State Exams GK Questions 2026

Biogas is mostly methane, usually about 50 to 75 per cent, and methane is the part that burns. Biogas is made when bacteria break down cattle dung, crop waste, kitchen waste or sewage in the absence of oxygen, a process called anaerobic digestion, inside a closed digester.

These monsoon forests are the most widespread natural vegetation in India. Tropical deciduous forests grow where annual rainfall is roughly 70 to 200 cm, which covers much of the peninsula, the Ganga plain margins and the lower Himalayan slopes.

Sound is a mechanical wave, so it needs a medium, and in air its particles vibrate along the direction of travel.

Moraines, eskers and outwash plains are landforms left by glaciers, and among these Union Territories only Ladakh has glaciated high mountains.

UDAN is the regional connectivity scheme meant to grow regional air travel and make it affordable while keeping the routes viable for airlines.

COP-27 was the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The UNFCCC was adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and its parties meet every year at a COP.

Tiny gas molecules in the air scatter short wavelengths far more strongly than long ones. This is Rayleigh scattering: the amount of scattering varies inversely with the fourth power of the wavelength.

Australia's men's field hockey team is known as the Kookaburras, after the laughing bird native to Australia. The Kookaburras are among the strongest sides in world hockey.

Pairs I, II and III are correct; pair IV is wrong because UNTSO works in the Middle East, not Haiti.

The Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2007–2012) carried the title "Towards Faster and More Inclusive Growth". The Eleventh Plan was prepared by the Planning Commission under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, with Montek Singh Ahluwalia as Deputy Chairman.

The extension is deliberately limited to companies approved under Round 4, and the reason given is practical: a manufacturer entering now needs a longer investment and operational horizon to build a plant and then scale up its capacity, which a shorter tenure would not allow.

The Ministry of Textiles has set a two-month window in which the online portal will accept fresh applications under Round 4, and eligible companies have been asked to apply within that period in keeping with the scheme guidelines.

The ministry has halved the entry bar under Part 2 of the scheme so that micro, small and medium enterprises and mid-sized manufacturing units can take part, where earlier the requirement kept them out.

Speaking on Access and Benefit Sharing, the minister said this protocol provides the basis for sharing fairly and equitably the benefits that arise when genetic resources are used, and he pressed for the principle to be converted into procedures that are workable, transparent and equitable.

The four publications brought out at the side event were the guidelines for designating India's Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures, which let conservation outside formal protected areas be recognised; the fifth national report under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which is India's periodic account of biosafety governance; a handbook on…

India held a side event there with its National Biodiversity Authority and the United Nations Development Programme, and the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change released four publications at it.

That is exactly how the Indian Navy describes the ship in the announcement of its arrival at Busan, and each part of the phrase carries meaning.

The exercise is arranged in two parts. During the harbour phase the two navies hold professional interactions, cross-deck visits, cross-training and sporting events while the Indian frigate is alongside at Busan.

The ship that entered Busan Naval Harbour in the Republic of Korea for the India-Republic of Korea Navy bilateral exercise is INS Sahyadri, a guided missile stealth frigate that was designed and built in India.

The scheme treats international quality and performance standards as the gate through which Indian equipment reaches foreign buyers, so it sets aside this amount to help manufacturers secure certification from International Sports Federations and to renew it when it lapses.