SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

Kala-azar, or visceral leishmaniasis, is caused by a parasite carried by the sandfly, which breeds in the damp cracks of mud walls and cattle sheds in the plains of north Bihar, so the control programme sprays the inside walls of houses, offers free diagnosis and treatment at the block level…

The Nalanda University Act was passed by Parliament in 2010, creating a central university at Rajgir in Nalanda district as a revival of the ancient mahavihara, with an international character and schools of Buddhist studies, historical studies, ecology and international relations.

Magadh University, set up in 1962, has its campus at Bodh Gaya in Gaya district and affiliates a very large number of colleges across south Bihar, which is why it figures so often in state papers.

Under the Bal Hriday Yojana the state pays for the surgery and the care of children with congenital heart disease, screening them through the school health programme and sending them to recognised hospitals, so that a family does not have to sell land for an operation.

The institute at Agamkuan in Patna works under the Indian Council of Medical Research and is the national centre for research on kala-azar, or visceral leishmaniasis, the disease whose heaviest Indian burden lies in the plains of north Bihar.

The institution opened in 1925 under that name and was renamed Patna Medical College after independence; its hospital is still among the largest in eastern India and the oldest teaching hospital of the state.

The Indian Institute of Management of the state works at Bodh Gaya in Gaya district, the town of the Mahabodhi temple, and it was among the institutes opened in the second round of expansion of the IIM system.

The Census of 2011 recorded Bihar’s literacy rate as 61.8 per cent, the lowest among the states of India, with 71.2 per cent for men and 51.5 per cent for women.

In the Census of 2011 Rohtas, with its headquarters at Sasaram in the Shahabad region, recorded the highest literacy rate among the districts of Bihar, ahead of Patna and Munger, which came next.

It was set up on 1 October 1917 as an examining and affiliating university for the province of Bihar and Odisha, and it is the oldest university in the state as well as one of the oldest in the country.

A sphygmomanometer has an inflatable cuff wrapped around the upper arm, a rubber bulb to pump air into it, and a gauge, traditionally a column of mercury.

When an electric current is passed through brine, a concentrated aqueous solution of sodium chloride, the salt decomposes. Chlorine gas is given off at the anode and hydrogen gas at the cathode, while sodium hydroxide is left in the solution near the cathode.

RNA is usually single-stranded and its sugar, ribose, carries an extra hydroxyl group, which makes the molecule more reactive and easier to break or alter than double-stranded DNA.

Article 323A, added by the 42nd Amendment in 1976, lets Parliament by law set up administrative tribunals for the Union and for each state or group of states to decide disputes on recruitment and service conditions of public servants.

Article 55(3) of the Constitution says the President is elected in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote, and the voting is by secret ballot.

By Newton's law of gravitation, the acceleration due to gravity at the surface is g = GM/R², where G is the universal gravitational constant, M is the mass of the Earth and R is its radius.

Molarity and molality are both standard ways of stating how much solute is present in a solution.

Sudha Singh belongs to the Raebareli district of Uttar Pradesh and won the gold medal in the 3000 metres steeplechase at the Asian Games held at Guangzhou in 2010, going on to represent India at the Olympic Games; she is the best known woman distance runner the state has produced.

Mohammed Shahid, celebrated for his dribbling and close stick work, came from Varanasi, was a member of the Indian hockey team that won the Olympic gold at Moscow in 1980, and received the Padma Shri in 1986 after the Arjuna Award earlier in the decade.

The Indian Grand Prix was run for three seasons at the Buddh International Circuit at Greater Noida, beginning with the 2011 race won by Sebastian Vettel, after which the event was taken off the Formula One calendar.