Teaching GK Questions 2026

Samatvam means equanimity or evenness, the steadiness of mind that is not shaken by success or failure, and the Bhagavad Gita uses the expression samatvam yoga uchyate, evenness of mind is called yoga.

The word yoga comes from the Sanskrit root yuj, to join or to yoke, and the classical tradition treats it as a discipline that unites the individual self with the higher self.

The States Reorganisation Act of 1956 redrew the map of India mainly on the basis of language. The demand for linguistic states grew strong after independence.

The local time of 82 degrees 30 minutes east is taken as Indian Standard Time for the whole country. This meridian passes through Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh.

Under the putting out system the merchant handed the raw material to the weaver and took back the finished cloth at a price he himself fixed, which was low.

All three statements describe real features of the Indian Constitution, so all of them have to be counted. Universal adult suffrage was there from the first general election itself.

A pressure group is an organised body of people with a shared interest that tries to influence government policy without contesting elections or seeking power itself, so a trade union pressing for better wages is the classic example.

The Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution of India on 26 November 1949, and the Government of India declared that date Constitution Day, or Samvidhan Divas, in 2015, the year of the 125th birth anniversary of Dr B. R. Ambedkar, who chaired the Drafting Committee.

Section 29(1) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 says the curriculum and the evaluation procedure for elementary education shall be laid down by an academic authority notified by the appropriate government, and the Central Government notified the National Council of Educational Research and Training…

The Prime Minister used those terms while congratulating the boxer, and he went on to call her success deeply motivating and to say that it highlights her dedication to sporting excellence.

The official account of the result records that the boxer won the gold after a hard-fought final, which tells aspirants that the bout stayed competitive until the end.

Parveen won the gold medal in the women's 65 kg boxing event at the Asian Games after a hard-fought final, and the division is the detail most often tested on a medal story of this kind.

This protocol goes beyond the availability and upkeep of toilets and looks at what happens to faecal sludge after it leaves the toilet, covering its safe containment, evacuation, transportation and processing so that untreated sludge does not flow into open drains, water bodies or fields.

The logo of the mission is built around the round glasses associated with the Father of the Nation. The backgrounder explains that this helped build brand value for the campaign, carried the emotion attached to cleanliness and let ordinary people connect with the mission quickly and easily.

The mission was launched on that date and grew into one of the largest government-led sanitation movements in the country, working through two components, one for rural areas and one for urban areas.

The Shramdaan was organised at a PM SHRI school in New Delhi under the aegis of Eco Clubs for Mission LiFE and was led by the Secretary of the Department of School Education and Literacy, with students, teachers, senior officials and officers of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan joining in.

On the concluding day of the campaign the Department offered floral tribute to the Father of the Nation on his 157th birth anniversary, the date that is observed across the country as Swachh Bharat Diwas.

The campaign opened on that date with the taking of the Swachhata pledge and ran as a fortnight-long drive that ended on 2 October 2026, the day observed as Swachh Bharat Diwas.

In his Gandhi Jayanti message the Prime Minister recalled the stress that Mahatma Gandhi laid on Swadeshi, with Khadi foremost among its symbols, and he urged every citizen to purchase at least one Khadi item on 2 October and to say with pride that it is Swadeshi.

Apart from offering homage to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat and to Lal Bahadur Shastri at Vijay Ghat, the Vice-President paid tribute at Upa-Rashtrapati Bhavan to Thiru K. Kamaraj, a former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, on his death anniversary.