SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Bihar formed part of the Bengal Presidency, and its appeals therefore went to the High Court at Calcutta, which had been established in 1862 under the Indian High Courts Act, 1861.

The Patna High Court was created by Letters Patent in February 1916 and began sitting on 1 March 1916, which is why its centenary fell in 2016.

Born at Kudki in the Merta country of the Rathores and married to a prince of Mewar, she turned away from the life of the palace to the worship of Krishna, whom she called Giridhar Gopal, kept the company of wandering saints against the wishes of her husband's family, and…

Deshnoke stands on the Bikaner to Nagaur road in Bikaner district, and the temple of Karni Mata there is known across the world for the thousands of rats, called kabas, that live in it and are fed by the worshippers.

The Urs, which marks the anniversary of a saint's death, understood as his union with God, is held at Ajmer every year in the month of Rajab and draws pilgrims of every faith.

The correct answer is A, Katariyasar in Bikaner district, the seat of the sect founded by Jasnathji, whose followers, the Siddhs, perform the agni nritya or fire dance on a bed of live coals to the beat of the drum, a performance that has become one of the signatures of…

Jambhoji, born at Pipasar in Nagaur district, laid down this code, among whose rules are the bans on cutting green trees and on killing animals, and the sect has its main seat at Mukam near Nokha in Bikaner district.

The phad of Devnarayanji, the deity of the Gurjars whose shrine stands at Malaseri Dungri in Asind of Bhilwara district, is the longest of the painted scrolls, and it is sung by Gurjar bhopas to the stringed jantar.

People bitten by snakes are still brought to his shrines, his thread is tied by farmers, and the great Parbatsar cattle fair of Nagaur district is held in his name.

Ramdevra, the old Runicha, lies in Pokhran tehsil of Jaisalmer district, and the fair that begins on the second day of the bright half of Bhadrapada brings pilgrims of every caste and of both religions, many walking for days with flags.

Gogamedi lies in Nohar tehsil of Hanumangarh district, and the fair held there on Goga Navami in the month of Bhadrapada is one of the largest in northern Rajasthan, drawing both Hindu and Muslim worshippers, who call the deity Jahar Peer.

Pabuji was a Rathore hero of Kolu in the Jodhpur country who, in the folk account, died while defending the cows of Deval, a Charan woman, and he is worshipped above all by camel herders, who bring sick animals to his shrine.

A Constitution Bench held that the right to die with dignity is part of the right to life under Article 21, and that an adult of sound mind may draw up an advance directive, popularly called a living will, refusing life support if he later becomes terminally ill or goes…

The petition, India's first reported public interest litigation, brought to light thousands of undertrial prisoners in Bihar jails who had been locked up longer than the maximum sentence for their alleged offence.

Article 21A, inserted by the 86th Amendment, 2002, says that the State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years in such manner as the State may by law determine, and the Right to Education Act, 2009, works out that promise…

The Court held that the right to life includes the right to livelihood, because no person can live without the means of living, and that pavement and slum dwellers could not be evicted without a fair hearing.

Article 359 lets the President suspend the right to move any court for the enforcement of fundamental rights while a national emergency is in force, but the 44th Amendment Act, 1978, passed after the experience of the 1975 Emergency, placed Article 20, on protection against conviction for offences, and Article…

A Constitution Bench upheld the death penalty as consistent with Article 21 but held that it may be awarded only in the rarest of rare cases, where the alternative of life imprisonment is unquestionably foreclosed, and that courts must weigh aggravating against mitigating circumstances.

The judgment also laid down that a law invading privacy must have legal backing, serve a legitimate State aim and be proportionate.

It inserted Article 21A, which directs the State to provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years, recast Article 45 to cover early childhood care and education below six years, and added clause k to Article 51A, making it a fundamental duty…