State Exams GK Questions 2026

Sattriya grew in the sattras, the Vaishnava monasteries founded by Srimanta Sankardeva in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, many of them on the river island of Majuli, and it was recognised as a classical dance of India in 2000, the most recent addition to the list.

It ended the First Anglo-Burmese War, and under it the Burmese gave up their claims to Assam, Manipur, Arakan and Tenasserim, so Assam came under the East India Company.

Sukaphaa was a Tai prince who crossed the Patkai range and established the Ahom kingdom in 1228; it lasted about six hundred years, the longest unbroken rule by any Indian dynasty of the medieval period, and 2 December is observed in Assam in his memory.

Saraighat was a naval battle fought on the Brahmaputra near Guwahati in 1671, in which the Ahom commander Lachit Borphukan defeated the Mughal force led by Ram Singh, and it ended Mughal ambitions in the Brahmaputra valley.

Kaziranga, which holds the largest population of the Indian one-horned rhinoceros, was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1985, the same year as Manas National Park on the Bhutan border.

Dispur is the seat of the Assam government and lies within the larger city of Guwahati, which is why the two are so often confused.

The Department of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance notifies the rates at the start of every quarter, and since the Shyamala Gopinath Committee reported in 2010 the rates are linked to the yields on government securities of comparable maturity, with a spread for some schemes.

The fund was created in 1999 in the Public Account of India, all small savings collections flow into it, and the Centre and the States draw loans from it, which is why small savings are treated as a source of government borrowing.

The Kisan Vikas Patra is sold as a certificate that doubles the amount invested over a period notified by the government, and that period moves up or down as the interest rate is revised.

The eighth issue of the National Savings Certificate is a five-year certificate on which interest is compounded annually and paid along with the principal when it matures, and deposits in it qualify for deduction under section 80C. Option A, three years, is wrong; three years is one of the terms…

The scheme, which began in 2004, is open to an individual who has attained sixty years, and it has a term of five years that can be extended by three years, with interest paid every quarter.

This is the parent law under which the Public Provident Fund, National Savings Certificate, Sukanya Samriddhi, Senior Citizens' Savings and Kisan Vikas Patra schemes are notified, and it was called the Government Savings Banks Act, 1873 until the Finance Act of 2018 renamed it.

The account matures twenty-one years after the date of opening, and it may close earlier if the girl marries after completing eighteen years.

Under the Sukanya Samriddhi Account Scheme a guardian may open an account in the name of a girl child who has not completed ten years of age, and a family may hold two such accounts, or three where twins or triplets are born.

The Public Provident Fund Scheme allows a minimum of five hundred rupees and a maximum of one and a half lakh rupees in a financial year, the same ceiling that applies to the Sukanya Samriddhi Account and matching the limit of the deduction under section 80C. Option A, fifty thousand…

A PPF account runs for fifteen financial years counted from the end of the year in which it is opened, and after that it can be extended in blocks of five years, with or without fresh deposits.

Bodh Gaya in Bihar is where Siddhartha attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, and the Mahabodhi Temple complex that grew around the spot, with the Vajrasana or diamond throne beside the tree, was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2002.

The fifth Guru compiled the Adi Granth and installed it in the Harmandir Sahib at Amritsar in 1604, Baba Buddha being appointed its first Granthi.

Its third corridor, lined with more than a thousand carved pillars, is the longest temple corridor in India, and the temple is doubly important for examinations because it is both a Jyotirlinga and the southern member of the Char Dham.

The Gommateshwara statue at Shravanabelagola is a monolithic image of Bahubali, son of the first Tirthankara, and it was raised by Chavundaraya, a minister of the Western Ganga kingdom; the Mahamastakabhisheka, in which the statue is anointed, is held once in twelve years.