SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Considering the gravity of the incident at the Bijwasan Fee Plaza, the authority issued a show cause notice proposing that the agency and also its owners and directors be barred from participating in future NHAI tenders for a year.

Along with debarring M/s Riddhi Siddhi Associates from any ongoing or future tender of the authority for one month, NHAI imposed a penalty of that amount on the firm for the misbehaviour of its personnel with road users.

The National Highways Authority of India placed the Bijwasan Fee Plaza on that highway when it described the incident of 5 November 2026, in which personnel of the user fee collection agency misbehaved with road users.

The department held that felicitation for sanitation workers, together with a health camp for them, on 8 October 2026 to recognise their contribution and support their well-being.

That is the number of grievances settled on the dedicated one-day event of 30 October 2026, when field functionaries and the community took part on a large scale.

Both the Ministry of Women and Child Development and the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation state that the drive to institutionalise Swachhata and clear pending references ran through that window, and that States and Union Territories held a dedicated one-day event within it on 30 October 2026.

According to the Ministry of Defence, the two countries lifted their bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership in that year, after signing a Memorandum of Understanding on Defence Cooperation in September 2022.

The eleventh sitting of the India-Egypt Joint Defence Committee took place in the Egyptian capital in April 2026, and it supplied an institutional framework for taking forward the defence commitments agreed under the Memorandum of Understanding on Defence Cooperation that the two countries signed in September 2022.

The Ministry of Defence stated that INS Trishul finished her call at Safaga in Egypt on 9 November 2026, as one leg of a continuing operational deployment, and then sailed for the next phase of that deployment.

The Union Cabinet approved an incentive scheme of this size in September 2025 under the National Critical Mineral Mission, to build capacity for separating and producing critical minerals from secondary sources such as battery waste and electronic waste.

Black mass, the powder obtained from shredding end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and battery manufacturing waste, holds recoverable quantities of lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese, so options A, B and C are all named in the notification.

The notification issued by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade names the item as Lithium-Ion Battery Black Mass falling under this code, which covers waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators, along with spent cells and accumulators that are unsorted and carry no lead, cadmium or…

The inaugural gallery on this theme is expected to open to the public in the North Block in the later part of 2027, after which galleries will be added in a modular way.

The museum is being created through adaptive reuse of these historic buildings after government offices move out of them, so that their architectural and heritage character survives while they take on a new role as a public cultural institution.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared the museum at this estimated cost, a figure appraised by the Public Investment Board, and the Ministry of Culture concurred with its recommendations.

The government supplies this many grades of phosphatic and potassic fertilizers, di-ammonium phosphate among them, to farmers at subsidised prices through fertilizer manufacturers and importers.

From that date the subsidy on phosphatic and potassic fertilizers has been paid under the Nutrient Based Subsidy regime, in which the government fixes a per-kilogram subsidy on each nutrient rather than on each bag, and pays it to manufacturers and importers at notified rates.

The Cabinet put this figure on the Nutrient Based Subsidy for the Rabi season of 2026-27 on phosphatic and potassic fertilizers, with the rates running from 01.10.2026 to 31.03.2027.

A lower fee reduces the cost a lending institution has to carry for buying guarantee cover, and that cost is ultimately reflected in what the micro borrower pays.

The Credit Guarantee Fund for Micro Units gives lending institutions cover against default risk, and that cover is routed through NCGTC, which acts as the trustee for the fund.