State Exams GK Questions 2026

She won the silver medal in women's singles badminton at Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and the bronze at Tokyo in 2020, becoming the first Indian woman to win medals at two Olympic Games.

Hockey has brought India thirteen Olympic medals, made up of eight golds between 1928 and 1980, the silver of Rome in 1960 and bronze medals at Mexico City in 1968, Munich in 1972, Tokyo in 2020 and Paris in 2024, which is more than any other sport and also accounts…

Neeraj Chopra won the gold in the men's javelin throw at the Tokyo Games, held in 2021 after a year's postponement, giving India its first Olympic gold in track and field and only its second individual gold of any kind.

The Moscow Games gave India its eighth and most recent hockey gold, and it was also the last gold of any kind for India until Abhinav Bindra's shooting gold at Beijing in 2008.

India won the hockey gold at six consecutive Games, from Amsterdam in 1928 through Los Angeles, Berlin, London and Helsinki to Melbourne in 1956, and then again at Tokyo in 1964 and Moscow in 1980, which gives eight golds in all.

Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav won a bronze medal in freestyle wrestling in the bantamweight category at the Helsinki Games of 1952, the first individual Olympic medal won by an Indian for independent India; until then every Indian medal except Pritchard's two had come from the hockey team.

He won the gold medal in the men's 10 metre air rifle at Beijing in 2008, India's first individual gold in any sport and the first gold of any kind since the hockey team's win at Moscow in 1980.

She won the bronze medal in weightlifting in the 69 kilogram category at the Sydney Games of 2000, becoming the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal of any colour.

At the Paris Games of 1900 he won two silver medals, in the 200 metres and the 200 metres hurdles, and the International Olympic Committee credits both to India, which makes him the country's first Olympic medallist.

Birsa Munda, the Munda leader who led the Ulgulan or Great Tumult against colonial land policy in the Chota Nagpur region at the close of the nineteenth century, was born on 15 November 1875, and since 2021 that date has been observed as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas in honour of tribal…

It was inserted by the 89th Constitutional Amendment Act of 2003, which split the earlier joint National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes; the separate tribal commission began functioning in 2004.

The Sixth Schedule, read with Article 244(2), provides for Autonomous District Councils and Regional Councils in these four states, with power to make laws on land, forests, village administration, inheritance and social custom.

The Apatani live in the Ziro valley of the Lower Subansiri district and are famous for an intensive paddy-cum-fish cultivation system worked entirely by hand, without the plough or draught animals, which is why the Ziro valley has been proposed for World Heritage status.

Census 2011 recorded the largest tribal population of any state in Madhya Pradesh, where the Gond, Bhil, Baiga, Sahariya, Korku and Bharia together account for roughly a fifth of the state's people.

The Lepcha are regarded as the earliest inhabitants of Sikkim and the Bhutia are of Tibetan origin; together with the Limbu and the Tamang they make up the notified tribes of the state, and Bhutia and Lepcha communities also live in the Darjeeling hills of West Bengal.

The Jarawa live on the western coasts of South and Middle Andaman, and the Sentinelese on North Sentinel Island, which lies in the Andaman group; both are Negrito communities and both are Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups, as are the Onge of Little Andaman and the Great Andamanese.

Under it the President may, by public notification and after consulting the Governor of the state concerned, specify the tribes or tribal communities that shall be deemed Scheduled Tribes for that state or Union Territory, and only Parliament may thereafter include or exclude a community, by law.

The Toda are a small pastoral community of the Nilgiri plateau in Tamil Nadu, known for their barrel-vaulted huts, their sacred buffalo herds and their dairy-centred religion; they are also classed as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group.

The Pradhan Mantri Janjatiya Unnat Gram Abhiyan was announced in the Union Budget of 2024-25 and approved by the Union Cabinet in 2024 as a mission to saturate tribal-majority villages and aspirational blocks with basic facilities such as housing, roads, water, electricity, health and education, working through the convergence of…

These are communities within the Scheduled Tribes that are the least developed on four counts: a pre-agricultural level of technology, a stagnant or declining population, extremely low literacy and a subsistence economy.