Uttar Pradesh GK Questions 2026

Kushinara, the Kushinagar of today in eastern Uttar Pradesh, was a town of the Malla mahajanapada, and the Buddha died there between two sal trees at the age of eighty, a death traditionally dated to 483 BCE and remembered as the mahaparinirvana.

After his enlightenment the Buddha walked to the deer park at Sarnath near Varanasi and preached to the five ascetics who had been his companions.

The Vatsa mahajanapada lay in the Ganga and Yamuna doab with its capital at Kaushambi, and its best known ruler was Udayana, who appears in Sanskrit literature and in Buddhist texts alike.

Magadha lay on the southern bank of the Ganga, in the region of present day Patna, Gaya and Nalanda, with its early capital at Rajagriha among the hills and later at Pataliputra at the meeting of the Ganga and the Son.

The Interest Subsidy Scheme, one of the four verticals of PMAY-U 2.0, gives EWS, LIG and MIG families an interest subsidy of up to Rs 1.80 lakh on housing loans of up to Rs 25 lakh.

Of the houses cleared at this meeting, Uttar Pradesh received 73,182, the biggest single share among the 11 participating states.

At the 10th meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee, held in New Delhi on 16 October 2026 under the chairmanship of Urban Development Secretary Satendra Singh, over 1.93 lakh additional houses were cleared under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Urban 2.0.

The researchers identified four major environmental phases in the lake record, associated with key climate events that include the arid event of about four point two thousand years ago, the Roman Warm Period and the Little Ice Age.

Karela Lake is an oxbow lake at Hulas Khera in Mohanlal Ganj, near Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, and lies in the Central Ganga Plain.

Its scientists traced past environmental conditions at Karela Lake using stable isotopes, vegetation changes and archaeological and sedimentary records, and built a record stretching back about four thousand six hundred years.

For the financial year 2026-27 the Centre has allocated this sum as central assistance for two hostel projects under the scheme, one for girls and one for boys, which together will provide accommodation for two hundred and sixty-four students.

PM-AJAY is run by this ministry and aims at the socio-economic and educational empowerment of Scheduled Caste communities through village infrastructure, livelihood promotion, education and better access to basic services.

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment stated that this many villages had been declared Adarsh Grams under the scheme by that date, reflecting its work on infrastructure, basic services and quality of life in Scheduled Caste-majority villages.

The census of 1881 was the first in which the count was taken across the country on one reference date, and W. C. Plowden served as the first Census Commissioner of India; from then on a census has been held every ten years.

The census is taken under the Census Act of 1948, which gives the Union Government power to notify the exercise, appoint census officers and require every person to answer their questions, while making the answers confidential and not usable as evidence.

Ghaziabad, which lies on the edge of Delhi and is almost entirely built up, recorded the highest density of population among the districts of Uttar Pradesh in 2011, far above the state figure of 829 persons per square kilometre.

Allahabad district, renamed Prayagraj in 2018, was the most populous district of Uttar Pradesh in 2011 with about 59.5 lakh people, and Mahoba in Bundelkhand was the least populous.

Gautam Buddha Nagar, the district of Noida and Greater Noida, had the highest literacy rate in the state in 2011, which follows from its industrial and service economy and the educated workers it attracts.

The literacy rate of Uttar Pradesh in 2011 was 67.68 per cent, with male literacy at 77.28 per cent and female literacy at 57.18 per cent, so the gap between men and women was about twenty percentage points.

Uttar Pradesh had 912 females for every 1,000 males in 2011, below the national figure, and its child sex ratio for the age group of nought to six years was 902.