SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The Inter-Parliamentary Union is the global body of national parliaments and runs its own affairs, so an election at the United Nations is not on its programme.

He is to sit in the Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, speak in the General Debate and in the debate on the emergency item, and attend the hearing of those who are candidates for the post of IPU President.

The Assembly and the meetings held around it are taking place at Arusha, a city in that country, from 5 to 9 October 2026, and the Indian Parliamentary Delegation left for Arusha for this purpose.

The bond that NABKISAN listed on the National Stock Exchange in Mumbai runs for five years and pays this rate to its holders until it is redeemed in September 2031.

NABKISAN Finance Limited is a NABARD subsidiary, and the listing of the WASH bond was described as a step that strengthens the commitment of both NABARD and NABKISAN to new financing routes for rural development.

NABKISAN Finance Limited, a subsidiary of NABARD, placed India's first social bond meant only for water, sanitation and hygiene work, and investors bid for 1.8 times the paper on offer.

The Campos are the tropical grasslands of the Brazilian highlands, the Pampas are the temperate grasslands of Argentina, the Downs are the temperate grasslands of south-east Australia, and the Llanos are the tropical grasslands of the Orinoco basin in Venezuela and Colombia.

Dadabhai Naoroji published Poverty and Un-British Rule in India in 1901, and in it he set out his drain theory, the argument that British rule was steadily draining India’s wealth to England through salaries, pensions, home charges and the profits of trade.

The Transmission Control Protocol decides how data is exchanged across the internet and breaks a message into numbered packets that IP then carries to the destination.

Madurai in Tamil Nadu is called the Athens of the East because, like ancient Athens, it was a seat of learning, poetry and debate for centuries.

Ugadi is the new year festival of Andhra Pradesh, and it is also kept in Telangana and Karnataka. The name comes from yuga and adi, meaning the beginning of an age, and it falls on the first day of the month of Chaitra, in March or April.

The tale of queen Maynamati and her son Gopichandra belongs to the Nath literature of eastern India, the body of songs and ballads around the Nathpanthi yogis.

The gaur, also called the Indian bison, is the wild bovine closest to domestic cattle and is protected in the Nagarhole and Bandipur national parks of Karnataka.

India follows the parliamentary system, taken from Britain, in which the real executive is responsible to the legislature.

The Directive Principles of State Policy, in Part IV of the Constitution from Articles 36 to 51, were taken from the Constitution of Ireland, which had in turn drawn the idea from Spain.

The Planning Commission was set up in March 1950 by a resolution of the Union Cabinet, so it was neither a constitutional nor a statutory body.

The Sarkaria Commission said the Governor should be a detached figure chosen without regard to party, and ideally someone who has not taken an active part in politics in the recent past or belonged to the ruling party at the centre.

The Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956 divided industries into three schedules. Schedule A listed seventeen industries to be the exclusive responsibility of the state, such as arms, atomic energy, railways and heavy industry.

Consumption of fixed capital is the national income term for depreciation, the fall in the value of machines, buildings and other fixed assets as they are used up or become obsolete over the year.

The Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana can be joined by anyone between 18 and 50 years of age who holds a savings bank account.