SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The Code on Wages, 2019 was passed by Parliament, received the President's assent and was notified in the Gazette of India on 8 August 2019.

Article 263 lets the President set up an Inter-State Council by order whenever it appears that public interest would be served by it.

Insulin is a protein (peptide) hormone made in the human body by the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas.

The Election Commission first used VVPAT machines with EVMs in the by-election to Noksen in Tuensang district, Nagaland, in September 2013.

After fertilisation, each ovule grows into a seed, and the ovary that holds the ovules grows into the fruit. In flowering plants, a pollen tube carries two male gametes to the ovule.

Gold is a noble metal at the bottom of the reactivity series, so it does not react with oxygen, water or ordinary acids.

Biogas is mostly methane, usually about 50 to 75 percent, and it is the methane that burns with a clean blue flame and no smoke.

In photosynthesis, green plants take carbon dioxide from the air and combine it with water, using sunlight, to make carbohydrates such as glucose.

On 13 April 1919 troops fired without any warning on an unarmed crowd in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, on the orders of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer.

The breakdown of glucose into pyruvate, called glycolysis, takes place in the cytoplasm (cytosol) of the cell. Glycolysis is the first step of respiration in almost every living cell.

Burning coal, petrol and diesel releases oxides of sulphur and nitrogen (and carbon), which dissolve in rain water to form acids.

When blood glucose is more than the body needs, the hormone insulin helps convert it into glycogen, which is stored mainly in the liver and the muscles.

This investment has been grounded across the eight northeastern states following the Rising North East Investors Summit held in May 2025.

Lowering the population floor lets banks open branches in smaller habitations, which matters in a region where settlements are scattered across hills.

Mr Scindia used this figure to argue that financial inclusion in the region has not yet turned into economic inclusion: deposits are being collected, but lending lags behind.

Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region and Communications Jyotiraditya M. Scindia inaugurated the conclave there, with Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma, State Minister Prof. Lalnilawma, MDoNER Secretary Srinivas Katikithala and NEC Secretary Satinder Kumar Bhalla present.

Dr Anupam Sharma, Distinguished Scientist and Director General (Technology Management), said at the Bengaluru curtain-raiser that business in the semiconductor-related segment is expected to rise to 200 billion dollars by 2035.

The conclave is being organised jointly by 12 ministries and departments, and the whole exercise is guided by the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India.

The Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave, shortened to ESTIC-2026, is to be held there from 27 to 29 October 2026, and DRDO will lead its thematic session on semiconductors and next-generation chips.

Chewing gum pollutes because its gum base is largely made of synthetic plastic polymers that do not break down. Gum was once made from chicle, a natural latex from the sapodilla tree.