State Exams GK Questions 2026

Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, cited the growth of the startup ecosystem from roughly 400 startups in 2014 to more than 2.3 lakh today, and added that an estimated 50 to 60 per cent of them are based in…

His plenary covered cryo-electron microscopy for target discovery and drug design, including the computational and mathematical frameworks used in high-resolution single-particle work and the three-dimensional visualisation of macromolecular complexes.

Prof. Ajay K. Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, described the 12 core thematic priority domains around which the conclave is built, and called for closer alignment of research, industry and policy across them.

He inaugurated ESTIC 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on the conclave's opening day and used his address to ask scientists, researchers and young innovators for outcomes that are concrete, measurable and able to be scaled, within an operating horizon of three years.

After the cheetah KNG22 was found injured in the Morena territorial forests, the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department rescued it the same day and took it to the veterinary facility at Jabalpur, where it received intensive veterinary care and emergency surgery; five firearm pellets were recovered from its body during the…

The team sent by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has three officers: the Inspector General of Forests of the NTCA, the Additional Director of the WCCB and a Regional Deputy Director of the WCCB.

The male cheetah carrying the code KNG22 was a 19-month-old offspring of the female Nirva and was part of the reintroduced cheetah population of Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.

All rose plants of one kind belong to a single species, the basic unit of classification. A species is a group of individuals that are alike in their main features and can interbreed in nature to produce fertile offspring.

The Kuvempu Rashtriya Puraskar for 2020 was given to the Odia poet Rajendra Kishore Panda.

Statement 1 is right: all four were declared Ramsar wetlands of international importance in 2021, Sultanpur and Bhindawas in Haryana, and Thol and Wadhwana in Gujarat.

Lhotse is not in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands at all; it is a Himalayan peak on the border of Nepal and Tibet, just south of Mount Everest, and at about 8,516 metres it is the fourth-highest mountain in the world.

The Adivaraha cave temple at Mamallapuram has two rare royal portrait panels of the Pallava kings. One shows Simhavishnu seated between two queens, and the other shows his son Mahendravarman I standing with his two queens, with labels in the Pallava Grantha script naming them.

Invisibles are part of the current account of the balance of payments, not the capital account. The balance of payments records all of a country's transactions with the rest of the world and has two main parts.

Article 12, the first article of Part III, defines "the State" for the purpose of Fundamental Rights.

Pair 1 is right: the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, set up in 1965, works from the Rashtrapati Niwas in Shimla, the building that was once the Viceregal Lodge, where the Simla Conference of 1945 was held.

Madhyamika is the ancient town now called Nagari, about 13 km north of Chittorgarh in Rajasthan. The grammarian Patanjali, who lived in the time of Pushyamitra Shunga in the second century BCE, wrote in his Mahabhashya the examples "the Yavana besieged Saketa" and "the Yavana besieged Madhyamika".

Statement 1 is wrong: alluvial soils, the most widespread soils of India, are generally rich in potash and lime but poor in nitrogen and phosphorus, which is why farmers on the northern plains add nitrogen fertiliser.

The Gulf Stream is a warm current of the North Atlantic. It starts in the Gulf of Mexico, passes through the Florida Strait, flows north along the east coast of the USA and then turns north-east across the Atlantic as the North Atlantic Drift, keeping the ports of north-western Europe…

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2016 went to the Telugu film-maker Kasinadhuni Viswanath, and it was presented to him in 2017.

As blood flows through the thin-walled capillaries, part of its plasma, with small proteins and some white blood cells, leaks out into the spaces between cells.