SSC GK Questions 2026

These water bodies are intended to supply irrigation water to farmers at the time of need in a high-altitude region where the farming season is short.

The Nimmu-Padum-Darcha road, dedicated to the people of Ladakh at a cost of 2,500 crore rupees, brings a journey that earlier took 12 hours down to roughly three hours.

The terminal triples the number of flights the airport can handle and raises yearly passenger handling from 10 lakh to 35 lakh.

The set includes the new airport terminal at Leh, the Nimmu-Padum-Darcha road, the Hanu hydroelectric project with its transmission network, reservoirs raised under Project Amrit Him Sarovar and the country's first Petroglyph Conservation Park.

The Rs 2,563 crore contract with New Space India Limited, Bengaluru, gives the Air Force a communication satellite of its own, designed, developed and manufactured in India, so that its aircraft and ground assets keep a protected, continuous link.

The torpedo carries advanced manoeuvring features and can engage enemy submarines at long ranges.

Varunastra is launched from a warship and is meant to destroy submarines, and it was developed in India by the Naval Science and Technological Laboratory.

The Bengaluru-based company signed a contract worth Rs 2,563 crore with the Ministry of Defence on 15 October 2026 for GSAT-7C, a dedicated communication satellite for the Indian Air Force.

Adenosine triphosphate stores energy in its phosphate bonds and releases it wherever the cell needs it, so it is called the energy currency of the cell.

It flows south along the west coast of North America, carrying cold water from higher latitudes towards the equator. As a rule, currents moving from the poles towards the equator are cold, and those moving from the equator towards the poles are warm.

This is the order in which these metals stand in the reactivity series, and it matches how vigorously they release hydrogen from dilute hydrochloric acid.

Iron is needed to make haemoglobin, so too little iron means too little haemoglobin and a reduced ability of the blood to carry oxygen.

Loktak is in Manipur, Barapani in Meghalaya, Kolleru in Andhra Pradesh, and Pulicat on the Andhra Pradesh–Tamil Nadu border. Loktak is the largest freshwater lake in north-east India, famous for its floating islands of vegetation called phumdis; Keibul Lamjao, the only floating national park in the world, lies on it.

The Salal hydroelectric project is a run-of-the-river project on the Chenab in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir. Built and run by NHPC, Salal has an installed capacity of 690 MW and was the first project India built under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 on a western river.

An ecosystem is a community of living things together with the non-living environment they interact with, and it can be as large as an ocean or as small as an aquarium.

The air we breathe out carries carbon dioxide, which reacts with limewater to form a white, insoluble solid that makes it look milky.

Acceleration is the change in velocity divided by the time taken, and 10 minutes is one-sixth of an hour.

Without enough vitamin D the body cannot absorb calcium and phosphorus properly, so a child's growing bones stay soft and bend.

Urea is the body's way of getting rid of the nitrogen that comes from breaking down proteins, and only proteins among these contain nitrogen.

Telangana is a landlocked state bordered by exactly these four states. Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh on 2 June 2014 as India's 29th state, with Hyderabad as its capital.