Static GK is the largest part of General Studies in every state exam, and most of it is national. Indian polity, history and the national movement, geography of India, the Indian economy and general science appear in the syllabus of UPPSC PCS and PET, BPSC and BSSC, RPSC and RSSB, MPPSC and MPESB, HPSC and HSSC, and DSSSB and Delhi Police. The level changes from exam to exam. PET sets its subjects at NCERT secondary and senior secondary level, BSSC asks matric-level science, and RPSC sets the RAS Prelims at Bachelor's degree standard. This page brings together GK24's topic-wise GK notes tagged for state exams. Each note covers one topic in English and Hindi, as short facts and tables that can be revised in one sitting, and ends with multiple-choice questions and explanations. Start with Polity, History and Geography, then move to the Economy and Science. GK24 does not have state GK sections. As guidance, use these notes for the national part and prepare your state's history, geography, culture, economy and schemes from state board textbooks, the state budget and economic survey, and the commission's past papers. After each note, take its topic quiz and mark what you got wrong.
Which was the first newspaper published in India?
The Bengal Gazette, also called the Calcutta General Advertiser and popularly known as Hicky's Gazette, was started by James Augustus Hicky in 1780 and is the first newspaper published in India.
Read the full explanation →In which year did the United Nations General Assembly adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at its session in Paris on 10 December 1948, and the anniversary is observed every year as Human Rights Day.
Read the full explanation →National Women's Day in India, observed on 13 February, marks the birth anniversary of:
National Women's Day in India is kept on 13 February, the birth anniversary of Sarojini Naidu, the poet called the Nightingale of India, who presided over the Kanpur session of the Congress in 1925 as its first Indian woman president and later became Governor of the United Provinces.
Read the full explanation →The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is observed on:
The United Nations observes 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and the day opens the sixteen days of activism against gender-based violence that close on Human Rights Day, 10 December.
Read the full explanation →International Women's Day is observed every year on:
International Women's Day grew out of the women's labour movements of the early twentieth century, was observed by the United Nations during International Women's Year in 1975 and became a regular United Nations observance soon afterwards.
Read the full explanation →The World Day Against Child Labour, observed on 12 June, was begun by which organisation?
The International Labour Organization launched the World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 and fixed it on 12 June to focus attention on the extent of child labour and on the action needed to end it.
Read the full explanation →The International Day of the Girl Child, declared by the United Nations, is observed on:
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in December 2011 declaring 11 October as the International Day of the Girl Child, and the first observance was held in 2012.
Read the full explanation →National Girl Child Day is observed in India on which date?
National Girl Child Day was instituted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and is observed on 24 January to draw attention to the sex ratio, to girls' education and to schemes such as Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, which was launched at Panipat on 22 January 2015.
Read the full explanation →World Children's Day, observed by the United Nations, falls on which date?
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child on 20 November 1959 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the same date in 1989, so World Children's Day, earlier called Universal Children's Day, is observed on 20 November.
Read the full explanation →Children's Day in India is celebrated on 14 November to mark the birth anniversary of:
Children's Day in India falls on 14 November, the birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, who was fond of children and was called Chacha Nehru.
Read the full explanation →Human Rights Day is observed every year on which date?
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris on 10 December 1948, and the day has been observed on that anniversary ever since.
Read the full explanation →The autobiography My Story was written by which Indian writer, who published her Malayalam prose under the name Madhavikutty?
My Story is her frank autobiography, first serialised and then published as a book, and she wrote English poetry as Kamala Das while publishing Malayalam fiction and prose under the pen name Madhavikutty.
Read the full explanation →The novel Hajar Churashir Maa (Mother of 1084) was written by:
Hajar Churashir Maa, written in Bengali in 1974, follows a mother who learns that her son, killed as a Naxalite, is only a corpse number in a police register, and it was later filmed in Hindi as Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa.
Read the full explanation →Yama, the work for which its author received the Jnanpith Award in 1982, belongs to which writer?
Yama, a collection that brings together her earlier volumes of verse, won her the Jnanpith Award in 1982.
Read the full explanation →Stri Purush Tulana, published in 1882 and counted among the earliest feminist texts in an Indian language, was written by:
Stri Purush Tulana, a Marathi tract published in 1882, argued that the standards society applied to women were far harsher than those applied to men, and it is studied as one of the earliest feminist writings in any Indian language.
Read the full explanation →Amrita Pritam, who received the Jnanpith Award in 1981, wrote mainly in which language?
Amrita Pritam is the best known woman writer of modern Punjabi, and the Jnanpith Award of 1981 was given to her for the Punjabi poetry collection Kagaz Te Canvas.
Read the full explanation →The first book originally written in Hindi to win the International Booker Prize was:
Geetanjali Shree's novel Ret Samadhi, translated into English by Daisy Rockwell as Tomb of Sand, won the International Booker Prize in 2022 and became the first book written in Hindi, and the first from any Indian language, to take that prize.
Read the full explanation →Interpreter of Maladies, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000, was written by whom?
Interpreter of Maladies is a collection of nine short stories about Indian and Indian-American lives, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000, making Lahiri the first writer of Indian origin to win that prize for fiction.
Read the full explanation →Which novel won Arundhati Roy the Booker Prize in 1997?
Arundhati Roy's first novel, set in Ayemenem in Kerala and built around the twins Rahel and Estha, won the Booker Prize in 1997, the fiftieth year of Indian independence.
Read the full explanation →The poetry collection The Golden Threshold was written by which Indian writer?
The Golden Threshold, published in 1905, was her first collection of poems in English, and it was followed by The Bird of Time in 1912 and The Broken Wing in 1917.
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