SSC GD Constable GK Questions 2026

Kharif crops are sown in June and July with the onset of the south-west monsoon and harvested in September and October, because they need both high temperature and heavy rainfall while growing.

The receptors that pick up taste are called gustatory receptors, and they sit inside the taste buds on the tongue.

A shortage of iodine makes the thyroid gland in the neck swell, a condition called goitre. The thyroid needs iodine to make the hormone thyroxine, and when iodine is short the gland grows larger to trap whatever little is available, so the neck looks visibly swollen.

The correct answer is Junaid Bhat, who was neutralised at Dachigam on 3 December 2024, the first of the four commanders of this group to be accounted for.

With Musa gone, the entire group of four senior commanders of the outfit who had been operating in the union territory since 2022 has been neutralised.

The correct answer is Operation Sheruwali, a long-sustained operation that began in May 2026 and of which this encounter was a part.

The encounter took place at Gurwatkalan, which falls in the area of the Khansahib police station in Budgam district.

The boat was tracked on intelligence, intercepted and boarded on the high seas, and then escorted under armed security to Mumbai along with its crew and the seized drugs.

The consignment included heroin and methamphetamine, which is why the value per kilogram is so high.

The Coast Guard put its ships and aircraft on the suspected boat, tracked it and boarded it on the high seas, while the state unit carried the case into arrest and investigation.

Fires are grouped by what is burning, and Class D covers burning metals such as magnesium, sodium, potassium, titanium and aluminium powder.

Green plants use sunlight trapped by chlorophyll to join carbon dioxide and water, and the balanced equation reads six molecules of carbon dioxide plus twelve of water giving one molecule of glucose, six of oxygen and six of water.

The Gandhara school of art grew in the north-west, around Peshawar and Taxila, and reached its height under the Kushana rulers, above all Kanishka, in the first and second centuries.

Villi are the small finger-like folds on the inner wall of the small intestine, so they belong to the digestive system.

India's first jute mill was set up at Rishra, on the bank of the Hooghly near Serampore in Bengal, in 1855 by George Auckland.

Puducherry is a Union Territory with a legislature of its own, which is why it is said to have partial statehood.

The Statue of Unity stands on Sadhu Bet, an island in the Narmada near the Sardar Sarovar Dam in the Narmada district of Gujarat, and it shows Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, independent India's first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister, who brought the princely states into the Union.

The gastric glands in the stomach wall release three things: hydrochloric acid, the enzyme pepsin and mucus.

Odisha is the largest producer of bauxite in India and accounts for more than half of the country's output.

Nana Sahib, the adopted son of the last Peshwa Baji Rao II, led the revolt of 1857 at Kanpur.