SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

System software manages the machine itself and gives other programs a place to work: it includes the operating system, device drivers, the language translators and the utility programs.

Amrita Pritam's Punjabi novel Pinjar, meaning the skeleton, tells the story of Puro, a woman abducted on the eve of Partition, and was filmed in 2003 under the same name; Pritam also wrote the famous Partition poem addressed to Waris Shah and received the Jnanpith Award.

Nastanirh, meaning the broken nest, is Tagore's novella about a lonely wife in a Calcutta household, and Satyajit Ray filmed it in 1964 as Charulata, a film Ray himself named as the one he would change least.

Mario Puzo published The Godfather in 1969, and Francis Ford Coppola filmed it in 1972; Puzo also worked on the screenplay, for which he shared an Academy Award.

Umrao Jaan Ada, published in 1899, is counted among the first novels in Urdu and tells the story of a courtesan of Lucknow; Muzaffar Ali filmed it in 1981 with Rekha in the title role.

Omkara, released in 2006 and set in the politics of western Uttar Pradesh, follows the plot of Othello, with the handkerchief of the play becoming a waistband in the film.

Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT, published in 2004, was Chetan Bhagat's first novel and supplied the story of three engineering students that became 3 Idiots, directed by Rajkumar Hirani in 2009.

Q & A was written by Vikas Swarup, a diplomat, and was adapted by Danny Boyle as Slumdog Millionaire, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture; A. R. Rahman won the awards for Best Original Score and, with Gulzar, for Best Original Song, and Resul Pookutty won for sound…

Premchand's Hindi short story Shatranj Ke Khilari, about two noblemen of Awadh absorbed in chess while their kingdom is annexed, was filmed by Satyajit Ray in 1977, the director's only Hindi feature; Ray also made Sadgati from another Premchand story.

His novel Pather Panchali gave Satyajit Ray the material for his first film, released in 1955, and for Aparajito, the two with Apur Sansar forming the Apu Trilogy.

R. K. Narayan's novel The Guide, published in 1958 and set in his imagined town of Malgudi, won him the Sahitya Akademi Award and was filmed as Guide in 1965 with Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman.

Article 18 abolishes titles: the State may not confer any title that is not a military or academic distinction, and a citizen may not accept a title from a foreign state.

The Param Vir Chakra, instituted on 26 January 1950 with effect from 15 August 1947, is India's highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy and so takes the place the Victoria Cross held before independence; it was designed by Savitri Khanolkar and its first recipient was Major…

Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India at the Delhi Durbar of 1877, and the Order of the Indian Empire was created the following year to honour a wider and more junior group of officials than the Star of India covered; its motto, Imperatricis auspiciis, means under the auspices of…

Instituted by the East India Company in 1837, the Indian Order of Merit was the oldest gallantry decoration in India and, until 1911, the only such award open to Indian soldiers, who could not then receive the Victoria Cross.

Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, and it bears the words For Valour; the award was then backdated so that acts of gallantry from 1854 onwards, during the Crimean War, could be recognised.

A sepoy of the 129th Baluchis, Khudadad Khan won the Victoria Cross for holding his machine gun position in Belgium in October 1914, becoming the first Indian to receive the decoration after Indian soldiers were made eligible for it in 1911.

After troops under General Dyer fired on a gathering at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar on 13 April 1919, Tagore wrote to the Viceroy, Lord Chelmsford, on 31 May 1919, renouncing the knighthood conferred on him in 1915.

Gandhi had been awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind in 1915 for raising an ambulance corps in South Africa, and in 1920 he returned it in a letter to the Viceroy, giving up two South African war medals at the same time, as part of the surrender of titles and honours that the…

Queen Victoria instituted the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal in 1900 for distinguished public service in India, and unlike the orders of chivalry it was open to any person of any rank, Indian or European, man or woman, in gold, silver and bronze classes.