SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is B, the Bombay High Court, whose jurisdiction extends over Maharashtra, Goa and this Union Territory, with benches at Nagpur, Aurangabad and Panaji.

Diu lies off the southern edge of the Kathiawar or Saurashtra peninsula of Gujarat and is joined to the mainland by bridges across a narrow creek; the Portuguese obtained it in 1535 by a treaty with Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat and built the fort that still dominates the island.

Silvassa is the chief town of that landlocked district and was the capital of the former Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli before the merger of 2020; it is also the industrial heart of the territory, with large estates for textiles, plastics, engineering and chemicals, and it holds the…

The correct answer is B, the Daman Ganga, which rises in the Western Ghats, flows west through Dadra and Nagar Haveli and reaches the Arabian Sea at Daman, splitting the town into Nani Daman on the north bank and Moti Daman on the south; the Madhuban dam on this river…

The correct answer is B, Operation Vijay of December 1961, in which the Indian armed forces took Goa, Daman and Diu from Portugal, ending more than four centuries of Portuguese rule on the western coast.

The correct answer is A, the Tenth Amendment of 1961, which inserted Dadra and Nagar Haveli into the Constitution as a Union Territory; the area had been freed from Portuguese rule by volunteers in 1954 and administered separately until then.

The correct answer is B, three: Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu.

The correct answer is C, Daman, which was made the capital of the merged Union Territory in 2020.

The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Act was passed in 2019 but was brought into force on Republic Day 2020, merging the two small Union Territories into one with its capital at Daman.

The correct answer is A, C-DAC, Pune, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, which besides building India's PARAM series of supercomputers created the GIST range of Indian language technology, including the add-on card and software that let ordinary computers display and print Indian scripts, and the LEAP Office suite…

The Technology Development for Indian Languages programme, known as TDIL, develops and distributes fonts, dictionaries, corpora, optical character recognition, speech and machine translation tools for Indian languages, and it maintains a data centre from which these resources are shared.

Every Devanagari consonant carries an inherent short vowel, and the virama cancels it, giving the bare consonant; when a bare consonant is followed by another consonant the rendering engine joins the two into a conjunct or half form, which is why the virama is the key character in Devanagari text…

Standard ASCII uses seven bits, and two raised to the power seven is 128, which covers the uppercase and lowercase English letters, the ten digits, punctuation and thirty-three control characters.

UTF-8 is a variable width encoding: code points up to U+007F take one byte, the next range takes two bytes, code points from U+0800 up to the end of the Basic Multilingual Plane take three bytes, and anything beyond that plane takes four.

The correct answer is A, Mangal, the Devanagari Unicode font shipped with Windows and the font that government typing tests pair with the InScript layout; later Windows versions also carry Nirmala UI, Aparajita, Kokila and Utsaah as Unicode Devanagari fonts.

Kruti Dev places Devanagari glyphs on the code positions of English letters, so the computer stores ordinary ASCII characters while the reader sees Hindi; open the file on a machine without that font and the text appears as meaningless Roman letters and symbols, and it cannot be searched or indexed.

InScript, short for Indian Script, is the standard layout notified by the Government of India and built into Windows, Linux, macOS and Android; it places vowels and matras under the left hand and consonants under the right in the dictionary order of the script, so the same layout works for…

ISCII was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards as IS 13194 in 1991; it is an 8-bit code whose lower 128 positions are the same as ASCII and whose upper 128 positions carry an Indian script, a single table serving ten scripts because they share the phonetic order inherited…

This block of 128 code points holds the Devanagari consonants and independent vowels, the dependent vowel signs or matras, the virama, the nukta, the danda and double danda, and the Devanagari digits; characters added later sit in a separate Devanagari Extended block.

The correct answer is A, the Unicode Consortium, a non-profit body of software companies, governments and individual experts that publishes the Unicode Standard, assigns code points to characters and releases a new version with new scripts and symbols from time to time.