State Exams GK Questions 2026

On such a platform both the buyer and the seller are enterprises: a factory sources raw material, components, machinery or packaging from suppliers, and the orders are usually bulk orders with negotiated prices, credit terms and long-term supply contracts.

GeM is an online marketplace on which central and state government departments, public sector undertakings and other public bodies buy common-use goods and services from registered sellers, with the aim of making purchase faster, cheaper and transparent.

HTTPS is HTTP carried inside a protected channel: the browser and the server first exchange a digital certificate and agree on keys, after which card numbers, passwords and addresses travel as cipher text that an eavesdropper on the network cannot read.

M-commerce, or mobile commerce, is the part of electronic commerce conducted on smartphones, tablets and even feature phones over a wireless network, and the term is credited to Kevin Duffey in 1997.

NPCI, set up in 2008 as the umbrella organisation for retail payments in the country, built and runs UPI, which lets a user link several bank accounts to one mobile application and transfer money instantly using a virtual payment address, without sharing account numbers.

Here both sides of the deal are individuals and the website only provides the listing, the search and sometimes the payment and dispute machinery, earning a fee or advertising revenue rather than a trading margin.

In an auction the price is not fixed by the seller but is discovered from what buyers are willing to bid, and this way of trading appears at two levels.

Akbar raised the Buland Darwaza, the lofty southern gateway of the Jama Masjid at Fatehpur Sikri, in 1601 to mark his conquest of Gujarat, and it ranks among the tallest gateways in the world, approached by a long flight of steps and faced in red sandstone inlaid with white marble.

It is famous for its floor of hand-painted blue Chinese tiles, each of them different, its Belgian glass chandeliers, its clock tower and the copper plates recording the privileges granted to the Jewish community of the Malabar coast.

An Atash Behram is the highest of the three grades of Zoroastrian fire temple, and of the nine in the world eight are in India, at Udvada, Navsari, Surat and Mumbai, with the ninth at Yazd in Iran.

Its name means 'might of Islam', its screen of pointed arches was raised by masons trained in Indian temple technique, and the Iron Pillar stands in its courtyard.

The correct answer is A, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, the saint who brought the Chishti order to India and settled at Ajmer, where his tomb became the best known dargah in the subcontinent; the annual Urs there draws pilgrims of every faith, and Mughal emperors from Akbar onwards made the journey.

Vasco da Gama died at Kochi in 1524 and was buried in this church, and his remains were moved to Portugal some years later, though the gravestone is still shown to visitors.

The basilica, completed in the opening years of the seventeenth century, is part of the Churches and Convents of Goa inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The gurdwara built on that site is Takht Sri Patna Sahib, one of the five Takhts, and the only one in Bihar.

The five Takhts, or seats of Sikh religious authority, must be learnt as a set, because the question is usually set by swapping one place for another.

The correct answer is B, Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Guru, under whom the Harmandir Sahib was built and who had the Adi Granth compiled and installed in it in 1604, appointing Baba Buddha as its first granthi.

The institute, which lies at Izatnagar near Bareilly, is the country's premier centre for veterinary research and teaching, covering animal diseases, vaccines and livestock production, and it has a second campus at Mukteswar in the Nainital district.

The institute is the country's reference laboratory for viral diseases, it tests and confirms outbreaks and it also works on vaccines; the National AIDS Research Institute is in the same city.

The institute works on food processing, preservation, packaging and nutrition, and it shares the city with the Defence Food Research Laboratory, so Mysuru is best remembered as the food research city.