SSC GK Questions 2026

When magnesium burns, magnesium loses electrons and is oxidised, while oxygen gains them and is reduced, so oxidation and reduction happen together.

A light year is the distance that light travels through a vacuum in one year, so despite the word year it measures length, not time.

Mica is a non-metallic mineral, a silicate that splits into thin, clear, flexible sheets, and no metal is extracted from it.

The Arthashastra is a manual on how a king should govern, defend and expand his state, so its main subject is statecraft.

A freely pivoted magnetic needle turns to line up with any magnetic field around it, so its deflection shows that a field is present and which way it points.

Without oxygen, yeast carries out alcoholic fermentation, breaking glucose into ethanol and carbon dioxide and gaining a little ATP. Glucose is first split into two molecules of pyruvate by glycolysis, which yields a net gain of two ATP.

Regur is the black soil of the Deccan, and its ability to hold moisture makes it the classic cotton soil of India.

Borax is sodium tetraborate decahydrate, Na2B4O7·10H2O, so it contains only sodium, boron, oxygen and hydrogen. Its chemical name is sodium tetraborate, and the ten molecules of water of crystallisation supply the hydrogen and part of the oxygen.

When ice melts it only changes from solid to liquid; the substance is still water, so it is a physical change.

Ribosomes make proteins, a job every living cell must do, so they are present in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.

Experts from fisheries institutions and other stakeholders at the workshop prepared a framework of activities for this phase, and a programme of consultations with fishing communities was proposed.

The initiative is led by the Union Department of Fisheries in collaboration with this body, and the whole plan is being prepared within the framework of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Abhilaksh Likhi, Secretary in the Department of Fisheries, said India has set a target of 30 million tonnes of fish production over the next five years, and that seafood exports are expected to rise to Rs 1.25 lakh crore in the same period.

Under the Budget Announcement for 2026-27, the Union Department of Fisheries approved integrated development of 49 reservoirs in Madhya Pradesh at a project cost of Rs 8755.60 lakh, along with five Amrit Sarovars at a cost of Rs 69 lakh, an investment of Rs 88.25 crore taken together.

That was India's total fish production in 2024-25, and of this quantity inland fisheries contributed 151.60 lakh tonnes, which is close to three-fourths of the national output.

The conclave was organised in Bhopal by the Department of Fisheries of the Government of Madhya Pradesh along with the Union Department of Fisheries and the National Fisheries Development Board, to draw investment into processing, value addition and exports from inland fisheries.

Manganese ore is a key raw material for the steel industry, and the Ministry of Steel says the milestone strengthens its domestic availability.

The Ministry of Steel says that under its Green Steel Initiative, Green Steel Certificates have been issued to 104 distinct steel producers across the lists put out up to October 2026.

The Ministry of Steel has prepared a draft National Steel Policy, Vision 2047, and it targets crude steel capacity of 604 MT by the year 2047.

He addressed the gathering, greeted the country on the queen's birth anniversary and on the 202nd celebration of her victory against the British, and thanked those who made the event possible.