UPSC GK Questions 2026

Makhana is the puffed seed of the gorgon nut plant, grown in the shallow ponds of Darbhanga, Madhubani, Saharsa and Katihar, and almost all the makhana of the country comes from this part of Bihar.

The weavers of Bhagalpur have worked tussar silk for generations and the cloth is sold across the country as Bhagalpuri silk, which is why the city is called the silk city of Bihar.

Amjhor lies in Rohtas district in the Kaimur hills and holds the best known pyrite deposit of India.

The refinery of the Indian Oil Corporation at Barauni was built with Soviet assistance in the nineteen sixties and became the nucleus of the only heavy industrial cluster in the state, with a thermal power station, a fertiliser plant and a large dairy around it.

Jharkhand was carved out of the southern districts of Bihar on that day, which is also the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda, and the date is observed as the foundation day of the new state.

The company was registered in that year at Sakchi, the village on the Subarnarekha that grew into Jamshedpur, and the site was chosen for the iron ore, coal and water around it.

Coal, iron ore, manganese, limestone and water lie close together there, so the country's iron and steel plants crowded into it: Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Burnpur and Durgapur on its edges and Rourkela just beyond.

The alluvium of the Ganga plain holds water close to the surface, so a farmer can sink a tube well cheaply and pump whenever the crop needs water rather than waiting for a canal turn.

The Matatila dam stands on the Betwa on the border of the Jhansi and Lalitpur tract and was built jointly by Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh for irrigation and a small hydel station.

The Sharda Canal begins at Banbasa, where the Sharda river, also called the Kali, comes down from the Kumaon hills to the plain.

The district lies in the extreme south east, where the Singrauli coalfield, the Rihand reservoir and the hills meet.

The Narora Atomic Power Station stands at Narora on the Ganga in Bulandshahr district and is the only nuclear station in Uttar Pradesh.

The Rihand rises on the Chhattisgarh plateau, flows north through the hills of the south east and joins the Son, and the dam at Pipri in Sonbhadra district stands across it.

The dam was built at Pipri in Sonbhadra district across the Rihand, a tributary of the Son, and the lake behind it was named Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar after the first chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.

The Agra Canal starts at the Okhla barrage on the Yamuna near Delhi and was opened in 1874.

Narora stands on the Ganga in Bulandshahr district, and the barrage there feeds the Lower Ganga Canal, opened in 1878 to extend irrigation to the middle Doab districts of Etawah, Kanpur and Fatehpur.

Cautley surveyed the Doab, chose Haridwar as the head and supervised the digging of the Upper Ganga Canal, which was opened in 1854.

The Upper Ganga Canal begins at the Bhimgoda barrage at Haridwar, where the Ganga leaves the hills and still has the fall needed to drive a gravity canal.

Rajasthan runs its cattle breeding farms in the home tract of each breed, so the place names and the breeds go together.

The Pushkar fair gathers at the Pushkar lake in Ajmer district in the month of Kartik, which falls in October or November, and reaches its climax on the full moon day, Kartik Purnima, when pilgrims bathe in the lake beside the Brahma temple.