SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

This statement is false, because diamond is an electrical insulator: all four valence electrons of each carbon atom are locked in covalent bonds, leaving no free electrons to carry current.

Starlight bends as it passes through layers of air of changing temperature and density, and because these layers keep moving, the star's apparent position and brightness flicker.

Operation Olivia is the Indian Coast Guard's annual mission, begun in the early 1980s, to protect Olive Ridley turtles off the Odisha coast.

Buoyancy, also called upthrust, is the upward force that a liquid or gas exerts on any object placed in it.

All three statements are true: Lachit Borphukan was the Ahom commander who defeated the Mughals at Saraighat, and the NDA's best cadet receives a gold medal in his name.

After fertilisation each structure of the flower turns into the next stage in exactly this way. When a male gamete from the pollen tube fuses with the egg cell inside the ovule, the fertilised egg becomes the zygote.

Water gas is made by passing steam over red-hot coke, and the reaction C + H₂O → CO + H₂ gives carbon monoxide and hydrogen in roughly equal volumes.

Watt's improvements turned the steam engine from a device that merely pumped water out of mines into a source of power for factory machines.

In an apple, the fleshy part we eat develops from the thalamus, the swollen tip of the flower stalk, and not from the ovary, which is why it is called a false fruit.

A ring of muscle at the lower end of the stomach, the pyloric sphincter, opens and closes to let food pass into the small intestine a little at a time.

PM-DAKSH was an additionality to PMKVY, and every job role used for skill training under it was taken from the Skill India Digital Hub portal, where PMKVY job roles are also listed.

After a course finished, the training institute had to provide wage employment or self-employment to at least that share of the candidates it had trained.

That many candidates were trained under PM-DAKSH in the years from 2020-21 to 2023-24.

PM-DAKSH was a Central Sector Scheme of that ministry, and its Department of Social Justice and Empowerment ran it through three corporations, NSFDC, NBCFDC and NSKFDC, which reimbursed training costs to the institutes.

This is a state policy, and its purpose is to ease investment across the parts of the fisheries value chain: hatcheries, fish seed and feed, reservoir and cage fisheries, aquatic animal health, processing, cold-chain infrastructure, logistics, value addition and market development.

Madhya Pradesh has been notified in that category by the Centre, and the tag fits a state whose fisheries rest on large standing water bodies rather than on the sea.

That is the level India's fish production reached in 2024-25.

The Fisheries Investors and Exporters Conclave 2026 is being organised on 23 October 2026 at Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, by the state's Department of Fisheries together with the Department of Fisheries under the Union Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.

The 2011 Census found that about 49% of Indian households used firewood as their main fuel for cooking, which rounds to half.

The Janata government set up the Ashok Mehta Committee in December 1977 to suggest how to revive the weakening Panchayati Raj institutions.