SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

It runs for about eight hundred kilometres between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra, joining the Andaman Sea with the South China Sea, and is the longest strait in the world as well as one of the busiest shipping lanes, carrying a large share of the oil…

Vitamin D, which the skin makes in sunlight and which is also present in milk, eggs and fish liver oil, is needed for the absorption of calcium and phosphorus from food.

Cardiac muscle shows the cross stripes of skeletal muscle under the microscope, but it is not under the control of the will and it beats rhythmically on its own, driven by the pacemaker of the heart; its cells are branched and joined end to end by intercalated discs, which let…

In the sliding filament theory of contraction, a nerve impulse causes calcium to be released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum; the calcium exposes binding sites on the thin actin filaments, the heads of the thick myosin filaments attach to them and swivel, using energy from ATP, and the actin is pulled…

A tendon is a cord of white fibrous connective tissue, with very little elasticity, that transmits the pull of a contracting muscle to the bone it moves; the Achilles tendon at the heel is the best known example.

The rounded head of the humerus sits in the socket of the shoulder blade and the head of the femur sits in the socket of the hip bone, which lets the limb move forwards, backwards, sideways and in rotation; these are synovial joints with a fluid-filled cavity.

All of them are attached behind to the thoracic vertebrae. In front, the first seven pairs join the sternum directly and are called true or vertebrosternal ribs; the next three pairs join the seventh rib through cartilage and are called false or vertebrochondral ribs; and the last two pairs have…

The adult column is counted as seven cervical vertebrae in the neck, twelve thoracic vertebrae bearing the ribs, five lumbar vertebrae in the lower back, one sacrum and one coccyx, giving twenty-six bones in all.

It is the innermost of the three ear ossicles of the middle ear and is shaped like a stirrup; it passes vibrations from the incus to the oval window of the inner ear and is the smallest bone of the body.

The adult skeleton has eighty bones in the axial part, that is the skull with the ear ossicles and hyoid, the vertebral column, the ribs and the sternum, and one hundred and twenty-six in the appendicular part, that is the limbs with the pectoral and pelvic girdles, making two hundred…

An adult set of thirty-two permanent teeth has eight incisors for cutting, four canines for tearing, eight premolars and twelve molars for grinding, so there is one canine on each side of each jaw.

It is a thin, strap-like muscle that runs across the front of the thigh from the hip bone to the inner side of the knee, and because it crosses two joints it is the longest muscle of the human body; it helps in bending the hip and the knee and…

Methanol (CH3OH) is called wood spirit or wood alcohol because it was first obtained by the destructive distillation of wood.

A key aim of the partnership is better candidate registration through this platform, together with Aadhaar-based face authentication under the Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System, so that enrolment and attendance at the institutes are both verifiable.

The agreement signed on 12 October 2026 covers uniform training standards, quality administration and systematic capacity building at the Rural Self Employment Training Institutes, and extends to the settlement of trained candidates, their credit linkage and the monitoring of both.

This is the training target given to the Rural Self Employment Training Institutes for the current year, and it is larger than the target that had been fixed for the previous year, 2025-26.

The Bairabi-Sairang railway line of that length was called a historic milestone that placed Mizoram on the railway map of the country and changed the state’s access to major economic centres.

The Mizoram Ginger Mission of this size is meant to draw nearly 20,000 farming households into a single value chain that covers cultivation, processing, branding, connectivity and access to national and international markets.

Union Minister for Communications and DoNER, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, took up ten projects of about this value in Mizoram on 12 October 2026 in the presence of Chief Minister Pu Lalduhoma.

Standing sixteen feet tall at the fair, the installation is meant to represent the collective strength of the women who keep traditional craftsmanship alive while turning their skills into livelihoods and independence.