SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan received the 56th Jnanpith Award and the Konkani writer Damodar Mauzo the 57th; both were announced together in December 2021.

National Waterway 2 is the 891 km stretch of the Brahmaputra between Sadiya and Dhubri in Assam. It was declared a national waterway in 1988 and is managed by the Inland Waterways Authority of India, set up in 1986 with its headquarters at Noida.

Census is entry 69 of the Union List, so placing it in the Concurrent List is the wrong pair. The Seventh Schedule divides legislative subjects among the Union List, the State List and the Concurrent List under Article 246.

The Onge, the Jarawa and the Sentinelese are all native tribes of the Andaman Islands.

Light keeps to a straight line only while its speed stays the same, which happens in a homogeneous, transparent medium.

. Cathode rays behave the same whatever gas is in the tube, so the statement that they depend on the gas is not correct.

The Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh received the 52nd Jnanpith Award, for the year 2016. The Jnanpith Award is given by the Bharatiya Jnanpith trust for an outstanding contribution to literature in Indian languages, and is India's highest literary honour.

Monpa is spoken in Arunachal Pradesh, not in Jammu and Kashmir. The Monpa people live mainly in the Tawang and West Kameng districts of Arunachal Pradesh, and their language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman group.

Pragyan was a six-wheeled rover carried inside the Vikram lander. Chandrayaan-2 was launched on 22 July 2019 by the GSLV Mk III with an orbiter, the Vikram lander and the Pragyan rover.

Silver reacts with sulphur compounds in the air, mainly hydrogen sulphide, and forms a black coating of silver sulphide. This blackening is the tarnishing of silver, a kind of corrosion.

Article 80(3) lists literature, science, art and social service as the fields for the President's nominations, and state service is not among them.

The IUCN publishes the Red List of Threatened Species, the world's main list of species at risk. The IUCN was founded in 1948 and has its headquarters at Gland in Switzerland.

The UN General Assembly fixed 15 September as the International Day of Democracy. The General Assembly adopted the resolution in 2007, and the day was first observed in 2008.

The Act's definition covers any unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct of a sexual nature, so all three count.

The scientist leading the session explained that fertiliser applied indiscriminately pushes up the cost of cultivation and causes nutrient imbalances, whereas application decided by soil-test results, the requirement of the crop and the condition of the orchard improves nutrient-use efficiency and supports production that can be sustained.

The programme was built around balanced fertilisation, soil health, nutrient recycling, crop diversification and the sustainable management of mango and litchi orchards, and the institute described its aim as strengthening climate-resilient livelihoods in the mango and litchi growing areas of East Champaran in Bihar.

The ICAR-Mahatma Gandhi Integrated Farming Research Institute is situated at Motihari and functions under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education; it organised the farmer awareness and field interaction programme at Kothia Hariram village in the Mehsi block of East Champaran district.

The ministry highlighted the contribution of the National Handloom Development Corporation Limited at Noida, whose offices held cleanliness drives, competitions and a tree plantation under Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam between 2 and 23 October 2026.

The ministry completed the review of every physical file it had identified for the purpose, and that total was 5,593, one of the parameters it reported as fully finished in the progress up to 25 October 2026.

Ministries run Special Campaign 6 under its guidance, and it has set up the web portal on which each ministry uploads progress so that the drive can be monitored centrally.