SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The territory returns a single member to the Lok Sabha from the Chandigarh constituency.

The Open Hand, a large metal sculpture mounted so that it turns with the wind, stands in the Capitol Complex and was conceived by the architect as a sign of a hand open to give and open to receive, that is, open to new ideas.

It was formed by damming the Sukhna Choe, a seasonal stream descending from the Shivalik hills, as part of the city plan, and it is fed by rain rather than by a perennial river.

The city's sectors are numbered in sequence, but the number thirteen was deliberately left out because it is widely regarded as unlucky, so the numbering jumps from Sector 12 to Sector 14.

It is a common High Court exercising jurisdiction over the states of Punjab and Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh, and its building in the Capitol Complex is one of Le Corbusier's three monumental works there.

Chandi Mandir, a temple of the goddess Chandi, a form of Durga, stands near the city in what is now the Panchkula district of Haryana.

A road inspector in the public works department, he began collecting discarded stones, broken crockery, bangles, tiles and electrical waste in the 1950s and built a secret garden of sculptures on land that was officially a forest buffer.

In that year the Capitol Complex was added to the World Heritage List as part of a transnational serial property titled The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement, which brings together his buildings in several countries.

On that day the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 came into force, Haryana was created as a separate state out of Punjab on a largely linguistic basis, parts of the hill areas went to Himachal Pradesh, and the capital city was constituted a Union Territory and made the joint capital of…

The Swiss-French architect, whose real name was Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, took charge of the project after the first team broke up and gave the city its grid of sectors, its hierarchy of roads and the monumental buildings of the Capitol Complex.

When Haryana was carved out of Punjab on 1 November 1966, the new state had no capital of its own, so the existing capital city was made a Union Territory and declared the joint capital of both states.

The linkage joined India's Unified Payments Interface with Singapore's PayNow, so that users of either system could send money across the border using a mobile number or a virtual payment address rather than full bank details.

Developed by the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology at Hyderabad and built on the INFINET network of the banking sector, it carries the secure, standardised messages behind the Reserve Bank's Real Time Gross Settlement and National Electronic Funds Transfer, and is also used for inland letters of…

The Liberalised Remittance Scheme allows a resident individual, including a minor, to remit up to that amount in a financial year for any permitted current account purpose such as travel, education, medical treatment, gifts and maintenance of relatives, and for permitted capital account purposes such as buying property or shares…

Under the arrangement, an authorised dealer bank in India opens such an account for the correspondent bank of a partner country.

The MT 1 category covers customer payments, and MT 103 is the standard instruction by which a bank asks its correspondent to pay a named beneficiary a stated amount, carrying the remitter's and beneficiary's details and the charges instruction.

Under the standard ISO 9362 a BIC has four characters identifying the institution, two identifying the country on the ISO 3166 list, and two identifying the location, which makes eight.

The nostro account itself lies in the books of the foreign correspondent and is denominated in foreign currency.

Vostro means yours, and from the Indian bank's point of view the account is your account with us. Such accounts are held in Indian rupees, and the foreign bank uses them to make and receive payments in India.

Nostro means ours, and the full sense is our account with you.