SSC GK Questions 2026

The meeting is hosted by the Institute of Nano Medical Sciences of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Delhi, which is why the capital is the venue.

The Home Minister said the railways burnt 293 crore litres of diesel in 2015-16 and that the quantity had come down to 108 crore litres by 2024-25, a fall he linked to the spread of electric traction and one he felt received little notice.

The engine put into service at Sabarmati is a twin-section machine of that rating, and it can pull on its own a load that would otherwise need roughly 600 trucks.

The correct answer is Rs 1,472 crore, the combined worth of the works opened and the foundation stones laid at Sabarmati on the day the first LNG-powered train was flagged off.

The first train in India to run on liquefied natural gas was sent on its way from Sabarmati Railway Station in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, by the Union Home and Cooperation Minister, who described the step as useful for protecting the environment.

He founded the Suryavamsi Gajapati dynasty of Odisha in 1435. Kapilendra Deva was a minister who took the throne when the Eastern Ganga line ended, and he built the largest empire Odisha ever had, stretching from the lower Ganga in the north to the Kaveri in the south.

India's literacy rate at independence in 1947 is put at about 12 per cent. Colonial education reached only a thin urban layer, and the figure for women was far lower, around six per cent.

Ranmale is a folk theatre of Goa, performed mainly in the Sattari and Sanguem areas. It is staged at night in the open during the Shigmo festival and around Holi, in front of a village temple.

Lead and mercury are in fact the poorest conductors of heat among the metals, so calling them the best is wrong.

Jog Falls is in the Shivamogga district of Karnataka. The Sharavathi river drops about 253 metres here in four separate streams known as Raja, Rani, Rocket and Roarer, which makes Jog one of the highest plunge waterfalls in India.

The SENSEX tracks thirty large, well traded companies listed on the BSE. The name is short for Sensitive Index.

The Bahmani buildings at Gulbarga belong to the Deccan or Provincial style of Indo-Islamic architecture. When the Bahmani sultanate broke away from Delhi in 1347 it developed its own manner, blending Persian and Turkish ideas brought by architects from Iran with local craft and stone.

SIDBI is the apex institution for micro, small and medium enterprises. It was set up in 1990 under an Act of Parliament, began work on 2 April that year, and has its head office at Lucknow.

The Representation of the People Act was passed in 1951, before the first general election. Parliament made two laws under Articles 327 and 328.

It is a private sector joint venture, not a public sector insurer. SBI Life was set up in 2001 as a partnership between the State Bank of India and BNP Paribas Cardif of France.

Epithelium covers the body and lines its organs, so it is the protective tissue. It forms the outer layer of the skin, the lining of the mouth, stomach, intestine, blood vessels and kidney tubules.

Silk comes from the cocoon spun by the caterpillar of a moth. The common silk moth is Bombyx mori, and rearing it is called sericulture.

The Basel Norms are international standards for banking supervision. They are issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, which works under the Bank for International Settlements at Basel in Switzerland.

Tholu Bommalata is the leather shadow puppet theatre of Andhra Pradesh. The name means the dance of leather dolls.

Calaverite is gold telluride, with the formula AuTe2. It is one of the very few minerals in which gold occurs chemically combined rather than as the free metal, because gold is a noble metal that usually resists reaction.