Static GK is the largest part of General Studies in every state exam, and most of it is national. Indian polity, history and the national movement, geography of India, the Indian economy and general science appear in the syllabus of UPPSC PCS and PET, BPSC and BSSC, RPSC and RSSB, MPPSC and MPESB, HPSC and HSSC, and DSSSB and Delhi Police. The level changes from exam to exam. PET sets its subjects at NCERT secondary and senior secondary level, BSSC asks matric-level science, and RPSC sets the RAS Prelims at Bachelor's degree standard. This page brings together GK24's topic-wise GK notes tagged for state exams. Each note covers one topic in English and Hindi, as short facts and tables that can be revised in one sitting, and ends with multiple-choice questions and explanations. Start with Polity, History and Geography, then move to the Economy and Science. GK24 does not have state GK sections. As guidance, use these notes for the national part and prepare your state's history, geography, culture, economy and schemes from state board textbooks, the state budget and economic survey, and the commission's past papers. After each note, take its topic quiz and mark what you got wrong.
Light year is a unit for measurement of
A light year is the distance light travels in empty space in one year, so despite its name it measures length, not time.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following crops was introduced by the Portuguese in India?
Chilli is native to the Americas and reached India through the Portuguese in the sixteenth century, after their voyages linked the New World with Asia.
Read the full explanation →Kamarajar Port was commissioned in 2001 to handle thermal coal requirements. It is situated along the coast of which Indian State ?
Kamarajar Port, earlier called Ennore Port, lies on the Coromandel Coast about 24 km north of Chennai. The port was built to take the load of coal imports off Chennai Port and to feed the thermal power stations of the Tamil Nadu electricity board.
Read the full explanation →The headquarters of National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property (NRLC) is located at
The National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property has its headquarters in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. NRLC was set up in 1976 under the Department of Culture, Government of India, and works under the Ministry of Culture.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements about the Ain-i-Akbari is not correct ?
No such revision took place; the Ain-i-Akbari remained Abu'l Fazl's own work, completed in Akbar's reign. Abu'l Fazl, a leading noble and close friend of Akbar, wrote the Akbar Nama in three volumes.
Read the full explanation →At which among the following Harappan sites are fire altars found?
Excavations at Kalibangan in Rajasthan found a row of fire altars, the clearest evidence of a fire ritual in the Harappan civilisation.
Read the full explanation →A mass is attached to a spring that hangs vertically. The extension produced in the spring is 6 cm on Earth. The acceleration due to gravity on the surface of the Moon is one-sixth of its value on the surface of the Earth. The extension of the spring on the Moon would be :
The stretch of a spring is proportional to the force on it, and the weight of the mass on the Moon is one-sixth of its weight on Earth.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following climatic regions of the world have a typical characteristic of seasonal reversal of wind?
The word monsoon comes from the Arabic 'mausim', meaning season, and the climate is defined by winds that reverse their direction between summer and winter.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements with regard to the phenomenon of the primary rainbow formation by water droplets is/are correct ? 1. It involves refraction and one internal reflection of sunlight. 2. It involves refraction of sunlight only. 3. It is formed as the inner bow. 4. It may involve more than one internal reflection as well as refraction of sunlight. Select the answer using the code given below :
A primary rainbow comes from light that is refracted into a raindrop, reflected once inside it and refracted out again, and it is the brighter, inner bow.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following statements : 1. The duties of the Attorney General of India are to give advice to the Government of India upon such legal matters, and to perform such other duties of a legal character, as may from time to time be referred to or assigned to him by the President of India 2. The Solicitor General of India is the secondary Law Officer of the country, who assists the Attorney General, and is himself assisted by several Additional Solicitor Generals of India Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Statement 1 restates Article 76, and statement 2 correctly describes the Solicitor General's place below the Attorney General. Article 76 of the Constitution creates the office of the Attorney General, the highest law officer of the Union.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following factors influence the ocean currents? 1. Coriolis force 2. Gravity 3. Heating by solar energy 4. Wind Select the answer using the code given below:
Ocean currents are set off by solar heating and wind, while gravity and the Coriolis force shape how the water moves.
Read the full explanation →Arrange the following in chronological order from the earliest to recent : I. British East India Company formed II. Magellan circumnavigated the globe III. Dutch East India Company formed IV. Vasco da Gama reached Calicut/ Kozhikode Select the correct answer using the code given below.
Vasco da Gama came first in 1498, Magellan's voyage followed in 1519–1522, and the English and Dutch companies were set up in 1600 and 1602.
Read the full explanation →Which group of landlocked states shares a boundary with Madhya Pradesh?
Madhya Pradesh touches five states, and only these three of them have no coastline. Madhya Pradesh, itself landlocked, sits in the heart of India and borders Rajasthan to the north-west, Uttar Pradesh to the north-east, Chhattisgarh to the south-east, Maharashtra to the south and Gujarat to the west.
Read the full explanation →Who delivered the inaugural lecture of the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture series?
The correct answer is Shri C. Rajagopalachari, a recipient of the Bharat Ratna and the first Governor General of independent India, who delivered the very first lecture of the series.
Read the full explanation →The Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture series has been organised by Akashvani since which year?
Akashvani has organised the annual Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Lecture from that year onwards, in memory of independent India’s first Deputy Prime Minister, who also held the Information and Broadcasting portfolio and is remembered as the architect of national integration and as the Iron Man of India.
Read the full explanation →Who will deliver the 67th Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture?
The correct answer is Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and of Rural Development, who is to deliver the sixty seventh lecture in the series at the Rang Bhawan Auditorium of Akashvani in New Delhi.
Read the full explanation →Who is the Secretary of the Department of School Education and Literacy who addressed the summit?
The correct answer is Shri T. K. Anil Kumar, who spoke at the summit as Secretary of the Department of School Education and Literacy and laid out its four priorities, calling for a seamless transition from school education into higher education, skilling and employment so that learners can make informed…
Read the full explanation →Recognition of skills across education systems, named as a priority at the summit, is to be achieved through which framework?
Of the four priorities set out at the summit by the Secretary of the Department of School Education and Literacy, the third is the recognition of skills across education systems, and the instrument named for it is the National Credit Framework.
Read the full explanation →Which edition of the National Summit on Facilitating School-to-Work Transition is being organised by CBSE?
The Central Board of Secondary Education, in association with the Sahodaya School Complexes of Delhi and the National Capital Region, is holding the fourth National Summit on Facilitating School-to-Work Transition in New Delhi across two days, the twenty sixth and twenty seventh of October 2026.
Read the full explanation →Which organisation is collaborating with Western Command for MTS 2.0?
SIDM is an industry body for defence manufacturers, which is why it fits an event meant to connect military users with the firms that would actually build or refurbish the platforms.
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