State Exams GK Questions 2026

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment announced that the eight-day Shilp Samagam Mela 2026 would begin in Guwahati, the capital of Assam, running until Wednesday, 28 October, with the venue at Farm Gate in Khanapara and visiting hours from 11 in the morning to 9 at night.

Describing the rule set up after Lord Ram returned to Ayodhya, the Prime Minister called Ramrajya a benchmark of non-discriminatory governance in which everyone receives justice and equal opportunity and authority works for public welfare rather than for command.

While speaking about the standing of Indian culture abroad, the Prime Minister observed that many places in the country have entered the UNESCO World Heritage list in recent years, and that Deepavali was taken on to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list in the previous year.

Speaking at the Vijaya Dashami celebrations at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi, the Prime Minister said that over 650 ancient idols have been returned to the country during the preceding 12 years, reversing a long period in which heritage objects were carried out of India.

Raja Radhakanta Deb founded the Dharma Sabha in Calcutta in 1830 to defend orthodox Hindu customs against reformers. The Dharma Sabha was set up mainly to oppose Lord William Bentinck's regulation of 1829 that banned sati, which Raja Rammohan Roy had campaigned for.

Statement 2 is wrong because slate is a metamorphic rock, formed when shale is squeezed and heated, not a sedimentary rock.

The New Economic Policy of 1991 rested on liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation, and trade liberalisation and public sector disinvestment were among its main measures.

Cold dry air below and warm moist air above makes the atmosphere stable, which suppresses rising air; a thunderstorm needs the reverse, warm moist air near the ground and colder, drier air aloft.

Zambia lies north of the Zambezi river and is separated from South Africa by Zimbabwe and Botswana, so the two countries share no border.

The first hill stations grew out of military needs: cantonments for troops and places where soldiers could be kept healthy.

The Himalayan Frontal Fault lies on the southern edge of the range and separates the Himalaya from the Indo-Gangetic plains, not from Tibet.

A black plate with yellow letters marks a vehicle registered for self-drive rental, which the customer drives without a hired driver.

Raipur, in the Chhattisgarh basin, receives about 1,200 to 1,300 mm of rain a year, more than any of the other three cities.

The Congress Socialist Party was formed in 1934 by Acharya Narendra Deva and Jayaprakash Narayan, and in 1936 Nehru asked the Congress to adopt socialism.

Chaired by Y. V. Reddy, it brought the 2011 Census into the devolution formula for the first time, through a criterion called demographic change.

In Koppen's scheme for India, most of the Ganga plain falls in the Cwg type: a monsoon climate with a dry winter.

Heat from the Earth's interior sets up slow convection currents in the mantle, and these drag the rigid plates resting on it.

Public goods are non-rival and non-excludable, but externalities cause market failure, so the market does not supply the optimal amount.

The correct answer is the Bloomberg Economy Forum 2026, on the sidelines of which the Union Minister spoke in an exclusive conversation about the peaceful character of India's nuclear programme and the power needs of an economy turning towards artificial intelligence.

The correct answer is Dr. Homi Bhabha, whom Dr. Jitendra Singh recalled as the architect of India's nuclear programme, saying that his vision continues to guide a journey built around peaceful application and national development.