General knowledge is not a named section of CTET, but part of it sits inside two subjects. In Paper I, Environmental Studies has 30 questions: 15 on content and 15 on pedagogical issues. The content themes in the CTET September 2026 bulletin are Family and Friends (relationships, work and play, animals and plants), Food, Shelter, Water, Travel, and Things We Make and Do. In Paper II, Social Studies/Social Science has 60 questions: 40 on content from History, Geography and Social and Political Life, and 20 on pedagogy. Science in Paper II has 20 content questions on food, materials, the world of the living, how things work, natural phenomena and natural resources. The bulletin bases all of these on the NCERT syllabus, with difficulty up to the Secondary stage in Paper I and the Senior Secondary stage in Paper II. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes marked for CTET: geography, Indian history, Indian polity, general science, and environment and ecology, in English and Hindi. Use them as guidance to revise facts after reading the NCERT chapter, not in place of it. GK24 does not cover Child Development and Pedagogy, the languages, Mathematics or the pedagogy questions, which make up most of each paper.
In which year was the Dowry Prohibition Act passed in India?
The Dowry Prohibition Act was passed by Parliament in 1961 and came into force on 1 July 1961.
Read the full explanation →Fundamental duties were not placed in Part III of the Indian Constitution because Part III is ______.
Part III holds the fundamental rights, and those rights are justiciable: a citizen may go straight to the Supreme Court under Article 32 or to a High Court under Article 226 and have them enforced.
Read the full explanation →Article 21A of the Constitution of India provides Right to _______.
Article 21A says the State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years, in such manner as the State may by law determine.
Read the full explanation →Who is the Official Delegate of WorldSkills India quoted on the participation of women at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026?
She described the participation of these young women as an encouraging shift in India's skilling landscape and made the point that skills have no gender.
Read the full explanation →How many competitors are there in India's contingent at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026?
India's competitor contingent at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026 has 70 members.
Read the full explanation →WorldSkills Shanghai 2026 is which edition of the WorldSkills Competition?
WorldSkills Shanghai 2026 is the 48th edition of the WorldSkills Competition and is being held in Shanghai from 22 to 27 September 2026.
Read the full explanation →Ka Shad Nongkrem, a thanksgiving dance of the Khasi people, is performed in which state?
Nongkrem is the harvest thanksgiving dance of the Khasi people, held over several days at Smit, the seat of the Khyrim chiefdom near Shillong, where unmarried women dance in the centre in heavy silver and gold ornaments while men dance around them with swords and whisks.
Read the full explanation →Bhangra, danced to the dhol at the harvest festival of Baisakhi, is the folk dance of which state?
Bhangra is the men's dance of the Punjab harvest, danced at Baisakhi in April to the beat of the dhol, with leaps, shoulder work and the raised arms that everyone recognises.
Read the full explanation →The Kalbeliya dance, inscribed by UNESCO in 2010, belongs to which state?
Kalbeliya is the song and dance tradition of the Kalbeliya community of Rajasthan, who were traditionally snake charmers, and the dancer in a black swirling skirt imitates the movement of a serpent to the been and the khanjari.
Read the full explanation →Dollu Kunitha, a vigorous drum dance of the Kuruba community, is a folk dance of which state?
In Dollu Kunitha the dancers hang a large drum, the dollu, from the neck and beat it while moving in fast formations, and the dance belongs to the Kuruba shepherd community, who perform it in the service of their deity Beereshwara.
Read the full explanation →Hojagiri, danced by women balancing on an earthen pitcher, belongs to which state?
Hojagiri is danced by women of the Reang community of Tripura, who balance on an earthen pitcher while keeping a bottle with a lit lamp on the head, and bend the upper body while the feet stay still.
Read the full explanation →Cheraw, popularly known as the bamboo dance, is the folk dance of which state?
In Cheraw, men sit facing each other and hold long bamboo staves horizontally, clapping them together in a steady beat, while women in the Mizo puan step in and out of the closing gaps without letting a foot be caught.
Read the full explanation →Seraikella, one of the three styles of the Chhau dance, belongs to which state?
Chhau is a martial masked dance of eastern India with three recognised styles, and Seraikella Chhau takes its name from the former princely seat of Seraikella in Jharkhand, where the royal house trained and refined it.
Read the full explanation →Lavani, performed to the beat of the dholki, is associated with which state?
Lavani combines song and dance and is performed mainly by women in a nine-yard saree to the sharp beat of the dholki.
Read the full explanation →Ghoomar is a traditional folk dance of which state?
Ghoomar is danced by women in a wide ghagra who move in a circle and turn on the spot, the swirl of the skirt giving the dance its name.
Read the full explanation →Bihu is the well-known folk dance of which Indian state?
Bihu is danced chiefly at Rongali or Bohag Bihu, the Assamese new year festival that falls in April and opens the sowing season.
Read the full explanation →Which country's government co-hosted the launch of the OneSCD partnership with India?
OneSCD, described as a global partnership to advance equity and transform sickle cell care, was launched with the Government of Nigeria among its partners, along with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, Africa CDC, the World Coalition on Sickle Cell Disease and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Read the full explanation →By which year does the National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission aim to end the disease as a public health problem?
The mission was launched in 2023 and its target year is the centenary of independence, which is why that year recurs across so many national goals and why it is the one to remember here.
Read the full explanation →How many teleconsultations has e-Sanjeevani facilitated, according to India's statement at UNGA81?
The Union Health Secretary cited this figure as proof that technology is closing the distance between a patient in a remote area and a doctor, and she placed it beside the other digital health number from the same speech, namely that over 900 million citizens now hold a unique health…
Read the full explanation →India's two global health engagements were held on the sidelines of which session of the United Nations General Assembly?
Both engagements India took part in were side events of that session: the ministerial meeting of the Group of Friends of Universal Health Coverage and Global Health, and the launch of the OneSCD partnership on sickle cell disease.
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