SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

Working at CERN, the European nuclear research organisation, he proposed a hypertext system in 1989 and by 1991 had written HTML, the first web browser and the first web server, and he went on to found the World Wide Web Consortium, which maintains the standards.

Hypertext means text that carries links to other text, so that a reader can jump from one document to another instead of reading in a fixed order, and markup means the system of tags that labels each part of the content for the browser.

A form is the part of a page that collects information from the visitor, and the individual items placed in it to receive that information are called controls, or form controls: the text box, password box, radio button, check box, drop-down list, text area, submit button and reset button.

An HTML document has two parts inside the html element, and the body is the one that holds everything the visitor actually sees: headings, paragraphs, images, tables, lists, links and forms.

It is a shorthand property, which means it sets several related properties in a single declaration: the type of the marker, its position and an image to use as the marker, in any order and with the omitted ones falling back to their default values.

Holkar was defeated at Mahidpur in the Third Anglo-Maratha War and signed the Treaty of Mandasor in 1818, accepting British control over his foreign relations.

Baji Rao II surrendered to the British in June 1818 at the close of the Third Anglo-Maratha War and was removed from the Deccan altogether, being granted a pension and a residence at Bithur in the Ganga plain.

After the Treaty of Bassein of December 1802, Scindia and the Bhonsle of Nagpur took the field against the Company.

Hyder Ali led Mysore into that war in 1780, defeated a British force at Pollilur the same year and died of a carbuncle in December 1782 while the war was still being fought.

It was the last and decisive engagement of the First Anglo-Sikh War and was followed within weeks by the Treaty of Lahore of 9 March 1846.

The Second Anglo-Sikh War of 1848 to 1849 began with the revolt of Mulraj at Multan and was decided by the battles of Chillianwala in January 1849 and Gujrat in February 1849.

After the First Anglo-Sikh War the Treaty of Lahore of 9 March 1846 imposed a war indemnity of one and a half crore rupees on the Sikh state, which it could not pay.

He fought the Third Anglo-Maratha War of 1817 to 1818 as one campaign against the Pindaris and the Maratha chiefs, defeating the Peshwa at Khadki, the Bhonsle at Sitabuldi and Holkar at Mahidpur.

Signed in 1782 during the governor-generalship of Warren Hastings, the Treaty of Salbai restored to each side the territory held before the war, recognised Madhavrao II as Peshwa and gave the Company and the Marathas roughly twenty years of peace, until the Treaty of Bassein upset the balance in 1802.

Defeated by Yashwantrao Holkar at Poona, the Peshwa fled to British protection and signed the Treaty of Bassein on 31 December 1802, accepting a subsidiary alliance under which a British force was stationed in his territory and his foreign relations passed to the Company.

Lord Wellesley, who wanted every major state inside his subsidiary alliance system, accused Tipu Sultan of corresponding with the French.

The Second Anglo-Mysore War, fought from 1780 to 1784, ended with the Treaty of Mangalore signed in 1784 between Tipu Sultan and the English East India Company on the basis of mutual restitution of conquered territory.

The Thal Ghat, also called the Kasara Ghat, is the climb by which the road and railway from Mumbai reach Nashik and continue towards central India, while the Bhor Ghat is the climb by which the Mumbai to Pune road and railway cross the Sahyadri, passing Khandala and Lonavala.

Matheran, in the Raigad district of Maharashtra, is an eco-sensitive hill station where motor vehicles are not allowed within the town; visitors walk, ride horses or use hand-pulled carts, and the Matheran Hill Railway, a narrow gauge line from Neral, is the classic way to reach it.

The Karakoram Pass crosses the Karakoram range north of the Nubra valley and was the crucial crossing on the centuries-old caravan route that carried pashmina wool, silk and tea between Leh and Yarkand in Xinjiang.