SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

The World Press Freedom Index has been brought out since 2002 by Reporters Without Borders, a non-governmental organisation based in Paris, which ranks countries on the conditions in which journalists work.

Jinnah founded Dawn in Delhi in 1941 as the English newspaper of the Muslim League, and after partition it moved to Karachi, where it continues as one of the best known English dailies of Pakistan.

Shimbun is the Japanese word for newspaper, and Yomiuri Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun are the two best known Japanese dailies; Yomiuri Shimbun has for many years had one of the largest circulations of any newspaper in the world, and Nihon Keizai Shimbun, known as Nikkei, is the leading financial daily…

Pravda, which means truth in Russian, was founded in 1912 and became the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, printing the party line on every question until the Soviet Union broke up; Izvestia, meaning news, was the paper of the Soviet government.

The Press Trust of India was registered in 1947 and began work in 1949, taking over the business of the Associated Press of India, and it is owned by the newspapers that subscribe to it; its surplus goes back into the service rather than to shareholders.

In 1976 the government merged the Press Trust of India, United News of India, Hindustan Samachar and Samachar Bharati into one agency called Samachar, a step widely seen as part of the control of the press during the Emergency.

Yonhap News Agency works from Seoul and is the main wire service of the Republic of Korea, widely quoted abroad for reports on the Korean peninsula.

Xinhua, whose name means new China, was set up in 1931 as the Red China News Agency, took its present name in 1937 and works from Beijing as the state news agency of the People's Republic of China.

Paul Julius Reuter, who had earlier worked for Havas in Paris and had used carrier pigeons to carry stock prices between Aachen and Brussels, moved to London and founded his telegraph news office there in 1851, close to the Stock Exchange.

Charles-Louis Havas opened Agence Havas in Paris in 1835 to translate and sell foreign news, which makes it the first news agency in the world; the business was reorganised in 1944 and has been known since then as Agence France-Presse.

Sambhar, the large saline lake west of Jaipur, is the biggest inland source of salt in the country, where brine is drawn into shallow pans and left to evaporate; Didwana in Nagaur and Pachpadra in Barmer are the other salt works of the state, while most Indian salt otherwise comes…

Phad is painted at Shahpura in Bhilwara district, traditionally by the Joshi family of chiteras, on a long cloth scroll that a singer priest unrolls at night while reciting the epics of Devnarayan and Pabuji; the figures are flat, in profile and in strong red, yellow and green.

The potters of Molela, a village in Rajsamand district, make flat clay plaques in low relief showing Dharmaraj, Devnarayan, Nagaraja and other folk gods, which pilgrims from the tribal districts of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh carry home to their shrines; Molela clay work carries a geographical indication tag.

Thewa is the craft of a single family line of Pratapgarh in southern Rajasthan, where a thin sheet of gold is cut into a pattern and fused on to coloured glass to make pendants, boxes and plates; the craft carries a geographical indication tag.

Kota Doria is woven at Kaithun and nearby villages in Kota district from cotton and silk yarn in a chequered weave so fine and open that the cloth is almost weightless, and the sarees made from it carry a geographical indication tag.

Blue pottery reached Jaipur through Persian and Afghan craftsmen in the Mughal period and was revived in the twentieth century by the artist Kripal Singh Shekhawat; its paste is made of quartz, fuller's earth and ground glass instead of clay, and the pieces are painted in cobalt blue and fired…

The Khetri copper complex in Jhunjhunu district, run by Hindustan Copper Limited, works the copper ore of the Khetri and Kolihan mines, and Kho-Dariba in Alwar is the other copper belt of the state.

Hindustan Zinc smelts zinc and lead at Debari near Udaipur and at Chanderiya in Chittorgarh district, and it also has works at Dariba in Rajsamand; the ore comes from the mines of Zawar, Rampura Agucha and Rajpura Dariba.

Kishangarh in Ajmer district holds the largest marble market in Asia, where slabs from the quarries of Rajasthan and imported blocks are cut, polished and sold, which is why the town is called the marble city.

Bhilwara grew into the largest textile centre of Rajasthan on worsted yarn and suiting fabric, with spinning, weaving and processing units in one place, and it is therefore called the textile city of the state and sometimes its Manchester.