SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

Humayun's library stood in the Sher Mandal, the small octagonal tower inside the Purana Qila in Delhi, which he used as a library and an observatory after he won back the throne in 1555.

NITI Aayog, the National Institution for Transforming India, was set up by a Cabinet resolution on 1 January 2015 and took the place of the Planning Commission, which had run since 1950.

An endemic species is one that occurs naturally in one particular area and nowhere else, and the Nicobar pigeon is the textbook Indian example, living in the forests of the Nicobar group of islands; the Andaman wild pig and the Narcondam hornbill are usually listed beside it.

Skill is built on schooling and training, so a workforce in which a large share of workers is illiterate or barely schooled cannot absorb technical instruction the way a fully literate one can.

Mahmud of Ghazni, who ruled the Ghaznavid kingdom from 998 to 1030, is recorded as having led seventeen raids into India between about 1000 and 1027.

SAARC was founded at Dhaka on 8 December 1985 by seven countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Young fold mountains were raised in the Tertiary period, only a few tens of millions of years ago in geological time, so erosion has had little time to wear them down and many of them are still rising as the plates behind them keep pushing.

She took office in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, in July 1960 and so became the first woman anywhere in the world to head a government as Prime Minister.

The achievement in the news is the Indian women's hockey team finishing first in the hockey competition at the Asian Games, a gold that came after a wait of more than four decades.

That is the length of the wait that the Indian women's hockey team ended by winning the gold medal at the Asian Games, and it is the figure named when the win was described as a very special moment for Indian hockey.

The gold medal that ended a wait of more than four decades was won in the hockey competition at the Asian Games by India's women's team, and the Prime Minister's message spoke of the win carrying hockey's popularity further across the country.

Syama Prasad Mookerjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and is counted as its founder member and first president. The party was launched at Delhi in October 1951 as a nationalist alternative to the Congress.

Flatworms, the phylum Platyhelminthes, have an incomplete digestive system with just one opening, so the same mouth takes the food in and throws the waste out.

Swami Sahajanand Saraswati set up the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha in 1929 to organise the peasants of Bihar against the zamindars.

SMILE stands for Support for Marginalised Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise, the central scheme that covers the welfare of transgender persons and of people engaged in begging.

Cutting the vegetation on a slope makes landslides more likely, not less, so it can never be a mitigation measure.

The Ryotwari settlement rested on David Ricardo's theory of rent, which held that rent is the surplus left after the cost of cultivation is met, so the state could claim that surplus straight from the tiller.

Thanjavur was the capital of the Chola dynasty, which ruled the Tamil country from the ninth to the thirteenth century.

Goal 15, called Life on Land, is the goal for land ecosystems, and its wording covers forests, desertification, land degradation and the loss of biodiversity.

The wrestler was appearing at the Asian Games for the first time, and he turned that first appearance into a gold medal, which is what made the achievement notable enough for the Prime Minister to call it a memorable triumph.