SSC GK Questions 2026

The power section of the dashboard shows total installed capacity rising 12.1 per cent to 5,32,739.7 MW, while capacity from renewable energy sources grew much faster, by 29.5 per cent, to reach 2,23,273 MW.

The road transport and highways section of the dashboard records that much length of national highway projects awarded in the first six months of the financial year, which is a growth of 62.9 per cent over the same period a year earlier.

PAIMANA, which expands to Project Assessment, Infrastructure Monitoring and Analytics for Nation-building, is that ministry's dashboard for tracking the performance of infrastructure sub-sectors through a standard set of indicators, and it is updated every quarter.

The scheme's purpose is contained in its name: it upgrades government Industrial Training Institutes so that they become modern, industry-aligned and future-ready skilling institutions, and it works through Strategic Investment Plans drawn up jointly by state governments, industry partners and the institutes themselves.

The Kataka cluster in Odisha was approved with a Strategic Investment Plan in partnership with the foundation, and the plan is meant to strengthen infrastructure, bring in new-age training programmes and deepen industry linkages so that training matches the skill needs of the region.

The committee approved five Strategic Investment Plans of that combined value for ITI clusters spread across Maharashtra, Odisha and Jammu and Kashmir.

The four pillars are identity security, location integrity, network security and time integrity. Under identity security the project develops quantum-secure physical unclonable functions and quantum-safe trusted platform modules so that device identity is anchored in hardware.

The Technology Development Board is contributing half the project's cost from the Research Development and Innovation Fund, and the support is routed through Optionally Convertible Debt.

The Technology Development Board, which functions under the Department of Science and Technology, signed the agreement with this Karnataka-based company for financial support from the Research Development and Innovation Fund.

While speaking about the strategic value of Karwar, the Vice-President pointed to the ongoing development of modern naval infrastructure under Project Seabird, which is raising the Navy's capacity to base and maintain its ships and submarines and is also generating wider economic opportunities in the region.

The commissioning ceremony was held at Karwar, and the Vice-President used the occasion to explain why the location matters: Karwar has a deep natural harbour and lies close to the Arabian Sea, which makes it an important element of India's maritime security architecture.

The vessel was commissioned by Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan at Karwar in Karnataka and is described as the Indian Navy's first indigenous Multi-Purpose Vessel, with more than 75 per cent of its content made in India.

Officials were made aware that obsolete electronic and electrical equipment needs to be segregated, handled safely and disposed of only through authorised channels, in keeping with the e-waste management rules that apply.

The awareness session dealt with phishing attacks, malware, fraudulent messages sent through messaging applications and digital arrest scams, in which a caller pretends to be an investigating or police officer in order to frighten the victim into paying money.

The two workshops, one on cyber security and secure digital disposal and the other on e-waste management awareness, were organised by the Ministry of Textiles under this campaign on 15 October 2026, and more than 85 officials attended, among them all the Nodal Officers of the ministry.

The corpus is listed there as the SPICOR TTS 3.0 Sourashtra Corpus and offers more than 28 hours of gender-balanced Sourashtra speech data developed at IISc Bengaluru, with content in both the Sourashtra and the Tamil script.

The models built by BHASHINI and IISc Bengaluru use this architecture and generate Sourashtra speech directly from written text.

The release describes Sourashtra as a minority Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by the Sourashtra community in Tamil Nadu, which makes it unusual: it is an Indo-Aryan tongue surviving inside a state whose major language, Tamil, is Dravidian.

The Digital India BHASHINI Division, which works under the Digital India Corporation in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, built the models jointly with IISc Bengaluru, and the speech corpus used for training was developed at the institute SPIRE Lab.

Fresh kharif arrivals gathered pace and wholesale rates eased, bringing the all-India average mandi price down from its September peak to the October level.