SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

Cytokinins promote cytokinesis, that is cell division; kinetin was the first of them to be identified, from the degraded DNA of herring sperm, and zeatin, the natural form, was obtained from maize grains.

Jute is a bast or stem fibre taken from the inner bark of plants of the genus Corchorus, extracted by soaking the cut stems in water, a process called retting, and India and Bangladesh are the main producers.

Clove is the unopened flower bud of Syzygium aromaticum, picked before it blooms and dried, and it is grown in India chiefly in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Quinine is an alkaloid extracted from the bark of trees of the genus Cinchona, native to South America and grown in India in the Nilgiris and in Darjeeling, and it was the standard treatment for malaria before synthetic drugs appeared.

Saffron is made from the stigmas of the flower of Crocus sativus, and since each flower carries only three stigmas which must be picked by hand, the spice is the most expensive in the world; in India it is grown mainly in the Kashmir valley.

2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid is a synthetic auxin, and when it is sprayed in a heavy dose it throws broad-leaved dicot weeds into uncontrolled growth that kills them, while narrow-leaved cereals such as wheat and rice are far less affected, so it clears weeds from a standing crop.

Auxin made at the shoot tip moves downwards and keeps the lateral buds below it inactive, which is why a gardener who nips off the tip of a hedge plant gets a bushy growth of side branches.

Japanese rice plants attacked by this fungus grew abnormally tall and spindly, a condition called the foolish seedling or bakanae disease, and the substance responsible was isolated from the fungus and named gibberellin; gibberellic acid is the best known member of the group.

It is produced when a plant faces drought, salinity or extreme temperature; it closes the stomata so that water is not lost, for which reason it is called an antitranspirant, and it induces dormancy in seeds and buds so that growth waits for better conditions.

Ethylene is the only gaseous plant hormone, and it raises the rate of respiration in climacteric fruits such as banana, mango and tomato, so a single ripe fruit speeds up the ripening of those around it; the compound ethephon releases ethylene and is used in orchards for uniform ripening.

The Telugu film-maker K. Viswanath received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2016, presented in May 2017. Kasinadhuni Viswanath was known for films built around Indian classical music and dance, above all Sankarabharanam (1980), as well as Sagara Sangamam and Swathi Muthyam.

Akshay Kumar won the Best Actor award at the 64th National Film Awards, announced in April 2017, for playing a naval officer in Rustom.

The exhibition was mounted during the conference and displayed the heritage and the historical cultural connections that India shares with other countries of Asia; the Union Minister of Culture and Tourism, the Culture Secretary and other invited guests went round it.

The Culture Secretary explained that the Brihattar Bharat Project aims to win international recognition for India's ancient cultural links through collaborative, evidence-based research involving scholars from roughly that many nations.

It held the conference at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi from 14 to 16 October 2026, and its Member Secretary Sachchidanand Joshi delivered the welcome address.

The society was influential in building scholarship on India's cultural and intellectual relations with Asia and with the wider world, which is exactly the field the new Brihattar Bharat Project wishes to revive.

The meeting was convened with the Vice Chancellors of nineteen National Law Universities spread across sixteen states, and all of them assured the ministry of active participation in the pendency mission.

The Chief Justice of India is wrong because this was an executive initiative of the Ministry of Law and Justice and not a judicial conference.

The ministry stated that this many matters are awaiting decision in courts across the country and that the majority of them lie in the district and subordinate judiciary rather than in the constitutional courts.

The ministry decided against a uniform nationwide drive and instead identified the judicial districts where the number of pending cases is largest, settling on one hundred of them.