State Exams GK Questions 2026

The Periodic Labour Force Survey of 2025 puts the country's overall literacy rate at that level, and this is the headline figure quoted for India's literacy today.

Rajasthan supplies most of India's gypsum and almost all of its silver ore.

Shifting agriculture is called jhoom or jhum cultivation in India, especially in the north eastern hills. In this method a patch of forest is cleared and burnt, and the ash left behind manures the soil.

An ocean thermal energy conversion plant works only where the warm surface water is at least about 20 degrees Celsius hotter than the cold water drawn from the depths.

The Kolar Gold Fields lie in the Kolar district of Karnataka, on the Dharwar rocks of the peninsular plateau. Kolar was for a long time India's main source of gold and one of the deepest mines in the world, going down about three kilometres.

Sindhi was added to the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution by the 21st Constitutional Amendment Act of 1967. The Eighth Schedule is the list of languages the Constitution recognises, and a candidate may take the civil services examination in any of them.

A line of trees or tall shrubs works as a windbreak: it slows the wind close to the ground so the moving air can no longer lift loose soil.

A body that slides down a smooth slope turns all of its potential energy mgh into translational kinetic energy and reaches the bottom with a speed equal to the square root of 2gh.

The force on a current carrying conductor kept in a magnetic field is given by F equal to B I L sin theta, where theta is the angle between the direction of the current and the direction of the field.

India allows foreign direct investment of up to 100 per cent through the automatic route in railway infrastructure.

The Irula, also written Irular, are one of the main tribal communities of Tamil Nadu and live mostly in the Nilgiri hills and in the districts along the border with Kerala.

The law of conservation of linear momentum follows straight from Newton's second law: the rate of change of the momentum of a system equals the net external force acting on it, so when that force is zero the total momentum stays the same in size and in direction.

Dynamic viscosity measures how strongly a fluid resists flowing, and in the centimetre gram second system it is measured in poise, a unit named after the French physician Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille, who studied the flow of blood in narrow tubes.

In this case of 1973 a bench of thirteen judges, the largest the Supreme Court has ever assembled, held by seven votes to six that Parliament may amend any part of the Constitution but may not damage or destroy its basic structure.

In 1820 the Danish scientist Hans Christian Oersted saw that a compass needle kept near a wire swung aside the moment a current flowed through the wire, and swung the other way when the current was reversed.

The Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Act, 2020 gives the union territory five official languages: Kashmiri, Dogri, Urdu, Hindi and English.

Jhumpa Lahiri, born in London to Bengali parents and brought up in the United States, moved to Rome and began writing in Italian rather than in English.

Once the athlete's feet leave the ground they move as a projectile, and the horizontal distance covered, called the range, is given by R equal to u squared into sin 2 theta divided by g. The range is largest when sin 2 theta has its greatest value of one, which…

In early Buddhist art the Buddha was never shown in human form, so the events of his life were carved as symbols, and the stupa stands for his mahaparinirvana, that is his death at Kushinagar.

The loudness or intensity level of sound is measured in decibels (dB), a unit named after Alexander Graham Bell.