SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Buddhist and Jain traditions credit him with two engines used in the long war against the Vajji confederacy: the rathamusala, a chariot fitted with a swinging mace that cut down men as it was driven through them, and the mahashilakantaka, a catapult that hurled heavy stones.

He founded the Nanda dynasty and the Puranas describe him as a ruler of humble birth who destroyed all the Kshatriya houses, calling him Ekarat, the sole sovereign.

The Vajji confederacy had its centre at Vaishali in north Bihar and was the best known gana-sangha, a state governed not by a single king but by an assembly of the heads of ruling families.

The First Buddhist Council met at Rajgriha soon after the death of the Buddha, with Ajatashatru of the Haryanka dynasty as its patron and Mahakassapa presiding, and it settled the Vinaya Pitaka and the Sutta Pitaka as recited by Upali and Ananda.

Bimbisara was the first great ruler of the Haryanka line of Magadha, traditionally dated from about 544 BCE, with his capital at Girivraja, also called Rajgriha.

Avanti covered the Malwa region and had two capitals: Ujjain in its northern half and Mahishmati on the Narmada in its southern half.

Of the sixteen mahajanapadas only Assaka lay in the Deccan, on the banks of the Godavari, with its capital at Potana, also written Potali.

It is a text of the Sutta Pitaka of the Buddhist canon and it names the sixteen great states of the age of the Buddha, from Magadha and Kosala in the east to Gandhara and Kamboja in the north-west.

Under the Minimum Reserve System, adopted in 1957 in place of the earlier proportional reserve system, the Reserve Bank has to hold assets worth at least two hundred crore rupees against the notes it issues, of which gold must account for one hundred and fifteen crore and the remaining eighty-five…

The Imperial Bank of India had itself been created in 1921 by merging the three presidency banks, the Bank of Bengal of 1806, the Bank of Bombay of 1840 and the Bank of Madras of 1843.

The cash reserve ratio is the share of a bank's net demand and time liabilities that it must maintain as cash balances with the Reserve Bank.

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development was set up on 12 July 1982 on the recommendation of the committee headed by B. Sivaraman, and it took over the agricultural credit functions until then performed by the Reserve Bank and the refinance work of the Agricultural Refinance and Development…

The Reserve Bank began in 1935 as a shareholders' bank with privately held capital.

The one rupee note and all coins are issued by the Government of India through the Ministry of Finance, and the one rupee note carries the signature of the Finance Secretary rather than that of the Governor of the Reserve Bank.

On 19 July 1969 the government nationalised fourteen of the largest commercial banks in the country, the aim being to take banking to rural areas, direct credit to agriculture and small industry, and end the concentration of bank funds in a few business houses.

In a repurchase or repo transaction a bank sells government paper to the Reserve Bank and agrees to buy it back shortly afterwards at a slightly higher price; the difference works out as interest at the repo rate.

M3 is M1 plus time deposits with banks, and it is called broad money or the aggregate monetary resource. It is the measure the Reserve Bank follows most closely because it captures both spendable balances and funds held for a fixed term.

The Reserve Bank of India was constituted under the Reserve Bank of India Act of 1934, on the recommendation of the Hilton Young Commission, and started functioning on 1 April 1935 with its central office at Calcutta, which was shifted permanently to Bombay in 1937.

Basic lava is poor in silica, very hot and thin, so it travels a long way from the vent before it solidifies.

The circum-Pacific belt, popularly called the Ring of Fire, runs from the Andes of South America up through Mexico, the western coast of North America and the Aleutians, then down through Kamchatka, Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia to New Zealand.