SSC CGL 2023 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

The Jhelum is called Vitasta in the Rigveda, and it is one of the seven rivers of the Sapta Sindhu, the land in which the hymns were composed.

Coal, iron ore, manganese, limestone and water lie close together there, so the country's iron and steel plants crowded into it: Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Burnpur and Durgapur on its edges and Rourkela just beyond.

The sundari is a mangrove tree of the tidal deltaic forests of the Coasts biogeographic zone, and the Sundarbans of the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta take their name from it; its wood is hard and durable, and like other mangroves it has salt tolerant roots and breathing roots in the waterlogged mud.

Rana Kumbha of the Sisodia house of Mewar was both a builder and a scholar: he raised the fort of Kumbhalgarh and the Vijaya Stambha at Chittorgarh and wrote on music, the Sangeet Raj being the best known of his works, along with commentaries on the Gita Govinda.

In 1924 Satyendra Nath Bose sent Albert Einstein a paper deriving Planck s radiation law by counting indistinguishable light quanta.

Julia was a storm of the Atlantic basin and never approached India, so it cannot belong to a list of Indian landfalls.

The eye of a tropical cyclone is the roughly circular column of calm, descending air at its centre, usually a few tens of kilometres across, where the pressure is lowest, the winds are light and the sky is often nearly clear.

The Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission, launched in October 2021, is the largest pan-India scheme for building up health infrastructure, and it works at all three levels of care.

Koeppen grouped climates by temperature and rainfall and gave each group a capital letter, and E stands for the polar group, where the mean temperature of the warmest month stays below 10 degrees Celsius.

The Transmission Control Protocol decides how data is exchanged across the internet and breaks a message into numbered packets that IP then carries to the destination.

The gaur, also called the Indian bison, is the wild bovine closest to domestic cattle and is protected in the Nagarhole and Bandipur national parks of Karnataka.

Consumption of fixed capital is the national income term for depreciation, the fall in the value of machines, buildings and other fixed assets as they are used up or become obsolete over the year.

The Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana can be joined by anyone between 18 and 50 years of age who holds a savings bank account.

Charles’s law says that at constant pressure the volume of a fixed mass of gas is directly proportional to its absolute temperature, so V by T stays constant.

Ooty, or Udhagamandalam, sits in the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu at about 2,240 metres, but it lies close to the equator at roughly 11 degrees north, so its winter temperatures stay above freezing and it gets no snowfall.

Muhammad bin Tughlaq issued token coins of bronze and copper in 1329-30 that were to pass at the value of the silver tanka.

It is called the Morley-Minto Reforms after Lord Morley, the Secretary of State for India, and Lord Minto, the Viceroy at the time.

The Atal Pension Yojana, launched in 2015 and administered by the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority, is open to a bank account holder between 18 and 40 years of age, who contributes until the age of 60 and then draws a guaranteed monthly pension of between one thousand and…

SMILE stands for Support for Marginalised Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise, the central scheme that covers the welfare of transgender persons and of people engaged in begging.

The Ryotwari settlement rested on David Ricardo's theory of rent, which held that rent is the surplus left after the cost of cultivation is met, so the state could claim that surplus straight from the tiller.