SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

'281 and Beyond' is the autobiography of VVS Laxman, published in 2018. The title comes from his innings of 281 against Australia at Eden Gardens in the Kolkata Test of March 2001, when India followed on and still won, in one of the greatest Test matches ever played.

A file with the.tmp extension is a temporary file, created by a program while it is working and normally deleted once the work is done.

Sikkim does not touch Myanmar. Its neighbours across the border are Nepal to the west, China in the north and east, and Bhutan to the south-east.

Ahimsa, or non-violence, is the first and greatest vow of Jainism, and every other rule of Jain life follows from it, down to the mask and the soft broom a Jain monk carries to avoid harming the smallest creature.

Parliament passed the Arms Act in 1959, and it came into force in 1962 along with the Arms Rules. It replaced the colonial Indian Arms Act of 1878, which the British had brought in after the Revolt of 1857 to disarm Indians while exempting Europeans.

Harappa in Punjab was excavated in 1921 by Daya Ram Sahni of the Archaeological Survey of India, and that dig brought the civilisation to light.

Article 143 lets the President ask the Supreme Court for its opinion on a question of law or fact, and this power was modelled on the Canadian Constitution.

While laying the foundation stone of the Guntur road over bridge, the Minister of State for Railways said that apart from bridges over and under the tracks, 74 railway stations in Andhra Pradesh are being rebuilt with modern, world-class facilities at an investment of 3500 crore rupees.

The four-lane road over bridge is being built in place of Level Crossing Gate No. 3, which lies on the Guntur-Krishna Canal stretch of the Guntur-Nambur line.

The bridge has been approved at an estimated cost of 108 crore rupees and the entire amount is being met by the Ministry of Railways, so the state exchequer pays nothing towards it.

The road over bridge whose foundation stone was laid between the Guntur and Nambur railway stations in Andhra Pradesh will run 668 metres and carry four lanes of traffic.

The Union Home Minister told the gathering that there are at present 86 Amrita Vidyalayas working across the country, and he placed that figure beside the other measures of her institutional work: over a million trees planted, sustained effort in health, education and livelihoods, and 101 villages made completely self-reliant.

Mata Amritanandamayi was born on 27 September 1953 into a family of very modest means in the village of Parayakadavu, which lies in Kollam district.

The Union Home Minister recalled that when India held the G-20 presidency, it was Mata Amritanandamayi who presided over Civil-20, the grouping through which civil society organisations put their concerns before the G-20 process.

Speaking at the 73rd birthday celebrations at Kollam, the Union Home Minister said that he first saw Mata Amritanandamayi's compassion at work during the devastating earthquake that struck Gujarat in 2001, when she put up 1,200 houses and settled an entire village.

Platinum is the least reactive of the four, so it is found in nature in the free or native state as the metal itself.

Melting and boiling only have to break the weak forces between the molecules, not the strong bonds inside them, so little heat is needed.

The Bansagar Dam stands on the Sone river in the Shahdol region of Madhya Pradesh. Bansagar is a joint project of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the three states through which the Sone flows, and it serves both irrigation and power.

A tsunami is caused by an undersea earthquake, a volcanic eruption or a landslide on the ocean floor, and has nothing to do with the ozone layer.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak started Kesari in 1881 and used it to carry the message of swaraj to Marathi readers. Tilak brought out two papers from Pune in the same year, Kesari in Marathi and Maratha in English.