Uttar Pradesh GK Questions 2026

Narendra Bhooshan is an Indian Administrative Service officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, and he belongs to the batch of the year 1992.

He has taken over as Secretary of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the ministry that handles forests, wildlife, pollution control and climate policy for the country.

Lipulekh lies in Pithoragarh district at the meeting point of Uttarakhand, Nepal and Tibet, and the oldest official route for the Kailash Mansarovar yatra crosses it through the Kali valley; Mana and Niti in Chamoli are the other passes of the state to Tibet.

The monal, a bright pheasant of the high forests known locally as munal, is the state bird of Uttarakhand; the state animal is the alpine musk deer, the state tree the buransh or rhododendron and the state flower the Brahma Kamal.

Uttarakhand adopted Sanskrit as its second official language in 2010, the first state in India to do so, with Hindi remaining the first official language; the decision fits a state whose Char Dham and temple towns keep a living Sanskrit tradition.

The Tehri Dam stands near the old town of Tehri where the Bhilangana joins the Bhagirathi, rises about 260 metres and is the tallest dam in India and one of the tallest earth and rockfill dams in the world; Sunderlal Bahuguna led a long campaign against it.

Nanda Devi in Chamoli district rises to 7,816 metres and is the highest peak of Uttarakhand as well as the highest mountain wholly inside India, since it lies far from any international boundary; the sanctuary around it is a World Heritage Site.

The movement began in 1973 at Mandal in Chamoli district, when villagers stopped a sporting goods firm from felling ash trees, and it is remembered above all for Reni village in the same district, where Gaura Devi led the women who embraced the trees in 1974.

The Nanda Devi National Park was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1988 and the Valley of Flowers National Park was added as an extension in 2005, so the two are listed together as one site in Chamoli district.

It was notified in 1936 in the Nainital and Pauri Garhwal hills as Hailey National Park after the then Governor, was renamed Ramganga National Park and finally, in 1957, named after the hunter and naturalist Jim Corbett; Project Tiger was launched here on 1 April 1973.

The Mandakini flows down the Kedarnath valley and meets the Alaknanda at Rudraprayag, the town that gives its name to the district; the pair Mandakini with Rudraprayag is the most asked row of the Panch Prayag table.

Devprayag in Tehri Garhwal district is the last of the Panch Prayag, and below it the united stream is known as the Ganga; the Bhagirathi comes from the Gangotri glacier at Gaumukh and the Alaknanda from the Satopanth and Bhagirath Kharak glaciers.

When the state was formed in 2000 its High Court was established at Nainital, the old summer headquarters of the hills, while the seat of government went elsewhere.

On that day the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 came into force and separated the Garhwal and Kumaon hill districts from Uttar Pradesh to form the twenty seventh state of the Union, then named Uttaranchal.

The sanction covers pulses and oilseeds only, and paddy is a cereal bought through a separate central pool arrangement rather than through the Price Support Scheme.

It was allotted Rs 3,992.57 crore of the sanction, the largest of the three state shares, almost all of it for tur: 4,66,000 metric tonnes worth Rs 3,937.70 crore, along with 6,250 metric tonnes of moong worth Rs 54.87 crore.

This is the full amount sanctioned for buying pulses and oilseeds at minimum support price in Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana together for the kharif marketing season of 2026-27.

Nana Sahib, the adopted son of the last Peshwa Baji Rao II, led the revolt of 1857 at Kanpur.

Tamil was declared a classical language in 2004, the first language to receive the status, on the strength of its ancient Sangam literature and an independent literary tradition.

Santali is an Austro-Asiatic language of the Munda group, spoken mainly in Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha, and Pandit Raghunath Murmu designed the Ol Chiki script for it so that it need not borrow a script from a neighbouring language.