State Exams GK Questions 2026

Article 13 declares that any law inconsistent with or in derogation of the fundamental rights is void, and it binds both the laws made before the Constitution and those made after it.

A port is the socket on a computer where an external device is plugged in, so that the keyboard, mouse, printer, monitor or pen drive can exchange data with the machine.

Make in India was launched on 25 September 2014 at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, on the birth anniversary of Deendayal Upadhyaya.

The Preamble describes India as a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic; the word federal appears nowhere in it, or indeed anywhere in the Constitution.

The Chipko movement began in 1973 in the Garhwal Himalayas, in Chamoli district of what is now Uttarakhand, when villagers hugged trees to stop contractors from felling them.

Article 149 says the Comptroller and Auditor General shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as Parliament may by law prescribe.

Article 280 requires the President to constitute a Finance Commission every fifth year, or earlier if needed, with a chairman and four other members.

The Diwan-i-insha was the department of royal correspondence in the Delhi Sultanate.

Article 131 of the Constitution gives the Supreme Court exclusive original jurisdiction in disputes between the Government of India and one or more states, and in disputes among states themselves.

Balban, who ruled from 1266 to 1287, brought the Persian court customs of sijda, bowing low before the Sultan, and paibos, kissing his feet, into the Delhi court.

ATM stands for Automated Teller Machine. A teller is the bank employee who takes and pays out cash at the counter, and the machine was built to do that same job without a person, which is how it got the name.

The BCG vaccine takes its name from Albert Calmette and Camille Guerin, the two French scientists who developed it from a weakened strain of Mycobacterium bovis.

RBL Bank, a private sector bank, has its corporate office in Mumbai, the financial capital of the country, while its registered office stays in Kolhapur in Maharashtra, where the bank was founded in 1943 as the Ratnakar Bank.

He founded the Swadesh Bandhab Samiti at Barisal in 1905, during the movement against the partition of Bengal.

The Salary and Allowances of Leaders of Opposition in Parliament Act, 1977 gave the post statutory recognition for the first time and fixed the pay and perks of the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.

Qutb-ud-din Aibak began the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque in 1192, soon after the second battle of Tarain, and the first phase was finished by about 1198, which falls in the last decade of the twelfth century.

Abode of Love is credited to Narendra Modi, who wrote several books in Gujarati long before becoming Prime Minister.

The star-shaped shrine of Gurudwara Shri Hemkund Sahib is built with a roof shaped like an upturned lotus, a flower that also appears in the story of the site.

CH3CH2OH, also written C2H5OH, is ethanol or ethyl alcohol, the second member of the alcohol family. The -OH group attached to the carbon chain is the functional group that makes it an alcohol.

Article 66(3) of the Constitution says a person must have completed 35 years of age to be eligible for election as Vice-President.