SSC GK Questions 2026

Kohima stands in the hills of the Angami country and has been the seat of government since before statehood; the Kohima War Cemetery recalls the battle fought here in 1944, and the Hornbill Festival is held each December at Kisama, a short distance away.

Article 371G, inserted when the state was created in 1986, provides that no Act of Parliament about the religious or social practices of the Mizos, Mizo customary law and procedure, the administration of civil and criminal justice involving decisions according to Mizo customary law, or the ownership and transfer of…

In the Cheraw, pairs of men sit facing each other and tap long bamboo staves together in rhythm while dancers step in and out of the closing bamboos; it is performed above all at Chapchar Kut, the spring festival held when the cleared jhum fields are waiting to be burnt…

The Front had grown out of the famine relief committee formed during the Mautam of the nineteen fifties and had been in armed revolt since 1966 under Laldenga; the accord signed on 30 June 1986 ended the insurgency, gave the territory statehood and brought Laldenga into office as chief minister…

Mizoram became the twenty-third state of India on that day under the fifty-third amendment of the Constitution, and Arunachal Pradesh became the twenty-fourth state on the same date.

Wangala is the post-harvest festival of the Garo people of the western hills of Meghalaya, held in autumn in thanksgiving to Misi Saljong, the giver of the harvest, and it takes its popular name from the long drums played in rows; the Khasis of the same state hold Nongkrem and…

In the Khasi and Jaintia hills villagers train the aerial roots of the Indian rubber fig across streams and let them thicken over decades into bridges that strengthen with age rather than rotting, as a wooden bridge would in that rainfall; the double-decker bridge at Nongriat near Cherrapunji is the…

Mawsynram lies in the East Khasi Hills district, a short distance west of Cherrapunji, now called Sohra, and the two places between them hold the records for rainfall in the country; the moist air from the Bay of Bengal is forced up the steep southern face of the Khasi hills…

The name is Sanskrit for the home of the clouds and was chosen for the new state in 1972 because of the rainfall of its southern slopes, which face the moist air coming off the Bay of Bengal and receive the heaviest rain in the country at Mawsynram and Cherrapunji.

The North-Eastern Areas Reorganisation Act 1971 took effect on that day, turning Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura into full states and creating the Union Territories of Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh, then called the North East Frontier Agency; the day is observed as statehood day in all three states.

A phumdi is a mat of soil, plant matter and organic debris in various stages of decay that floats on the surface of Loktak Lake in Manipur; the largest of them carries Keibul Lamjao National Park, and fishermen build circular enclosures called athaphums from them.

Keibul Lamjao lies in the southern part of Loktak Lake and rests on phumdis, floating mats of soil, roots and decaying vegetation thick enough to carry animals and even huts; nowhere else in the world is a national park built on such a surface.

Imphal lies in the valley at the centre of Manipur, surrounded by hills, and holds the Kangla Fort, the old seat of the Meitei kings, and Ima Keithel, the market run entirely by women.

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development began work on 12 July 1982 under an Act of 1981, on the recommendation of the Sivaraman Committee, taking over the agricultural credit functions of the Reserve Bank and the refinance business of the Agricultural Refinance and Development Corporation; it has its…

It is issued by the Government of India under the Coinage Act and carries the signature of the Finance Secretary rather than of the Governor of the Reserve Bank; all coins are likewise issued by the Government, while the Reserve Bank only distributes them.

The Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India and insures deposits in commercial banks, local area banks, regional rural banks, small finance banks, payments banks and cooperative banks; the cover was raised to five lakh rupees per depositor per bank…

The National Payments Corporation of India was set up in 2008 by the Reserve Bank of India and the Indian Banks Association as a not-for-profit company under the companies law, and it operates the retail payment systems of the country, among them the Unified Payments Interface, RuPay, IMPS, NACH, AePS…

The Financial Stability and Development Council was set up in 2010 by an executive order of the Government, following a recommendation of the Raghuram Rajan Committee on financial sector reforms, and it is chaired by the Union Finance Minister with the heads of the regulators, the Finance Secretary and senior…

The Forward Markets Commission had regulated forward and commodity derivative trading since 1953 under the Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act 1952 and worked under the Ministry of Finance in its last years; it was merged into the Securities and Exchange Board of India on 28 September 2015, the first merger of…

The Tribunal was set up under the SEBI Act and sits at Mumbai; since the Finance Act 2017 it also hears appeals against orders of IRDAI and of PFRDA, so one tribunal now serves three regulators.