SSC GK Questions 2026

The portal address itself carries the clue, since it sits on the ministry’s own domain.

As Chairman of the committee he launched its dedicated digital web portal in New Delhi, a portal that is now fully operational for public access, stakeholder submissions and data interaction.

The committee has been asked to examine the demand for revising this price in the light of the cost of producing sugar, what mills actually realise in the market, and the financial viability of the mills themselves.

The committee was constituted following the decisions taken during a meeting in which representatives of sugarcane farmers from these two States met the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare together with the Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.

The Government of India constituted the committee under his chairmanship to examine the issues raised by sugarcane farmers and to recommend suitable measures.

It has been adopted under the agreement and is to be put in place, and active involvement in it is expected to advance India’s strategic regional priorities while strengthening national coastal security.

The high seas themselves account for roughly 65 per cent of the global ocean and five countries or regions dominate fishing in that space.

The Central Government has approved India moving from the position of a cooperating non-contracting party, which it has held since 2022, to that of a full contracting party, which brings voting rights in the bodies that run the agreement.

Two independent professional agencies valued the bank, one comparing it against the closing accounts of all public sector banks as on 31 March 2026 under relative valuation, the other weighing tangible and intangible assets, land and property included, against liabilities in the audited accounts of the same date.

This is the aggregate equity block going to the Strategic Buyer, and it is made up of two parts: the Government of India contributes 30.48 per cent and LIC contributes 30.24 per cent, with the sale proceeds divided in that same ratio.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs picked this company as the Strategic Buyer when it approved the strategic restructuring of the bank, and its parent is M/s Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.

The normal human ear hears sound from about 20 hertz to 20,000 hertz, the audible range. Frequency, measured in hertz, is the number of vibrations per second, and it decides the pitch of a sound: the higher the frequency, the shriller the note.

Ultrasound is sound with a frequency above 20,000 Hz, the upper limit of human hearing. Humans hear sound between about 20 Hz and 20 kHz.

Propane is a light gaseous hydrocarbon that burns completely with a blue flame, leaving no smoke, soot or ash. A clean fuel burns completely, gives high heat and releases few pollutants.

Soft soaps are potassium salts of fatty acids, while ordinary hard bar soaps are sodium salts. Soap is made by saponification, heating an oil or fat with an alkali.

Magnesium, calcium and barium are all alkaline earth metals of group 2, and each has a valency of 2. Elements in the same group of the periodic table have the same number of electrons in their outermost shell, and so the same valency.

The atmosphere is heated mainly from below, by the long-wave heat the Earth's surface gives off, not directly by sunlight.

Their valencies are neon 0, magnesium 2, nitrogen 3 and silicon 4. Valency is the combining capacity of an atom, the number of electrons it loses, gains or shares to reach a stable octet.

Electric power is P = V × I, and 220 V × 0.6 A = 132 W. Power is the rate at which electrical energy is used, measured in watts; one watt is one joule per second, or one volt times one ampere.

Mitochondria are membrane-bound organelles, and only eukaryotic cells have membrane-bound organelles. Prokaryotes such as bacteria and cyanobacteria have no true nucleus and no membrane-bound organelles; their DNA lies in a region called the nucleoid, and they carry out respiration on their plasma membrane.