State Exams GK Questions 2026

Lanak La is a high pass in the Aksai Chin area of eastern Ladakh, on the line between territory held by India and by China.

The Gujral Doctrine is a set of principles for India's relations with its immediate neighbours, put forward by I.K. Gujral in 1996 as External Affairs Minister and followed by him as Prime Minister in 1997-98.

Under Article 131 of the Constitution, the Supreme Court alone can hear disputes between the Government of India and one or more States, or between two or more States, and such a case starts directly in the Supreme Court.

Algae are the predominantly aquatic members of the Kingdom Plantae. They are simple, chlorophyll-bearing organisms with a thallus body that is not divided into true roots, stems and leaves.

The focus of an earthquake is also called the hypocentre. It is the point inside the Earth where the rocks first break or slip and the energy of the earthquake is released.

A scatter graph is the right diagram when the aim is to show how two sets of data are related to each other.

IBSAMAR is the joint maritime exercise of the navies of the three IBSA countries. The name itself gives the answer: IBSA stands for India, Brazil and South Africa, and MAR comes from "maritime".

Siddheshvara was not one of the poets at the court of Krishnadevaraya. Krishnadevaraya (ruled 1509-1529), the greatest ruler of the Tuluva dynasty of Vijayanagara, was himself a scholar who wrote the Telugu poem Amuktamalyada.

The Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2012-17) had the theme "Faster, More Inclusive and Sustainable Growth". It continued the inclusive-growth idea of the Eleventh Plan (2007-12), whose theme was "Towards Faster and More Inclusive Growth", and added sustainability as a stated goal.

Both statements misread what the 86th Amendment of 2002 did. Education was already a Directive Principle from 1950: the original Article 45 asked the State to provide free and compulsory education to all children up to fourteen years.

The Puranas, the Ramayana and the Kalpa-Sutra are Smriti texts, while the Vedas are Shruti. Ancient Indian literature is divided into two classes.

The Sri Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam was founded in Kerala in 1903 to carry forward the reform ideas of Sri Narayana Guru.

Detha, who lived and worked at Borunda, collected the folk tales of the region and retold them in Rajasthani in the many volumes of Bataan ri Phulwari, and several of those stories have been adapted for the stage and the screen.

Rathore, an army officer born at Jaisalmer, won the silver medal in men's double trap shooting at the Athens Olympics of 2004, which was then India's best individual Olympic result.

He commanded the company that held the post at Rezang La in Ladakh during the war of 1962 and was awarded the Param Vir Chakra posthumously for that action.

When trees were ordered to be felled at Khejarli in the Jodhpur state in 1730, Amrita Devi and the Bishnois of the village clasped the trees and were killed, and the episode has become the standard Indian example of community conservation; the state's wildlife protection award carries her name.

Bhatt, who belonged to Sirohi, followed the Gandhian programme of constructive work and led the movement in the princely states, and the state remembers him by this title.

Govind Guru led the Bhagat reform movement among the Bhils of the southern districts, and the gathering of his followers on Mangarh hill on 17 November 1913 was fired upon, an episode often described as a tribal counterpart of Jallianwala Bagh.

Kumbha of Mewar built the hill fort of Kumbhalgarh and raised the Vijay Stambh, the tower of victory, at Chittorgarh after his victory over Mahmud Khilji; he was also a scholar and wrote the Sangeet Raj.

Shekhawat, who had served as Chief Minister of Rajasthan, was elected Vice-President of India and held the office from 2002 to 2007, which makes him the best-known holder of a national constitutional post from the state.