UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

All three statements describe the royal centre of Vijayanagara (Hampi) as the archaeological study of the site records it. The royal centre lay in the south-western part of the settlement, away from the sacred centre on the bank of the Tungabhadra.

On 18 April 1951, at Pochampally village in Nalgonda district of the then Hyderabad State (now in Telangana), landowner V. Ramachandra Reddy offered about 100 acres to landless Dalit families, and this became the first gift of the Bhoodan Movement.

Moran is an oil field in the Upper Assam valley, in Dibrugarh district of Assam, so it is not in Gujarat.

Madhya Pradesh elects twenty-nine members to the Lok Sabha and has eleven seats in the Rajya Sabha.

The Vidhan Bhavan at Bhopal, which houses the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly, was designed by Charles Correa, among the best known Indian architects of the twentieth century, whose work drew on courtyards, open-to-sky spaces and traditional Indian planning.

She was sworn in as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in December 2003 after the Assembly election of that year and is the first woman to have held the office in the state.

The States Reorganisation Act came into force on that day and created Madhya Pradesh by merging the old Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh and Bhopal, with Bhopal as the capital of the new state.

The Constitution (One Hundred and Fourth Amendment) Act of 2019 amended Article 334 so that the nomination of Anglo-Indian members to the Lok Sabha and to the State Legislative Assemblies came to an end on 25 January 2020, while extending the reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and the…

It allowed the Governor of a state to nominate one member of the Anglo-Indian community to the Legislative Assembly if he was of opinion that the community needed representation and was not adequately represented in it.

Madhya Pradesh has a unicameral legislature: under Article 168 the legislature of the state consists of the Governor and a single House, the Vidhan Sabha.

Article 159 requires the Governor, before entering upon his office, to make and subscribe an oath before the Chief Justice of the High Court exercising jurisdiction in relation to the state, or in his absence before the senior-most judge of that court available.

He became Chief Minister when the reorganised state of Madhya Pradesh came into being on 1 November 1956, having already headed the government of the earlier Central Provinces and Berar, and he died in office in December 1956, only weeks into the new state.

The Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act of 2000 created Chhattisgarh on 1 November 2000, and ninety of the 320 constituencies of the undivided Madhya Pradesh Assembly fell within the new state and became its Legislative Assembly.

Article 164(1A), inserted by the Constitution (Ninety-first Amendment) Act of 2003, says the total number of ministers including the Chief Minister in a state shall not exceed fifteen per cent of the total number of members of its Legislative Assembly, and shall not be fewer than twelve.

The Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly returns 230 members from single-member territorial constituencies, of which thirty-five are reserved for the Scheduled Castes and forty-seven for the Scheduled Tribes.

She was sworn in as Chief Minister of Bihar in 1997 and is the only woman so far to have held that office in the state; she later served several terms and also led the Opposition in the state legislature.

Undivided Bihar had a Legislative Assembly of 324 elected members. When the Bihar Reorganisation Act of 2000 carved out Jharkhand on 15 November 2000, eighty-one of those constituencies fell in the new state and became its Assembly, leaving Bihar with the 243 seats it has today.

It empowers the Governor to promulgate an ordinance when the legislature of the state, or either House where there are two, is not in session and he is satisfied that circumstances exist which make immediate action necessary.

Under Article 198 a money bill can be introduced only in the Legislative Assembly, and when the Assembly has passed it and sent it to the Legislative Council, the Council may return it with recommendations within a period of fourteen days.

Article 173 lays down the qualifications for membership of a state legislature: the person must be a citizen of India, must take the prescribed oath, and must have completed thirty years of age for a seat in the Legislative Council and twenty-five years for a seat in the Legislative Assembly.