SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The Nizam of Hyderabad refused to join either dominion, and after the breakdown of talks and the activity of the Razakar militia the Government of India launched a police action codenamed Operation Polo in September 1948, after which the state joined the Indian Union.

On the night of 4 December 1971 Indian missile boats struck ships and fuel installations at Karachi harbour in an operation named Trident, and a follow-up raid on 8 December was named Operation Python.

On that date in 1999 the Army announced the successful conclusion of Operation Vijay, by which the intruders were cleared from the heights of the Kargil sector, supported by Operation Safed Sagar of the Air Force and Operation Talwar of the Navy.

He commanded a company of 13 Kumaon at Rezang La in Ladakh in November 1962 and his men held the post against a far larger Chinese force; he was awarded the Param Vir Chakra posthumously.

On 13 April 1984 Indian troops were airlifted on to the heights of the Karakoram to forestall a Pakistani move, and the glacier has since been held as the highest battlefield in the world.

As the commander of the Eastern Command he accepted the surrender of the Pakistani forces at the Ramna Race Course in Dhaka on 16 December 1971, the day observed every year as Vijay Diwas.

In December 1961 the Army, Navy and Air Force together ended four and a half centuries of Portuguese rule in these territories in a short operation given the code name Vijay.

The declaration was signed on 10 January 1966 at Tashkent by Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and President Ayub Khan of Pakistan, with the Soviet Union acting as mediator, and Shastri died there the next day.

The country came into being in December 1971 at the end of the liberation war, in which the Indian armed forces entered the conflict after Pakistani air strikes codenamed Operation Chengiz Khan on 3 December and accepted the surrender at Dhaka on 16 December.

The territory was the eastern wing of Pakistan from 1947, and it became the independent country of Bangladesh after the war of 1971, which ended when Lieutenant General A. A. K. Niazi signed the Instrument of Surrender at Dhaka on 16 December 1971 before Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora.

It is a movable flap in the rear wing which a driver may open in marked zones of the circuit when close enough to the car in front; opening the flap cuts air resistance, raises the top speed and makes overtaking easier.

It is one of the best known one-day classics, famous for its cobbled roads and for the nickname the Hell of the North, but a single day race can never be a Grand Tour.

Points are awarded at the top of each categorised climb, and the rider leading that classification wears the white jersey with red dots, which is why the best climbers of a generation are remembered by this jersey.

The yellow jersey, called the maillot jaune in French, is worn by the rider with the lowest cumulative time over all the stages completed so far, and whoever wears it after the final stage in Paris wins the race.

The race was started by Henri Desgrange, the editor of the sports newspaper L Auto, which hoped to raise its circulation by organising a long bicycle race around France, and it has been run almost every July since then except during the two World Wars.

The driver from Coimbatore made his Formula One debut with the Jordan team in 2005 and so became the first Indian to compete in the championship, returning later with another team.

The FIA was founded in 1904 and is based in Paris, and besides running the Formula One World Championship and the World Rally Championship it also works on road safety and on the regulation of motoring clubs across the world.

The blue flag is shown to a slower driver, usually one who is about to be lapped, and ignoring it repeatedly brings a penalty, because the leaders must not be held up by backmarkers.

The circuit in Uttar Pradesh hosted the Indian Grand Prix three times, in 2011, 2012 and 2013, and Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull won on each occasion before the race was dropped from the calendar.

The first Formula One World Championship season opened with the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on 13 May 1950, and Giuseppe Farina of Italy, driving an Alfa Romeo, became the first world champion at the end of that season.