UPSC GK Questions 2026

The Howrah Bridge, renamed Rabindra Setu in 1965, is a steel cantilever bridge over the Hooghly connecting Howrah with Kolkata; it was opened to traffic in 1943 and its deck was riveted rather than bolted, so it is often described as having been built without nuts and bolts.

The Bogibeel Bridge crosses the Brahmaputra in the Dibrugarh district of Assam, was opened in December 2018 and carries a double line of railway below a three lane road above, which makes it the longest rail cum road bridge in India at close to five kilometres.

The Chenab Rail Bridge was built on the Udhampur Srinagar Baramulla rail link in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, and its steel arch carries the track about three hundred and fifty nine metres above the bed of the Chenab, which makes it the highest railway arch bridge in…

The Tarapur Atomic Power Station in the Palghar district of Maharashtra was commissioned in 1969 and was the first nuclear power station in India and in Asia to generate electricity commercially; its first two units were boiling water reactors built with American assistance.

Gobind Sagar is the reservoir formed by the Bhakra Dam on the Sutlej in the Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh, and it is named after Guru Gobind Singh; the dam is part of the Bhakra Nangal project that serves Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh.

The Hirakud Dam lies across the Mahanadi above Sambalpur in Odisha, and counting the main dam together with its earthen dykes it is among the longest dams in the world; it was built chiefly to control the floods that used to devastate coastal Odisha, and it also serves irrigation and…

The Tehri Dam stands on the Bhagirathi in the Tehri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, close to the confluence of the Bhagirathi and the Bhilangana, and it is an earth and rock fill dam, the tallest in India at about two hundred and sixty metres.

Hydel or hydroelectric power depends on head, the vertical distance through which water falls on to the turbine, and on a narrow valley in hard rock where a tall dam can hold a deep reservoir.

Presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru, the Lahore session of December 1929 passed the resolution of Purna Swaraj or complete independence, unfurled the tricolour on the bank of the Ravi and called on the country to observe the twenty sixth of January 1930 as Independence Day.

The Constituent Assembly adopted, enacted and gave to itself the Constitution on the twenty sixth of November 1949, and that day is kept every year as Constitution Day or Samvidhan Divas.

The fourth session of the Indian National Congress met at Allahabad in 1888 and elected George Yule as its president, and he was the first Englishman and the first non Indian to hold the office.

At Plassey on the bank of the Bhagirathi, Robert Clive defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, after buying over his commander Mir Jafar, and the victory made the Company the real power in the richest province of India.

Subhash Chandra Bose was elected president of the Indian National Congress at the Haripura session in Gujarat in 1938, where he set up a National Planning Committee under Jawaharlal Nehru.

The fiftieth session of the Indian National Congress met in December 1936 at Faizpur in the Khandesh region of what is now Maharashtra, and it was the first session of the Congress held in a village rather than in a city.

On the day of Baisakhi in 1919 a crowd gathered in the walled garden of Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar to protest against the Rowlatt Act and the arrest of Saifuddin Kitchlew and Satyapal, and Brigadier General Reginald Dyer ordered his troops to fire without warning on the closed enclosure.

The annual session of the Indian National Congress in December 1920 met at Nagpur under the presidency of C. Vijayaraghavachariar, and it confirmed the programme of non cooperation that a special session at Calcutta had approved in September of that year.

Taking the four in the order they appear in history: Wood's Despatch came first, in 1854, and is called the Magna Carta of English education in India because it laid down a graded system of schools and universities.

In the First Battle of Panipat, Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last Sultan of the Lodi dynasty, and the victory ended the Delhi Sultanate and founded the Mughal empire in India.

The Param Vir Chakra is the highest wartime gallantry decoration of the Indian armed forces, given for the most conspicuous bravery in the presence of the enemy, and its peacetime equivalent is the Ashoka Chakra; neither belongs to the civilian order of precedence.

Sri Lankabhimanya, which means the pride of Sri Lanka, is the highest national honour of that country and is awarded for exceptional and outstanding service to the nation; the name itself carries the clue, since the country is named in the award.