State Exams GK Questions 2026

Sarbananda Sonowal opened his four-day South Korea visit in Busan, which he called the hub of the Korean maritime industry, with an interaction with Indian professionals working in Korean shipbuilding, and the same city is to host the ministerial roundtable for World Maritime Day in which he will take part…

India has set itself the goal of ranking among the world's top five shipbuilding nations by that year, and the four-day South Korea visit of Sarbananda Sonowal was pitched as a step towards it.

This is the cooperation framework that India and South Korea adopted in April, when South Korean President Lee Jae Myung paid a state visit to India, and it covers shipbuilding, shipping and maritime logistics.

Article 20(2) says no person shall be prosecuted and punished for the same offence more than once, which is the protection against double jeopardy.

Bhagwati Charan Vohra, a leading thinker of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, wrote The Philosophy of the Bomb in 1930.

Members of the Rajya Sabha from the states are not elected by the people directly; they are elected by the elected members of the state Legislative Assemblies, so this statement is not correct.

The Kherwar or Sapha Har movement of the Santhals in the 1870s called on the tribe to worship one supreme god and to purify its own social life.

The Latin maxim means 'hear the other side', and it says no person should be condemned or punished without a fair chance to present their case.

Article 55(3) says the President is elected by proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote, and voting is by secret ballot.

Under paragraph 4 of the Fifth Schedule, a Tribes Advisory Council must be set up in every state that has Scheduled Areas, and the President may direct that one be set up in a state that has Scheduled Tribes but no Scheduled Areas.

Singapore is both a port of call and an entrepot, and Karwar is a naval port, but Dover is a ferry port, not an outport.

Cochin Port lies at the head of the Vembanad Kayal and Mormugao Port at the entrance of the Zuari estuary, while statements 1 and 4 place Deendayal and Paradip wrongly.

In Arunachal Pradesh the Brahmaputra is called the Dihang, or Siang, the name it carries after it enters India from Tibet.

A latitude of about 15 degrees north on India's western side, near 74 degrees east, can only be Goa, which lies on the Konkan coast between Maharashtra and Karnataka.

Mediterranean agriculture is a highly specialised commercial type of farming, and growing grapes, called viticulture, is its best-known feature.

Under Article 171, local bodies such as municipalities and district boards elect one-third of the members of a Legislative Council, not one-twelfth, so this statement is wrong.

The 86th Amendment of 2002 added this as the eleventh fundamental duty, clause (k) of Article 51A, placing it on parents and guardians.

The Guptas are famous for their gold coins, not copper ones; their copper issues were few, so the statement that most of their coins were copper is not correct.

The Regulating Act of 1773 turned the Governor of Bengal into the Governor-General of Bengal, and Warren Hastings, who was already Governor, became the first holder of the post in 1774.

Mount Thullier, about 642 metres high, is the highest point of the Nicobar group and stands on Great Nicobar, the southernmost and largest island of that group.