SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The Hirakud dam was built across the Mahanadi in Sambalpur district of Odisha, and with its earthen dykes on both flanks it is the longest dam in the country.

The Bhakra dam stands on the Sutlej at Bhakra in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh, with the Nangal barrage downstream in Punjab, and the reservoir behind it is Govind Sagar.

Homi Bhabha designed the programme around the fact that India has modest uranium but very large thorium reserves in the monazite sands of the Kerala coast.

The Tarapur Atomic Power Station was the first nuclear power station in India and also the first in Asia, built with American collaboration and using boiling water reactors, unlike the pressurised heavy water reactors of the later Indian stations.

One becquerel is one disintegration per second, and it is the SI unit of the activity of a radioactive source, named after the discoverer of radioactivity.

In the core of the Sun, at temperatures of millions of degrees, hydrogen nuclei fuse in stages to form helium, and the small amount of mass lost in the process appears as energy according to Einstein's mass-energy relation.

Both absorb neutrons strongly, so pushing the rods into the core removes neutrons and slows the chain reaction, while withdrawing them allows the reaction to build up; this is how the power of a reactor is controlled and how it is shut down.

Heavy water, in which the hydrogen of ordinary water is replaced by deuterium, slows the fast neutrons released in fission to low speeds at which they are far more likely to split further uranium nuclei, and it absorbs very few neutrons in doing so, which is why Indian pressurised heavy…

Gamma radiation is electromagnetic, carries no charge and no rest mass, and therefore passes through matter far more easily than charged particles; thick lead or concrete is needed to reduce it.

An alpha particle takes away two protons and two neutrons, so the parent loses four units of mass number and two units of atomic number and becomes an element two places earlier in the periodic table; uranium-238, for instance, becomes thorium-234.

An alpha particle consists of two protons and two neutrons bound together, which is exactly the nucleus of a helium-4 atom, so it carries a charge of plus two and a mass number of four.

In 1896 Becquerel found that a uranium salt kept in the dark fogged a wrapped photographic plate, which showed that the salt emitted its own penetrating radiation without being exposed to light.

A hydrogen bomb, also called a thermonuclear bomb, works in two steps. A fission explosion of uranium or plutonium produces the temperature of millions of degrees needed to force light nuclei together, and the fusion of those nuclei then releases far more energy than the fission stage alone.

Carbon-14 is the radioactive isotope of carbon used for radiocarbon dating, and its half-life is close to 5,700 years, which is the figure quoted in the question.

The acquirer is a company incorporated under the laws of France and is ultimately controlled by VINCI S.A. through VINCI Highways and VINCI Concessions.

JSW Projects Limited, an unlisted company of the JSW Group based in Mumbai, holds that share of the equity in BMM Ispat Limited at present, and the proposed combination is meant to convert this majority interest into full ownership by amalgamating BMM into JSW Steel Limited.

It is the statutory authority that examines proposed combinations, meaning mergers, amalgamations and acquisitions above the prescribed thresholds, to see whether they would cause an appreciable adverse effect on competition in India, and it cleared this internal restructuring of the JSW Group along with three other combinations the same day.

The directions ask convenors of State Level Bankers Committees and Union Territory Level Bankers Committees to share the Scheduled Caste beneficiary information with the Commission regularly and to send an action-taken report to the Department of Financial Services by that date, setting out how far the data is available and…

The Commission told the Department of Financial Services that the absence of Scheduled Caste beneficiary figures in bankers committee reports was hindering the constitutional mandate this clause gives it, namely to evaluate the progress of socio-economic development of the Scheduled Castes.

It is the department of the Finance Ministry that deals with banks, insurance and the financial inclusion schemes, and it is the body that issued the directions to convenors of State Level Bankers Committees and their Union Territory counterparts after the National Commission for Scheduled Castes raised the gap.