Uttar Pradesh GK Questions 2026

Uttar Pradesh sends 80 members to the Lok Sabha, more than any other state, because seats are allotted in proportion to population and UP is the most populous state.

Jain tradition places the birth of Rishabhanatha, the first Tirthankara, and of Abhinandananatha, the fourth, at Ayodhya in present-day Uttar Pradesh.

The Ministry of Rural Development has fixed that day as the outer limit by which States and Union Territories are to finish allotting targets to their Project Implementation Agencies, so that batches can actually begin.

The announcement on the rollout of DDU-GKY 2.0 came from that ministry, which is also the body pressing States and Union Territories to allot targets to their implementing agencies and holding review meetings with them in phases.

The Ministry of Rural Development has said that roughly that many rural young people, organised into 2,015 batches across 24 States and Union Territories, are expected to start their training in the opening month of the rollout.

Its grant of Rs 75 crore supports the pilot scale research facility of 100 TPA for Polylactic Acid and advanced co-polymers that Balrampur Chini Mills will operate at Kumbhi in Uttar Pradesh.

The pilot scale research facility of 100 TPA for Polylactic Acid and co-polymers is to be built inside the integrated manufacturing complex of Balrampur Chini Mills Limited at Kumbhi in Uttar Pradesh, while the launch event itself was held at the Department of Biotechnology in New Delhi.

BioE3 is the government framework named Biotechnology for Economy, Environment and Employment, and the commercial launch of bio-based biodegradable plastic from Polylactic Acid by Balrampur Chini Mills has been taken forward under it.

On 24 January 1950, two days before the Constitution came into force, the United Provinces was officially renamed Uttar Pradesh.

Rachel Carson, an American marine biologist and writer, published Silent Spring in 1962.

A bioindicator is a living organism whose presence, absence or health tells us about the quality of the environment. Lichens are a partnership between a fungus and an alga or cyanobacterium; they have no roots and take water and nutrients straight from the air and rain.

Veins usually carry blood low in oxygen back to the heart, but the pulmonary veins are the exception. After blood picks up oxygen in the lungs, four pulmonary veins, two from each lung, bring this oxygen-rich blood to the left atrium of the heart.

The pancreas is both an exocrine gland, pouring digestive enzymes into the intestine, and an endocrine gland. Its endocrine part is made of small clusters of cells called the islets of Langerhans.

The liver needs vitamin K to make several clotting factors, including prothrombin, which help blood form a clot and seal a wound.

When light travels from a denser medium to a rarer one and strikes the boundary at an angle greater than the critical angle, it does not pass out at all but is reflected completely back.

Sensex, short for ‘Sensitive Index’, tracks 30 large, well-established and actively traded companies listed on the BSE, chosen from different sectors of the economy.

Article 280 of the Constitution requires the President to set up a Finance Commission every five years, or earlier if needed, to recommend how the taxes collected by the Union should be shared with the states and how grants-in-aid should be given.

The Total Fertility Rate is the average number of children a woman would have in her lifetime if she followed the current birth rates at each age from 15 to 49.

The American economic historian Morris David Morris built the Physical Quality of Life Index in the 1970s for the Overseas Development Council, and set it out in his 1979 book on measuring the condition of the world’s poor.

Statement 1 is correct: the Ramganga rises in the Garhwal hills of Uttarakhand, flows through Corbett National Park, where the Kalagarh dam stands on it, then passes through Moradabad and Bareilly districts and joins the Ganga on its left bank near Kannauj.