SSC GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is C, 2014, when the SEBI Foreign Portfolio Investors Regulations came into force and the three older categories, namely foreign institutional investors, their sub-accounts and qualified foreign investors, were merged into one class registered in risk-based tiers.

The FDI policy lists a small set of prohibited activities: the lottery business, gambling and betting including casinos, chit funds, Nidhi companies, trading in transferable development rights, real estate business and the construction of farm houses, the manufacture of cigars, cheroots and cigarettes, and activities closed to private investment such…

Under the automatic route the foreign investor needs no prior permission from either the government or the Reserve Bank of India; the Indian company simply reports the inflow and the issue of shares to the Reserve Bank within the prescribed time.

The Foreign Investment Promotion Board was wound up and its work handed to the administrative ministries concerned, which now receive applications through the Foreign Investment Facilitation Portal.

The correct answer is C, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, a department of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, which was known as the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion until it was renamed in 2019.

The correct answer is B, the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999, which came into force in 2000 and governs all dealings in foreign exchange, including inward and outward investment.

Foreign direct investment is made to acquire a lasting interest in an enterprise abroad, conventionally measured as ten per cent or more of the voting power, and with it comes a say in how the company is run; portfolio investment buys shares and bonds without any such control.

Sir Creek is a tidal creek in the marshland of the Rann of Kutch, where India and Pakistan read the boundary resolution of 1914 differently, one side placing the boundary in the middle of the channel and the other on its eastern bank; the stretch matters because it affects the…

The states along the Bangladesh frontier are West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram, with West Bengal carrying the longest stretch.

The correct answer is B, the Andaman and the Nicobar groups, which lie on either side of the Ten Degree Channel in the Bay of Bengal, the name coming from the ten degree north parallel along which it runs.

The correct answer is B, the Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar, the shallow waters between Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, with the chain of sandbanks called Adam's Bridge or Rama Setu running between Rameswaram and Talaimannar.

The line was drawn at the Simla Convention of 1914 by Sir Henry McMahon, then the Foreign Secretary of British India, in an agreement with Tibet; China has never accepted it, which is the root of the dispute in that sector.

The line was drawn in 1947 by Sir Cyril Radcliffe, who chaired the boundary commissions that divided Punjab and Bengal, so the same line also forms the India-Bangladesh boundary, Bangladesh having been East Pakistan until 1971.

The correct answer is B, Afghanistan, with which India's land boundary is only about 106 kilometres long, lying in the part of the former state of Jammu and Kashmir that is under Pakistan's control, near the Wakhan Corridor.

The correct answer is C, Bangladesh, with a boundary of about 4,096 kilometres, the longest India has with any country; it runs along West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.

The correct answer is A, China, which was never a British territory and is therefore not a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, so it does not take part in the Commonwealth Games.

Nepal touches five Indian states, namely Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim, so options A, B and C are all genuine Nepal border states and only Assam is not.

Of the four countries offered here Bhutan is by far the smallest, a landlocked Himalayan kingdom whose border with India runs about 699 kilometres along Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.

India has a land boundary with Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar.

The Sweet Revolution is the term used for the drive to raise honey production and beekeeping in India, supported by the National Beekeeping and Honey Mission.