State Exams GK Questions 2026

The rock shelters of Bhimbetka lie in Raisen district, in the foothills of the Vindhya range not far from Bhopal.

The Khajuraho group of monuments in Chhatarpur district was built by the Chandela rulers of Bundelkhand between the tenth and the twelfth century.

Kanha National Park, spread over the Mandla and Balaghat districts, is famous for bringing the hard ground barasingha, or swamp deer, back from the edge of extinction.

The Narmada rises at Amarkantak on the Maikal range in Anuppur district and flows westward through a rift valley lying between the Vindhya range in the north and the Satpura range in the south.

Chhattisgarh became a separate state on 1 November 2000, taking sixteen districts from the eastern part of Madhya Pradesh, with Raipur as its capital.

Bhopal is the capital of Madhya Pradesh and the seat of its Vidhan Sabha and secretariat. It is called the city of lakes because of the Upper and Lower Lakes at its centre, and it holds the Van Vihar National Park within the city limits.

MICR stands for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition, a technology in which the characters are printed in magnetic ink so that a machine can read them even if the paper is stamped or signed over.

The Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act was passed in 2002.

The Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India, and it insures the deposits held in banks.

NABARD was set up in 1982 on the recommendation of the committee headed by B Sivaraman, and its head office is at Mumbai.

Under the asset classification norms of the Reserve Bank of India, a term loan becomes a Non Performing Asset when interest or an instalment of principal stays overdue for more than ninety days.

CASA is the combined balance a bank holds in the current accounts and the savings accounts of its customers. These are the cheapest deposits a bank can have, because a current account pays no interest at all and a savings account pays very little, unlike a fixed deposit.

RTGS was designed for large value payments, so the Reserve Bank of India fixed a floor of two lakh rupees for a single transaction and set no ceiling at all.

The Indian Financial System Code is an eleven character alphanumeric code that identifies a particular bank branch taking part in the electronic payment systems of the Reserve Bank of India.

SWIFT is the international messaging network over which banks send payment and guarantee instructions across borders.

The tools of the Reserve Bank are divided into quantitative tools, which change the total amount of credit in the system, and qualitative or selective tools, which change the direction in which that credit flows.

All three belong to the monetary policy toolkit of the Reserve Bank of India. SLR, the Statutory Liquidity Ratio, is the part of its deposits that a bank must keep with itself in cash, gold or approved securities, and raising or lowering it changes how much a bank can lend.

RTGS is the system in which a transfer instruction is settled singly and immediately, rather than being held and netted off with others.

He began the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque at Delhi in 1192 after the second battle of Tarain, using the carved pillars and stones of temples that stood on the site, which is why its courtyard colonnade carries Indian bells, chains and foliage.

Tughlaq building is the most austere phase of the Sultanate style. It uses local grey sandstone or rubble, keeps ornament to a minimum and gives its walls a pronounced batter, that is a slope inward as they rise, which makes even a tomb look like a fort.