SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Lord Dalhousie annexed Awadh in February 1856, in the last month of his term as Governor General.

Bos mutus is the scientific name of the wild yak, the long haired bovine of the high cold plateaus of Ladakh, Tibet and the Karakoram, which grazes above four thousand metres and is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

Ashtamudi is a backwater lake in Kollam district of Kerala and the second largest estuarine system in the state after Vembanad.

Sardeshmukhi was a levy of one tenth, that is ten per cent, of the land revenue, which the Marathas claimed in territory outside their own kingdom.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the BHIM app on 30 December 2016, a few weeks after the note ban of November 2016, to push people towards digital payment.

Inventory investment, also called change in stock, measures the physical stock of goods a firm holds at the end of the year minus the stock it held at the start.

The Ambubachi Mela is held every year at the Kamakhya temple on Nilachal hill in Guwahati, Assam.

The All India Trade Union Congress was formed in Bombay in October 1920 and Lala Lajpat Rai was elected its first President, with Dewan Chaman Lall as the first General Secretary.

Mahmud Gawan, a Persian trader and scholar who came to the Bahmani court in 1453, was given the title Malik ut Tujjar, meaning Chief of the Merchants, by Sultan Humayun Shah, who ruled from 1458 to 1461.

Rural cooperative credit societies were the microfinance structure already in place when India became independent.

Article 85 of the Constitution deals with the sessions of Parliament, its prorogation and the dissolution of the Lok Sabha.

A Better India: A Better World was written by N R Narayana Murthy, the co-founder of Infosys, and published in 2009.

Article 164(2) says that the Council of Ministers in a state shall be collectively responsible to the Legislative Assembly of that state, which is the rule that keeps a state government in office only while it holds the confidence of the Assembly and is the ground on which a no…

The Khajuraho temples in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh were built between about 950 and 1050 CE by the Chandela rulers of Bundelkhand, among them Yashovarman, who built the Lakshmana temple, and Dhanga and Vidyadhara, under whom the large Kandariya Mahadeva temple came up.

M S Subbulakshmi, the Carnatic vocalist from Madurai, received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1974 in the category of public service, the first Indian musician to be honoured by that award.

Section 7 of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 lets the Central Government, after consulting the Governor, give the Reserve Bank such directions as it thinks necessary in the public interest, and it also allows the Governor and the Central Board to be superseded in that sense.

The slogan The Name you can Bank Upon belongs to Punjab National Bank. PNB was set up in 1894 at Lahore and was the first Indian bank started wholly with Indian capital, with Lala Lajpat Rai among those behind it; its head office is now in New Delhi.

Ustad Sultan Khan was one of the best known sarangi players of recent times.

Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in as Prime Minister on 31 October 1984, the day his mother Indira Gandhi was assassinated, and Giani Zail Singh, who was President from 1982 to 1987, administered the oath.

The lysosome is a small sac bound by a single membrane that is filled with digestive enzymes, so it breaks down food particles taken into the cell and clears out worn out parts of the cell itself.