State Exams GK Questions 2026

Each activity is a recognised way of pulling carbon dioxide out of circulation and locking it away.

He was born in Cambridge, England, and is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics went to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for discovering macroscopic quantum tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.

District Mineral Foundations exist to work for the people and areas affected by mining, not to promote exploration or grant licences.

Pulicat Lake lies in two states, but the Himalayas and the Western Ghats each spread over more than five states.

Only the Centre issues treasury bills and they are sold at a discount, but the RBI also manages state government securities.

The Supreme Court has held that choosing one's life partner is part of the right to life and personal liberty.

The policy allows cassava, damaged wheat, rotten potatoes and sugar beet, but not groundnut seeds or horse gram. The National Policy on Biofuels, 2018 widened the raw materials for ethanol beyond sugarcane molasses.

Ice caps and glaciers hold more water than groundwater, while rivers and lakes hold far less than groundwater. About 97 per cent of the Earth's water is salty ocean water, and only about 2.5 to 3 per cent is fresh.

"Kulah-Daran" means wearers of the peaked cap, a name given to the Sayyids in medieval India. In Persian, kulah is a tall, pointed cap and daran means those who wear or hold it.

The method uses a natural bacterium to stop mosquitoes from passing on viruses. Wolbachia is a common bacterium that lives inside the cells of many insects.

The Act runs for 15 years and reserves seats for SC women inside the SC quota, but it did not start with the 18th Lok Sabha.

The two Indian medals reported from the Asian Para Games 2026 on 20 October 2026 were bronze: Ravanni Valasanaini in the Women’s 1500m T11 event, where the result also stood as her personal best, and Bhavina Patel in the Women’s Singles Class 4-5 event, where the medal was called another…

She brought home the bronze in the Women’s 1500m T11 event at the Asian Para Games 2026 on 20 October 2026, and the timing was also her personal best, which is why her result was read as a double gain: a podium place and her own fastest run.

Bhavina Patel took bronze in that class at the Asian Para Games 2026 on 20 October 2026, and the medal was described as another milestone in a career that has produced several.

The Ministry has been holding these fairs since that year, and 13 of them have taken place so far, carrying the goods of 975 artisans to buyers.

BHARAT TULIP is the brand under which the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment offers goods made by its target groups on digital platforms in India and abroad, so that a craft worker reaches buyers far beyond a fairground.

The fair put up 83 stalls in all and 80 of them went to artisans, while the rest included food counters that served traditional dishes to visitors.

The nine-day fair of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment ran at that ground in Mysuru in Karnataka and closed on 20 October 2026, drawing thousands of visitors to the handicraft and handloom goods on sale.

The mela is that ministry's marketing-support platform for artisans and beneficiaries linked to its three national corporations, namely the National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation, the National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation and the National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation, known by the short forms NSFDC, NSKFDC…

The ministry described BHARAT-TULIP as a key focus of the Guwahati mela, an initiative that takes the products of artisans from the target groups to buyers through physical outlets as well as e-commerce platforms.