State Exams GK Questions 2026

The Ministry of Defence has said that the 25th Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation takes place in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, on 19 and 20 October 2026, and that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh travels there to speak for India.

Following the Communal Award of 1932, this Act reserved seats for women in the legislatures and divided them among the communities.

This is false: Indians entered the service through its open examination from the 1850s. The medical service of the East India Company began in Bengal in 1764, and the separate presidency services were later joined into a single Indian Medical Service in 1896.

Bermuda is a small group of islands in the western North Atlantic, about 1,000 km east of the coast of North Carolina in the USA.

The 21st Constitutional Amendment Act of 1967 added Sindhi to the Eighth Schedule. The Eighth Schedule lists the official languages of India recognised by the Constitution.

The Ahoms are a community of Assam descended from the Tai people who founded the Ahom kingdom there.

The magnetic force depends on the sine of the angle between velocity and field, and sin 90° is the largest value.

L4 lies on Earth's orbit 60° ahead of the Earth, so it is as far from the Sun as from the Earth.

All three statements describe the Ghadar Movement correctly. The Ghadar Party was formed in 1913 on the Pacific coast of the USA by Indian immigrants, mostly Punjabi Sikh farmers and workers, with its headquarters, the Yugantar Ashram, in San Francisco.

Kerala was narrowly ahead of Jharkhand in Census 2011, and Assam was clearly ahead of Punjab. Census 2011 counted about 3.34 crore people in Kerala, 3.30 crore in Jharkhand, 3.12 crore in Assam and 2.77 crore in Punjab.

The number of protons in the nucleus defines an element, and no two elements share it. The atomic number (Z) is the number of protons in an atom's nucleus, and in a neutral atom it also equals the number of electrons, which decide chemical behaviour.

A transformer heats up because of energy lost inside it: heat from current in the windings and hysteresis loss in the iron core.

Both statements are true, and the airborne spread of the TB bacterium is exactly why crowded places raise the risk.

A true fruit is a ripened ovary and nothing else. After fertilisation, the ovary of a flower develops into the fruit, its wall becomes the pericarp and the ovules inside become seeds.

The English physician showed in 1796 that deliberate inoculation could protect a person against smallpox. Jenner noticed that milkmaids who had caught the mild disease cowpox did not get smallpox.

The ryotwari system was meant to do the opposite: it bypassed the zamindars and dealt with the peasant directly. The ryotwari settlement was worked out by Alexander Read and Thomas Munro and introduced in the Madras Presidency in 1820, and later extended to the Bombay Presidency.

This statement is wrong, because the Gauhati High Court has permanent benches outside Guwahati. The Gauhati High Court at Guwahati is the common High Court for Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.

In Köppen's scheme it stands for a hot desert climate with its little rain in summer, which fits western Rajasthan.

The Alvars were devotees of Vishnu, not of the goddess Shakti, so this pair is wrong. The Bhakti movement began in Tamil Nadu between the sixth and ninth centuries with two groups of poet-saints.

Mission Shakti was India's first anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test. On 27 March 2019 DRDO fired a ground-launched interceptor from Dr. A.P.J.