SSC GK Questions 2026

Jaswant Thada stands just below the Mehrangarh fort at Jodhpur and was raised in 1899 in memory of Maharaja Jaswant Singh II; it is built of thin sheets of white marble that glow when the sun falls on them, and it serves as the cremation ground of the later Rathore…

Nathdwara, which means the gate of the Lord, lies in Rajsamand district on the Banas river, and the image of Krishna as Shrinathji, brought from Vrindavan, was installed there in 1672 in the reign of Maharana Raj Singh I; the town is also the home of the Pichhwai paintings made…

The temple of Eklingji at Kailashpuri, a short way north of Udaipur, holds a four-faced image of Shiva in black marble, and the Guhil and Sisodia rulers of Mewar treated him as the real sovereign of the state and themselves as his deputies, a claim repeated in their inscriptions.

Bundi, the Hara Chauhan capital in the Hadoti region, has so many stepwells that it is called the city of stepwells, and the finest of them is Raniji ki Baori, built in 1699 by Rani Nathavati with a high gateway and carved brackets.

Chand Baori stands at Abhaneri village in Dausa district and is attributed to King Chanda of the Nikumbh line in about the ninth century; it descends thirteen storeys and has some three thousand five hundred narrow steps laid in a double criss cross pattern, with the Harshat Mata temple beside…

The temple of Adinath at Ranakpur in Pali district was built in the fifteenth century by the merchant Dharna Shah with the permission and patronage of Maharana Kumbha, who also gave the land and the name Ranakpur; the temple is called Chaumukha because the image faces four directions, and the…

The Vimal Vasahi, the oldest and largest of the Dilwara temples, was built in 1031 by Vimal Shah, a minister of the Solanki ruler of Gujarat, and is dedicated to Adinath, the first Jain Tirthankara.

Mount Abu, the only hill station of Rajasthan and the highest point of the Aravalli range, lies in Sirohi district, and the five marble temples of Dilwara stand on its slope.

Article 105(3) authorises Parliament to define its privileges by law, but Parliament has never passed such a law, so the privileges remain uncodified and are drawn from the Constitution, the rules of the Houses, their precedents and the practice followed before the Forty-fourth Amendment.

Article 105(4) extends the privileges of the House to persons who have the right to speak in and otherwise take part in the proceedings of a House or any of its committees without being members.

Article 122 says that the validity of any proceedings in Parliament shall not be called in question in any court on the ground of an alleged irregularity of procedure, and that an officer or member in whom power over procedure or order is vested is not subject to the jurisdiction…

In 2024 a seven-judge bench held that the immunity in Article 105(2) and Article 194(2) covers only what is essential to the functioning of the House, so a legislator who takes a bribe for a vote or a speech can be prosecuted; the offence is complete when the bribe is…

No such privilege exists. Freedom from arrest covers civil cases only, and a member may be arrested in a criminal matter or under a preventive detention law at any time, including on the floor of the House in exceptional circumstances with the permission of the presiding officer.

The Committee of Privileges of the Lok Sabha has fifteen members, nominated by the Speaker, and it examines questions of privilege referred to it and recommends what action the House should take.

As originally enacted, Article 105(3) said that until Parliament defined the privileges by law they would be those of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

Article 361A protects a person from civil or criminal liability for publishing a substantially true report of the proceedings of either House of Parliament or of a State Legislature, unless the publication is proved to have been made with malice; the protection does not extend to reports of a secret…

Freedom from arrest in civil cases runs through the continuance of a session and for forty days before the session begins and forty days after it ends.

Article 105 of the Constitution deals with the powers, privileges and immunities of Parliament, its members and its committees.

The Charter Act of 1833 authorised the creation of a fourth presidency with its seat at Agra, and the Presidency of Agra was actually carved out of the Bengal Presidency in 1834, taking in almost the whole of what is now Uttar Pradesh; in 1836 the territory was placed under…

After the revolt the Peel Commission of 1859 advised a larger European element, the ratio of Europeans to Indians was raised to about one to two in Bengal and two to five in Madras and Bombay, and the artillery, the arm that decides a siege, was reserved for European troops…