Haryana GK Questions 2026

During the nine nights of Navratri the unmarried girls of a Haryanvi household shape Sanjhi, a figure of the goddess, in clay and cow dung on the wall of the courtyard or the entrance, decorate her with mirrors, bangles and colour, sing to her every evening and at the end…

Gugga Naumi, also written Gugga Naumi or Gugga Navami, falls in Bhadrapad and honours Gugga Pir, revered as the lord of snakes and protector against snake bite.

Alsi ki pinni is made by roasting ground flaxseed, which is alsi, with wheat flour, ghee and jaggery or sugar and shaping it into balls; it is eaten in the cold months because it is held to give warmth and strength.

Hansli is the heavy silver neck ring of the Haryanvi woman, worn with the kanthi, the galsari and the hamel, and it is still described in folk songs and in Saang performances as the mark of a bride.

Panipat is the textile town of Haryana and the best known centre for the khes, the thick double woven cotton wrap used as a shawl and a bedcover, as well as for the panja durrie woven on the pit loom and for a large trade in furnishings.

Ghevar, the disc of fried batter soaked in syrup, is the sweet of the Hariyali Teej of Sawan, when swings are hung from the trees, a married daughter receives new clothes and sweets from her parents, and the women of the household sing Teej songs.

Bhaat is the gift of clothes, ornaments, cash and sweets that the mama brings at the marriage of his sister's son or daughter, and the ceremony of bringing it, bhaat bharna, is an event of its own, in which the family of the maternal uncle is received and honoured by…

Karewa, also called chadar dalna or chadar andazi from the sheet placed over the woman as the token of the new marriage, was practised widely in rural Haryana and is recorded in the colonial settlement reports of the region.

Pajeb is the anklet of the Haryanvi woman, worn with the kade on the ankles and the bichhua on the toes, and it was traditionally made of silver rather than gold because silver was within reach of a farming household.

The traditional dress of a Haryanvi woman is made of three pieces: the daaman, a long gathered skirt, the kurti or angi, a short upper garment, and the chunder or odhni, the long veil drawn over the head and shoulder.

The Sub-Committee met on 21 October 2026, reviewed the air quality of Delhi and the region along with the forecasts placed before it, and decided to bring Stage-I of the plan into force with immediate effect.

The Sub-Committee on GRAP decided to invoke all the action points listed under Stage-I of the plan then in force, and that list runs to twenty-five items, applying across the whole National Capital Region with immediate effect.

Stage-I of the Graded Response Action Plan is the stage meant for poor air, and it was invoked across the National Capital Region after Delhi's daily average index was recorded at 244 at 2 PM and then at 245 by 4 PM, both of which sit inside that band.

Vishnu Prabhakar, who spent many years at Hisar and is counted among the writers of Haryana, wrote Awara Masiha, a biography of the Bengali novelist Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay built on years of travel and research, and it is the work for which he is best remembered.

Sant Garib Das of Chhudani, in the present Jhajjar district, founded the Garibdasi sect in the eighteenth century and left a very large body of devotional verse, collected as the Sat Granth, which is still recited by his followers.

One tradition places the birth of the Braj poet Surdas at Sihi, a village in Faridabad district, and Haryana claims him on that ground; other accounts place his birth at Runakta near Agra, so the question is always set as a tradition rather than as a settled fact.

Pandit Lakhmi Chand is the greatest of the Saang poets of Haryana, and his raginis are still sung across the state.

Hindi is the official language of Haryana, settled by the Haryana Official Language Act of 1969, and an amendment to that law in 2010 gave Punjabi the position of second official language of the state.

Mewati is the speech of the Mewat tract, which centres on Nuh district and extends into parts of Palwal and Faridabad and across the border into Rajasthan.

Ahirwati, also called Hirwati, is the speech of the Ahirwal tract in the south of the state, which covers Rewari, Mahendragarh and parts of Gurugram.