State News Questions and Answers

Answer: B

The Bharat Bangladesh Moitree Udyan is being built by Tripura.

The Bharat-Bangladesh Maitri (friendship) Udyan is at Chottakhola in South Tripura, near the Bangladesh border. It commemorates the help that Tripura and India gave during Bangladesh's Liberation War of 1971, when the area sheltered refugees and freedom fighters.

Meghalaya and West Bengal also border Bangladesh, and Nagaland does not, but the park is a Tripura government project.

Answer: B

Project 'Prerna' is a programme of Maharashtra.

Maharashtra, where farmer suicides have been concentrated in the Vidarbha and Marathwada regions, launched the Prerna project to identify farmers in distress and offer them counselling and mental health support through its health system, in districts marked as suicide-prone.

Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh have their own farm welfare schemes, but Prerna is Maharashtra's.

Answer: D

The state was Himachal Pradesh.

On 16 February 2019 the Himachal Pradesh Assembly passed the Himachal Pradesh Official Language (Amendment) Bill, making Sanskrit the state's second official language after Hindi.

Uttarakhand had already made Sanskrit its second official language in 2010, which makes Himachal the second state to do so. Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana did not pass such a Bill at that time.

Answer: C

The State that announced all government offices would be paperless by 2021 was Arunachal Pradesh.

In February 2019 Chief Minister Pema Khandu said at Tawang that all state government offices would become paperless e-offices by 2021, to bring transparency and easier access to services.

No such 2019 announcement came from Kerala, Uttarakhand or Tripura, whose later digital steps, such as Tripura's e-cabinet in 2023, are different.

Answer: A

The announcement was made by the Uttar Pradesh government.

On Teachers' Day, 5 September 2025, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced that teachers in Uttar Pradesh, including those in aided schools, Shiksha Mitras and instructors, would get cashless medical treatment, covering about nine lakh teachers and their families.

The scheme, the Mukhyamantri Shikshak Cashless Chikitsa Yojana, is Uttar Pradesh's own; Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are distractors with no connection to this Teachers' Day announcement.

Answer: A

The answer is Umakanta Academy.

The 43rd Kokborok Day was observed on Tuesday, 19 January 2021, in Agartala. The day marks the recognition of Kokborok as an official language of Tripura on 19 January 1979, and the main procession that year began at Umakanta Academy, a school in the centre of Agartala.

The question prints the date as 19th March, which is a slip: Kokborok Day falls on 19 January every year, and the 43rd observance was in 2021. The venue in the key is the one that fits the event. Rabindra Satabarshiki Bhavan, Swami Vivekananda Stadium and Khumulwng (the headquarters of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council) are other well-known places in the state, but none of them is reported as the place of the 2021 programme.

Answer: D

Doordarshan Kendra Agartala was renamed DD Tripura.

The Agartala station of Doordarshan became DD Tripura on 21 January 2021, and it began round-the-clock transmission at the same time. The change gave the channel the name of the state it serves.

DD Agartala names the kendra as it was before the change, so it is the old name, not the new one. DD Bharat and DD Tripureswari are not names the station took.

Answer: A

The theme of the 39th Agartala Book Fair, 2021 was Amader Tripura Srestha Tripura.

The state government's information bulletin of 26 February 2021 gave the theme as 'Amader Tripura Shrestha Tripura', Bengali for 'our Tripura, the best Tripura'. The fair ran for 14 days at the International Fair Ground at Hapania, with 164 stalls, and was inaugurated by the Chief Minister, Biplab Kumar Deb.

'Ektu Paro Ektu Sikho' and 'Esho Boi Pari' are phrases in the style of reading campaigns, but they are not the theme of that edition. 'None of the above' is wrong because the first option is the theme.

Answer: A

The first state to declare sports an industry was Mizoram.

Mizoram's government declared sports an industry, the first state in India to do so. The aim was to treat the state's strong sporting culture, especially in football, as a source of jobs and income, so that sport could receive the incentives and support given to an industry.

Meghalaya, Manipur and Nagaland, its north-eastern neighbours, were not the first to take this step, which is what the question tests.

Answer: D

The budget was presented by Shri Jishnu Debbarma.

After the BJP-IPFT government took office in March 2018, Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma (spelt 'Jishnu Debbarma' in the paper) held the Finance portfolio and presented the state's budget for 2018-19 in the Tripura Legislative Assembly.

Biplab Kumar Deb was the Chief Minister, N.C. Debbarma was a minister from the IPFT, and Ratan Lal Nath held other portfolios. None of them held Finance.