State Exams GK Questions 2026

GenomeIndia is India's own national programme, paid for by the Department of Biotechnology, and its goal is a reference catalogue of Indian genetic variation.

Indian Railways has marked 1,340 stations across the country for redevelopment under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme, and four of them stand in Jammu and Kashmir: Budgam, Jammu Tawi, Martyr Captain Tushar Mahajan at Udhampur, and Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra.

Tunnel T50 is a rail tunnel of 12.77 km driven under the USBRL project between those two points in Jammu and Kashmir, and it is India’s longest transport tunnel.

That is the length and the cost of the Udhampur–Srinagar–Baramulla Rail Link, which was inaugurated in June 2025 and spreads over the districts of Udhampur, Reasi, Ramban, Srinagar, Anantnag, Pulwama, Budgam and Baramulla.

It carries the USBRL across the Chenab river in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir and is the world’s highest railway arch bridge.

In paragraph 93 of that speech the then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said public sector banks had to be strong and competitive, that the Bank Board Bureau would be made operational in that year, that a roadmap for consolidating public sector banks would be spelt out, that the transformation of…

Those challenging the decision argued that assurances given in Parliament amounted to a promise binding on the Government.

According to the clarification, the association of IDBI officers took the shareholding question to the Delhi High Court, which decided the case on 17 December 2018 and dismissed the writ petition.

The Finance Ministry's clarification records that while the Union Budget of 2003 was being discussed and Parliament was debating this repeal legislation, an amendment was moved that sought to limit any reduction of the Government's holding in IDBI.

On the night of 2-3 December 1984, methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal.

Seasons happen only because the Earth's axis is tilted to the plane of its orbit. The Earth's equatorial plane is inclined at about 23.5 degrees to the plane of its orbit, so its axis makes an angle of about 66.5 degrees with that plane.

PAHAL is the direct benefit transfer scheme for subsidy on cooking gas (LPG). PAHAL stands for Pratyaksh Hanstantrit Labh, meaning direct transferred benefit.

In early nineteenth-century Calcutta, lotteries paid for town improvement, and the fear of disease pushed the British towards planning. After Lord Wellesley's Minute of 1803 on the need for town planning in Calcutta, many committees were set up to improve the city.

Sudan, often called North Sudan after South Sudan separated in 2011, has no coast on the Mediterranean Sea. Sudan lies south of Egypt in north-east Africa.

Guru Arjan blessed the rebel prince Khusrau and also organised the community's finances through the masands. The first Sikh Gurus, from Guru Nanak onwards, were spiritual teachers who kept away from politics, and Akbar was friendly towards them.

Abdur Razzak wrote that roses were sold everywhere in Vijayanagara and that the people could not live without them. Abdur Razzak Samarqandi was an ambassador sent by the Timurid ruler Shah Rukh of Persia.

The British blended Indian and European forms to present themselves as the rightful rulers of India. Towards the beginning of the twentieth century a mixed style called Indo-Saracenic took shape in colonial cities.

The horizontal distance from one crest to the next, or from one trough to the next, is the wavelength. Ocean waves are mostly made by wind blowing over the sea surface.

The Asan Conservation Reserve lies in Dehradun district of Uttarakhand. The reserve is a stretch of the Asan river near its meeting with the Yamuna, where a barrage built in 1967 created a wetland.

In the Union Budget 2022-23, interest on past borrowing was the single largest item of revenue expenditure. Revenue expenditure is spending that creates no assets, such as salaries, pensions, interest, subsidies and grants.