SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Before 2000 the undivided Uttar Pradesh returned eighty-five members to the Lok Sabha. When Uttarakhand was created, five seats went with the hill districts, leaving Uttar Pradesh with eighty, still the largest number for any state, along with thirty-one seats in the Rajya Sabha.

The agitation for a separate hill state turned violent in 1994, and the firing on demonstrators at Khatima and Mussoorie, followed by the incident at Muzaffarnagar on the night of 1 and 2 October 1994 when marchers were going to Delhi, gave the movement its martyrs and brought the demand…

The three states came into existence within a fortnight: Chhattisgarh on 1 November 2000 from Madhya Pradesh as the twenty-sixth state, Uttaranchal on 9 November 2000 from Uttar Pradesh as the twenty-seventh, and Jharkhand on 15 November 2000 from Bihar as the twenty-eighth.

The Ceded and Conquered Provinces were reorganised in 1836 as the North-Western Provinces, with Agra as the seat of government, and Awadh was attached to the same administration in 1877.

Pant headed the government of the United Provinces from 1946 and continued as the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh after the renaming in 1950.

Article 3 allows Parliament by law to form a new state by separating territory from any state, by uniting two or more states or parts of them, and to increase or diminish the area of a state or alter its boundaries or name.

Under the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000, the thirteen hill districts of the Kumaon and Garhwal divisions were separated to form Uttaranchal, the twenty-seventh state of India, on 9 November 2000, with Dehradun as its interim capital and the High Court at Nainital.

The province known as the United Provinces since 1937 was renamed Uttar Pradesh when the Constitution came into force on 26 January 1950, and the new name kept the familiar initials UP.

Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on 2 October 1904 at Mughalsarai in the Varanasi region of Uttar Pradesh, a town now named Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar; he shares his birthday with Mahatma Gandhi, which is why both are remembered on 2 October.

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, later Mother Teresa, was born on 26 August 1910 at Skopje, then in the Ottoman Empire and today the capital of North Macedonia.

Birsa Munda was born in 1875 at Ulihatu in the Khunti district of present-day Jharkhand, then part of the Chotanagpur region of Bengal and later Bihar.

Guru Gobind Singh was born in 1666 at Patna in Bihar, while his father Guru Tegh Bahadur was travelling in the east, and the gurdwara Takht Sri Patna Sahib marks the site.

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born in 1888 at Tiruchirappalli in present-day Tamil Nadu and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light, the discovery announced on 28 February 1928 that is remembered every year as National Science Day.

Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 and his daughter Indira Gandhi on 19 November 1917, both at Allahabad, now Prayagraj, in the family home that Motilal Nehru named Anand Bhavan.

Dr Rajendra Prasad was born on 3 December 1884 at Ziradei, a village in the Siwan district of Bihar.

Bhagat Singh was born in 1907 at Banga in the Lyallpur district of undivided Punjab. Lyallpur was renamed Faisalabad after Partition and lies in the Punjab province of Pakistan, so the village of his birth is now in Pakistan.

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was born on 23 January 1897 at Cuttack in Odisha, where his father Janakinath Bose practised as a lawyer, although the family was Bengali and he was later educated at Calcutta and Cambridge.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born on 14 April 1891 at Mhow, a military cantonment town in the Indore region of what is now Madhya Pradesh, where his father was serving in the army.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 at Porbandar, a coastal town of the Kathiawar region in present-day Gujarat, where his father Karamchand Gandhi served as the diwan of the princely state.

The khejri, botanically Prosopis cineraria and called the kalp vriksha of the desert because its pods, leaves and shade all serve desert households, is the state tree of Rajasthan.