SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

From 1 April 2017 the State Bank of India absorbed its five remaining associate banks, the State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, the State Bank of Hyderabad, the State Bank of Mysore, the State Bank of Patiala and the State Bank of Travancore, together with Bharatiya Mahila Bank, which had…

R. C. Cooper, a shareholder and director of one of the affected banks, challenged the law of 1969, and an eleven judge bench of the Supreme Court struck it down because the compensation provided for the acquired undertakings was not adequate and the banks were barred from carrying on business.

The cut off used in the first round of nationalisation was deposits of fifty crore rupees or more as on the relevant date, and fourteen banks crossed it.

With effect from 1 April 2019, Vijaya Bank of Karnataka and Dena Bank of Gujarat were merged into Bank of Baroda.

Allahabad Bank, founded in 1865 and one of the fourteen banks nationalised in 1969, was amalgamated into Indian Bank with effect from 1 April 2020.

Under the amalgamation notified with effect from 1 April 2020, Syndicate Bank was merged into Canara Bank. Both banks had their roots in coastal Karnataka, Canara Bank at Mangaluru and Syndicate Bank at Udupi, so the merged bank kept a strong base in the same region.

New Bank of India, one of the six banks nationalised in 1980, ran into heavy losses and was amalgamated with Punjab National Bank in 1993.

The Reserve Bank of India began as a shareholders' institution in 1935 and was taken into full government ownership from 1 January 1949 under the Reserve Bank of India (Transfer to Public Ownership) Act, 1948.

On 15 April 1980 six private banks whose deposits were two hundred crore rupees or more were nationalised: Andhra Bank, Corporation Bank, New Bank of India, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Punjab and Sind Bank, and Vijaya Bank.

On 19 July 1969 the government promulgated an ordinance nationalising fourteen major commercial banks, each of which held deposits of fifty crore rupees or more.

SIDBI was set up under the Small Industries Development Bank of India Act, 1989 and began operations in 1990 as the principal financial institution for the promotion, financing and development of micro, small and medium enterprises.

The All India Rural Credit Survey Committee found that rural credit needed a bank with a nationwide branch network, so Parliament passed the State Bank of India Act, 1955, and the Imperial Bank of India was taken over and renamed the State Bank of India with effect from 1 July…

The Hoysalas ruled southern Karnataka from Belur and Dwarasamudra, today's Halebidu, and their temples are unmistakable: a raised star shaped platform called the jagati, shrines on a stellate plan, soft chloritic schist or soapstone that allowed jewellery and hair to be carved in minute detail, lathe turned pillars, and bands…

The Konark Sun Temple in Odisha was raised in the thirteenth century by Narasimhadeva I. The plan is the chariot of Surya: a high platform carrying twelve pairs of carved stone wheels drawn by seven horses.

Pattadakal on the Malaprabha was a coronation city of the Chalukyas of Badami, and its temples stand side by side in both idioms: the Papanatha and Galaganatha temples carry curving Nagara towers, while the Virupaksha temple, built by queen Lokamahadevi to mark Vikramaditya II's victory over the Pallavas, and the…

Cave 16 at Ellora, the Kailasa temple, was cut for the Rashtrakuta king Krishna I in the eighth century.

In the Nagara style of north India the tower over the garbhagriha is the shikhara.

The Brihadeshwara or Rajarajeshwara temple at Thanjavur was completed about 1010 CE by Raja Raja I. Its vimana rises in shrinking storeys to over sixty metres and is crowned by a single huge capstone, the whole structure is of granite, and the courtyard holds one of the largest monolithic Nandi…

The Kanheri caves are cut into a basalt hill inside the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai.

The twin hills of Udayagiri and Khandagiri stand near Bhubaneswar and hold Jain rock-cut cells cut for monks in the first century BCE.