SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The proposal was placed before the General Assembly in an address on 27 September 2014, and the Assembly adopted the resolution on 11 December 2014 with a record number of co-sponsoring countries.

The Government began observing the day in 2014 to stress accountability and the delivery of services in administration.

The day was declared in 2014 and is marked by the Run for Unity; the Statue of Unity at Kevadia in Gujarat, 182 metres tall and the tallest statue in the world when it was built, was unveiled on this date in 2018.

Ashvaghosha, a Sanskrit poet and Buddhist thinker, is placed at the court of the Kushana ruler Kanishka in the first and second centuries of the common era, and he also wrote the Saundarananda and is associated with the fourth Buddhist council held in Kashmir under Kanishka.

His play takes up the later life of Rama, after the events of the Ramayana.

Dinkar is the poet of Rashmirathi, a retelling of the Mahabharata from Karna's side, and of Kurukshetra and Parashuram ki Pratiksha, and he is often called a poet of rebellion.

The award was instituted by the Bharatiya Jnanpith in 1961 and is the senior literary honour given for a body of work in any of the languages recognised by the Constitution.

He deliberately chose the spoken language over Sanskrit so that the story of Rama could reach ordinary listeners, and the poem is still recited and staged across the Hindi belt.

Gopal Krishna Gokhale is said to have given her the title Bharat Kokila, the Nightingale of India. She was also the first woman to be president of the Indian National Congress, at the Kanpur session of 1925, and the first woman governor of an Indian state, in the United Provinces.

It became a marching song of the freedom movement and is played by the armed forces at ceremonial parades.

Kamayani takes the flood story of Manu from Indian tradition and turns it into a long allegory in which Manu stands for the mind, Shraddha for faith and Ida for reason.

The poem is arranged in songs meant to be sung and danced, and it is the text on which the Odissi repertoire and the Ashtapadi singing of temples rest.

The Meghaduta, or Cloud Messenger, is his short lyric poem in which a yaksha banished from his home asks a passing monsoon cloud to carry a message to his wife in Alaka, and the cloud's route becomes a description of the Indian landscape.

Rabindranath Tagore set it to music and sang it at the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress in 1896, and after independence its first two stanzas were given the status of national song, declared to hold a place of honour equal to the national anthem.

The prize of 1913 made him the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in any field.

Samantara pursued a twelve year legal battle that ended with the recognition of the community's rights and the blocking of a proposed open pit bauxite mine, and the Goldman Prize followed in 2017.

The correct answer is B, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, which instituted the award in 1987 for outstanding contribution to the protection of the environment by an individual or an organisation.

The Amrita Devi Bishnoi Wildlife Protection Award was instituted in 1994 and is named after Amrita Devi, who in 1730 at Khejarli in Rajasthan died, along with hundreds of other Bishnois, resisting the felling of khejri trees ordered by the ruler of Jodhpur, and the community has protected trees and…

The airport is also notable as the first in India built through a public limited company with participation by the state government, non-resident Indians and the public.

The ecologist Madhav Gadgil, who founded the Centre for Ecological Sciences at Bengaluru and chaired the expert panel that reported on the ecology of the Western Ghats, was honoured in 2024 for a career of research and advocacy rather than for a single project.