SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

Each reaction is labelled with its correct type, so every pair is matched correctly. In I, iron is more reactive than copper and pushes it out of copper sulphate, a displacement reaction.

The nationwide drive opened on 20 October 2026 and continues to 8 November 2026, a window chosen so that it covers the days before the festival, when firecrackers are bought, as well as the days after it, when air quality usually stays poor.

Citizens have been asked to celebrate a clean and green Diwali in line with this mission, whose approach is to change everyday habits rather than wait for large interventions, and the pledge items follow from it directly: no firecrackers, earthen diyas and energy-efficient lights, no single-use plastic, waste segregated at…

The campaign is nationwide, but the cities covered under the National Clean Air Programme, numbering 130, have been singled out for special attention, because that is where the burden on air quality is heaviest and where a cracker-free festival makes the greatest difference.

The campaign was launched by this centre of WWF-India, working with the support of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and it runs from 20 October to 8 November 2026.

Opened in 2025, it gave air access to more than ten districts of Bihar, cut the journey to Kolkata to about two hours and to Patna to roughly one, and it carries the state's longest runway at close to 2.8 km, long enough for A320 and B737 aircraft.

The correct answer is Rs 28,840 crore, the total provision for the next phase of the scheme launched on 4 July 2026 and running from FY 2026-27 to FY 2035-36.

That is the number of regional routes put into service across the country in the ten years since the scheme began, and it sits alongside the other headline totals of the decade: more than 3.68 lakh flights and 1.72 crore passengers.

The Regional Connectivity Scheme, named UDAN for Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik, was launched on that day, and its promise of affordable yet commercially viable regional flying came out of the National Civil Aviation Policy adopted the same year.

The Kajli or Kajliyan fair of Mahoba is held just after Raksha Bandhan and recalls the battle in which the Bundelkhand heroes Alha and Udal are said to have defended the town; the Alha ballads of the region are sung at it.

Bateshwar lies in Agra district on the Yamuna, where a long row of Shiva temples stands along the ghat; its Kartik Purnima fair is both a bathing fair and one of the biggest animal fairs of Uttar Pradesh, and the Jain tirtha of Shauripur is close by.

Dewa, in Barabanki district, holds the dargah of the Sufi saint Haji Waris Ali Shah, and its annual fair in Kartik draws a large crowd and a well-known mushaira, with Hindus and Muslims both taking part.

The Ramlila of Ramnagar, patronised by the Kashi Naresh, is staged across the town itself, with different localities standing for Ayodhya, Janakpur, Chitrakoot and Lanka, and it runs for about a month from Bhadrapada.

Dev Deepawali falls on the full moon of Kartik, fifteen days after Diwali, when lakhs of earthen lamps are lit on the steps of the Varanasi ghats and floated on the river; the Ganga Mahotsav of music and crafts closes on the same day.

The Nauchandi Mela of Meerut is held on the ground that holds both the Nauchandi Devi temple and the dargah of Bale Miyan, and it begins on the Sunday after Holi.

Lathmar Holi is played between Barsana, remembered as the village of Radha, and Nandgaon, remembered as the village of Krishna: the men of Nandgaon come to Barsana and the women of Barsana drive them back with sticks, which gives the festival its name.

The Magh Mela is held every year on the sands of the Sangam at Prayagraj, running from Paush Purnima to Mahashivratri, and pilgrims who live there through the month under a fixed discipline are called kalpvasis.

Maha Shivratri falls on the Chaturdashi of the dark half of Phalguna, which comes in February or March, and in Uttar Pradesh it is the closing bathing day of the Magh Mela at Prayagraj and the biggest night of the year at the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi.

All four Kumbh sites hold a full Kumbh once in about twelve years, but only the two on the Ganga, Prayagraj and Haridwar, also hold an Ardh Kumbh at the halfway point of about six years.

The Kumbh Mela was added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2017, and it is the element most often quoted from India on that list along with Ramlila, Vedic chanting, Kutiyattam, Chhau, Yoga and Navroz.