SSC GK Questions 2026

NCEL is National Cooperative Exports Limited, NCOL is National Cooperative Organics Limited and BBSSL is Bharatiya Beej Sahakari Samiti Limited, the national seed cooperative.

The correct answer is Dr Ashish Kumar Bhutani, Secretary in the Ministry of Cooperation, who closed the workshop by calling the discussions productive and asking states to move from discussion to implementation.

The Secretary of the Ministry of Cooperation set that deadline for finishing the first phase of computerising Primary Agricultural Credit Societies, and asked in the same breath that audits for the years 2024-25 and 2025-26 be completed by October 2026.

The correct answer is Bastar in Chhattisgarh, where the two-day workshop was held on 8 and 9 October 2026 and ended with a call for state-specific and time-bound action plans.

It is a structured community engagement initiative meant to strengthen mental health literacy, cut the stigma attached to mental illness and prompt people to seek help early rather than late.

The programme runs under the National Mental Health Programme with support to states and union territories through the National Health Mission, and it funds outpatient care, counselling, psychosocial help, medicines, follow-up, outreach, referral and inpatient treatment at the district level.

The day falls on 10 October every year, and the theme for the 2026 observance asks that the voices of those who have lived with mental health conditions be heard and allowed to shape policy and services.

Tele-MANAS, which stands for Tele Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across States, offers free and confidential counselling on this number at any hour of the day, in several languages, without the caller having to reach a hospital.

More than four-fifths of the craft is of Indian origin, and it is propelled by three diesel engines that drive waterjets, which gives it the agility needed in shallow waters.

Mangrol is a coastal town and a well-known fishing harbour in the Junagadh district of that state, and the Navy has used the name before: the minesweeper INS Mangrol, with the pennant M85, served until April 2004.

The correct answer is Abhay, the hull-mounted sonar that lets the craft pick up submarines in coastal and shallow waters.

Mangrol is the third shallow water craft for anti-submarine warfare delivered by that yard, and it will be commissioned at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai, with the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Western Naval Command presiding.

A total of fifteen Champion Awards were handed out, recognising organisations for indigenous technology development, product innovation, design capability, import substitution, excellence in manufacturing and export performance.

SIDM was set up in that year and has since grown into a common platform for large defence enterprises, micro, small and medium enterprises, startups, academic institutions and foreign original equipment manufacturers.

While giving away the SIDM Champion Awards, the Defence Minister repeated the target of lifting India’s defence exports to ₹50,000 crore by that year.

Speaking at the eighth annual session of the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers in New Delhi, the Defence Minister said exports of defence goods had touched this figure in the financial year 2025-26, the highest India has ever reached, and that the rise over the preceding year was more than…

The minister said the platform, which pairs artificial intelligence with data analytics, has facilitated the disconnection of more than 7.14 crore fraudulent mobile connections.

The minister said more than 38,000 high-end GPUs have been onboarded under the IndiaAI Mission at roughly a third of the global average cost.

The three interconnected pillars are AI Readiness and Policy, which assesses policy gaps and sets up practical governance frameworks; AI Skills Development, which scales national talent through capacity building and training; and Public AI Infrastructure, which creates standards-based, interoperable sandbox environments for testing, validating, scaling and reusing locally relevant solutions.

The workshop was organised jointly by the department, which sits in the Ministry of Communications, and the Union, and was inaugurated by Jyotiraditya M. Scindia at India Mobile Congress 2026 in New Delhi.