SSC GK Questions 2026

Both beams carry conventional current in the same direction, north to south, and parallel currents in the same direction attract each other.

Petroleum ether is a solvent and petroleum jelly is spread on metal surfaces as a protective coating, while the uses given for petroleum wax and white spirit have been swapped around.

It is an initiative of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment aimed at selling the goods made by artisans of the target groups, namely the Scheduled Castes, the Other Backward Classes, Safai Mitras and Denotified Tribes, through physical outlets as well as e-commerce platforms, so that a craftsperson reaches…

The ministry put the participation at that level for the Guwahati leg, and between them the craftspeople are showing about forty varieties of handloom and handicraft products, drawn from the North-Eastern states as well as other regions of the country.

The correct answer is Guwahati, the capital of Assam, where the eight-day fair opened at Farm Gate in Khanapara and will run until the twenty-eighth of the month.

The team worked out that the structure responsible had to be rotating together with the pulsar, and the stream fits that description: as it swings between the pulsar and the observing satellite, the direct radiation from the pulsar weakens while the light re-emitted by the stream strengthens, producing the variation…

In such pairs the companion is a massive star that sheds a strong wind, and the pulsar ordinarily feeds on that wind as it passes, so an orderly disk of matter is not expected.

The group examined four secondary emission lines from the system and concluded that the structure causing those lines to vary must be turning along with the pulsar, which pointed them to the accretion stream and therefore to a disk feeding it.

Rohit Kumar swam the men's 100m breaststroke SB4 with an impressive timing and finished third, and the fact that a medal arrived on a debut is what was singled out in the congratulations sent to him.

Shailesh Kumar reached that distance in the final and finished third, and the event name carries three class codes because athletes from three classification groups were ranked together in one competition.

He finished second in the men's 100m backstroke S13 and his was the only silver among the Indian results announced in the evening hours of that day, the rest of the group being bronze medals.

The Sub-Committee met on 21 October 2026, reviewed the air quality of Delhi and the region along with the forecasts placed before it, and decided to bring Stage-I of the plan into force with immediate effect.

The Sub-Committee on GRAP decided to invoke all the action points listed under Stage-I of the plan then in force, and that list runs to twenty-five items, applying across the whole National Capital Region with immediate effect.

Stage-I of the Graded Response Action Plan is the stage meant for poor air, and it was invoked across the National Capital Region after Delhi's daily average index was recorded at 244 at 2 PM and then at 245 by 4 PM, both of which sit inside that band.

The ship took part in the ninth edition of the India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime Exercise, and its Commanding Officer spoke at the closing ceremony at Simon's Town, where he described such exercises as a platform that turns long-standing diplomatic ties into usable naval cooperation.

The closing ceremony of IBSAMAR IX was held there on 20 October 2026, rounding off ten days of joint activity in a harbour phase and a sea phase.

IBSAMAR stands for the India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime Exercise, and the ninth edition brought the navies of these three countries together before concluding at Simon's Town in South Africa.

Three knowledge resources were formally brought out at the opening of the conference: a Decision-Making Tool developed by the India Agrivoltaics Alliance, a Book of Abstracts prepared by the International Water Management Institute, and the AgriPV Policy Handbook of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.

The conference was hosted by that ministry with support from Germany's Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, known by its initials BMUV, and was organised in partnership with Conexio-PSE.

The seventh edition of the AgriVoltaics World Conference, which opened at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, was organised under that theme by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in partnership with Conexio-PSE.