SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The European Space Agency was founded in 1975 by a group of European countries that decided to pool their space work, and its headquarters is in Paris.

Chandrayaan-3 was launched on 14 July 2023 on an LVM3 rocket, and its lander Vikram touched down near the lunar south pole on 23 August 2023, releasing the rover Pragyan.

The Mars Orbiter Mission was launched on 5 November 2013 by a PSLV rocket and was placed in orbit around Mars on 24 September 2014.

India's first satellite was named after the ancient astronomer and mathematician Aryabhata and was launched on 19 April 1975 from a Soviet site, since India did not yet have a launch vehicle of its own.

The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin circled the earth once aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961 and became the first human being in space, a flight that lasted about one hour and forty eight minutes.

Sputnik 1 was launched on 4 October 1957 and became the first artificial satellite to circle the earth, sending out a simple radio signal that stations across the world could hear.

ISRO was formed on 15 August 1969, taking over the space work that had been carried on since 1962 by the Indian National Committee for Space Research.

NASA is the civilian space agency of the United States, established in 1958 after the launch of Sputnik, with its headquarters at Washington DC.

The national campaign Beti Bachao Beti Padhao was launched from Panipat on 22 January 2015 to check the decline in the child sex ratio and to promote the education of girls.

The Haryana Vidhan Sabha has ninety elected seats, and the state has a single chamber, so there is no Legislative Council.

The National Dairy Research Institute at Karnal is the country's premier institution for research and teaching in dairy science, working on milk production, breeding, processing and animal health, and it is a deemed university under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

The fair is held each February at Surajkund near Faridabad, beside the old stepped reservoir ascribed to the Tomar ruler Surajpal, from which the place takes its name.

Sultanpur National Park lies at Sultanpur village in Gurugram district on the road to Jhajjar and is a shallow wetland where large numbers of birds gather in winter, among them flamingos, pelicans, storks and many kinds of duck.

It is a ground bird of the fields and scrub of the plains, recognised by its dark plumage with white spots and its loud call from the edge of a crop field.

Karoh stands in the Morni hills of Panchkula district, in the Shivalik range along the northern edge of the state, and is the highest point in Haryana.

The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in January 1761 between the Maratha army, led by Sadashivrao Bhau with Vishwasrao, and the Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Abdali, who had the support of the Rohillas and the Nawab of Awadh.

Rakhigarhi lies in the Hisar district on the dry bed of an old river course, and its mounds spread over a larger area than any other Harappan site in India, which makes it the biggest in the country.

He took office as the first Chief Minister when the state was created on 1 November 1966, and Dharma Vira was its first Governor.

The commission headed by Justice J. C. Shah was appointed in 1966 to decide how the Punjab should be divided on a linguistic basis, and its report fixed which districts and tehsils would go to Haryana, which would remain with Punjab and which would form Chandigarh and the hill areas…

On that day the Hindi speaking districts of the former Punjab were separated to form Haryana, which became the seventeenth state of India, while Chandigarh was made a union territory serving as the capital of both states.