Static GK decides the General Awareness score in SSC CGL. Of the 25 questions in Tier-I and the 25 in Tier-II Paper-I, most come from Indian Polity, History, Geography, the Economy and General Science, the areas the CGL 2026 notice lists as History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Policy and Scientific Research relating to India and its neighbouring countries. Polity questions ask about articles, parts and schedules of the Constitution, amendments, the President, Parliament, the Supreme Court and constitutional bodies. History covers the Indus Valley, the Mauryas and Guptas, the Delhi Sultanate and Mughals, and the freedom struggle from 1857 to 1947. Geography asks about rivers, soils, climate, national parks, minerals and world physical features. The Economy part asks about budget terms, the RBI, banking and basic concepts. General Science is school-level Physics, Chemistry and Biology. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for SSC CGL, written as short facts and tables so a topic can be revised in one sitting. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what you retained.
The new tri-weekly train approved between Machilipatnam and Kurnool City will cover what distance?
The new service runs between Machilipatnam and Kurnool City by way of Vijayawada on South Coast Railway, and that is the distance the train covers between the two ends.
Read the full explanation →The Barbil-Bolanikhadan doubling project approved by Indian Railways lies on which corridor?
The stretch is only 6 km long but it carries high-grade iron ore and pellets from the Bolani mines of SAIL and from private sidings towards steel plants and ports, and the doubling has been cleared at a completion cost of 122 crore rupees.
Read the full explanation →Kavach Version 4.0 has been approved on 614.75 route kilometres of the Varanasi Division of which railway zone?
The Varanasi division, abbreviated BSB, belongs to this zone, and the sanction of 223 crore rupees extends Kavach 4.0 across the balance sections of that division, a total of 614.75 route kilometres.
Read the full explanation →Through which application is the FASTag Annual Pass fee paid?
The one-time payment for the annual pass is made through it, and once the money is received the pass is activated on the FASTag already linked to that vehicle, so nothing new has to be fitted to the car.
Read the full explanation →The FASTag Annual Pass is valid for one year or how many toll plaza crossings?
The pass carries two ceilings side by side, a calendar ceiling of one year and a usage ceiling of two hundred crossings at toll plazas, and the holder travels under whichever of the two still has room.
Read the full explanation →What is the one-time fee for the FASTag Annual Pass?
This single payment buys the holder a year of use, or two hundred crossings of toll plazas, whichever limit is reached first, and does away with the need to keep recharging the tag.
Read the full explanation →Which whale species does India identify among the 25 species picked for focused conservation efforts?
India attaches particular importance to this population and has placed it among the species chosen for focused conservation effort, a list of twenty-five in all.
Read the full explanation →India has been a member of the International Whaling Commission since which year?
India joined the International Whaling Commission in that year and has played a prominent part in whale conservation within the body ever since.
Read the full explanation →The 70th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC-70) is being held in which city?
India used its Opening Statement there to argue for conservation grounded in science.
Read the full explanation →Which body extended the income tax return and audit report dates for Assessment Year 2026-27?
It is CBDT that fixed the new dates for the return of income and for the report of audit under the Income-tax Act, 1961.
Read the full explanation →The 'specified date' for furnishing the report of audit for Assessment Year 2026-27 now falls on which date?
Because a return in an audit case rests on an auditor's report, the Board shifted the report deadline along with the return deadline, and the report is now due on the twenty-first day of October.
Read the full explanation →CBDT has extended the due date for furnishing the return of income for Assessment Year 2026-27 in audit cases to which date?
For the class of taxpayers who must get their accounts audited, the statutory last date to file the return of income for Assessment Year 2026-27 was 31 October 2026, and the Central Board of Direct Taxes has now pushed it forward by three weeks.
Read the full explanation →Which body is the nodal agency for the Ministry of Mines' e-waste collection campaign under Special Campaign 6?
It has been designated the nodal agency and is coordinating the drive with the Material Recycling Association of India, holding virtual meetings with nodal officers of the ministry's offices; more than 44 office locations have been finalised nationwide, more than 28 of them in Maharashtra.
Read the full explanation →How many public grievances did NITI Aayog dispose of during Special Campaign 5.0?
Reporting on the round it ran from November 2025 to August 2026, NITI Aayog said it had settled 4,105 public grievances, along with 127 PMO references, 34 grievance appeals and 5 Parliamentary Assurances, while freeing about 90 square feet of space.
Read the full explanation →Whose guidelines govern the Special Campaign for disposal of pending matters in central government offices?
DARPG began this special campaign in 2021, framing a clean India as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, and decided to continue it in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and again in 2026; ministries implement each edition to its guidelines and report progress on the SCDPM Portal that DARPG maintains.
Read the full explanation →During which period will Special Campaign 6.0 be implemented in central government offices?
Ministries and departments have said that the implementation phase of Special Campaign 6.0 covers exactly that month, beginning on Gandhi Jayanti and closing at the end of October, in line with the guidelines issued by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances.
Read the full explanation →The Ashwagandha safety study was published in which journal?
The Lancet is wrong because the study was not carried in it, although it is among the best known medical journals and therefore a tempting distractor.
Read the full explanation →What daily dose of standardised aqueous Ashwagandha root extract was given to participants in the trial?
Participants were randomly assigned to receive either this standardised aqueous extract or a matching placebo, and the assignment was double-blind, meaning neither the participants nor the assessors knew which arm a person belonged to.
Read the full explanation →How many participants were enrolled in the multicentre clinical trial on standardised Ashwagandha root extract?
The randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial enrolled that many apparently healthy adults between eighteen and seventy years of age, each of whom had already received a first, second or booster dose of the COVISHIELD vaccine, across seven study sites in India.
Read the full explanation →How many electric buses are there in Delhi's bus fleet, as reported at the review meeting?
Delhi's bus fleet has grown to six thousand eight hundred and forty vehicles in all, and of these five thousand and eighty-eight run on electricity, which makes electric buses the larger part of the fleet.
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