SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, approved this outlay on 14 October 2026 when it cleared the continuation of the National Social Assistance Programme for five years and renamed it the Pradhan Mantri Samajik Sahayata Yojana.

The Commission organised the conference on national and state perspectives on co-operative federalism and law reforms, and it was held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, where the Vice-President opened it.

Speaking at the Law Commission of India conference, the Vice-President pointed to the repeal of over 1,700 obsolete laws in the past twelve years, together with the replacement of three criminal laws inherited from colonial rule, as the major steps taken to modernise the legal framework of the country.

Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan inaugurated the conference at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 22 October 2026, and in his address he asked States to clear outdated laws from their statute books and described legal reform as a condition for Viksit Bharat @2047.

In this chain each organism is eaten by the next: grass, a producer, is eaten by the goat, a herbivore, and the goat is eaten by humans, so energy passes in a straight line.

Nagaland was the only Indian state whose population fell between 2001 and 2011; its decadal growth rate in Census 2011 was about −0.6 per cent.

Scurvy is caused by a lack of vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, which the body needs to make collagen, the protein that holds skin, gums and blood vessels together.

Chloropropane has two carbon–carbon bonds, seven carbon–hydrogen bonds and one carbon–chlorine bond, all single covalent bonds, making 10 in total.

Beats are heard when two sound waves of slightly different frequencies overlap, so their combined loudness rises and falls regularly.

Fleming's right-hand rule is used for electromagnetic induction, as in a generator, and its middle finger gives the direction of the current induced in the conductor.

NCERT's Class 10 chemistry chapter on acids, bases and salts states that our body works within the narrow pH range of 7.0 to 7.8, which is slightly basic.

Cowasjee Nanabhoy Davar, a Parsi businessman of Bombay, set up the Bombay Spinning and Weaving Company, which began production in 1856 and is regarded as India's first modern cotton mill.

Mahendragiri, about 1,501 metres high, stands in the Gajapati district of southern Odisha, close to the Andhra Pradesh border.

The Abhijit Sen Committee dealt with agricultural economics, not local self-government. Its best-known reports were on a long-term grain policy in 2002 and on whether futures trading pushed up farm prices in 2008.

The bronchi only carry air between the windpipe and the lungs; their walls are too thick for oxygen and carbon dioxide to pass into the blood, so no gas exchange happens there.

All four are parts of the two complex permanent tissues of plants: tracheids and vessels belong to xylem, while sieve tubes and companion cells belong to phloem.

Sunlight takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds, roughly 500 seconds, to travel from the Sun to the Earth. The average distance between the Sun and the Earth is about 150 million kilometres, a distance called one astronomical unit.

In 1665 Hooke looked at a thin slice of cork under his self-made microscope, saw tiny box-like compartments and named them cells, from the Latin word cella, meaning a small room.

Majuli lies in the Brahmaputra in Assam, formed between the main channel of the Brahmaputra to the south and the Subansiri and Kherkutia Suti channels to the north.

This is false because viruses have no chlorophyll, no cell organelles and no metabolism of their own, so they cannot make food in any way.