SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

The Kaveri rises in Karnataka at Talakaveri in the Brahmagiri hills, flows through Tamil Nadu to the delta, receives tributaries from Kerala and serves the Karaikal region of Puducherry, so all four are parties.

Article 262 allows Parliament to make a law for the adjudication of any dispute about the use, distribution or control of the waters of an inter-state river or river valley, and to bar the Supreme Court and all other courts from such disputes.

The Damodar Valley Corporation was created by an Act of 1948 as an autonomous body for an entire river basin, with flood control, irrigation, power and navigation under one management, exactly on the pattern of the Tennessee Valley Authority set up in America in 1933.

The Nagarjuna Sagar dam is built across the Krishna at Nandikonda, on the border of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and is one of the largest masonry dams in the country.

The Hirakud dam was built across the Mahanadi in Sambalpur district of Odisha, and with its earthen dykes on both flanks it is the longest dam in the country.

The Bhakra dam stands on the Sutlej at Bhakra in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh, with the Nangal barrage downstream in Punjab, and the reservoir behind it is Govind Sagar.

Drawing on the findings of the Jal Seva Adhayan, the Secretary told the meeting that leakages and breakages in pipelines continue to be the single largest cause of disruption in rural water supply, and that power cuts and low-voltage problems come next.

The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation of the Ministry of Jal Shakti organised the regional review meeting at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, where Professor Gopal Naik, who holds the JJM Professor Chair at that institute, also presented a study on power cost optimisation in Mission schemes.

At the regional review of Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0, the Secretary of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation said that rural drinking water access has been transformed, with more than 15.96 crore rural households now holding tap water connections.

Eight such rail movements, together with four hundred and sixty-seven trucks, were used to carry more than two lakh quintals of buffer onion to one hundred and twenty-three cities, and further rail rakes were being planned so that bigger quantities could reach markets with heavy consumption.

These were named as the major producing States from which fresh kharif onion had started reaching markets, while availability from stored stocks continued to meet demand in the meantime, and arrivals were expected to rise further in the following weeks.

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution said more than two lakh quintals of buffer onion had been disposed of so far, moved by eight Kanda Express rail consignments and four hundred and sixty-seven trucks, and that additional rail rakes were being planned so larger quantities could reach…

Offices taking part in the campaign were told to identify and separate the electronic waste generated during the drive and to dispose of it only through authorised recyclers, following these rules together with the applicable guidelines of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

The preparatory phase of the campaign closed on the last day of September, and the working phase was then taken up for the whole of October, which is why the Department of Science and Technology held a review of readiness with its autonomous institutions and field organisations.

The campaign seeks to strengthen cleanliness in government offices, improve efficiency, ensure that pending matters are disposed of in time and promote better management of official resources.

NEFA, as it was called, was administered by the Governor of Assam on behalf of the Ministry of External Affairs rather than by the Assam government, a reflection of its position on the frontier; it was renamed Arunachal Pradesh and made a Union Territory on 20 January 1972.

The Sela pass, in the high country of the Tawang sector, carries the road from Dirang and Bomdila into Tawang town and is the best known pass of Arunachal Pradesh; Bum La, on the boundary with Tibet, and Pangsau Pass, on the Myanmar border, are the other two worth remembering.

The mithun, Bos frontalis, is a semi-domesticated bovine of the hill forests and is the state animal of Arunachal Pradesh, where it is counted as wealth and used in marriage and ceremonial exchange; it is also the state animal of Nagaland, a point examiners enjoy.

Arunachal Pradesh touches three countries and Nepal is not one of them; Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh lie along the Nepal border, far to the west.

Dree is the agricultural festival of the Apatani of the Ziro valley in Lower Subansiri district, kept in the middle of the year as a prayer against crop failure.