SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Section 6 of AFSPA provides that no prosecution, suit or other legal proceeding shall be instituted against any person in respect of anything done in exercise of the powers conferred by the Act, except with the previous sanction of the Central Government.

Section 3 of AFSPA empowers the Governor of a State, the administrator of a Union Territory or the Central Government to declare the whole or a part of a State or Union Territory to be a disturbed area, and that declaration is the condition on which every other power in…

Until then the UAPA allowed the Government to notify only an organisation as a terrorist organisation; the UAPA (Amendment) Act, 2019 added the power to notify an individual as a terrorist and to enter that name in the Fourth Schedule of the Act.

The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act was passed by Parliament in 1967 on the recommendation of the National Integration Council, to provide for the banning of unlawful associations and for punishing activity directed against the sovereignty and integrity of India.

The correct answer is A, Sikandar Shah, the son and successor of Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah, who raised the Adina Mosque at Pandua in the later fourteenth century on a scale unmatched in eastern India.

The great exponent of Krishna bhakti in Bengal lived during the reign of Alauddin Hussain Shah, who patronised Bengali literature and under whose rule Vaishnava devotion spread widely in the province.

The founder of the Lodi dynasty spent much of his reign subduing the Sharqi kingdom, defeated Hussain Shah Sharqi, who fled to Bengal, and annexed Jaunpur in 1484.

He brought the three divisions of Bengal under one authority in 1342, founded the dynasty named after him, took the title Shah-i-Bangalah and held off Firoz Shah Tughlaq's two invasions.

The son of Dilawar Khan Ghuri moved the seat of government from the plains town of Dhar to the hill fort of Mandu, renamed it Shadiabad, the city of joy, and built the Jama Mosque there; his own tomb at Mandu is the first building in India faced entirely in…

He abolished the jizya, recalled the Brahmins who had fled, had the Mahabharata and Kalhana's Rajatarangini translated into Persian, and settled artisans from Samarkand who introduced paper-making, shawl weaving and carpet weaving.

In Gujarati be garh means two forts, and Mahmud took both the hill fort of Girnar in Junagadh and the fort of Champaner in the east of his kingdom, founding the towns of Mustafabad and Muhammadabad beside them.

He moved the capital of Gujarat from Anhilwara Patan to a new city on the Sabarmati in 1411, named it after himself, and built there the Jama Mosque and the ceremonial Teen Darwaza.

Under the Sharqi sultans, and especially Ibrahim Shah Sharqi, Jaunpur attracted so many scholars of Persian and Arabic, theologians and musicians that it was compared with Shiraz, the city of learning and poetry in Iran.

A noble of the later Tughlaq court, Malik Sarwar was sent east in 1394 with the title Malik-us-Sharq, the Master of the East, and he made himself independent of Delhi; the title gave his line the name Sharqi.

Charnockite is a granitic rock of the Archaean Basement Complex and is found in the Nilgiri and Palni hills of the south.

Bhangar is the older alluvium occupying the higher terraces above the present flood level of the rivers, and its soils often hold calcareous concretions known as kankar.

Lignite, or brown coal, is a low-rank coal formed from vegetation buried relatively recently, and the Neyveli field of Tamil Nadu is a Tertiary deposit, as are the petroleum-bearing rocks of Assam and Gujarat.

Sediment settles in layers at ordinary temperatures, so the remains of organisms buried with it are preserved as the layers are compacted and cemented, which is why sedimentary rocks are also called stratified rocks and why the history of life is read from them.

At the close of the Cretaceous, highly fluid lava welled out of long cracks in the crust in the north-western Deccan and spread as sheet after sheet over Maharashtra and parts of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh; the flat, step-like arrangement of these flows is what the word trap describes.

Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of calcium carbonate, and when it is subjected to heat and pressure its grains recrystallise into the dense, even-textured rock called marble.