SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

Bindusara was the son of Chandragupta Maurya and became the second ruler of the Mauryan Empire in about 297 BCE, ruling till about 273 BCE.

On 21 April 1526 Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last Sultan of Delhi, at Panipat in present-day Haryana, and this victory ended the Delhi Sultanate and started Mughal rule in India.

A bill passed by both Houses of Parliament becomes an Act only when the President gives assent to it, as laid down in Article 111.

The Directive Principles of State Policy are placed in Part IV of the Constitution, from Article 36 to Article 51.

This Article gives the President the power to grant pardons, reprieves, respites or remissions of punishment, and to suspend, remit or commute a sentence.

These two Articles create the Council of Ministers that actually runs the Union government. Article 74 says there shall be a Council of Ministers headed by the Prime Minister to aid and advise the President, and the President acts on that advice.

This is the Article that lists who is qualified to be a member of Parliament.

The 2019 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup, the 12th edition, was played in England and Wales from 30 May to 14 July 2019.

Raja Parba is Odisha's three-day festival of womanhood held in mid-June, when the sun enters Mithuna (Gemini). The three days are Pahili Raja, Raja Sankranti or Mithuna Sankranti, and Basi Raja, and a ritual bath of Mother Earth, Vasumati Snana, closes it on the fourth morning.

The Seshachalam Biosphere Reserve lies in the Seshachalam hill ranges of the Eastern Ghats in southern Andhra Pradesh, across the old Chittoor and Kadapa districts, and was notified in 2010 as India's 17th biosphere reserve.

The Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve in the Lahaul and Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh was notified in 2009 as India's 16th biosphere reserve.

The All India Chess Federation, the national body for chess, was founded in 1951 and has its headquarters at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai.

Prathama Bank, the first Regional Rural Bank of India, opened on 2 October 1975 with its head office at Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh, sponsored by Syndicate Bank.

Under the Coinage Act 2011 the Government of India alone has the right to mint coins, and the work is handled by the Department of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance.

Luminous intensity is the amount of visible light a source sends out in a given direction per unit solid angle, and its SI base unit is the candela (cd), roughly the light of one ordinary candle.

Pressure is force acting per unit area, so its SI unit is the newton per square metre, which is given the special name pascal (Pa) after the French scientist Blaise Pascal, who stated the law of transmission of pressure in liquids used in hydraulic brakes and lifts.

Newton's second law gives force = mass × acceleration. Mass has the dimension [M], and acceleration is velocity divided by time, that is [L T⁻¹] ÷ [T] = [L T⁻²].

Pellagra is caused by a lack of vitamin B3, niacin, also called nicotinic acid, and is remembered by the three Ds: dermatitis, a rough dark rash on skin exposed to sunlight, diarrhoea from the gut, and dementia from the nervous system; untreated, a fourth D, death, follows.

Inflation is a sustained rise in the general price level, measured in India by the CPI and the WPI.

A hawkish stance means the central bank treats inflation as its first enemy and is ready to raise interest rates and tighten money supply, even at some cost to growth.