SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

Balban took the title Zil-i-Ilahi to claim that the sultan rules as the shadow of God on earth, a claim that placed him far above his nobles.

Bali Trutiya, also written Bali Tritiya, is an Odia festival kept mainly by married women of Odisha in the month of Bhadrab.

Vikramaditya VI ruled the Western Chalukya kingdom of Kalyani, and his court poet Bilhana wrote the Vikramankadevacharita on his life.

A URL is the address of a web resource: it says where the resource sits on the network and, through the scheme written in front, how it is to be fetched.

In a web address the part before the colon and the two slashes names the protocol, so http, the HyperText Transfer Protocol, is the set of rules by which a browser asks a server for a page and the server answers.

Bakelite is a thermosetting polymer, made by condensing phenol with formaldehyde, and once it has set under heat its chains are cross-linked, so it cannot be melted and moulded again.

Smallest to largest, Europe covers about 10.2 million square kilometres, Antarctica about 14 million, South America about 17.8 million and North America about 24.7 million.

On 4 July 1776 the Second Continental Congress, meeting at Philadelphia, adopted the Declaration of Independence, by which thirteen colonies broke away from British rule.

Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy, announced his partition plan on 3 June 1947, which is why it is also called the June Third Plan.

Article 243G allows a state legislature to endow Panchayats with the powers and authority they need to work as institutions of self-government.

Alongside the sporting memorabilia, the collection includes this souvenir, which reflects Haryana's association with the Bhagavad Gita, and a metal statue of Goddess Sheetala Devi with fine detailing and a lustrous finish.

Navdeep Singh won the gold medal in that event at the Paris Paralympics, and the cap and signed shirt he presented are part of the Haryana collection in the eighth edition of the PM Mementos auction.

He is identified as the first Indian to win a Paralympic gold medal in archery, and an arrow presented by him is one of the seven mementos from Haryana in this edition of the auction.

The auction of mementos presented to the Prime Minister is held so that the gifts serve a larger public purpose, and the money raised in this edition is directed to the Namami Gange Project, the programme for cleaning and conserving the river Ganga.

Jal Arpan marks the formal handover of completed rural water supply schemes, commissioned after the prescribed trial run period, to these two village-level bodies, which then take responsibility for operation, maintenance and long-term sustainability.

Digital governance and asset management under Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0 are being strengthened through Sujalam Bharat, under which water supply assets and piped water supply sources are geotagged, and on the Jal Arpan occasion a total of 2691 assets were geotagged across the country, including about 700 sources.

That many Har Ghar Jal certificates were generated for eligible gram panchayats and villages, and the issue of these certificates in regional languages through the Jal Arpan module was itself described as a first.

Jal Arpan is described as a key reform under that mission, and it places rural drinking water systems in the hands of the communities that use them by handing completed schemes to gram panchayats and to Village Water and Sanitation Committees.

The congratulatory message specifically recorded back-to-back Asian Games golds for the first time, which means the team had won the title at the previous edition and has now defended it.

The Prime Minister's message recorded that the men's team had won back-to-back Asian Games golds for the first time and had secured a fifth gold in all at the Games, which fixes the running total at five.