SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The National Payments Corporation of India was set up in 2008 by the Reserve Bank of India and the Indian Banks Association as a not-for-profit company under the companies law, and it operates the retail payment systems of the country, among them the Unified Payments Interface, RuPay, IMPS, NACH, AePS…

The Financial Stability and Development Council was set up in 2010 by an executive order of the Government, following a recommendation of the Raghuram Rajan Committee on financial sector reforms, and it is chaired by the Union Finance Minister with the heads of the regulators, the Finance Secretary and senior…

The Forward Markets Commission had regulated forward and commodity derivative trading since 1953 under the Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act 1952 and worked under the Ministry of Finance in its last years; it was merged into the Securities and Exchange Board of India on 28 September 2015, the first merger of…

The Tribunal was set up under the SEBI Act and sits at Mumbai; since the Finance Act 2017 it also hears appeals against orders of IRDAI and of PFRDA, so one tribunal now serves three regulators.

PFRDA was first created in 2003 by a resolution of the Government as an interim authority to oversee the new defined contribution pension arrangement, and it ran the National Pension System for a decade without a statute; the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Act 2013 gave it statutory standing.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India was first constituted in April 1988 as a non-statutory body with advisory functions, and it received statutory powers through the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act 1992, passed in the year the securities scam made a strong market regulator unavoidable.

IRDAI began in New Delhi but its office was shifted to Hyderabad in 2001, and this move is exactly why the question is asked: the candidate who assumes that every financial regulator sits in Mumbai or Delhi gets it wrong.

Formally the Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance, it reported in 1926 and recommended a central bank separate from the Imperial Bank of India; the recommendation led to the Reserve Bank of India Act 1934, and the Bank began work on 1 April 1935 with its central office at…

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India is the statutory regulator of insurance, created under the IRDA Act 1999 after the Malhotra Committee recommended opening the sector to private and foreign capital; it licenses life, general, health and reinsurance companies and registers agents, brokers and surveyors, and its headquarters…

The green pheasant, which is found only in Japan, was designated its national bird by the country's ornithological society, and the bird appears in Japanese folk tales as a companion of the boy hero Momotaro.

The flag of Nepal is made of two stacked triangular pennants, the upper carrying a white moon and the lower a white sun, and its proportions are laid down by a geometrical construction in the constitution, which makes it unique among national flags.

Scotland has used the unicorn in its royal arms since the fifteenth century, reading it as a symbol of purity and of a strength that cannot be captured, and it is the only mythical animal among the national animals usually asked.

The beaver was given official standing as a symbol of Canada because the fur trade in beaver pelts drove the early European exploration and settlement of the country, and the animal appears on the five-cent coin.

The king protea is the largest flower of the protea family, which grows in the fynbos vegetation of the Cape, and South Africa's national cricket team takes its name from it.

The markhor lives in the mountain ranges of the north and west of the country, and its spiralled horns make it easy to recognise in a picture-based question.

The takin is a heavily built goat-antelope of the eastern Himalayas, and Bhutan ties it to a legend about a saint who joined the head of a goat to the bones of a cow.

Nepal declares the cow its national animal, and the choice follows from its religious standing in the country.

The bald eagle has been the national bird and the central figure of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782, and the bison was later adopted as the national mammal.

It is the largest marsupial of the continent and appears on the coat of arms of Australia along with the emu, the two chosen because neither animal can easily walk backwards, which was read as a country always moving forward.

The former actress turned columnist published Mrs Funnybones as her first book and followed it with the fiction of The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad and Pyjamas Are Forgiving.