SSC GK Questions 2026

Round 2 of the scheme closed with two applications, and the Ministry of Coal said both had come from NTPC Limited: one proposal is for making urea and the other for methanol along with dimethyl ether, or DME.

The Union Cabinet approved the Scheme for Promotion of Surface Coal and Lignite Gasification Projects on 13 May 2026 with exactly this outlay, and the Ministry of Coal repeated the figure while announcing that Round 2 had ended and Round 3 had begun on 10 November 2026.

The share of rural workers engaged in farming climbed to 56.7% in July-September 2026 from 52.9% in April-June 2026, which the bulletin flags as a gain in rural agricultural employment.

For persons aged 15 years and above, the overall unemployment rate improved to 5.1% in July-September 2026.

The bulletin reports that the Labour Force Participation Rate for people aged 15 years and above rose to 55.5% in the quarter July-September 2026, and it was also higher than the 55.1% recorded in the same quarter of 2025.

Every Neighbourhood Youth Parliament, or NYP, was planned to bring in at least 80 young people from a block through four structured sessions: a briefing on the MY Bharat portal, a session on understanding substance abuse and the challenges before India's youth, a session on moving from awareness to action…

The two activities were held on 6 and 7 November 2026 as the eighth week of a campaign that is designed to run for 100 weeks, so that work against substance abuse continues as a steady weekly engagement rather than a one-day event.

The Deepotsav leg of the drive was the bigger of the two, with 435 programmes and 568 activities, and it accounted for 1,10,101 of the participants.

It organised the nationwide Deepotsav along with Nasha Mukt Yuva Par Paricharcha through Neighbourhood Youth Parliaments as the eighth week of the Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat Sankalp Abhiyan, drawing more than a lakh participants.

In its opening statement India said it aligned itself with the statements made by the G77 and China grouping, by the Like Minded Developing Countries and by the BASIC group, and OPEC does not appear among them.

India welcomed the Presidency's framing of the session as a COP of Implementation and read the three words in order: dialogue builds trust among the parties, consensus ensures that the outcome is collectively owned, and action converts commitments into progress on the ground.

India told the Conference that public finance from developed countries remains central to driving climate action in developing countries and to strengthening adaptation finance flows, and it underscored the fundamental importance of Article 9.1 of the Paris Agreement, which places the obligation to provide financial resources on developed countries.

The 31st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is being hosted there, and India used its opening statement to seek a fair, equitable and ambitious outcome from the session.

The congratulatory message on Anuj Shrivatri becoming India's 100th chess Grandmaster was issued on 10 November 2026, so November is the month in which the country completed its century of Grandmasters.

Anuj Shrivatri's Grandmaster title took India's tally to a round hundred, and the achievement was welcomed as a century in chess for the country, a remarkable milestone that points to the depth of talent among Indian players and the way the game has caught on with the youth.

He earned the Grandmaster title and in doing so became the hundredth Indian player to hold it, which is why the moment was described as India hitting a century in chess.

The Ministry put this amount down to the disposal of electronic waste and scrap during Special Campaign 6, treating it as a sign that resources lying unused in offices can still be turned to account.

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation held Special Campaign 6 over these dates, with its field offices in the States and Union Territories joining in along with its attached, subordinate and autonomous offices, and with the Secretary of the Ministry monitoring progress that was uploaded daily on the SCDPM…

During Special Campaign 6 the Ministry reviewed its electronic records in bulk and closed this many e-files, which the Ministry counted among the gains in records management and administrative efficiency.

The exposition at the Thubchog Gatsel Ling Monastery in Bomdila is being organised by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of India in collaboration with three partners, and each of the other three options is one of them.