SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Allahabad district, renamed Prayagraj in 2018, was the most populous district of Uttar Pradesh in 2011 with about 59.5 lakh people, and Mahoba in Bundelkhand was the least populous.

Gautam Buddha Nagar, the district of Noida and Greater Noida, had the highest literacy rate in the state in 2011, which follows from its industrial and service economy and the educated workers it attracts.

The literacy rate of Uttar Pradesh in 2011 was 67.68 per cent, with male literacy at 77.28 per cent and female literacy at 57.18 per cent, so the gap between men and women was about twenty percentage points.

Uttar Pradesh had 912 females for every 1,000 males in 2011, below the national figure, and its child sex ratio for the age group of nought to six years was 902.

Uttar Pradesh had 829 persons on every square kilometre in 2011, more than twice the national density, because the alluvial plain of the Ganga and the Yamuna supports a very dense rural population.

The exact count was 19,98,12,341 persons, which is usually rounded to twenty crore in discussion, and candidates should recognise both the rounded and the exact form.

The Census of 2011 counted about 19.98 crore persons in Uttar Pradesh, roughly 16.5 per cent of the population of the country, which is the largest share of any state and more than the population of most countries of the world.

The World Press Freedom Index has been brought out since 2002 by Reporters Without Borders, a non-governmental organisation based in Paris, which ranks countries on the conditions in which journalists work.

Jinnah founded Dawn in Delhi in 1941 as the English newspaper of the Muslim League, and after partition it moved to Karachi, where it continues as one of the best known English dailies of Pakistan.

Shimbun is the Japanese word for newspaper, and Yomiuri Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun are the two best known Japanese dailies; Yomiuri Shimbun has for many years had one of the largest circulations of any newspaper in the world, and Nihon Keizai Shimbun, known as Nikkei, is the leading financial daily…

Pravda, which means truth in Russian, was founded in 1912 and became the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, printing the party line on every question until the Soviet Union broke up; Izvestia, meaning news, was the paper of the Soviet government.

The Press Trust of India was registered in 1947 and began work in 1949, taking over the business of the Associated Press of India, and it is owned by the newspapers that subscribe to it; its surplus goes back into the service rather than to shareholders.

In 1976 the government merged the Press Trust of India, United News of India, Hindustan Samachar and Samachar Bharati into one agency called Samachar, a step widely seen as part of the control of the press during the Emergency.

Yonhap News Agency works from Seoul and is the main wire service of the Republic of Korea, widely quoted abroad for reports on the Korean peninsula.

Xinhua, whose name means new China, was set up in 1931 as the Red China News Agency, took its present name in 1937 and works from Beijing as the state news agency of the People's Republic of China.

Paul Julius Reuter, who had earlier worked for Havas in Paris and had used carrier pigeons to carry stock prices between Aachen and Brussels, moved to London and founded his telegraph news office there in 1851, close to the Stock Exchange.

Charles-Louis Havas opened Agence Havas in Paris in 1835 to translate and sell foreign news, which makes it the first news agency in the world; the business was reorganised in 1944 and has been known since then as Agence France-Presse.

Sambhar, the large saline lake west of Jaipur, is the biggest inland source of salt in the country, where brine is drawn into shallow pans and left to evaporate; Didwana in Nagaur and Pachpadra in Barmer are the other salt works of the state, while most Indian salt otherwise comes…

Phad is painted at Shahpura in Bhilwara district, traditionally by the Joshi family of chiteras, on a long cloth scroll that a singer priest unrolls at night while reciting the epics of Devnarayan and Pabuji; the figures are flat, in profile and in strong red, yellow and green.

The potters of Molela, a village in Rajsamand district, make flat clay plaques in low relief showing Dharmaraj, Devnarayan, Nagaraja and other folk gods, which pilgrims from the tribal districts of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh carry home to their shrines; Molela clay work carries a geographical indication tag.