SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

The High Court of Judicature at Lahore went to Pakistan with the partition, and a new High Court for East Punjab was set up at Shimla on 15 August 1947; its first Chief Justice was Sir Eric Weston, and the court functioned from Shimla until the new capital at Chandigarh…

The Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 carved Haryana out of Punjab on 1 November 1966, transferred the hill areas to Himachal Pradesh and made Chandigarh a Union Territory; from that day the High Court of Punjab became the Punjab and Haryana High Court, a common High Court for the two states…

The common High Court of Punjab, Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh sits at Chandigarh, where the court moved in 1955, and it has no permanent Bench anywhere else, so a writ petition from any district of Haryana is filed there.

Article 243I requires the Governor of a state to constitute a Finance Commission at the end of every fifth year to review the financial position of the panchayats and to recommend how the taxes, duties, tolls and fees of the state should be shared with them, what grants-in-aid they should…

The Twelfth Schedule was inserted by the 74th Amendment Act, 1992 and lists 18 subjects that a state legislature may entrust to municipalities under Article 243W, including urban planning and town planning, regulation of land use, water supply, public health and sanitation, slum improvement, urban poverty alleviation, fire services, burials…

Article 243Q provides three kinds of municipality: a Nagar Panchayat for a transitional area, that is an area turning from rural into urban, a Municipal Council, the Nagar Parishad, for a smaller urban area, and a Municipal Corporation, the Nagar Nigam, for a larger urban area.

Article 243K for panchayats and Article 243ZA for municipalities vest the superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of electoral rolls and the conduct of these elections in a State Election Commission consisting of a State Election Commissioner appointed by the Governor.

Bihar amended its panchayat law and held the panchayat elections of 2006 with fifty per cent of the seats, and of the posts of Mukhiya, Sarpanch, Pramukh and Adhyaksha, reserved for women, which took it well beyond the one-third floor fixed by Article 243D and made it the first state…

The Eleventh Schedule was added by the 73rd Amendment Act, 1992 and lists 29 subjects, among them agriculture, land improvement, minor irrigation, animal husbandry, rural housing, drinking water, roads, rural electrification, poverty alleviation programmes, primary and secondary schools, markets and fairs and public distribution.

Article 243A, inserted by the 73rd Amendment, says that a Gram Sabha may exercise such powers and perform such functions at the village level as the legislature of a state may by law provide, so the body is constitutional but its powers are decided by state law.

The Gram Kachahari is a feature of the Bihar Panchayat Raj Act, 2006 and is a bench of the directly elected Sarpanch and the elected Panches of the panchayat area; it decides small disputes between villagers and may impose a fine in the matters the Act lists, while serious offences…

Under the Bihar Panchayat Raj Act, 2006 the head of a Gram Panchayat is the Mukhiya, who is elected directly by all the voters of the panchayat area, with an Up-Mukhiya as deputy chosen by the elected ward members.

The 73rd Amendment Act was passed by Parliament in 1992 and was brought into force on 24 April 1993, which is why that date is observed every year as National Panchayati Raj Day.

Bali Jatra, meaning the voyage to Bali, is held at Cuttack on the bank of the Mahanadi on Kartik Purnima, when people float small paper and banana bark boats in memory of the merchants of Kalinga who sailed to Bali, Java, Sumatra and Borneo; the same day is marked as…

Korkai lay near the mouth of the Tamraparni in the present Thoothukudi district, and it was the headquarters of the Pandya pearl fishery of the Gulf of Mannar, praised by the Periplus and by the Sangam poets; the sea has since receded and left the site inland.

The correct answer is B, Rajendra I, the son of Rajaraja I, who in 1025 of the Christian era sent a Chola fleet across the Bay of Bengal against Srivijaya, the trading power that controlled the straits of Malacca and Sunda, and recorded the campaign in his inscriptions along with…

The Sangam poems and later Sanskrit texts call pepper yavanapriya, literally dear to the Yavanas, the word used for the Greeks and Romans who crowded the Malabar ports for it.

Around the middle of the first century of the Christian era this pilot is said to have worked out the rhythm of the south west monsoon, after which ships ran straight from the mouth of the Red Sea to the Malabar coast instead of hugging the shore, cutting the voyage…

Tamralipti is modern Tamluk in Purba Medinipur district, on the Rupnarayan river near its meeting with the Hooghly.

Arikamedu, on the Ariyankuppam river near Puducherry, is identified with the Poduke of the Periplus and the Poduke emporion of Ptolemy.