Haryana GK Questions 2026

The 2011 Census recorded a literacy rate of 86.05 per cent for Chandigarh, well above the national figure of about 73 per cent, which is to be expected of a territory that is almost entirely urban and has a large service and education sector.

The territory returns a single member to the Lok Sabha from the Chandigarh constituency.

The Open Hand, a large metal sculpture mounted so that it turns with the wind, stands in the Capitol Complex and was conceived by the architect as a sign of a hand open to give and open to receive, that is, open to new ideas.

It was formed by damming the Sukhna Choe, a seasonal stream descending from the Shivalik hills, as part of the city plan, and it is fed by rain rather than by a perennial river.

The city's sectors are numbered in sequence, but the number thirteen was deliberately left out because it is widely regarded as unlucky, so the numbering jumps from Sector 12 to Sector 14.

It is a common High Court exercising jurisdiction over the states of Punjab and Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh, and its building in the Capitol Complex is one of Le Corbusier's three monumental works there.

Chandi Mandir, a temple of the goddess Chandi, a form of Durga, stands near the city in what is now the Panchkula district of Haryana.

A road inspector in the public works department, he began collecting discarded stones, broken crockery, bangles, tiles and electrical waste in the 1950s and built a secret garden of sculptures on land that was officially a forest buffer.

In that year the Capitol Complex was added to the World Heritage List as part of a transnational serial property titled The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement, which brings together his buildings in several countries.

On that day the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 came into force, Haryana was created as a separate state out of Punjab on a largely linguistic basis, parts of the hill areas went to Himachal Pradesh, and the capital city was constituted a Union Territory and made the joint capital of…

The Swiss-French architect, whose real name was Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, took charge of the project after the first team broke up and gave the city its grid of sectors, its hierarchy of roads and the monumental buildings of the Capitol Complex.

When Haryana was carved out of Punjab on 1 November 1966, the new state had no capital of its own, so the existing capital city was made a Union Territory and declared the joint capital of both states.

The order says real-time streaming of the video feeds has to be made available to their servers, and it also directs these same agencies to develop portals and other necessary infrastructure to receive the streams.

The Commission had already prescribed a standard list of approved fuels for various applications in the National Capital Region, including industrial use, but its Flying Squads, during incognito inspections of industries across the region, reported multiple instances of unapproved fuels being burnt.

The standard operating procedure in the order says cameras must be placed so as to capture all fuel storage areas and all fuel charging points, and where a gas-based fuel is used, the gauge or meter of the gas must be in view as well.

The Commission's order requires industrial units in the National Capital Region to put in the additional Pan-Tilt-Zoom cameras by that date, following the standard operating procedure it has laid down.

The release states that the Flying Squads were deployed following a communication made by CAQM to the Central Pollution Control Board, usually written as CPCB.

The release fixes the deployment for exactly that window, which is the stretch when paddy is harvested in Punjab and Haryana and when crop residue is most often burnt, and it is also the period when air quality in the National Capital Region falls sharply.

The release of the environment ministry states that Flying Squads have been deployed in 34 districts across the two States for the period from 1 October to 30 November 2026, and it splits the number as 18 districts in Punjab and 16 districts in Haryana.

The Prime Minister congratulated Antim Panghal on winning the silver medal in the women's 53 kg freestyle wrestling event at the Asian Games, describing her performance as exemplary and wonderful.