SSC Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

The Constitution does not fix any time limit within which the President must give or withhold assent to an ordinary bill.

Article 143 gives the Supreme Court its advisory jurisdiction: when a question of law or fact of public importance has arisen or is likely to arise, the President may refer it to the Court for its opinion.

Article 72 gives the President the power to grant pardons, reprieves, respites or remissions of punishment, and to suspend, remit or commute a sentence.

Article 61 sets out the only way a President can be removed before the end of the term: impeachment for "violation of the Constitution".

Article 56(1)(a) says the President may resign by writing under his or her hand addressed to the Vice-President. The Vice-President must then communicate the resignation to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha without delay.

Under Article 60, the President takes the oath or affirmation before the Chief Justice of India, or, in the Chief Justice's absence, before the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court.

Article 58 lays down four qualifications for the President: the person must be a citizen of India, must have completed 35 years of age, must be qualified for election as a member of the Lok Sabha, and must not hold any office of profit under the Union, a State or…

Under Article 54, the President is elected by an electoral college made up only of elected members: the elected members of both Houses of Parliament and the elected members of the Legislative Assemblies of the States, and, since the 70th Amendment of 1992, of the Union Territories of Delhi and…

The polar easterlies blow out of the high pressure belts over the poles towards the sub-polar low pressure belts, so they carry extremely cold and dry air.

The Foreign Exchange Management Act was passed in 1999 and came into force on 1 June 2000, replacing the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act of 1973.

Value added tax replaced the old general sales tax from 1 April 2005, when most states adopted it on the recommendation of the empowered committee of state finance ministers.

IBM and Coca-Cola wound up their Indian operations in 1977 rather than dilute their holdings to 40 per cent. The Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, passed in 1973, required foreign companies to cut their equity in Indian subsidiaries to that level and to obtain permission for most dealings in foreign exchange.

The Sun temple at Konark in Odisha was built in the thirteenth century by Narasimhadeva I of the Eastern Ganga dynasty.

El Nino is the warming of the surface water of the central and eastern Pacific, and it weakens the trade winds that normally blow from east to west across that ocean.

Hiralal Chaudhuri is called the father of the Blue Revolution, the sharp rise in India's fish production.

The language panel on the reverse of an Indian banknote carries the value of the note in 15 languages. Hindi and English are not part of that panel: they appear on the front of the note, so the total number of languages printed on a note comes to 17.

Ustad Bismillah Khan was the shehnai player who lifted that instrument from wedding processions to the concert stage.

Mahavira attained nirvana, or salvation, at Pavapuri in the Nalanda district of Bihar, at the age of 72. He was the twenty-fourth and last Tirthankara of Jainism, born at Kundagrama near Vaishali to Siddhartha and Trishala.

Gross Domestic Product counts the value of final goods and services produced inside a country during a year. Only final output is added, because the value of intermediate goods is already inside the price of the finished product, and counting both would be double counting.

In a cognizable offence the police may register a case, start an investigation and arrest a person without any order from a magistrate.