SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Section 51 of the Act prescribes this enhanced punishment, along with a fine, for offences against animals given the highest protection, and the amendment of 2022 raised the monetary penalties further.

Article 252 allows Parliament to legislate on a State subject for two or more States when the legislatures of those States pass resolutions asking it to do so, and the law then applies to those States and to any other State that adopts it later.

The peacock is the national bird of India and was placed in Schedule I, the group given the highest protection, so it could never be treated as vermin.

The amendment of 1991 inserted Chapter IVA into the Act and created the Central Zoo Authority, which lays down standards for housing and upkeep of animals, recognises or derecognises zoos and regulates the exchange of animals between them.

That amendment inserted Section 36A for conservation reserves, usually declared on government land next to a national park or sanctuary, and Section 36C for community reserves, declared on private or community land where people volunteer to protect wildlife.

The National Board for Wild Life was created by the amendment of 2002 under Section 5A of the Act as the apex advisory body on wildlife, and the Prime Minister chairs it.

Section 35 empowers the State Government to declare an area of adequate ecological or zoological importance as a national park, where no grazing is permitted and no rights of any person are allowed to continue.

In the restructured Act the plant schedule moved from the old Schedule VI to the new Schedule III, and it still protects a short list of species such as the blue vanda, the pitcher plant and other threatened orchids and cycads, whose uprooting and trade are controlled.

The amendment of 2022 rationalised the schedules of the parent Act: Schedule I now lists animals given the highest protection, Schedule II lists animals with a lesser degree of protection, Schedule III lists specified plants and Schedule IV lists specimens figuring in the appendices of the Convention on International Trade…

The Wild Life (Protection) Act received the assent of the President on 9 September 1972 and remains the principal wildlife law of the country, covering hunting, protected areas, trade in animal articles and the schedules of protected species.

Services such as Google Docs and Microsoft 365 save a copy of a document each time it changes, show who edited what and allow a user to restore an older version, which is what makes group editing safe.

The cloud is reached over a network, so working permanently offline is the opposite of what the model offers; the dependence on connectivity is in fact listed among the limitations of cloud computing.

Amazon S3 was launched in 2006 and was among the first large public cloud offerings. It stores data as objects inside containers called buckets rather than as files in folders, and it is used by websites and applications across the world to hold images, backups and logs.

OneDrive is the cloud storage of Microsoft, built into Windows and into the Microsoft 365 suite; it began life under the name SkyDrive and was renamed OneDrive in 2014 after a trademark dispute.

A hybrid cloud joins a private deployment with a public one so that confidential records stay inside the organisation while ordinary or seasonal workloads run on rented public resources, and data can move between the two.

MeghRaj is the brand name of the Government of India Cloud, under which the National Informatics Centre runs the National Cloud so that ministries and state departments can host applications and data without buying separate servers for every project.

DigiLocker was launched in 2015 as part of the Digital India programme of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, and it gives every citizen a cloud account linked to Aadhaar in which boards, universities and transport departments place verified certificates that are accepted on a par with the original…

Google Docs is finished software delivered through a browser; the user installs nothing, manages no server and only works on the document, which is the definition of Software as a Service.

In this model the provider runs finished software on its own servers and the user simply opens it in a browser, as with Gmail, Google Docs, Microsoft 365 or Salesforce, paying by subscription instead of buying a licence and installing it.

Google Drive, launched in 2012, keeps a user files on Google servers, synchronises them to every signed-in device and opens them in Docs, Sheets and Slides for editing in the browser, which is exactly what cloud storage means.