SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

Ooty, or Udhagamandalam, sits in the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu at about 2,240 metres, but it lies close to the equator at roughly 11 degrees north, so its winter temperatures stay above freezing and it gets no snowfall.

Kolleru Lake lies in Andhra Pradesh, between the deltas of the Krishna and the Godavari, spread across the Eluru and West Godavari districts.

Tamil Nadu gets most of its rain from the north-east monsoon between October and December, which is why its rainy season comes when the rest of India is drying out.

The Godavari rises near Trimbakeshwar in the Nashik district of Maharashtra, in the Western Ghats, about 80 km from the Arabian Sea.

Muhammad bin Tughlaq issued token coins of bronze and copper in 1329-30 that were to pass at the value of the silver tanka.

It is called the Morley-Minto Reforms after Lord Morley, the Secretary of State for India, and Lord Minto, the Viceroy at the time.

Razia was the only woman to sit on the throne of Delhi, so she was both the first and the last woman ruler of the Sultanate.

Aibak was a Turkish slave of Muhammad Ghori and took charge of the Indian territories after Ghori died in 1206, founding the Slave or Mamluk dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.

The Chalukya ruler Pulakesin II stopped Harshavardhana on the banks of the Narmada and kept him out of the Deccan.

This Act ended the rule of the East India Company and placed India directly under the British Crown. It was passed right after the Revolt of 1857, and is therefore also called the Act for the Good Government of India.

The Vice-President placed that figure beside two others to show how women’s economic participation has grown: around 9.2 million Self-Help Groups, covering more than 100 million rural women, and more than 250 million Indians lifted out of extreme poverty.

The inaugural address used this figure to show how far financial inclusion has spread, crediting the JAM trinity, Direct Benefit Transfer and the Goods and Services Tax with widening access, improving transparency and formalising the economy.

The Vice-President recalled that the institute was set up that year under Professor V. K. R. V. Rao and has stayed close to India’s development journey ever since; it hosts this conclave.

The conclave was organised on that theme by the Institute of Economic Growth, and the Vice-President used it to argue that economic resilience cannot be separated from social resilience, that inclusion is the foundation of resilience, and that no citizen, enterprise or region should be left behind.

Passed after the Revolt of 1857, this Act ended the rule of the East India Company and transferred the government of India to the Crown.

At Mehrgarh the excavators found the remains of square and rectangular houses built of hand-made mud bricks, each divided into small compartments that appear to have been used to store grain.

The Constitution (100th Amendment) Act was passed in 2015 and received the President's assent on 31 May 2015, when Pranab Mukherjee held the office; he was President from 2012 to 2017.

The petiole is the stalk that joins a leaf blade to the stem; it belongs to the leaf, not to the flower, and a leaf without one is called sessile.

An aquifer is a body of rock or loose sediment that is both saturated with groundwater and permeable enough to let that water move freely, so a well sunk into it keeps yielding water.

The Sabarmati rises in the Aravalli Range in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan, then flows south-west across Gujarat and empties into the Gulf of Khambhat in the Arabian Sea after a course of about 371 km.