State Exams GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is A, the Gir forest of Gujarat, the last refuge of the Asiatic lion, which once ranged from west Asia to eastern India; the Asiatic Lion Conservation Project was launched in 2018 for it, and the Barda sanctuary nearby has been developed as a second habitat.

Vultures that fed on the carcasses of treated animals developed kidney failure and died, and three species of Gyps vulture declined catastrophically within a few years, which is why the veterinary use of the drug was banned in 2006 and meloxicam promoted as a safe substitute.

Every year thousands of females come ashore at Gahirmatha for the synchronised mass nesting called arribada, which makes it the largest rookery of the species in the world; Rushikulya on the same coast is the other major site, and the Sea Turtle Project of 1999 works at both.

The correct answer is C, Rajasthan, where the bird is called the godawan and where its stronghold, the Desert National Park near Jaisalmer, holds most of the surviving population; conservation breeding centres in that district raise chicks for release into the wild.

The correct answer is B, the Gangetic river dolphin, declared the National Aquatic Animal in 2009; it is nearly blind and navigates by echolocation, and Project Dolphin was announced in 2020 for its conservation along with other river and marine dolphins.

The correct answer is B, the elephant, declared the National Heritage Animal in 2010 in recognition of its place in Indian culture and of the need to protect its habitat and corridors; Project Elephant had already been launched for it in 1992.

The cheetah is the only large mammal India is known to have lost in historical times, and the government declared it extinct in the country in 1952, a few years after the last wild Asiatic cheetahs were shot.

Kuno was chosen for its open grassland and scrub, the habitat a cheetah hunts in, and for its prey base of chital and chinkara.

It was created by the amendment of the Wild Life (Protection) Act in 2006, which gave Project Tiger a statutory footing, and it approves tiger conservation plans, notifies core and buffer areas with the states and conducts the national tiger estimation.

Project Tiger began on 1 April 1973 with a small group of reserves, Jim Corbett among the first, and introduced the idea of a strictly protected core area with a buffer zone of regulated use around it.

Habeas corpus is refused where the detention is lawful, where the proceeding is for the contempt of a legislature or a court, where the detention has been ordered by a competent court, and where the detention is outside the territorial jurisdiction of the court approached.

Article 32 appears in Part III and is a Fundamental Right in its own right, which is why a petition under it cannot be refused once a breach of another Fundamental Right is established.

Judicial review, together with the independence of the judiciary, the removal of judges by impeachment, the written preamble and Fundamental Rights, is among the features the makers of the Indian Constitution took from the American system, where the Supreme Court asserted the power in Marbury v. Madison in 1803.

In Minerva Mills v. Union of India the Supreme Court struck down the provisions inserted by the 42nd Amendment Act of 1976 which had declared that no constitutional amendment could be called in question in any court and had given Parliament unlimited amending power, holding that both judicial review and…

Article 226 empowers every High Court to issue directions, orders or writs, including the five writs, for the enforcement of Fundamental Rights and for any other purpose, and that last phrase is what makes the High Court's writ jurisdiction wider than the Supreme Court's. Option A is wrong because Article…

Quo warranto, meaning by what authority, asks a person occupying a public office to show the legal basis of the claim to it, and because an unlawful occupation of public office is a public wrong, the courts allow any interested person to apply, not merely one who has suffered a…

Mandamus means we command, and it is issued to a public body or official to perform a public duty that it has refused to perform.

Prohibition means to forbid. It is issued by a superior court to a lower court or a tribunal to stop it from continuing with a proceeding that lies beyond its jurisdiction, so by its nature it can be directed only at bodies exercising judicial or quasi-judicial functions, never at an…

Article 32 guarantees the right to move the Supreme Court for the enforcement of Fundamental Rights and empowers the Court to issue directions, orders and writs for that purpose, which is why it is titled the right to constitutional remedies and why Dr B. R. Ambedkar described it as the…

Habeas corpus can be issued by the Supreme Court under Article 32, where it is a remedy for the breach of the Fundamental Right to personal liberty, and by every High Court under Article 226, which covers Fundamental Rights and any other purpose as well.