SSC GK Questions 2026

Two Kanda Express rail rakes carried 840 MT and 452 MT of onions, and 44 truck consignments carried 1,513.46 MT, which adds up to more than 2,800 MT supplied across the North-East.

The onions carried by the Kanda Express come out of the onion buffer built under this fund, and the Department of Consumer Affairs releases that stock in a calibrated way when market prices rise or supplies tighten.

The Department of Consumer Affairs has dispatched the first-ever Kanda Express movement to Agartala with about 440 MT of buffer onions, expected to arrive by 18 October 2026.

The report was published by that office, which functions under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and it was released during the celebrations of the 11th Ayurveda Day.

Yearly filings went up from 63 applications in 2014-15 to 590 in 2025-26, and the report puts that increase at roughly 836.5 per cent.

The report names Maharashtra as the state leading Ayush patent activity, crediting it with 744 filings and 142 grants, a wider lead than any other state in the country holds.

The status report counts 4,077 Ayush patent applications filed across the twelve financial years from 2014-15 to 2025-26, and this is the headline figure of the whole study.

The Ease of Doing Business ranking was published by the World Bank in its annual Doing Business report.

e-NAM is an online trading platform for farm produce across India, and it lets farmers reach buyers beyond their local mandi at prices that reflect quality.

An MLA's vote value depends on the State's population, but every elected MP, in either House, has the same vote value.

Plant cells have a cellulose wall and one large central vacuole, but they do have a plasma membrane, just like animal cells.

Dairy farming (primary) and weaving cloth (secondary) are correctly matched; storage and mineral exploration are not. The primary sector draws goods directly from nature: farming, dairy, fishing, forestry, mining and quarrying.

Net metering lets a home with rooftop solar panels sell its surplus power to the grid. Under net metering, a bidirectional meter records both the electricity a consumer draws from the grid and the electricity their rooftop solar system pushes back into it.

Tyres and tubes must carry the BIS mark, but AGMARK is an Indian government mark, not an FAO one. The Bureau of Indian Standards, set up under the BIS Act (now the BIS Act, 2016), runs the ISI mark scheme.

A Money Bill covers appropriation of money out of the Consolidated Fund of India, not out of the Contingency Fund, so statement C is the incorrect one.

Microbeads are tiny plastic particles that wash into rivers and seas, where they persist and are eaten by marine life.

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is the system of keys and certificates that secures digital signatures and encrypted communication. PKI uses a pair of keys for each user: a public key that anyone can see and a private key kept secret.

Project Loon used high-altitude balloons to beam internet access to remote areas. Project Loon was developed by X, the research lab of Google's parent company Alphabet, and began trials in New Zealand in 2013.

Zika is spread mainly by the Aedes mosquito that also carries dengue, and it can pass between sexual partners. The Zika virus is a flavivirus first identified in Uganda's Zika forest in 1947.

Both are core ILO conventions aimed at ending child labour. Convention 138, the Minimum Age Convention of 1973, requires countries to set a minimum age for admission to employment, generally not below the age of finishing compulsory schooling.