SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The scheme for carbon capture, utilisation and storage was announced in February 2026 and the Ministry of Finance set aside that sum over five years for five industrial sectors, namely power, steel, cement, refineries and chemicals.

Twenty-nine central labour laws have been merged into four Labour Codes, and the exercise came with a set of threshold changes that are easy to ask about.

India drew that much foreign direct investment over the twelve financial years from FY 2014-15 to FY 2025-26, which is 169 per cent more than in the twelve years before it.

It also runs the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme, the Fund of Funds for Startups and the Credit Guarantee Scheme for Startups.

India had 10.38 crore people aged 60 and above at the Census of 2011, split into 5.11 crore men and 5.27 crore women, and the elderly population is projected to rise to 23 crore by 2036.

That is the amount released as grant-in-aid to 755 projects under the Integrated Programme for Senior Citizens, a component of the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana, for the quarter that ended on 30 September 2026 in financial year 2026-27.

It is the nodal ministry for the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana and handles policy formulation, funding, monitoring and overall implementation through its Department of Social Justice and Empowerment.

The word 'algorithm' comes from the Latin form of his name, Algoritmi, used in translations of his work on Hindu-Arabic numerals.

Lonar was formed by a meteorite impact, and its rocks contain maskelynite, a natural glass that forms only under such high-velocity impacts and is also found in lunar rocks.

Osmosis is the passage of water from where water is more concentrated (a dilute solution) to where it is less concentrated, across a membrane that lets water through but holds back solutes.

The 44th Amendment of 1978 removed 'internal disturbance' from Article 352 and put 'armed rebellion' in its place.

The Citizenship Act, 1955 provides for the acquisition and determination of Indian citizenship after the commencement of the Constitution, which came into force on 26 January 1950.

Under paragraph 6 of the Tenth Schedule, a question of disqualification for defection is decided by the presiding officer of the House.

The 101st Amendment of 2016 brought in GST and inserted Article 269A for the tax on inter-state supplies.

The NCBC became a constitutional body in 2018 and the 1993 Act was repealed, but it is headed by a Chairperson, not by a ministry Secretary.

Ferromagnetism needs the atomic magnets of a substance to line up together in fixed regions called domains, and this happens only in the ordered structure of a solid.

Chemical reactions involve only the outer, or valence, electrons, so these decide how an element behaves. Atoms combine by losing, gaining or sharing their valence electrons to reach a stable arrangement, usually eight electrons in the outer shell.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Geneva-born philosopher, published The Social Contract (Du contrat social) in 1762.

The Himalayas were formed by the collision of two continental plates, the Indian and the Eurasian, and such a collision does not produce volcanoes.

Animal cells are bounded only by a flexible plasma membrane and have no rigid cell wall outside it. A cell wall is found in plants, where it is made mainly of cellulose, in fungi, where it is made of chitin, and in bacteria, where it is made of peptidoglycan.