SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

A floating body is stable only when its metacentre lies above its centre of gravity. When a floating body tilts slightly, its centre of buoyancy, the centre of the displaced liquid, shifts to one side.

That was the haul with which India finished tenth globally at WorldSkills Shanghai, an improvement on the thirteenth position at WorldSkills Lyon in 2024.

IndiaSkills 2026-27 is organised under the aegis of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship with NSDC as the implementation partner, and the competition covers 63 industry relevant skill categories spanning manufacturing, engineering, construction, digital technologies, the creative industries and services.

The Indian contingent secured the tenth position globally at WorldSkills Shanghai, winning six silver medals and 20 Medallions for Excellence.

The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship reopened the registration window for the IndiaSkills Competition 2026-27 up to this date, after many requests from institutions and from young people who had not been able to apply earlier.

Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Dr Mansukh Mandaviya said that under this scheme, which the Union Cabinet approved, the government is deepening its collaboration with corporate partners, and that CSR backed partnerships of this kind will help build a truly national sports ecosystem.

The National Sports Development Fund was established by the Government of India in 1998 under this Act, and its purpose is to mobilise resources from individuals and corporate organisations for the development of sport in the country.

Indian boxers finished the Asian Games 2026 with six medals in total, three of them gold and the other three bronze, and this showing is the reason the new partnership is described as coming at an important time for the sport.

Under the memorandum of understanding signed with the National Sports Development Fund and the Sports Authority of India, Indian Oil Corporation will provide this amount over a period of two years from its corporate social responsibility funds.

In that year the Government of India renamed the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme as the National TB Elimination Programme, a change that reflects the aim of ending the disease in India ahead of the global target year of 2030.

Under the intensified TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan, that many Gram Panchayats have been awarded TB free certification, and the same drive has taken cumulative screenings past 28.1 crore, provided TB Preventive Treatment to over 20 lakh people and added 5.7 lakh new Nikshay Mitras.

Yearly emerging cases of tuberculosis in India came down by 21% between 2015 and 2024, as recorded in the World Health Organisation's Global Tuberculosis Report 2025, and this is one of the steepest declines in incidence recorded anywhere, faster than in other high burden nations.

The nationwide campaign organised on 13 October 2026 placed JOSH teams in 11 states and 55 districts on a pilot basis, and every team has MY Bharat volunteers, cadets of the National Cadet Corps and a designated Class-I officer.

The wooden model is of the Ganga Ji Mandir at Mukhba, and this piece is singled out as the one that connects the Uttarakhand heritage on display with the aim of the auction, because the Ganga is central to the spiritual life of the state and the sale funds the…

The connection examiners look for is the player's home state, since the whole set is built around Uttarakhand.

Money raised through the auction of mementos presented to the Prime Minister goes towards the rejuvenation and conservation of the Ganga under this programme, which is why the wooden model of the Ganga Ji Mandir at Mukhba is described as tying the Uttarakhand collection to the purpose of the initiative.

The collection drawn from Uttarakhand in this edition runs to twenty-seven mementos, all of them gifts presented to the Prime Minister, and they include framed artworks, photo prints, temple models and other keepsakes that reflect the state's sacred landmarks, folk traditions and regional identity.

Field-level validation was a notable feature of the exercise: the protocols were tried out with Medical Officers working in primary and secondary healthcare under this directorate, and the feedback they gave on how usable the protocols were in day-to-day practice was built into the final documents.

He said the guidelines would deepen the integration of the Ayush systems with the national healthcare framework and would support safe, effective and holistic care for common skin conditions.

The Ministry of Ayush chose this occasion to put the guidelines in the public domain, which ties the release to the ministry's own calendar of observances.