SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The first train in India to run on liquefied natural gas was sent on its way from Sabarmati Railway Station in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, by the Union Home and Cooperation Minister, who described the step as useful for protecting the environment.

He founded the Suryavamsi Gajapati dynasty of Odisha in 1435. Kapilendra Deva was a minister who took the throne when the Eastern Ganga line ended, and he built the largest empire Odisha ever had, stretching from the lower Ganga in the north to the Kaveri in the south.

Ranmale is a folk theatre of Goa, performed mainly in the Sattari and Sanguem areas. It is staged at night in the open during the Shigmo festival and around Holi, in front of a village temple.

Jog Falls is in the Shivamogga district of Karnataka. The Sharavathi river drops about 253 metres here in four separate streams known as Raja, Rani, Rocket and Roarer, which makes Jog one of the highest plunge waterfalls in India.

The SENSEX tracks thirty large, well traded companies listed on the BSE. The name is short for Sensitive Index.

The Bahmani buildings at Gulbarga belong to the Deccan or Provincial style of Indo-Islamic architecture. When the Bahmani sultanate broke away from Delhi in 1347 it developed its own manner, blending Persian and Turkish ideas brought by architects from Iran with local craft and stone.

The Representation of the People Act was passed in 1951, before the first general election. Parliament made two laws under Articles 327 and 328.

It is a private sector joint venture, not a public sector insurer. SBI Life was set up in 2001 as a partnership between the State Bank of India and BNP Paribas Cardif of France.

Tholu Bommalata is the leather shadow puppet theatre of Andhra Pradesh. The name means the dance of leather dolls.

Calaverite is gold telluride, with the formula AuTe2. It is one of the very few minerals in which gold occurs chemically combined rather than as the free metal, because gold is a noble metal that usually resists reaction.

The Narmada Bachao Andolan grew up against the Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada. The movement began in 1985 under Medha Patkar, with Baba Amte and others joining later.

It lays down the composition of a state's Legislative Council. Under Article 171 the Council cannot have more than one third of the strength of the Legislative Assembly and never fewer than forty members.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India regulates the securities market and protects investors. SEBI was set up as a non-statutory body in 1988 and was given statutory powers by the SEBI Act of 1992, passed after the Harshad Mehta scam exposed how weak market supervision was.

It was started in Calcutta in 1780 and was the first printed newspaper in India. James Augustus Hicky brought it out as a weekly and called it the Bengal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser.

Gulbarga was renamed Ahsanabad and made the first capital of the Bahmani kingdom. The Bahmani sultanate was founded in 1347 by Alauddin Hasan Bahman Shah, also called Hasan Gangu, after Deccan nobles revolted against Muhammad bin Tughlaq.

The Janata Party government led by Morarji Desai set up the Second Backward Classes Commission in 1978.

He painted 'My Mother', a portrait done in the soft wash technique he made famous.

Expanding exports, drawing in investment and gaining easier access to markets abroad were all described as contributions towards that goal for Uttar Pradesh.

Greater Noida also figures in the speech for another reason worth remembering, the expansion of a large robotics manufacturing facility there, which the Minister offered as an illustration of modern industrial growth in the state.

The state's annual exports stand at roughly Rs 2 lakh crore at present, and the stated goal is to take that figure to Rs 5 lakh crore by 2030, which means more than doubling the value of goods sold abroad.