us cool.

The Portuguese were the first Europeans to reach Africa's coasts as traders, and their trading posts began the long story of European colonisation of the continent.

Citizenship is dealt with in Part II of the Constitution, Articles 5 to 11, and any citizenship law, including the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, falls under it.

Human cells, like all animal cells, have only a flexible plasma membrane on the outside and no rigid cell wall.

Article 21A, the right to education, was inserted by the Constitution (Eighty-sixth) Amendment Act, 2002, not by the Eighty-fifth.

All three features describe alluvial soil, the most widespread soil of India. Alluvial soil is deposited by rivers such as the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra, and also lines the eastern coastal deltas.

S-waves are not less destructive; their side-to-side shaking does more damage to buildings and overpasses than P-waves do. S-waves, or secondary waves, are transverse body waves: they move the ground at right angles to the direction in which they travel.

Isoenzymes, also called isozymes, are different molecular forms of an enzyme that speed up the same chemical reaction but differ in their amino acid sequence.

The Dasavatara temple at Deogarh is a Gupta building, but the Bhitargaon temple is made of brick, not dressed stone.

Sambhar, the large saline lake west of Jaipur and the biggest inland salt lake of the country, was added to the list of Ramsar wetlands in 1990; the other Ramsar wetland of the state is Keoladeo Ghana at Bharatpur, recognised in 1981.

The Palace on Wheels was introduced in 1982, using coaches in the style of the old princely saloons, and runs a weekly circuit through the cities and wildlife parks of Rajasthan; it is operated for the state by the Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation, which itself was set up in 1979.

The Pushkar fair is held at Pushkar in Ajmer district around Kartik Purnima, the full moon of Kartik, and combines a bathing pilgrimage to the lake and the temple of Brahma with one of the largest cattle and camel markets of the country.

Guru Shikhar stands on the Abu hills in Sirohi district and is the highest point of the whole Aravalli range; Mount Abu, the only hill station of Rajasthan, lies below it along with the Dilwara temples and the Nakki lake.