SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

It was created by the amendment of the Wild Life (Protection) Act in 2006, which gave Project Tiger a statutory footing, and it approves tiger conservation plans, notifies core and buffer areas with the states and conducts the national tiger estimation.

Project Tiger began on 1 April 1973 with a small group of reserves, Jim Corbett among the first, and introduced the idea of a strictly protected core area with a buffer zone of regulated use around it.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited is a public sector undertaking, which means the government holds the majority of its shares and controls its management.

Onam is the harvest festival of Kerala and is kept in the Malayalam month of Chingam, which falls in August and September.

Convection is the transfer of heat by the bodily movement of the particles of a fluid. The part that is heated expands, becomes lighter and rises, and colder, denser fluid sinks to take its place, so a circulating convection current is set up.

A desert shows the largest difference between day and night temperature, called the diurnal range, because dry sand heats up quickly in the day and the cloudless, moisture-free air lets that heat escape just as quickly after sunset.

The Secretary also administered the Swachhata Pledge, led the Gandhi Jayanti shramdaan around Technology Bhawan and felicitated the Safai Mitras at the samman shivir, so the office appears repeatedly through the campaign.

Under the Safai Mitra Suraksha initiative, the department arranged a financial awareness session through the securities regulator on 23 September 2026, and it was open to housekeeping staff as well as to the scientists, officers and officials of the department, the aim being to improve financial awareness and the general…

The campaign started on that date across the department, its autonomous institutions and the offices of the Survey of India located throughout the country, and officials took the Swachhata Pledge the very next day, administered by the Secretary.

At the Safai Mitra Suraksha Evam Samman Shivir held on 29 September 2026, the Secretary of the department felicitated 110 Safai Mitras in recognition of their contribution to cleanliness and hygiene at the department, an exercise meant to underline the dignity of sanitation work.

The inaugural session saw the launch of a BRICS Compendium on Perspectives in Sustainable Transport, which gathers approaches to sustainability in the transport sector and gives the conclave an international dimension alongside its Centre-state agenda.

The venue is worth remembering in full, because questions are set on the district as readily as on the state, and Ekta Nagar is the settlement beside the Statue of Unity that now hosts a steady stream of national conferences.

The motto is not decorative: one of the thematic sessions is devoted to PM GatiShakti and integrated infrastructure planning, so the slogan and the agenda match.

The correct answer is Nitin Gadkari, the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, who inaugurated the conclave at Tent City 2 near the Statue of Unity at Ekta Nagar in the Narmada district of Gujarat.

Kalpakkam, on the coast south of Chennai, carries the Madras Atomic Power Station with its two indigenous pressurised heavy water reactors and the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, the centre of India's fast breeder reactor programme under the Department of Atomic Energy.

Coimbatore, on the Noyyal river below the Palakkad Gap, earned the name from its cotton mills, textile machinery works and pump industry, and the nearby Tiruppur is the knitwear and hosiery centre.

The Thirukkural of the poet Thiruvalluvar has 1,330 couplets arranged in 133 chapters of ten each, grouped into three parts on virtue, wealth and love, and the 133 foot statue of Thiruvalluvar off Kanyakumari records those 133 chapters.

On 10 July 1806 the Indian sepoys of the garrison at Vellore in present day Tamil Nadu rose against their British officers over new regulations on dress, beards and caste marks, and the rising, though crushed within a day, is remembered as the first major mutiny of Indian soldiers, half…

The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, notified in 1986, was the first biosphere reserve in India and spreads across Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, taking in Mudumalai, Mukurthi, Bandipur, Wayanad and Silent Valley.

The Nilgiri tahr, a wild goat found only on the higher slopes of the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, is the state animal of Tamil Nadu, and the Mukurthi national park and the Anamalai hills are its strongholds.