Teaching GK Questions 2026

The scheme is a Central Sector Scheme run by the Department of School Education and Literacy for meritorious students of economically weaker families, and the money is meant to keep a child in school rather than leaving after the eighth class.

Representatives of the National Education Society for Tribal Students, which runs these schools, told the meeting that the platform could be taken into more than 525 Eklavya Model Residential Schools, which together teach over 1.7 lakh students, and that pupils, teachers and parents could also add stories and poems to…

The correct answer is the Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Smt. Ranjana Chopra, who chaired the hybrid workshop and closed it by asking members to share details of the languages they have worked on so that these could be folded into the platform along with IIT Delhi.

Adi Vaani has been built by IIT Delhi together with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, and at the first meeting of the Working Group on Tribal Languages the institute asked the group for help in validating datasets, settling spelling and orthography, and developing subject vocabulary for planned pilots.

The word means three bends, and the posture shifts the head one way, the torso another and the hip a third, giving the figure the swaying grace seen in dancing images and in classical Odissi.

Mahishasuramardini means the slayer of the buffalo demon Mahishasura, and the form shows the many-armed goddess, each hand holding a weapon given by a god, driving her trident into the demon as he emerges from the buffalo's body, with the lion at her side.

Its Chitrasutra section sets out the rules of painting and image making, including proportion, posture, the limbs of painting and the measurement system called iconometry, and it is grouped with the Shilpa Shastras and the manuals Manasara and Mayamata as the canonical guides for artists.

The reclining image, lying on the right side with the head resting on the hand and the eyes half closed, shows the Buddha's final passing away, and the colossal figures at Kushinagar and Ajanta are the examples usually cited.

The sculptor first models the figure in wax, coats it in fine clay to form a mould, and heats the mould so that the wax melts and runs out; molten metal is poured into the empty space, and the mould is broken to free the image, so each bronze is…

Saraswati is shown with the veena, a manuscript or palm-leaf book, a rosary and the swan, the bird also given to Brahma, whose consort she is in the later tradition.

The correct answer is C, Parshvanatha, the twenty-third Tirthankara, who is shown with the hood of a serpent, usually of seven heads, spread over his head and the coils rising behind him; his lanchana, the emblem on the pedestal, is a snake.

The Nataraja shows Shiva within a ring of flames, hair flying, the damaru drum in one hand and fire in another, the right foot pressing down the dwarf of ignorance called Apasmara and one hand raised in the gesture of protection; the form is linked with Chidambaram and is the…

The correct answer is B, Varaha, the boar, third in the usual sequence of ten avatars, carved either fully as a boar or with a boar's head on a human body, often lifting the earth goddess on one tusk.

Vishnu is recognised by four attributes, and each has its own name: the conch Panchajanya, the discus Sudarshana, the mace Kaumodaki and the lotus.

The gesture joins the thumb and forefinger of each hand into a circle, the wheel, and holds them before the chest, marking the turning of the wheel of law in the deer park at Sarnath, where the Buddha preached to his first five disciples.

In the Bhumisparsha, or earth-touching, mudra the Buddha sits with the left hand in his lap and the right hand lowered with the fingers pointing to the ground, calling the earth to witness that he had earned the right to enlightenment against the temptations of Mara.

Only statement 2 is right: under the RTE Act a primary teacher must clear a Teacher Eligibility Test held as per NCTE guidelines.

The exhibition was mounted during the conference and displayed the heritage and the historical cultural connections that India shares with other countries of Asia; the Union Minister of Culture and Tourism, the Culture Secretary and other invited guests went round it.

The Culture Secretary explained that the Brihattar Bharat Project aims to win international recognition for India's ancient cultural links through collaborative, evidence-based research involving scholars from roughly that many nations.

It held the conference at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi from 14 to 16 October 2026, and its Member Secretary Sachchidanand Joshi delivered the welcome address.