UPSC GK Questions 2026

Clause (1) says that if a State law is repugnant to a law made by Parliament on a Concurrent subject, the parliamentary law prevails and the State law is void to the extent of the repugnancy.

That section barred a detained person from disclosing in court the grounds of his detention or the representation he had made against it.

The Bengal Money Lenders Act of 1940 limited the interest and the amount recoverable by money lenders, a provincial subject, but it also affected promissory notes, which belonged to the central list.

That clause says that no law made by Parliament shall be deemed invalid on the ground that it would have extra-territorial operation, and the courts have built on it the rule that a State law too may apply to an object or person outside the State if there is a…

The petitioner had settled his tax liability under a provision later found to violate Article 14, and it was argued that by agreeing to the settlement he had waived his right to equality.

The doctrine means that a legislature cannot do by an indirect route what the Constitution forbids it to do directly; if it has no competence over a subject, no clever drafting can give it that competence.

Article 246 read with the Seventh Schedule gives Parliament and the State Legislatures separate fields of law making, but subjects overlap in practice, so a court must find the true nature and character of the law, its pith and substance, and ignore incidental encroachment on the other list.

In that case a 1947 motor vehicles law of Central Provinces and Berar had become unenforceable because it clashed with the freedom of trade under Article 19(1)(g).

He built the Chennakesava temple at Belur in the Hassan district to mark his victories, including the defeat of the Cholas at Talakad, and his reign from about 1108 to 1152 also saw the beginning of the Hoysaleswara temple at Halebidu.

Sarangadeva served at the court of Singhana II, the most powerful Yadava king, and his Sangita Ratnakara is the work from which both the Hindustani and the Carnatic traditions later drew their theory of ragas and talas.

Under this last great Yadava king Marathi flourished as a language of administration and devotion, and the saint Jnaneshwar wrote the Jnaneshwari, also called the Bhavarthadipika, in 1290.

Rudrama Devi was the daughter of Ganapatideva and succeeded him at Warangal, holding the throne for about three decades against rebellions by nobles and attacks from the Yadavas and the Pandyas, and the Venetian traveller Marco Polo wrote with admiration of her government.

The temple at Palampet in Mulugu district of Telangana was built in 1213 by Recherla Rudra, a general of Ganapatideva, and it is named Ramappa after its sculptor, the only temple in India popularly known by the name of its craftsman.

His long reign, from 1076 to 1126, was the cultural high point of the Western Chalukyas, and his court held both Bilhana, who wrote the Vikramankadeva Charita in praise of the king, and Vijnaneshwara, whose Mitakshara became the most widely followed authority of Hindu law in large parts of India.

He was a Chalukya feudatory who overthrew the last Rashtrakuta ruler in 973 and founded the line that ruled the Deccan from Manyakheta and then from Kalyani for more than two centuries.

The correct answer is B, Dwarasamudra, the present Halebidu in Hassan district of Karnataka, where the Hoysaleswara temple still stands.

Ravikirti was the court poet of Pulakeshin II of the Chalukyas of Badami and composed the Aihole inscription, a Sanskrit prashasti that records the king's victories, including the defeat of Harshavardhana, and in which the poet compares himself to Kalidasa and Bharavi.

Ganapatideva of the Kakatiya dynasty issued an inscription at Motupalli known as the Abhaya Shasana, which assured foreign merchants of the safety of their ships and goods and fixed the duties they would pay, and the port became the kingdom's main window to the sea trade of the Bay of…

The Hoysalas ruled from Dwarasamudra, the present Halebidu in Hassan district of Karnataka, and their famous temples at Belur, Halebidu and Somanathapura all stand in that state.

Glycolysis spends two molecules of ATP in the preparatory steps that phosphorylate glucose and fructose, and produces four by substrate level phosphorylation in the later steps, so the net gain is two ATP along with two molecules of reduced NAD.