State Exams GK Questions 2026

The Empowered Group of Secretaries approved the cohort at its meeting on 8 October 2026, and the nineteen are made up of two kinds of institution: 14 Alternative Investment Funds and 5 Focused Research Organisations.

These are practical choices for the Himalayan belt, where settlements can be cut off for months and a short distance on a map can take hours to travel.

AIIMS Bilaspur is the third institution involved, and its role is to study the health impact of high-altitude conditions on patients who come to the region.

The Union Health Minister performed the Bhumi Pujan and laid the foundation stone there, and a former Chief Minister of the state as well as the Member of Parliament from Mandi spoke at the ceremony.

The repository would record each sport's history, cultural significance, rules, equipment and field-of-play requirements, so that the knowledge survives even as sport modernises.

The correct answer is Mallakhamb, which India demonstrated along with Yogasana and Kalaripayattu.

The correct answer is Ahmedabad in Gujarat, where the games were staged at the Veer Savarkar Sports Complex in the Naranpura area on 12 October 2026.

The correct answer is Sudhakar Dalela, Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs, who serves as India's BRICS Sherpa for 2026 and attended the inaugural ceremony.

Its Abhimanch and Sammukh auditoriums are among the venues, along with Kamani Auditorium, LTG Auditorium and Meghdoot Theatre, and its Director, Chittaranjan Tripathy, designed and directed the opening play Samudra Manthan.

The correct answer is Shared Stories, Shared Futures, the theme under which the three-day festival opened at the National School of Drama in New Delhi and runs from 12 to 14 October 2026.

Its field staff visit selected markets and villages on a weekly roster, covering 1,407 urban markets, including online markets, and 1,465 villages spread across all states and union territories; the response rate in September 2026 was 100 per cent in both the rural and the urban sample.

The correct answer is onion, which topped the list of key items by inflation rate for the month, with prices roughly doubling over the year.

The correct answer is 5.54 per cent, the provisional year-on-year rate for September 2026 measured against September 2025 at the all-India combined level.

The campaign is to be organised across all states from 22 October to 30 November 2026, and the minister asked state governments and the authorities concerned to take part actively so that it reaches farmers.

The scheme was designed for one hundred districts selected on three measures: low agricultural productivity, low cropping intensity and limited disbursement of agricultural credit.

The correct answer is Gaya in Bihar, which secured first position among the best-performing districts when the scheme completed its first year.

The Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951 inserted the Ninth Schedule along with Article 31B. Courts had begun striking down zamindari abolition and other land reform laws for violating the right to property.

Most Ashokan inscriptions are in Brahmi, and the script already shows regional differences in the shapes of its letters. Ashoka's edicts were written mostly in Prakrit, in the Brahmi script, which James Prinsep deciphered in 1837-38.

The Central Vigilance Commission was created in 1964 by a government resolution, on the advice of the Committee on Prevention of Corruption headed by K. Santhanam.

These are the five great elements, the Pancha Mahabhuta, that Indian philosophy saw as the building blocks of the physical world.