SSC GK Questions 2026

An endemic species is one that occurs naturally in one particular area and nowhere else, and the Nicobar pigeon is the textbook Indian example, living in the forests of the Nicobar group of islands; the Andaman wild pig and the Narcondam hornbill are usually listed beside it.

Skill is built on schooling and training, so a workforce in which a large share of workers is illiterate or barely schooled cannot absorb technical instruction the way a fully literate one can.

Mahmud of Ghazni, who ruled the Ghaznavid kingdom from 998 to 1030, is recorded as having led seventeen raids into India between about 1000 and 1027.

Silver bromide is the standard example of an ionic crystal that carries both kinds of point defect at the same time.

Section 29(1) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 says the curriculum and the evaluation procedure for elementary education shall be laid down by an academic authority notified by the appropriate government, and the Central Government notified the National Council of Educational Research and Training…

SAARC was founded at Dhaka on 8 December 1985 by seven countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Around 850 AD Vijayalaya, until then a feudatory of the Pallavas, seized Thanjavur from the Muttaraiyar chiefs and made it his capital, and that conquest marks the beginning of the imperial Chola line.

Young fold mountains were raised in the Tertiary period, only a few tens of millions of years ago in geological time, so erosion has had little time to wear them down and many of them are still rising as the plates behind them keep pushing.

The All Parties Conference set up a committee under Motilal Nehru in 1928, and the report it submitted that August, known as the Nehru Report, was a draft constitutional scheme for India.

These three cereals take up most of Bihar's cropped area and give the state the bulk of its foodgrain output.

She took office in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, in July 1960 and so became the first woman anywhere in the world to head a government as Prime Minister.

In a thermoplastic the polymer exists as long linear or lightly branched chains, and one chain is held to the next only by weak secondary forces such as van der Waals attraction.

Money has a time value, so a rupee received years later is worth less than a rupee in hand, and every cash flow of a project is first brought to today's value before a decision is taken.

The Special Gram Sabhas opened the People's Plan Campaign, and the plans the Panchayats will draw up under it are for the financial year 2027-28, which is the year after the campaign year itself.

This is the amount the Sixteenth Finance Commission has recommended for Rural Local Bodies for the award period 2026-31, and it marks an increase of nearly 84 per cent over what the Fifteenth Finance Commission provided, with the annual per capita grant rising from about Rs 400 to nearly Rs…

The correct answer is Sabki Yojana, Sabka Vikas, the title of the People's Plan Campaign for the year, under which Panchayats will prepare their Panchayat Development Plans for the financial year that follows.

That many Special Gram Sabhas were scheduled across the country on the GPDP Portal and the Panchayat NIRNAY Portal for Gandhi Jayanti, and they were attended by residents, elected representatives, Panchayat functionaries and officials.

The two sides agreed to look at working together in the seed sector through a work plan that would name the key areas of cooperation and lay down a clear framework for effective implementation, and this was the new area taken up alongside the review of existing cooperation.

The two sides discussed the progress made on establishing twenty-five Centres of Excellence in the agriculture and horticulture sectors, and these centres are the main instrument through which Dutch expertise in horticulture and protected cultivation reaches Indian growers.

Silvio Erkens, the Dutch Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature, held bilateral talks with the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare in New Delhi, and the discussions covered the Centres of Excellence being set up in agriculture and horticulture, cooperation in the seed sector, market access and…