SSC GK Questions 2026

Natural selection needs variation among members of a species; without variation there is nothing for nature to select, so statement A is the incorrect one.

Saudi Arabia listed cooperation on such transmission systems as one of its priorities in the meeting with the Indian power ministry.

The Saudi side named four specific subjects for closer work, and the first three options are exactly three of them.

The correct answer is the Secretary, Ministry of Power, Pankaj Agarwal, who held the virtual bilateral meeting with his Saudi counterpart to review progress on the proposed cross-border link.

The relaunched platforms of the ministry and its Department of Defence are described as fully compliant with these guidelines in their third version, along with the Digital Brand Identity Manual, also in its third version.

The ministry has put the content of the relaunched websites in that many Indian official languages, and it gives wider outreach and improved accessibility as the reason.

The distinction matters because exam papers often test which office performed an act.

The correct answer is Dr Padma Gurmet, a Padma Shri awardee who chairs the Sowa-Rigpa Sectional Committee of the Bureau of Indian Standards and founded the National Institute of Sowa-Rigpa at Leh.

The meeting, with a brainstorming session alongside it, was held at the National Institute of Sowa-Rigpa in Leh, which sits in the Union Territory of Ladakh and is the natural home for work on this system, since Sowa-Rigpa is the traditional medicine of the Himalayan belt.

BIS is the national standards body of India, responsible for standardisation and conformity assessment, and its AYUSH department organised the seminar at Belagavi in Karnataka as well as a parallel session on Sowa-Rigpa at Leh.

The camps will run awareness sessions on financial inclusion schemes, on digital frauds and on this drive, which concerns financial assets lying unclaimed with banks and other institutions.

DFS is the department of the Ministry of Finance that handles banks, insurance and pension schemes, so the financial inclusion drive sits with it, and its Joint Secretary for financial inclusion chaired the preparatory meeting with the senior management of banks and the State Level Bankers Committee.

The Department of Financial Services fixed this window for the countrywide drive, which reaches every gram panchayat and urban local body and asks banks to hold camps through the period.

Australia hosted the fourth edition there in October 2025, which fits the pattern of the series moving between the two countries.

The Indian contingent at this edition is built around troops of the Garhwal Rifles, with personnel from other arms and services joining them, while the Australian contingent is drawn from 13 Brigade.

AUSTRAHIND is the joint military exercise of the Indian Army and the Australian Army, and its name joins the two countries.

The Kiwifruit Action Plan has named Pfutsero in Nagaland and Magra in Uttarakhand as its first-phase sites, where New Zealand is giving technical help to set up centres of excellence.

Under the pact New Zealand has undertaken to facilitate investment of this size into India, and the money is expected to flow into agriculture, manufacturing, infrastructure and start-ups, supporting innovation, enterprise and job creation in line with the Make in India push.

The commerce ministers of the two countries announced jointly that the trade pact would take effect on this date, which fell on Vijay Dashmi, a day read as a mark of victory and fresh beginnings.

His research is directed at sustainable answers to environmental problems, with plastic waste and pollution at its centre, and the ministry has presented his case as an illustration of how timely financial support helps a scholar from a disadvantaged background stay in research.