SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

Under the Comptroller and Auditor General (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act of 1971, made under Article 149, he holds office for six years from the date he enters upon it or till he attains the age of sixty five years, whichever is earlier.

It provides that there shall be a Comptroller and Auditor General of India appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal, and goes on to deal with the oath, the removal, the salary and the bar on further office.

Article 151(2) says the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General relating to the accounts of a state shall be submitted to the Governor, who shall cause them to be laid before the legislature of the state.

The framers took the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, along with parliamentary government, the rule of law, single citizenship and the writs, from the British Constitution, where an officer of the same name audits public spending for Parliament.

Article 76 requires the Attorney General to be a person qualified to be appointed a judge of the Supreme Court, which is why the paper puts the answer as Supreme Court Judge.

Article 76 says he is appointed by the President and holds office during the pleasure of the President, and the Constitution prescribes neither a fixed term nor any procedure for his removal.

The correct answer is B, Pali, the popular speech in which the Buddha is believed to have preached and in which the three baskets of the canon were put together, the Vinaya Pitaka on monastic discipline, the Sutta Pitaka on his discourses and the Abhidhamma Pitaka on philosophy.

The record from Eran in present day Madhya Pradesh, of the time of Bhanugupta at the beginning of the sixth century, says that after a chief named Goparaja fell in battle his wife followed him on the funeral pyre, and this is the earliest epigraphic reference to the custom.

The pillar stands at Rummindei in the Nepal terai, records that the king came in person in the twentieth year of his reign to worship at the spot where the Buddha was born, had a stone wall and a pillar set up, and reduced the tax of the village to…

It gives the number of people killed, who died and who were carried away from Kalinga, says the king felt sorrow and remorse, and announces that he would seek conquest through dhamma rather than through war; it also names the Hellenistic kings to whom he sent envoys.

Tolkappiyam, ascribed to Tolkappiyar, is the oldest extant Tamil work and treats grammar along with the conventions of poetry, so it is the foundation of the whole Sangam corpus.

The Junagadh rock inscription of the Shaka ruler Rudradaman I says that the Sudarshana lake, first built in the Mauryan period and improved under Ashoka, burst in a storm and was rebuilt at the ruler own cost without a levy on his subjects.

The inscription at Aihole, composed in Sanskrit by his court poet Ravikirti, praises his achievements and mentions his success against Harshavardhana, which is the only firm evidence that the ruler of Kanauj was checked on the Narmada.

He was a court poet of Samudragupta, and the prashasti he composed in Sanskrit, partly in prose and partly in verse, lists the kings the emperor uprooted in the north, those he defeated and reinstated in the south, and the rulers who paid him homage, which makes it the main…

The inscription is cut in a cave of the Udayagiri hills near Bhubaneswar in Odisha, is written in Prakrit in the Brahmi script, and records year by year the campaigns, irrigation works and patronage of Jainism of this ruler of the Mahameghavahana line.

The words were adopted as the national motto and are inscribed in Devanagari below the lion capital on the state emblem of India.

He was an officer of the East India Company mint and secretary of the Asiatic Society, and in 1837 he worked out the values of the Brahmi letters, which made the edicts of the king who called himself Devanampiya Piyadassi legible for the first time.

Its name comes from saman, a melody, and it arranges hymns, most of them taken from the Rigveda, in the form in which the priest was to sing them at a sacrifice, so the earliest Indian system of musical notes is traced to it.

Selvas is the name given to the equatorial rainforest of the Amazon basin, a multi storeyed evergreen forest of hardwoods such as mahogany, ebony and rosewood, with so many species mixed together that commercial logging of a single kind is difficult.

Hot deserts lie on the western margins of continents roughly between 20 and 30 degrees north and south, under the descending dry air of the subtropical high pressure belt.