SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Net metering lets a home with rooftop solar panels sell its surplus power to the grid. Under net metering, a bidirectional meter records both the electricity a consumer draws from the grid and the electricity their rooftop solar system pushes back into it.

Tyres and tubes must carry the BIS mark, but AGMARK is an Indian government mark, not an FAO one. The Bureau of Indian Standards, set up under the BIS Act (now the BIS Act, 2016), runs the ISI mark scheme.

A Money Bill covers appropriation of money out of the Consolidated Fund of India, not out of the Contingency Fund, so statement C is the incorrect one.

Microbeads are tiny plastic particles that wash into rivers and seas, where they persist and are eaten by marine life.

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is the system of keys and certificates that secures digital signatures and encrypted communication. PKI uses a pair of keys for each user: a public key that anyone can see and a private key kept secret.

Project Loon used high-altitude balloons to beam internet access to remote areas. Project Loon was developed by X, the research lab of Google's parent company Alphabet, and began trials in New Zealand in 2013.

Zika is spread mainly by the Aedes mosquito that also carries dengue, and it can pass between sexual partners. The Zika virus is a flavivirus first identified in Uganda's Zika forest in 1947.

Both are core ILO conventions aimed at ending child labour. Convention 138, the Minimum Age Convention of 1973, requires countries to set a minimum age for admission to employment, generally not below the age of finishing compulsory schooling.

The vaccine protects against several pneumococcal diseases and so cuts antibiotic use, but no vaccine is free of side effects.

The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority is an export promotion body, and it is placed under the commerce ministry rather than under the ministry that handles farming itself.

The consignment was drawn from Gobichettipalayam in Erode district and was manufactured and exported by M/s Wellbeing Foods of Erode in collaboration with M/s Chetty Exports Private Limited of Chennai.

The maiden consignment of 1.755 MT of organic Palmyra jaggery powder was sent to Varna in Bulgaria, where M/s Sow Life Ltd is the importer and distributor.

Cargo movement on inland waterways stood at 29 million metric tonnes in 2014-15 and climbed to 218 MMT in 2025-26, which works out to a compound annual growth rate of 20.13 per cent.

Four riverine lighthouses, the first of their kind on an inland waterway in India, are being built at Pandu, Bogibeel, Silghat and Biswanath Ghat under a ₹74 crore project announced in March 2026.

India has declared 111 National Waterways to promote shipping and navigation, and their combined length comes to 20,187 km spread over 23 States and 4 Union Territories.

Bleaching powder is an oxidising agent, not a reducing agent, so this statement is the false one. Bleaching powder, calcium oxychloride (CaOCl₂), is made by passing chlorine gas over dry slaked lime, Ca(OH)₂.

The sun rises first in the place farthest east, so the order follows longitude: Imphal, Itanagar, Aizawl and then Agartala.

Viticulture, the growing of grapes, is a hallmark of Adelaide, which is surrounded by Australia's best-known wine regions. Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, has a Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters, the conditions grapevines like best.

The Tattvabodhini Patrika promoted a systematic study of India's past in the Bengali language. The journal was started in 1843 by Debendranath Tagore, father of Rabindranath Tagore, as the organ of the Tattvabodhini Sabha, which he had founded in 1839.

The ball keeps slowing down by about 9.8 m/s every second until its speed becomes zero at the top, which takes 40 ÷ 9.8 ≈ 4 seconds.