State Exams GK Questions 2026

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister, together with the Chief Minister of West Bengal, formally announced the city as host of the fifth edition, which will be held at the New Town Convention Centre from 28 to 31 January 2027.

While describing what the Commanders' Conference will underline, the Ministry of Defence pointed to the Navy's role in safeguarding India's maritime interests, the security of energy included, against the background of continuing conflicts in West Asia.

The Navy's apex leadership is assessing its overall preparedness against these three foundational pillars, whose initials form the acronym JAI, with the object of optimising force levels and raising combat readiness.

The second edition of the Indian Navy's Commanders' Conference for the year is being held there over three days, from 29 September to 1 October 2026.

The Home Minister said the Shahzad Bhatti network, which smuggled weapons, explosives and narcotics across the border, has been designated a terrorist organisation under this law.

Speaking at the counter-terrorism conference in New Delhi, the Union Home Minister said that over the years from 2019 to 2026 the government succeeded in bringing 288 fugitive criminals back to India, and that these returns came from 36 different countries.

At the PRAHAAR conference in New Delhi the Union Home Minister launched this portal, whose purpose is to bring together and quicken the effort of returning fugitives who have fled abroad.

Article 316 of the Constitution fixes this term for the chairman and members of a State Public Service Commission. The same article gives members of the Union Public Service Commission six years or the age of 65, so the six years is common and only the retiring age differs.

Loess is a deposit of fine silt and dust carried by the wind and dropped far from where it was picked up, so it is the classic wind made or aeolian soil.

Serchhip district of Mizoram recorded the highest literacy rate of any district in India in the Census of 2011, at almost 98 per cent.

Palm, coconut, keora and agar are the trees named for India's mangrove or tidal forests, which grow where the land meets the sea in deltas, estuaries and creeks.

Under Section 22 of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, the RBI alone has the right to issue currency notes in the country, and it decides how many notes of each denomination are printed.

Raja Nand Kumar, a Brahmin revenue officer of Bengal, accused Warren Hastings of taking bribes. Soon afterwards Nand Kumar himself was charged with forgery, tried by the Supreme Court at Calcutta under Chief Justice Elijah Impey and hanged in 1775.

Laterite soil is rich in oxides of iron and aluminium, and the iron oxide gives it its red brick colour.

The Census of 2011 puts the average annual exponential growth rate of India's population for the decade 2001 to 2011 at 1.64 per cent.

Both slogans belong to Netaji and to the Azad Hind Fauj, the Indian National Army he led from 1943.

These are called monsoon forests because they grow where rainfall comes with the monsoon, between about 70 and 200 centimetres a year, and the trees shed their leaves for six to eight weeks in the dry season to save water.

Carotenoids are the yellow, orange and red pigments inside the chloroplast that absorb sunlight and hand the energy on to chlorophyll, so they are the only choice here that traps light for photosynthesis.

Inertia is the tendency of a body to stay at rest or keep moving in a straight line, and the measure of that tendency is mass.

Article 32 gives every person the right to move the Supreme Court directly when a fundamental right is violated, and it is itself a fundamental right.