SSC GK Questions 2026

Give Blood. Save Lives." The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare set this theme for the observance, and officials explained that it points to the humanitarian spirit behind donation and calls on eligible citizens, particularly the young, to come forward.

The day is observed on this date every year to spread awareness about voluntary blood donation and to encourage healthy, eligible people to donate regularly and without payment.

The inaugural session will examine how economic policy can build resilience without giving up growth, openness or the credibility of institutions.

The Institute was founded by Professor V.K.R.V. Rao in 1952; N. K. Singh is President of its Board of Trustees, Dr Michael Debabrata Patra is Chairman of its Board of Governors and Professor Sabyasachi Kar is its Director.

The correct answer is Resilience in an Age of Flux, the theme announced by the Ministry of Finance for the fifth edition of the Conclave, to be held in New Delhi from 3 to 5 October 2026.

The Commanding Officer, officers and crew of the ship laid a wreath at the Mazargues War Memorial in Marseille in remembrance of 205 Indian soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice during the World Wars.

The Ministry of Defence stated that INS Trishul arrived at Toulon to join the twenty-fourth edition of the exercise, which makes Varuna one of the longest-running bilateral naval exercises India takes part in.

Varuna is the annual bilateral maritime exercise between the Indian Navy and the French Navy, and in its twenty-fourth edition the Indian warship Trishul sailed to the French port of Toulon to take part.

Urging the Commission and the state selection commissions to keep building their own capacity, the Prime Minister said the digital platform already created under the national mission for civil servants could be used for the purpose.

He offered it in place of the old mai-baap attitude of officialdom.

The Commission began in that year under colonial rule, and the Prime Minister contrasted those origins with the way the body later turned its work towards the aims of an independent country, which is why the celebration in 2026 marks a full hundred years.

The hundredth-year celebrations of the Union Public Service Commission were held there, and the Prime Minister took part along with chairpersons of the Public Service Commissions of the states.

In a prokaryotic cell the genetic material lies free in the cytoplasm with no nuclear membrane around it, and this poorly defined nuclear region is called the nucleoid.

A medium that holds less water than the cell is a hypertonic medium, so water moves out of the cell by osmosis and the cell shrinks.

Hydrogen is a colourless, odourless and tasteless gas, so none of the colours listed fits it.

Graphite is soft and slippery rather than hard, so this is the statement that is not correct. The difference between the allotropes comes from the way the carbon atoms are joined.

An emulsion is a colloid in which one liquid is spread as fine droplets through another liquid that does not mix with it.

Ethyl acetate is an ester, and esters are the family of organic compounds known for a sweet, fruity smell. It is formed when ethanol reacts with acetic acid in the presence of a little concentrated sulphuric acid, a reaction called esterification, and its formula is CH3COOC2H5.

Three grams of hydrogen, 48 grams of oxygen and 42 grams of nitrogen each come to 1.5 moles, while two grams of carbon is only about 0.17 mole, so carbon holds a different number of particles.

A colloid only looks uniform to the eye; it is in fact a heterogeneous mixture, so this is the statement that is not true.