SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

The Bureau works under the Department of Consumer Affairs in that Ministry, and the Union Minister in charge is the President of the Bureau, because standards and certification exist to protect the consumer.

The Bureau is India’s National Standards Body and it grants the ISI mark to manufactured goods that conform to the relevant Indian Standard.

In 2018, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose hoisting the tricolour at Port Blair on 30 December 1943, three islands were renamed: Havelock became Swaraj Dweep, Neil became Shaheed Dweep and Ross Island became Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Dweep.

The correct answer is B, the Calcutta High Court, which exercises jurisdiction over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and holds a circuit bench at the Territory’s capital.

Indira Point lies at the southern tip of Great Nicobar, the largest island of the Nicobar group, and is the southernmost point of the territory of India; it was formerly called Pygmalion Point and also Parsons Point, and its lighthouse subsided during the tsunami of 2004.

She founded Auroville in 1968 as an international township where people of all countries could live in peace, and soil from many nations was placed in an urn at its inauguration; the Matrimandir is its meditation centre.

The Sentinelese live on North Sentinel Island, have avoided contact with the outside world and are one of the particularly vulnerable tribal groups of the Territory, with the island closed to visitors by law.

The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Act, 2019 merged the two into one Union Territory with effect from 26 January 2020, with Daman as its headquarters and Silvassa as the headquarters of the Dadra and Nagar Haveli district.

It inserted Article 239AA, renamed the Union Territory of Delhi as the National Capital Territory of Delhi and provided for a Legislative Assembly of seventy seats and a Council of Ministers of not more than ten per cent of the total members, that is seven.

The first plan for Chandigarh was prepared by Albert Mayer with Matthew Nowicki, and after Nowicki died in an air crash the work passed to the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, assisted by Pierre Jeanneret, Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry.

Puducherry is made up of four non-contiguous districts, and Mahe is the one on the Malabar coast surrounded by Kerala.

Kavaratti is the capital and administrative headquarters of Lakshadweep, which is India’s smallest Union Territory by area and its only group of coral atolls.

The Ten Degree Channel runs roughly along the tenth parallel of north latitude, between Little Andaman to its north and Car Nicobar to its south, and it is a busy shipping lane.

Barren Island, in the Andaman Sea about one hundred and forty kilometres north-east of the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is the only active volcano in India and in South Asia, and it has erupted several times in recent decades.

It lays down the basic rule that a Union Territory is administered by the President acting through an Administrator appointed by him with such designation as the President may specify, which is why some Administrators are styled Lieutenant Governor.

Bhand Pather is the traditional satirical folk theatre of the Kashmir valley, performed by the Bhand community with music on the surnai and the dhol, and it mixes acting, dance and sharp social comment.

The Siachen glacier lies at the head of the Nubra valley in the eastern Karakoram and is the longest glacier of that range; the Nubra river issues from it and joins the Shyok, which joins the Indus.

Maharaja Hari Singh, the last Dogra ruler of the princely State, signed the Instrument of Accession on 26 October 1947 after tribal raiders backed from across the border entered the State, and Indian troops were airlifted to Srinagar the next day.

Hanle in eastern Ladakh, within the Changthang Cold Desert Wildlife Sanctuary, already hosts the Indian Astronomical Observatory of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, and the surrounding area was notified in 2022 as India’s first Dark Sky Reserve to keep artificial light from spoiling the night sky for astronomy and for…

The treaty signed in 1960 with the World Bank as a party gave the three western rivers to Pakistan and the three eastern rivers, the Ravi, the Beas and the Sutlej, to India for unrestricted use.