SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The temple at Palampet in Mulugu district was built in 1213 during the reign of the Kakatiya ruler Ganapati Deva, by his general Recherla Rudra, and it is dedicated to Shiva as Rudreswara.

Bonalu is celebrated in the month of Ashada, roughly July and August, when women carry cooked rice with milk and jaggery in decorated pots on their heads as an offering to the goddess Mahakali.

Telugu is the first official language of Telangana and Urdu is the second. The place of Urdu goes back to the Hyderabad state of the Nizams, where it was the language of administration and education, and a large Urdu speaking population still lives in Hyderabad and the surrounding districts.

Telangana adopted the Indian roller, known in Telugu as palapitta, as its state bird soon after the state was formed in 2014.

Parliament passed the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act in 2014, and the appointed day fixed under the Act was 2 June 2014, the date on which Telangana came into being as the twenty-ninth state.

Telangana was separated from Andhra Pradesh and came into existence on 2 June 2014 as the twenty-ninth state of India.

When Telangana was created on 2 June 2014 under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, Hyderabad became its capital, and the Act further provided that the city would serve as the common capital of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for a period of not more than ten years.

BrahMos is a supersonic cruise missile built by BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture of India's Defence Research and Development Organisation and Russia's NPO Mashinostroyeniya, and its name joins the Brahmaputra of India with the Moskva of Russia, the river that runs through Moscow.

AYUSH expands as Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy, so the letters stand for five traditional systems in which the S is Siddha, the Tamil system of medicine associated with the Siddhars of south India.

HTTP is the set of rules by which a browser asks a web server for a page and the server sends it back; HTTPS is the same protocol carried over an encrypted connection, which is why banking sites use it.

OPEC was founded at the Baghdad Conference of 1960 by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, and its secretariat has been at Vienna in Austria since 1965.

Sonar sends a pulse of sound into the water and times the echo returning from the sea bed, a shoal of fish or a submarine; since the speed of sound in sea water is roughly 1,500 metres a second, the time gives the distance.

NavIC is the name given to the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, or IRNSS, built by ISRO to give position fixes over India and a region around it, independent of the American GPS.

The Act was passed in 2005 as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and renamed after Mahatma Gandhi in 2009.

Radar sends out radio waves and measures the echo that returns from an object, so the time taken gives the distance, or range, and the shift in frequency gives the speed by the Doppler effect.

The agency was created by the General Assembly in 1946 as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, for children in countries ruined by the Second World War, and in 1953 it was made a permanent part of the United Nations and renamed the United Nations Children's Fund, keeping the…

The IFSC is an eleven-character alphanumeric code that identifies a particular bank branch in the electronic payment systems operated by the Reserve Bank of India, and it is required for NEFT and RTGS transfers.

A laser produces a narrow, coherent, single-wavelength beam by stimulated emission, in which an excited atom is made to release a photon identical to the one that strikes it.

NITI Aayog replaced the Planning Commission on 1 January 2015 and works as the policy think tank of the Government of India.

The transmitter of an optical fibre link must be small enough to couple light into a core a few micrometres across, must switch on and off millions or billions of times a second, and must emit in a narrow band of wavelengths; a light-emitting diode meets these conditions, and for…