SSC GK Questions 2026

Gandhi started Indian Opinion at Durban in 1903 to put the case of Indians settled in South Africa before the public.

Gautamiputra Satakarni was the greatest ruler of the Satavahana dynasty, which held the Deccan in the 2nd century CE. He ruled roughly from 106 to 130 CE, with Pratishthana (modern Paithan on the Godavari) as his capital.

On the east, India has a land boundary with Myanmar and Bangladesh. India shares land borders with seven countries.

The Garo, Khasi and Jaintia hills lie in Meghalaya and together form the Meghalaya plateau. This plateau is a detached block of the peninsular plateau, separated from the main Chota Nagpur plateau by the Malda gap.

Four Indian states touch Bhutan: Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. The India-Bhutan boundary is about 699 kilometres long.

The Khetri copper belt lies in the Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, in the north-eastern part of the state. Khetri is the best known copper field of India and is worked by Hindustan Copper Limited.

Aluminium is the most abundant metal in the crust of the earth, making up about eight per cent of it by weight.

The Lucknow Pact of 1916 was an agreement between the Congress and the Muslim League. It was signed at the Lucknow session, where Ambika Charan Mazumdar presided for the Congress.

Every citizen of India who is eighteen years of age or more may vote, and the age is the same for men and women.

Sulphur dioxide is an air pollutant but it is not counted among the greenhouse gases. A greenhouse gas is one that lets sunlight through but absorbs the long wave infrared radiation the earth sends back, so it warms the lower atmosphere.

Under monopolistic competition a single firm faces a demand curve that is relatively elastic, so it slopes downward but is fairly flat.

Fuehrer is the German word for leader, and Adolf Hitler took it as his title in Germany. Hitler led the Nazi Party, became Chancellor in January 1933, and after the death of President Hindenburg in 1934 merged the two offices and styled himself Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor.

Archimedes used his principle to test whether the crown of King Hiero II of Syracuse was pure gold. The principle says that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces.

Gravitational force is directly proportional to each mass, so doubling one mass doubles the force. Newton law of universal gravitation states that the force between two bodies is F equal to G m1 m2 divided by r squared.

Released at the ministry's World Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day programme, the report reviews the hydrogen standards the country already has, points to the areas that still need attention and lists the steps needed to deal with them.

The National Green Hydrogen Mission was approved in January 2023 with this outlay, and the money is spread across production of the gas, the manufacture of equipment, pilot projects, research and training.

More than a hundred officials, industry representatives, researchers and experts attended two panel discussions there, one on standards for hydrogen and one on safety at hydrogen facilities, and a gap assessment of the country's hydrogen standards was released.

The Council recommended changes to sections 68, 129 and 130 of the CGST Act so that a vehicle carrying goods may be stopped only when there is specific intelligence about it and an officer of at least this rank has cleared the action.

The Council recommended cutting the ceiling on the general penalty under section 125 of the CGST Act from 25,000 rupees to 10,000 rupees.

The Council recommended the complete withdrawal of arrest powers under the goods and services tax by deleting this section from the CGST Act, 2017, a step presented as part of a trust-based tax system that still keeps deterrence against fraud.