SSC GK Questions 2026

As Director of NIPER Raebareli she said the proposed Centre of Excellence would serve as a dedicated platform for structured training and certification in clinical research, and that bringing academic and industry expertise together would produce a model capable of being repeated in other regions and therapeutic areas.

It is described as the central government's flagship initiative for building a stronger biopharma ecosystem, and among its goals is the creation of a thousand clinical trial sites across the country; the partnership between NIPER Raebareli and AstraZeneca India directly serves that objective.

The partnership begins by adopting 25 clinical trial sites in emerging research geographies, assessing what each can do, and then giving the staff targeted training and mentoring while tightening documentation and the processes around ethics, safety and trial feasibility.

Promoting alternative development, including the growing of alternative crops in place of illicit ones, is a mandate the bureau carries under this policy, which is why the public dialogue at Malana village formed part of the operation rather than being an extra.

The Central Bureau of Narcotics is the country's apex drug law enforcement and regulatory agency and it sits under the Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance, a placement that surprises candidates and therefore makes a good question.

The Central Bureau of Narcotics carried out its destruction drive in Kullu district, clearing 5,165 acres, or 2,070 hectares, of illicit cannabis cultivation over one month.

Four persons were arrested under its provisions, namely two proprietors or partners of importing firms, a customs broker's G-card holder, and the owner of a Dubai-based supplier who had also floated an importing firm in his father's name.

The salt was shipped through Colombo Port in Sri Lanka and then sent on to India, a third-country route meant to break the visible link with Pakistan.

DRI ran Operation Deep Manifest and detected 295 containers carrying 7,311 metric tonnes of Pakistan-origin industrial or Himalayan rock salt, worth roughly Rs 30 crore, that had been brought into the country in breach of the import ban.

The bonus was approved on the strength of the railways' performance in 2025-26, and the government cited a record freight loading of 1,670 million tonnes for that year together with a passenger count of nearly 7.41 billion.

That is the amount the Union Cabinet approved for paying a bonus of 78 days' wages to railway employees, and it is spread across 11,40,770 employees.

The Union Cabinet cleared a Productivity Linked Bonus equal to 78 days' wages for railway employees, and this is the figure every other number in the decision hangs on: the total sanctioned amount, the per-employee ceiling and the count of employees covered are all tied to the same 78 days.

The programme was launched for assistance to poor households as a way of discharging the responsibility the Central Government carries under Article 41 of the Constitution, which sits among the Directive Principles of State Policy and speaks of public assistance in old age, sickness and disablement.

The approved structure of the disability pension has two slabs by age. A beneficiary in the 0-79 years group receives Rs 375 a month, while a beneficiary who has turned 80 years or more receives Rs 625 a month, so option C matches the higher age slab asked about here.

When the Union Cabinet approved carrying the programme forward for five years, it renamed the umbrella scheme itself to Pradhan Mantri Samajik Sahayata Yojana, so option B is the one to mark.

Syngamy is the fusion of a male and a female gamete, and since each gamete is haploid, their union gives a diploid zygote.

Humans have a single functional insulin gene, INS, on the short arm of chromosome 11, and both chains of insulin come from it.

One nanometre is 10⁻⁹ metre, and since one metre is 100 (10²) centimetres, it equals 10⁻⁷ centimetre. The prefix nano means one billionth.

Saturated open-chain hydrocarbons are the alkanes, and every alkane fits the formula CₙH₂ₙ₊₂. In a saturated hydrocarbon every carbon atom is joined to others only by single bonds, so each carbon holds the largest possible number of hydrogen atoms.

Article 348(1)(a) says that, until Parliament by law provides otherwise, all proceedings in the Supreme Court and in every High Court shall be in the English language.