State Exams GK Questions 2026

The Census of 2011 found that 31.16 per cent of Indians lived in urban areas and the remaining 68.84 per cent in villages.

Among the union territories Puducherry recorded 1,037 females for every 1,000 males in 2011, the only union territory with more women than men and the highest figure in that group.

The Census of 2011 recorded 879 females for every 1,000 males in Haryana, the lowest figure of any state in the country, against a national average of 943.

Kabir, a weaver by trade and a disciple in the tradition of Ramananda, lived and preached at Varanasi and died at Magahar.

Lord Dalhousie annexed Awadh in 1856 on the plea of misgovernment, not under the doctrine of lapse, and the Nawab, a poet, dancer and patron of Kathak and thumri, was deposed and sent to Calcutta.

He moved the seat of the Awadh government from Faizabad to Lucknow in 1775 and made the new capital famous for its building and its court life.

He was appointed governor of Awadh by the Mughal emperor in 1722 and, like the Nizam in the Deccan and the Nawab in Bengal, turned the post into a hereditary one as imperial authority weakened.

The empress Nur Jahan raised the tomb at Agra for her father Mirza Ghiyas Beg, who held the title Itmad ud Daulah and served as a minister of Jahangir.

The Buland Darwaza is the towering southern gateway of the Jama Masjid at Fatehpur Sikri, raised by Akbar as a gate of victory in memory of his conquest of Gujarat.

The battle of Kannauj, also called the battle of Bilgram, was fought in 1540 and completed the work begun at Chausa a year earlier.

After the invasion of Timur shattered Tughlaq authority, Malik Sarwar, who held the title Malik us Sharq or lord of the east, made Jaunpur independent in 1394, and his successors ruled as the Sharqis until 1479.

Firoz Shah Tughlaq founded Jaunpur in 1359 and named it after his cousin and predecessor Muhammad bin Tughlaq, whose earlier name was Juna Khan.

Chandawar lies on the Yamuna near present day Firozabad, and the battle fought there in 1194 ended the power of the Gahadavala ruler Jaichand, who was killed.

Arjan Singh led the Indian Air Force during the 1965 war and was raised to the five star rank of Marshal of the Indian Air Force in 2002, the only officer of the Air Force ever to hold it.

Army Day marks the day in 1949 when Lieutenant General K. M. Cariappa took over as the first Indian Commander in Chief of the Indian Army from the last British holder of the post.

The Indian Naval Academy stands on the coast at Ezhimala in Kannur district of Kerala and is the basic training establishment for officer cadets of the Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard.

The motto is taken from the Bhagavad Gita and is translated as touch the sky with glory.

The Garhwal Rifles has its regimental centre at Lansdowne, a cantonment town in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, and the regiment carries the motto Yudhaya Krit Nishchay.

The Madras Regiment traces its raising to 1758 and is accepted as the senior most and oldest infantry regiment of the Indian Army.

In the common ladder of the three services the Army Brigadier, the Navy Commodore and the Air Force Air Commodore occupy the same step.