SSC GK Questions 2026

Kolkali is a popular folk dance of Lakshadweep, and it is also seen in the Malabar region of Kerala, with which the islands share much of their language and custom.

Vijayalaya founded the line known as the Imperial Cholas around 850 CE by taking Thanjavur from the Muttaraiyar chiefs, who held it as feudatories of the Pallavas.

System software is the software that runs the machine itself. It manages the processor, the memory, the disk and the attached devices, and it gives other programs a platform on which to run.

Chhau was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010.

Vande Mataram was first sung on a political occasion at the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress in 1896, and it was Rabindranath Tagore who set the tune and sang it there.

The Bardoli Satyagraha began in February 1928 in Bardoli taluka of Surat district in Gujarat, after the Bombay government raised the land revenue by about twenty-two per cent in a year when the crop had already been poor.

The Aatmanirbhar Bharat Rojgar Yojana was announced in October 2020 as part of the Aatmanirbhar Bharat package, to bring back the jobs lost during the Covid-19 lockdown.

The intensity of an earthquake is measured on the Modified Mercalli scale, whose grades run from I to XII.

Cornwallis, Governor General from 1786 to 1793, introduced the Permanent Settlement in Bengal, Bihar and Odisha in 1793, with John Shore doing much of the groundwork.

He took the title Gangaikonda Chola, the one who won the Ganga, after his army marched north about 1022 CE, defeated the Pala ruler Mahipala and carried Ganga water back to the Tamil country.

The format is named after the committee of experts that drew up the standard, which was published in 1992 for compressing photographs.

SEBI is the regulator of the securities market, and protecting the interests of investors is the first duty written into its founding law.

E-Shakti was launched by NABARD in 2015 to put the accounts and records of self-help groups on a digital platform.

Haryali is a centrally sponsored watershed development project launched in 2003 by the Ministry of Rural Development, and its whole point is that the village panchayat plans and carries out the work itself.

The Palas ruled eastern India, that is Bengal and Bihar, so their capital was never in the south. The line was founded by Gopala around 750 CE, who was chosen by the chiefs of Bengal to end a long spell of disorder.

Along with dedicating the completed elevated road, the Union Home Minister laid the foundation stones of these two works, which together with the road make up the package of projects worth more than Rs 1,941 crore.

The Home Minister stated that the newly dedicated phase of the Barapullah corridor would give signal-free connectivity between the eastern and the southern parts of the capital, so that commuting becomes smoother, motorists get relief from traffic jams and travel time is saved.

The Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation dedicated the Barapullah Elevated Road Phase-3, built at that cost, to the people of Delhi.

At the meeting the two delegations examined the opportunities that this proposed observance would open for tourism cooperation, with the aim of further strengthening cultural and tourism exchanges between the two countries.

This was described as the key outcome of the meeting, and its purpose is to carry forward the areas of cooperation that were identified, namely exchange of tourism data, promotion of lesser-known destinations, cine-tourism, destination twinning, skilling and capacity building, and business-to-business engagement, and to keep stakeholders talking between formal…