SSC GK Questions 2026

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, approved the continuation of the Stand-Up India Scheme for a period of five years ending on that date, so the scheme now has a clear life running to the close of the financial year 2030-31.

The contract covers the normal refit and re-powering of INS Betwa, a Brahmaputra-class frigate, and it was signed with Cochin Shipyard Limited in New Delhi on 11 November 2026 with Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh present.

This is precisely why the contract is called a refit and re-powering rather than a plain refit: the type of machinery that drives the frigate is itself being changed.

INS Betwa, the warship going in for a normal refit and re-powering at Cochin Shipyard Limited under a contract worth Rs 498.58 crore, is a Brahmaputra-class frigate of the Indian Navy.

The Ministry of Defence signed the contract for the normal refit and re-powering of the frigate INS Betwa with Cochin Shipyard Limited, and the value of that contract is Rs 498.58 crore, described by the Ministry as approximately Rs 500 crore.

Speaking at the third national conference of the heads of the anti-narcotics task forces of the States and Union Territories in September of this year, the Union Home Minister said the country would collectively uproot the drug trade by that date, and he placed the protection of young people within…

The national de-addiction helpline has been running since the first of March 2017, first under a longer number and now as this short code, and it offers tele-counselling at all hours while referring callers to the nearest supported facility.

It directs the State to endeavour to bring about prohibition of the consumption, except for medicinal purposes, of intoxicating drinks and of drugs which are injurious to health, and it is cited as the constitutional foundation of the anti-drug campaign and of the Ministry's work, which has run a scheme…

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment began the campaign on 15 August 2020 in the districts judged most vulnerable to the use of alcohol, cannabis, opioids and other psychoactive substances.

The technical session on persistent organic pollutants and hazardous waste, led by SINTEF's Chief Scientist Dr. Kare Helge Karstensen with Dr. Ramesh Kumar of CSIR-NEERI, looked at the ability of cement kilns to destroy hazardous organic contaminants under controlled high-temperature conditions, while fuel derived from waste takes the place of…

India and Norway lifted their relationship to a Green Strategic Partnership when the Indian Prime Minister travelled to Norway in May, and circular economy, clean technology and research were placed at its heart.

The dialogue on waste to resource solutions for the cement and construction sector was put together by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India along with SINTEF, a Norwegian research organisation, and the Research Council of Norway.

The draft envisages an integrated online system that handles the application, the verification of credentials, the assessment of eligibility and the issue of the provisional registration certificate, and every professional granted provisional registration is to receive this unique number so that the regulator can identify each registrant and exercise oversight.

Comments, suggestions and objections on the draft have been invited from allied and healthcare professionals, their associations, educational institutions, the State Allied and Healthcare Councils, healthcare institutions, subject experts and the general public, and all of it must reach the commission by that date; the inputs will then be weighed…

The draft regulations on provisional registration have been framed by the National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions under that parent law, and the commission itself functions under the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

In the financial year 2025-26 it met tuition fees of 39,800 pounds and a maintenance allowance of 9,900 pounds for the student in question, besides airfare, visa fees, insurance and other admissible academic expenses, and he is now reading for an MSc in Construction Economics and Management at University College…

These are the three components named in the account the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment released about a Scheduled Caste doctoral scholar from Darjeeling in West Bengal, who has drawn assistance under the scheme since November 2022 amounting to Rs 18,41,870 so far.

The scheme is implemented by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and works on the occupational safety, health protection and livelihood security of sanitation workers.

Speaking at the Khet Bachao Abhiyan programme, the Minister said soil must be treated as a living resource and that farm inputs should be balanced and need-based rather than applied out of habit.

The correct answer is the ICAR-National Institute of Natural Fibre Engineering and Technology, known as ICAR-NINFET, which organised the programme at Subhasnagar in the Swarupnagar Block of North 24 Parganas district.