SSC GK Questions 2026

The Ministry of Panchayati Raj is a Union ministry, and like every ministry of the Government of India it works from the national capital, New Delhi.

The Reserve Bank of India was nationalised on 1 January 1949 under the Reserve Bank of India (Transfer to Public Ownership) Act, 1948.

Gulzarilal Nanda became the first Deputy Chairman when the Planning Commission began work in 1950, and he later became interim Prime Minister twice, in 1964 and 1966.

Regional Rural Banks were set up under the Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976, after the Narasimham Working Group of 1975 recommended small banks close to the villages.

Rana Pratap Sagar Dam stands on the Chambal at Rawatbhata in the Chittorgarh district of Rajasthan. It is one of the four structures of the Chambal Valley Project: Gandhi Sagar Dam upstream in Madhya Pradesh, then Rana Pratap Sagar, Jawahar Sagar and the Kota Barrage in Rajasthan.

Shillong is the capital of Meghalaya, the hill state whose name means abode of the clouds. Meghalaya was carved out of Assam and became a full state on 21 January 1972, the same day as Manipur and Tripura.

Altitude and slope, which together make up relief, decide how much soil collects at a place, not how fast humus forms.

Nainital, the eye-shaped lake, lies in the Kumaon hills of Uttarakhand at a height of about 1,938 metres. The town grew around it after the British trader P. Barron reached the lake in 1841, and it became the summer capital of the United Provinces.

Amir Khusro was the court poet and musician of Alauddin Khalji, and he lived in the courts of several Delhi sultans from Balban's time to Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq.

The Delhi Sultanate began in 1206, when Qutb-ud-din Aibak became the first sultan after the death of Muhammad Ghori, and ended in 1526, when Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi at the First Battle of Panipat.

Hamida Banu Begum was the wife of Humayun and the mother of Akbar, who was born to her in 1542 at Amarkot in Sindh.

Akbar won over the Rajput rulers through marriage alliances and high ranks, turning old rivals into pillars of the Mughal empire.

Part IV, Articles 36 to 51, lists the Directive Principles that guide the State in making laws for a welfare state.

The Fourth Schedule allots the seats of the Rajya Sabha, the Council of States, among the States and Union Territories.

Article 343(1) declares that the official language of the Union shall be Hindi in the Devanagari script, with the international form of Indian numerals for official purposes.

Article 21-A was inserted by the Constitution (86th Amendment) Act, 2002, making free and compulsory education for children aged six to fourteen a Fundamental Right.

Article 154 says the executive power of a State is vested in the Governor, who exercises it directly or through officers under him, exactly as Article 53 does for the President at the Centre.

Magnification is a ratio of two lengths, so the units cancel and it is a pure number. For a mirror or a lens, magnification m equals the height of the image divided by the height of the object (h′/h).

A ray that passes through the optical centre of a thin lens comes out in the same direction, without any bending.

Red cabbage is a natural acid-base indicator, methyl orange is a synthetic acid-base indicator, and onion and clove are olfactory indicators.