State Exams GK Questions 2026

The rules permit a maximum of twenty starred questions to be listed for oral answer in the Lok Sabha on any one day, and the ballot decides which members' questions get a place.

A starred question is distinguished by an asterisk, is answered on the floor of the House by the minister, and because the answer is oral, members may follow it with supplementary questions.

Zero Hour is an Indian innovation in parliamentary procedure and has been in use since 1962.

Question Hour is the first hour of every sitting of each House, normally from 11 a.m. to 12 noon, and it is set out in the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business.

In 1907 the peasants of the Punjab canal colonies agitated against the restrictive terms of the Punjab Land Colonisation Act of 1906 and against increases in the water rate and the land revenue.

The Rampa or Manyam rebellion of 1922 to 1924 was led by Alluri Sitarama Raju, who organised the Koya and other hill people of the Godavari agency against the forest laws that stopped their shifting cultivation and against the forced labour exacted for road building.

Tebhaga means three shares. The bargadars or sharecroppers of Bengal, organised by the Bengal Provincial Kisan Sabha in 1946, demanded that the crop be divided so that the cultivator who supplied the labour and the seed kept two of the three shares, leaving one for the jotedar; the Floud Commission…

The All India Kisan Sabha was founded at Lucknow in April 1936, and Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, who had built the Bihar Kisan Sabha, was elected its first president.

In 1928 the peasants of Bardoli in Surat district refused to pay a land revenue enhancement of about thirty per cent.

The rising led by Birsa Munda from 1899 to 1900 compelled the government to pass the Chotanagpur Tenancy Act in 1908, which recognised the khuntkatti right by which a Munda family held the land its ancestors had cleared and prohibited beth begari, the practice of forced unpaid labour.

Ulgulan is the Mundari word for a great upheaval or tumult, and it is the name the Mundas gave to the rising Birsa Munda led in Chhotanagpur from 1899 to 1900 against landlords, moneylenders, contractors and missionaries.

The Santhal Hool, the largest tribal rising before 1857, was led by the brothers Sidhu and Kanhu Murmu, with Chand and Bhairav beside them, in the Damin-i-Koh tract of the Rajmahal hills.

After the riots of 1875 the government enquired into peasant indebtedness in the Deccan and passed this Act, which restricted the moneylender's power to have a debtor's land sold in execution of a decree and gave the courts power to look behind the bond.

The Deccan Riots began in 1875 at Supa in Poona district and spread through Poona and Ahmednagar.

Dinabandhu Mitra wrote the Bengali play Nil Darpan, published in 1860, which showed how indigo planters coerced the cultivators of Bengal, and it reached the English reading public and the administration soon after.

The Indigo Revolt, called the Neel Bidroha, began in 1859 in the Nadia district of Bengal, where the ryots refused to sow indigo on the terms the planters forced on them.

Besides a free meal through the local anganwadi during pregnancy and for six months after childbirth, the Act entitles every pregnant woman and lactating mother to a maternity benefit of not less than six thousand rupees, paid in instalments; women already receiving a similar benefit as government employees are excluded.

The High Level Committee on restructuring the Food Corporation of India, chaired by Shanta Kumar, reported in 2015.

The Targeted Public Distribution System was introduced in June 1997. Until then the distribution system was universal, open to any cardholder; from 1997 households were classified as Below or Above the Poverty Line and given different quotas at different prices, with the poorer group receiving a larger subsidy.

Article 47, a Directive Principle of State Policy, declares that the State shall regard the raising of the level of nutrition and of the standard of living of its people and the improvement of public health as among its primary duties, and the same Article speaks of prohibiting intoxicating drinks…