SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

ENIAC was built to compute artillery firing tables and is remembered as the first general-purpose electronic digital computer; it used thousands of vacuum tubes and belongs to the first generation of computers.

Jhootha Sach is a Hindi novel in two parts, the first on Lahore before the division and the second on the lives of those uprooted by it, and it is among the longest works of fiction on Partition.

The correct answer is C, Ayesha Jalal, whose study argues that the demand for Pakistan worked for a long while as a bargaining position in the politics of the 1940s, and it is the standard academic work on Jinnah's role.

Midnight's Children takes its title from the children born at the midnight of independence, its narrator Saleem Sinai being born at the very hour, and it won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was later voted the best of the Booker winners.

The correct answer is B, Urvashi Butalia, whose book is built out of interviews with survivors and is the standard work on Partition as remembered by ordinary people, especially women and children.

Azadi follows a Hindu family of Sialkot forced to leave for India, and it brought its author the Sahitya Akademi Award in English in 1977.

Toba Tek Singh, in which an inmate refuses either country and dies on the strip of land between the two borders, is the most quoted single piece of Partition writing; Manto's other work on these years includes the story Thanda Gosht and the collection of one-line sketches Siyah Hashiye.

Azad, who was president of the Congress through the Quit India years, gave his account of the negotiations leading to Partition in India Wins Freedom, written in Urdu and rendered into English with the help of Humayun Kabir; a portion of it was withheld from publication for thirty years.

The two journalists, one American and one French, wrote Freedom at Midnight as a narrative account of the last year of British rule, the division of the country and the killing of Gandhi, drawing on interviews with Mountbatten.

Pinjar, in English The Skeleton, tells the story of Puro, a woman abducted at the time of the division, and is the central Punjabi novel of Partition; Amrita Pritam's poem addressed to Waris Shah is the other work of hers always cited on this theme.

Tamas, meaning darkness, is Bhisham Sahni's Hindi novel on the days of killing in a town of western Punjab, and it won him the Sahitya Akademi Award; a well known television serial was made from it.

Train to Pakistan, published in 1956, is set in the imaginary border village of Mano Majra and follows what a trainload of bodies does to a village where Sikhs and Muslims had lived together; it is the best known English novel of Partition.

The correct answer is A, Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar, administered by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, in which bravery is one of the categories of the Bal Shakti Puraskar, alongside innovation, scholastic achievement, social service, art and culture, and sport; the Bal Kalyan Puraskar in the same…

The Ministry of Home Affairs announces the Jeevan Raksha Padak series on 15 August each year, and the medal with its certificate is then presented to the recipient by the state government, union territory administration or ministry concerned rather than at a single investiture in Delhi.

In each of the two columns of police awards the medal carrying the President's name is the senior one, so the President's Police Medal for Gallantry, given for a rare and conspicuous act of gallantry, stands above the Police Medal for Gallantry.

The correct answer is A, The Indian Council for Child Welfare, a voluntary organisation that ran the scheme from 1957 and gave within it the Bharat Award as the highest, the Geeta Chopra Award for a girl and the Sanjay Chopra Award for a boy, named after the sister and…

It is the highest peacetime gallantry award and is expressly open to civilians as well as to service personnel, which is why civilians who have fought armed attackers have received it.

The Kabir Puraskar, administered by the Ministry of Home Affairs and named after the poet who stood outside sectarian division, is given for conspicuous courage and humanity in saving the lives and property of members of another community during communal riots, and it too has three classes.

The peacetime gallantry awards run as the Ashoka Chakra, the Kirti Chakra and the Shaurya Chakra in descending order, and the Ashoka Chakra may be conferred on civilians as well as on members of the armed forces, which is what makes it relevant to a question on civilian bravery.

The correct answer is B, Ministry of Home Affairs, which administers the Jeevan Raksha Padak series along with the police, fire service, home guard and correctional service medals and the Kabir Puraskar.