Static GK decides the General Awareness score in SSC CGL. Of the 25 questions in Tier-I and the 25 in Tier-II Paper-I, most come from Indian Polity, History, Geography, the Economy and General Science, the areas the CGL 2026 notice lists as History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Policy and Scientific Research relating to India and its neighbouring countries. Polity questions ask about articles, parts and schedules of the Constitution, amendments, the President, Parliament, the Supreme Court and constitutional bodies. History covers the Indus Valley, the Mauryas and Guptas, the Delhi Sultanate and Mughals, and the freedom struggle from 1857 to 1947. Geography asks about rivers, soils, climate, national parks, minerals and world physical features. The Economy part asks about budget terms, the RBI, banking and basic concepts. General Science is school-level Physics, Chemistry and Biology. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for SSC CGL, written as short facts and tables so a topic can be revised in one sitting. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what you retained.
The Indian woman cricketer known as the Chakda Express is
The fast bowler comes from Chakdaha in the Nadia district of West Bengal, and her nickname joins that town to her pace, in the manner of the Payyoli Express and the Rawalpindi Express.
Read the full explanation →Which Indian cricketer earned the nickname The Wall for his defensive batting?
The Karnataka batter was called The Wall for the long innings with which he held up an end for India in Test cricket, and Jammy within his team.
Read the full explanation →The footballer Pele was popularly known by which nickname?
Pele of Brazil, the only player to win three World Cups, was called Perola Negra, the Black Pearl, and also the King of Football.
Read the full explanation →The fast bowler known as the Rawalpindi Express is
The Pakistani fast bowler came from Rawalpindi and bowled some of the quickest deliveries ever recorded, which earned him the name Rawalpindi Express, built on the same pattern as the Payyoli Express and the Chakda Express.
Read the full explanation →Magnificent Mary is the nickname of which Indian sportsperson?
The boxer from Manipur, a multiple world amateur champion and an Olympic medallist from the London Games of 2012, was called Magnificent Mary by the international boxing federation, and the name has stayed with her.
Read the full explanation →Major Dhyan Chand, the legendary Indian hockey player, is popularly known as
Dhyan Chand played centre forward in the Indian teams that won Olympic gold in 1928, 1932 and 1936, and his control of the ball was so complete that opponents suspected the stick itself.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following is known as the Flying Sikh?
The sprinter won gold in the four hundred metres at the Asian Games and at the Commonwealth Games and finished fourth in the Olympic final at Rome in 1960, and the name was given to him in Pakistan after he beat the local champion there.
Read the full explanation →The athlete known as the Payyoli Express is
Payyoli is her village in the Kozhikode district of Kerala, and the word Express was added for the speed that made her Asia's leading woman sprinter in the nineteen-eighties; she is also called the Golden Girl of India.
Read the full explanation →Which Indian cricketer is known as the Haryana Hurricane?
The all-rounder from Chandigarh who played for Haryana was called the Haryana Hurricane for the pace of his bowling and the speed of his hitting, and he captained India to the World Cup of 1983.
Read the full explanation →India's second spaceport, meant for small satellite launch vehicles, is being built at Kulasekarapattinam in which state?
Kulasekarapattinam lies in the Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu, on the southern coast, and is being developed as a spaceport for small satellite launch vehicles.
Read the full explanation →The Indian Space Policy, which allows non-government entities to carry out end-to-end space activities, was approved in which year?
The Indian Space Policy was approved in 2023 and set out in writing the division of work that the reforms of 2020 had begun: private companies, called non-government entities, may carry out the whole range of space activities; ISRO is to concentrate on research and advanced missions; NSIL is to…
Read the full explanation →In which space activity is foreign direct investment allowed up to 100 per cent through the automatic route?
Under the policy amended in 2024, the manufacture of components, systems and sub-systems for satellites and for the ground and user segment is open to foreign direct investment up to 100 per cent through the automatic route, the most liberal of the three groups, because it is a manufacturing activity…
Read the full explanation →Under the foreign direct investment policy amended in 2024, foreign investment in satellite manufacturing and operation is allowed up to what level through the automatic route?
The amendment approved by the Union Cabinet in February 2024 divides space activities into three groups with different automatic-route ceilings.
Read the full explanation →Which body is the single window for authorising the space activities of private companies in India?
Under the reforms of 2020 and the Indian Space Policy of 2023, the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre is the single-window autonomous body that authorises, promotes, hand-holds and supervises the space activities of non-government entities, and that permits them to use the facilities of the Department of Space.
Read the full explanation →Antrix Corporation, the first commercial arm of the Department of Space, was established in which year?
Antrix Corporation Limited was set up in 1992 at Bengaluru as a wholly government-owned company under the Department of Space, to market the products and services of the Indian space programme abroad, including launch services, satellite capacity and remote sensing data.
Read the full explanation →Agnibaan SOrTeD, flown in 2024, is notable for which technological first?
Agnibaan SOrTeD, flown by Agnikul Cosmos of Chennai in 2024, carried the Agnilet engine, a semi-cryogenic engine printed as a single piece, and it lifted off from a launch pad the company had built for itself at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.
Read the full explanation →The flight of Vikram-S in November 2022 was given which mission name?
Skyroot Aerospace named the maiden flight of Vikram-S Mission Prarambh, a Sanskrit word meaning beginning, because it was the first flight by a private Indian rocket.
Read the full explanation →Which was the first rocket built by an Indian private company to be launched?
Vikram-S was built by Skyroot Aerospace of Hyderabad and flew a sub-orbital mission from Sriharikota in November 2022 under the name Mission Prarambh, which means beginning.
Read the full explanation →NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), the commercial arm of the Department of Space, was incorporated in which year?
NewSpace India Limited was incorporated in 2019 as a public sector undertaking under the Department of Space, with its registered office at Bengaluru.
Read the full explanation →Where is the headquarters of IN-SPACe, the single-window agency for India's private space activity, located?
The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre, IN-SPACe, is an autonomous body under the Department of Space with its headquarters at Ahmedabad in Gujarat, the city where India's space programme itself began at the Physical Research Laboratory founded by Vikram Sarabhai.
Read the full explanation →