SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The National Green Tribunal was set up on 18 October 2010 under the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010. It is a special court for cases about environmental protection, forests and other natural resources, and it is required to dispose of an application within six months.

The American computer scientist John McCarthy is called the father of artificial intelligence because he coined the term itself in his proposal for the Dartmouth summer research project of 1956, the meeting at which the field was born.

Competition policy in India rests on the Competition Act of 2002, which was passed on the advice of the Raghavan Committee after liberalisation, and it replaced the older monopolies law.

In zero based budgeting every item of expenditure starts from a zero base and has to be justified afresh for the coming period, instead of being carried over because it existed last year.

Opium is the dried latex of the opium poppy, whose botanical name is Papaver somniferum; the second word means sleep bringing.

Bias in an artificial intelligence system is traced to three sources, the data it learns from, the algorithm that learns, and the people who build and use it; ability is not one of them, because the skill of a model is a measure of how well it performs, not a…

The Blue Revolution means the rapid rise in fish production, so it belongs to pisciculture, the rearing of fish. In India it began with the Fish Farmers Development Agency set up in the early 1970s, and Dr Hiralal Chaudhuri, who worked out induced breeding in carp, is called its father.

Chanda Pradyota ruled Avanti, the mahajanapada of western and central India whose capital was Ujjayini, the modern Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh.

Vyommitra is a half-humanoid robot built by the Indian Space Research Organisation and shown to the public in January 2020.

The New Industrial Policy of 24 July 1991 abolished industrial licensing for all but a short list of industries, so a firm no longer needed a government permit to start production, to expand or to import.

Acharya Vinoba Bhave won the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1958, in the category of community leadership, and was the first Indian to receive it.

Cache is a small, very fast memory that sits between the processor and the main memory and holds the instructions and data the processor has used most recently.

Article 13 declares that any law inconsistent with or in derogation of the fundamental rights is void, and it binds both the laws made before the Constitution and those made after it.

Make in India was launched on 25 September 2014 at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, on the birth anniversary of Deendayal Upadhyaya.

The Preamble describes India as a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic; the word federal appears nowhere in it, or indeed anywhere in the Constitution.

The Chipko movement began in 1973 in the Garhwal Himalayas, in Chamoli district of what is now Uttarakhand, when villagers hugged trees to stop contractors from felling them.

Article 149 says the Comptroller and Auditor General shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as Parliament may by law prescribe.

Article 280 requires the President to constitute a Finance Commission every fifth year, or earlier if needed, with a chairman and four other members.

The Diwan-i-insha was the department of royal correspondence in the Delhi Sultanate.

Article 131 of the Constitution gives the Supreme Court exclusive original jurisdiction in disputes between the Government of India and one or more states, and in disputes among states themselves.