SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

The National Medical Library, which functions under the Directorate General of Health Services in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, organised the one-day conference on this theme in New Delhi, drawing attention to the place of digital knowledge resources in healthcare delivery, medical education and evidence-based clinical practice.

That sitting of the Drugs Technical Advisory Board took up the question of whether the rules needed an express provision covering advertisements issued by firms holding licences to sell and distribute medicines, and the draft amendment follows its recommendation.

861(E) dated 28 September 2026. The ministry notified the draft amendment through that notification after consulting the Drugs Technical Advisory Board, and it has invited objections and suggestions from stakeholders and from the public within thirty days of the date on which copies of the Gazette carrying the draft rules…

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has proposed an amendment to these rules so that the requirement of prior Central Government sanction for advertising drugs listed in Schedule H, Schedule H1 and Schedule X extends to entities licensed to sell and distribute medicines, and not only to manufacturers.

At the close of the Jakarta round the two sides fixed the next Joint Committee sitting for January 2027, to be held in India and again in hybrid mode.

The Joint Committee has eight sub-committees, and three of them held hybrid meetings on the margins of the 15th round in Jakarta.

ASEAN hosted the 15th Joint Committee of the ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement there from 6 to 9 October 2026, along with meetings of sub-committees, and the round was conducted in hybrid format.

Padmini Singla, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Textiles, named these two while explaining how India is working on better yields, better fibre quality and traceability of the crop, and she set them beside investment in textile infrastructure and support for artisans and small firms.

The correct answer is Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, who opened the event, recalled Mahatma Gandhi’s linking of cotton and the spinning wheel with self-reliance and the freedom struggle, and set out four priorities: the livelihoods of growers, value addition and market access, sustainability, and…

It is by this resolution that the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 7 October as World Cotton Day, giving the observance its formal standing in the United Nations calendar and tying it to the role of the crop in trade, in development and in reducing poverty in the poorest cotton-growing…

The United Nations General Assembly set aside this date as World Cotton Day through resolution 75/318, and the observance draws attention to the place of cotton in economic development, in international trade and in the fight against poverty, particularly in developing and least developed countries.

Under the food labelling rules a non-vegetarian article must carry a brown filled triangle within a brown square outline, while a vegetarian article carries a green filled circle within a green square outline.

The Central Agmark Laboratory at Nagpur is the apex laboratory for the Agmark scheme; it analyses samples, settles disputed results and keeps the standard methods, while regional Agmark laboratories do routine testing elsewhere in the country.

World Standards Day is observed on 14 October to mark the day in 1946 on which delegates from twenty-five countries met in London and agreed to create an international standards organisation, which became the International Organization for Standardization, founded in 1947 with its headquarters at Geneva.

The Bureau of Energy Efficiency was set up on 1 March 2002 under that Act and works under the Ministry of Power; its Standards and Labelling programme gives appliances a rating from one star to five stars, where more stars mean less electricity consumed for the same service.

The Silk Mark is issued by the Silk Mark Organisation of India, launched in 2004, which is a society set up by the Central Silk Board under the Ministry of Textiles; the Board itself was constituted in 1949 and has its headquarters at Bengaluru.

The Eco Mark scheme was notified in 1991 for consumer products that cause the least harm to the environment over their life, and the earthen pitcher was chosen as the symbol because it is made from a renewable material, is produced without generating waste, uses little energy and is wholly…

The Authority was created by the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, was established in 2008 and works under that Ministry with its headquarters at New Delhi, because food safety is treated as a public health matter.

Fineness is the carat value divided by 24 and multiplied by one thousand, so 22 divided by 24 gives 0.916 and the article is marked 22K916, meaning 91.6 per cent gold.

Agmark is a grade mark given under the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937 to produce such as edible oils, ghee, butter, honey, spices, pulses, wheat flour, besan and eggs, and it is administered by the Directorate of Marketing and Inspection under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare.