SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The earthworm is called the farmer's friend because its work keeps soil fit for crops. As it burrows it loosens the soil and lets air and water reach the roots, and the castings it leaves behind are rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and potash, so the topsoil is steadily renewed.

A price index measures how the price of a commodity or of a basket of goods has moved between a base period and the current period, so the price of wheat over the years is read from a price index.

Net investment is gross investment minus depreciation, that is, the addition to the stock of capital left after making good the wear and tear of existing machines, buildings and equipment.

Sem is the local word for waterlogging with salt, and it hurts Sriganganagar and Hanumangarh the most because these districts lie in the command area of the Gang Canal and the Indira Gandhi Canal.

The engineer Kanwar Sain conceived the plan in 1948 of carrying the surplus water of the Sutlej and the Beas into the Thar desert, and the canal was taken up on his design.

Tube wells irrigate the largest share of the net irrigated area of Rajasthan, and groundwater drawn through tube wells and wells together waters the greater part of the state's fields.

Census 2011 put the rural sex ratio at 949 females per thousand males and the urban sex ratio at 929, while the figure for the country as a whole was 943, the highest since 1951.

The Roaring Forties are the strong westerly winds of the southern hemisphere between about 40 and 50 degrees south. They blow with such force because there is almost no land in that belt to slow them down, so sailing ships once used them on the route to Australia.

Mawat is the local name in Rajasthan and the neighbouring plains for the light winter rain brought by western disturbances.

Smallest to largest, Europe covers about 10.2 million square kilometres, Antarctica about 14 million, South America about 17.8 million and North America about 24.7 million.

The Pushkar valley in Ajmer district is the rose belt of Rajasthan, and its desi gulab is grown on a large scale for processing rather than for cut flowers.

Both temples belong to the Gurjara-Pratihara style, the western Indian form of the Nagara tradition that grew under Pratihara rule between the eighth and the eleventh centuries.

On 4 July 1776 the Second Continental Congress, meeting at Philadelphia, adopted the Declaration of Independence, by which thirteen colonies broke away from British rule.

Bloody Sunday took place in Saint Petersburg, then the capital of Russia, on 22 January 1905, when troops fired on a peaceful procession of workers.

The first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement met at Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, in September 1961, and twenty-five countries took part.

Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy, announced his partition plan on 3 June 1947, which is why it is also called the June Third Plan.

Bhulabhai Desai led the defence at the Red Fort trials of the Indian National Army officers, and his argument that the soldiers of a recognised army were fighting for their country's freedom turned the trials into a public cause.

The Liberal leader Tej Bahadur Sapru, working with M. R. Jayakar, brought Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin to the table and is remembered as the mediator of the pact.

Article 243G allows a state legislature to endow Panchayats with the powers and authority they need to work as institutions of self-government.

Parliament frames a charge, takes evidence and gives the President a hearing, so the two Houses act like a court even though they are law-making bodies.