UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Kannauj on the upper Ganga had been Harsha's capital, and whoever held it was accepted as the paramount power of north India, so the Gurjara-Pratiharas, the Palas and the Rashtrakutas fought over it for more than a century.

Rana Kumbha of the Sisodia house of Mewar was both a builder and a scholar: he raised the fort of Kumbhalgarh and the Vijaya Stambha at Chittorgarh and wrote on music, the Sangeet Raj being the best known of his works, along with commentaries on the Gita Govinda.

The Pratiharas held western India and Rajasthan, the natural route from Arab-held Sindh into the Ganga plain.

The Chahamanas, known in later tradition as the Chauhans, ruled from Shakambhari and then from Ajmer, and their most famous ruler was Prithviraja III, the Rai Pithora of the ballads, who defeated Muhammad Ghori at Tarain in 1191 and was defeated and killed by him there in 1192.

Section 29A, inserted by amendment in 2018, lists disqualifications, chiefly for promoters and connected persons whose accounts have been classified as non-performing, for undischarged insolvents and for persons disqualified as directors, so that a defaulting promoter cannot buy the company back cheaply through the very process his default caused.

The Committee of Creditors is made up of the financial creditors of the company, with voting shares in proportion to the debt owed to each, and a resolution plan is approved only when creditors holding at least sixty-six per cent of the voting share vote for it; the same majority…

The Committee on the Financial System of 1991 and the Committee on Banking Sector Reforms of 1998, both under him, recommended prudential norms for income recognition and provisioning, a minimum capital to risk-weighted assets ratio, a lower statutory liquidity ratio and cash reserve ratio, entry for new private banks and…

The Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act of 1993 set up the Debt Recovery Tribunals, with Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunals above them, to take bank recovery suits out of the ordinary civil courts where they had been pending for years.

The Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act of 2002 lets a secured creditor issue a notice to a defaulting borrower and then take possession of and sell the secured asset without going to court, and it also provides for asset reconstruction companies that buy…

Section 12 of the Code gives the resolution process 180 days from the date of admission, allows the adjudicating authority to extend it once by up to 90 days on a resolution of the Committee of Creditors, and the amendment of 2019 added the outer limit of 330 days, which…

Created under the Code of 2016, it registers and oversees insolvency professionals, insolvency professional agencies and information utilities, and makes the regulations under which the resolution process runs, which makes it both a regulator and a rule-maker.

For companies and limited liability partnerships the application for insolvency is filed before the Tribunal, which admits or rejects it, declares the moratorium and appoints the interim resolution professional; appeals lie to the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal and then to the Supreme Court.

The Code was passed in 2016 on the recommendations of the Bankruptcy Law Reforms Committee and replaced a scatter of older laws, among them the Sick Industrial Companies Act and parts of the Companies Act, with a single time-bound process in which control passes from the defaulting promoter to the…

The classification runs in a sequence: an account that has just become non-performing is sub-standard for the first twelve months, after which it becomes doubtful, and it is called a loss asset when recovery is no longer expected.

Under the Reserve Bank's prudential norms on income recognition and asset classification, an asset stops being a performing asset when interest or an instalment of principal remains overdue for more than ninety days, and the bank must then stop treating the interest as income and start making provisions.

The Inland Vessels Act, 2021 replaced the Inland Steam Vessels Act of 1917, a colonial law under which every state registered vessels separately.

Sahibganj lies on the Ganga in the north-eastern corner of Jharkhand and its terminal was built to move coal and stone chips from the Rajmahal belt by water instead of road.

The Jal Marg Vikas Project, taken up with assistance from the World Bank, deepens the channel of the Ganga between Haldia and Varanasi and builds multi-modal terminals, jetties and navigation aids so that larger vessels can sail through the year.

Shipping and navigation on inland waterways declared by Parliament to be national waterways is a Union List subject, which is why a central Act is needed to declare each waterway.

The Barak between Lakhipur and Bhanga, about 121 km, serves the Barak valley of southern Assam, and through Karimganj it joins the protocol route across Bangladesh, which makes it the lifeline of a region cut off from the rest of Assam by hills.