SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The Swadeshi Movement against the Partition of Bengal both revived Indian crafts and industry and set up national education. The movement was formally launched on 7 August 1905 at the Calcutta Town Hall.

These two neighbouring West African countries grow well over half of the world's cocoa. Cocoa is a tropical tree crop that needs heavy, well-spread rainfall, high humidity, temperatures of about 21 to 32 °C and shade, which is why it grows best within about 10 degrees of the Equator.

Jainism names four states of existence, called gatis, and Yaksha is not one of them.

The Yamuna joins the Ganga at Prayagraj, and the meeting point is called the Sangam. The confluence marks the end of the Ganga-Yamuna Doab, the tract between the two rivers that forms the upper part of the Ganga plain and the most intensively irrigated land in the state.

The hill districts of Uttar Pradesh were constituted as the state of Uttaranchal on 9 November 2000 under the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000, and the state was renamed Uttarakhand in 2007.

Khadar is the new alluvium of the flood plains, lying low along the rivers and renewed by a fresh layer of silt almost every year.

These districts, with Jalaun, Hamirpur and Chitrakoot, form the Bundelkhand upland in the south-west of the state. It is built of ancient granite and gneiss, has thin soil and bare hillocks, is drained by the Betwa and the Ken, and is the most drought-prone part of Uttar Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh is landlocked, so it can have no coastal plain at all. The state is divided into three physical regions only: the Bhabhar and Terai belt in the north, the Ganga plain in the middle and the southern plateau and hills beyond the Yamuna.

The Gomti rises at Madho Tanda in Pilibhit district, flows past Lucknow and Jaunpur and joins the Ganga in Ghazipur district, so its whole course lies inside Uttar Pradesh.

The bhabhar is the narrow belt of coarse gravel, pebbles and boulders laid down by hill streams where they leave the Shivalik hills.

Uttar Pradesh is bounded by Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar, which is more neighbours than any other Indian state has.

Uttar Pradesh has an international boundary of about 579 kilometres with Nepal along its northern edge, and seven districts stand on it: Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Bahraich, Shrawasti, Balrampur, Siddharthnagar and Maharajganj.

The standard meridian of India is 82 degrees 30 minutes east, and it passes through Mirzapur district in Uttar Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh lies between these parallels and between 77 degrees 5 minutes east and 84 degrees 38 minutes east longitude.

Uttar Pradesh covers 240,928 square kilometres, about 7.3 per cent of the area of India, which makes it the fourth largest state after Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

The Luni is the main river of western Rajasthan. It rises in the Naga hills near Ajmer, runs about 495 kilometres to the south-west through the Godwar belt and empties into the Rann of Kutch.

The Aravalli runs diagonally from the south-west to the north-east and splits Rajasthan into two unequal parts: roughly three-fifths of the state lies west of the range, in the sandy plain and the Thar, and about two-fifths lies to its east, in the plains and the plateau.

The south-eastern plateau of Rajasthan has two parts: the Vindhyan scarpland of sandstone and the Deccan lava plateau, which is the Malwa plateau of basalt continuing into Rajasthan.

Sambhar is the largest saline lake of Rajasthan and of India, lying in the inland drainage tract on the eastern edge of the desert, where the Mendha and the Rupangarh end their course.

The Great Boundary Fault runs along the Chambal valley in south-eastern Rajasthan and separates the Vindhyan rocks of the Hadoti plateau from the much older Aravalli system to its west.