SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The second-generation series of navigation satellites runs from NVS-01 to NVS-05, and NVS-03 is the third of those five spacecraft to be launched.

The navigation satellite NVS-03 rode to orbit on the GSLV-F18 vehicle, which lifted off from Sriharikota on 30 October 2026 at 23:51 hours, and the rocket placed the spacecraft in a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit as intended.

This was the theme fixed for the campaign's second month, and the cyclothons, walkathons, runs and allied activities of Week 7 were organised under it.

That was the overall participation recorded for the Week 7 activities held on 30 and 31 October 2026 at more than 200 institutions across the country.

The cyclothons, walkathons and runs of those two days formed Week 7 of that campaign, which MY Bharat and the National Service Scheme run under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

Speaking at the flag ceremony, the President said she was confident that the Nashik-Trimbakeshwar Simhastha Maha Kumbh of 2027 would act as a bridge joining the country's ancient heritage to modern times, and she hoped it would give the younger generation an opening to that heritage and to the core…

It was the President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu, who graced the Dhwaj Stambh Pujan, the Dhwaja Pujan and the Dhwajarohan of the Simhastha Maha Kumbh at Nashik in Maharashtra, and who went on to address a public programme the same day.

While speaking at Nashik the President set out the four great Kumbh gatherings of the country along with the waters each belongs to, and the Nashik fair is the one held on the banks of the Godavari.

For the stretch from 1 January to 29 October 2026 the average concentration of fine particulate matter, PM2.5, in Delhi's air worked out to 69 micrograms per cubic metre, the lowest of the years compared.

In the ten months from January to October 2026 the capital counted 220 days whose daily average stayed below 200 on the index, which is the band described as 'Good to Moderate'.

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change put Delhi's monthly average Air Quality Index for October 2026 at 166, the lowest average the capital has recorded for the month of October in the past eight years.

The correct answer is Mizoram, which spoke on the part played by community participation in the working of Vidyanjali at the National CSR Meet held in Gurugram, Haryana, on 31 October 2026.

These two make up the corporate social responsibility side of Vidyanjali and allow an organisation to take up a requirement a school has itself identified and to contribute towards that school's development.

Vidyanjali is its initiative for strengthening government and government-aided schools through organised community and private sector participation, and it runs on a digital platform that connects a school with volunteers, organisations and CSR partners.

With the latest round of programmes added in, a total of 158 Yuva Samvads have been conducted across 28 states and union territories, engaging roughly 32,000 young people and 158 Youth Icons.

The nationwide Know Your Vote campaign, which began on 26 October 2026 and runs until 5 November 2026, is meant to reach 500 universities, colleges and institutions across the country.

It organised 62 editions of the Know Your Vote Samvad on 31 October 2026 in colleges and educational institutions across 16 states and union territories, and over 11,000 young people attended.

The state-wise statement issued with the release shows Uttar Pradesh drawing the largest amount out of the Rs 1,09,019 crore distributed among all 28 states on 31 October 2026.

The release of Rs 1,09,019 crore made on 31 October 2026 was described as the second additional instalment of tax devolution in the running financial year, which means one such extra transfer had already gone out earlier in the same year.

On 31 October 2026 the Union Finance Ministry passed this sum to the state governments as an additional instalment of tax devolution, that is, a transfer made over and above the share of central taxes the states already receive every month.