SSC GK Questions 2026

The ruler of Amber and founder of Jaipur built the Delhi Jantar Mantar in 1724, the first of the five observatories he raised, the others being at Jaipur, Ujjain, Mathura and Varanasi.

He began the tower, of which only the first storey was raised in his lifetime, and it stands beside the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque he built in the Qutub complex.

Shah Jahan built the fort between 1639 and 1648 as the citadel of his new capital Shahjahanabad, and it was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2007.

After the 1911 announcement the two British architects planned the new capital, Lutyens designing the Viceroy's House, now Rashtrapati Bhavan, and laying out the central vista, while Baker designed the two Secretariat blocks on Raisina Hill and the circular Council House that became Parliament House.

At the Delhi Durbar held on 12 December 1911, King George V, who had come to India for his coronation durbar, announced that the capital of British India would be moved from Calcutta to Delhi.

The Delhi Legislative Assembly has seventy seats, all filled by direct election, and the Council of Ministers may not be larger than a tenth of that strength, which means at most seven ministers including the Chief Minister.

It inserted Articles 239AA and 239AB into the Constitution, renamed the union territory of Delhi as the National Capital Territory of Delhi and gave it a legislative assembly and a council of ministers, with the arrangement coming into force in February 1992.

The Delhi Metro was the first metro and rail based system in the world to be certified by the United Nations for earning carbon credits, because its regenerative braking returns electricity to the grid each time a train slows.

In a non-fund based facility the bank does not part with money at the time the facility is granted; it only undertakes to pay if the customer fails to, and it charges a commission for that undertaking.

The Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana was launched in April 2015 to refinance small business loans given by banks, non-banking finance companies and micro finance institutions to non-farm income generating activities.

A domestic scheduled commercial bank must lend forty per cent of its adjusted net bank credit, or of the credit equivalent of its off balance sheet exposure if that is higher, to the priority sector.

The real rate of interest is the nominal rate less the rate of inflation, so seven per cent minus six per cent leaves roughly one per cent.

The marginal standing facility lets a bank borrow overnight from the Reserve Bank by dipping into the government securities it holds for the statutory liquidity ratio, up to a prescribed share of its net demand and time liabilities.

Under the Reserve Bank's income recognition and asset classification norms, a term loan becomes a non-performing asset when interest or an instalment of principal stays overdue beyond ninety days, and a cash credit or overdraft account becomes one when it remains out of order for the same period.

Section 58 of that Act defines a mortgage as the transfer of an interest in specific immovable property to secure a loan, and it names six kinds: simple mortgage, mortgage by conditional sale, usufructuary mortgage, English mortgage, mortgage by deposit of title deeds, which is also called an equitable mortgage…

In hypothecation a charge is created on movable property, such as a financed vehicle or the stock in a trader's shop, while the borrower keeps and uses the goods.

Under the BPLR system a bank announced a prime rate for its best customers and then lent to many borrowers below it, so the announced rate told a customer very little and the lending book was not transparent.

The Reserve Bank introduced the MCLR from that date so that the price of a loan would follow the marginal, that is the latest, cost of raising funds rather than the average cost of old deposits.

The South Asia Poverty Alleviation Programme model is called the international model of self help group formation because it was taken up with the support of the United Nations Development Programme and followed the same design across South Asian countries, beginning in India in the districts of Andhra Pradesh.

The Kisan Credit Card scheme was introduced in 1998 on the recommendation of the R V Gupta Committee and is worked by commercial banks, regional rural banks and cooperative banks.