SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

Dadabhai Naoroji published Poverty and Un-British Rule in India in 1901, and in it he set out his drain theory, the argument that British rule was steadily draining India’s wealth to England through salaries, pensions, home charges and the profits of trade.

The Transmission Control Protocol decides how data is exchanged across the internet and breaks a message into numbered packets that IP then carries to the destination.

Madurai in Tamil Nadu is called the Athens of the East because, like ancient Athens, it was a seat of learning, poetry and debate for centuries.

Ugadi is the new year festival of Andhra Pradesh, and it is also kept in Telangana and Karnataka. The name comes from yuga and adi, meaning the beginning of an age, and it falls on the first day of the month of Chaitra, in March or April.

The tale of queen Maynamati and her son Gopichandra belongs to the Nath literature of eastern India, the body of songs and ballads around the Nathpanthi yogis.

The gaur, also called the Indian bison, is the wild bovine closest to domestic cattle and is protected in the Nagarhole and Bandipur national parks of Karnataka.

India follows the parliamentary system, taken from Britain, in which the real executive is responsible to the legislature.

The Directive Principles of State Policy, in Part IV of the Constitution from Articles 36 to 51, were taken from the Constitution of Ireland, which had in turn drawn the idea from Spain.

The Planning Commission was set up in March 1950 by a resolution of the Union Cabinet, so it was neither a constitutional nor a statutory body.

The Sarkaria Commission said the Governor should be a detached figure chosen without regard to party, and ideally someone who has not taken an active part in politics in the recent past or belonged to the ruling party at the centre.

The Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956 divided industries into three schedules. Schedule A listed seventeen industries to be the exclusive responsibility of the state, such as arms, atomic energy, railways and heavy industry.

Consumption of fixed capital is the national income term for depreciation, the fall in the value of machines, buildings and other fixed assets as they are used up or become obsolete over the year.

The Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana can be joined by anyone between 18 and 50 years of age who holds a savings bank account.

TISCO, now Tata Steel, is owned and run by private shareholders, which is what makes an enterprise part of the private sector.

Charles’s law says that at constant pressure the volume of a fixed mass of gas is directly proportional to its absolute temperature, so V by T stays constant.

Coulomb’s law gives the force between two point charges at rest. It states that the force is directly proportional to the product of the two charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, and acts along the line joining them.

In the SI system the prefix femto, written f, stands for 10 raised to minus 15. The name comes from the Danish and Norwegian word femten, meaning fifteen.

Galileo was the first to argue that, with air resistance removed, every body falls with the same acceleration regardless of its mass.

Ahmedabad in Gujarat is called the Manchester of India because of the cotton textile mills that grew there, just as Manchester in England was the centre of the cotton industry.

The Yamuna rises from the Yamunotri glacier on the Bandarpunch range in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand, so its source lies inside the Indian Himalayas.