SSC GK Questions 2026

The nationwide campaign is being conducted across 500 universities, colleges and institutions and runs from 26 October to 5 November 2026.

The campaign is run by MY Bharat, which functions under the Department of Youth Affairs in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, and its purpose is to spread electoral awareness among young people, especially first-time voters, so that they take part in the democratic process with understanding.

The Guwahati fair was described as the second event in the Shilp Samagam series for the financial year 2026-27, following the opening edition at Mysuru in Karnataka, which concluded on 19 October.

BHARAT-TULIP was a key focus of the Shilp Samagam Mela held at Guwahati, and its work is to open market access for artisans through physical outlets as well as e-commerce platforms, so that inherited skills reach the channels where buyers shop today.

The fair is organised by that Ministry to give traditional craftspeople a platform to display their heritage, build direct links with customers and strengthen their socio-economic self-reliance.

AIIA-iCAINE was established on 29 October 2021 under the mandate of the Ministry of Ayush at the All India Institute of Ayurveda in New Delhi, and it supports Ayurveda-based products, services and enterprises through mentorship, capacity building, institutional partnerships and industry engagement.

The challenge asks participants to use AyurParam to build artificial intelligence solutions that are trustworthy, transparent, safe and practical, and to apply them to Ayurvedic clinical practice, retrieval from classical texts, research, treatment planning and public health awareness.

The challenge is organised by Techfest of IIT Bombay in collaboration with the Ministry of Ayush and the All India Institute of Ayurveda, and it was launched at the sixth Foundation Day of the institute's incubation centre AIIA-iCAINE.

It is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, which spreads through food and water polluted with human faeces. The bacterium was identified by Robert Koch in 1883.

Amuktamalyada is a Telugu work, not a Sanskrit one, so this statement is wrong. Krishnadevaraya (ruled 1509–1529) was the greatest king of the Tuluva dynasty of Vijayanagara.

Hair turns grey because the chemical make-up of the hair changes as the body stops producing the pigment melanin, so new substances form and the change cannot be reversed.

Lysosomes are small membrane-bound sacs full of hydrolytic enzymes that digest worn-out parts and foreign material inside the cell. Lysosomes are formed from the Golgi apparatus and were discovered by Christian de Duve.

The resistance of a conductor depends on its material and shape, not on how much current flows through it. For a cylindrical conductor, R = ρL/A, where ρ is the resistivity of the material, L the length and A the area of cross-section.

Oxygen makes up about 21 per cent of dry air by volume, second only to nitrogen. Dry air near the ground is about 78 per cent nitrogen, 21 per cent oxygen and 0.93 per cent argon, which is the third most abundant gas.

DTTI is an India–US forum launched in 2012 to deepen defence trade and to develop and produce defence technology together.

The enzyme breaks the β-lactam ring that gives penicillin its power. Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928 from the mould Penicillium notatum.

In an insulator the electrons are tightly bound to their atoms, so there are almost no free electrons to carry a current.

Zinc gives up electrons more readily than iron, so it corrodes first and keeps the iron safe. Coating iron or steel with a thin layer of zinc is called galvanisation.

An ECG records the electrical signals that make the heart muscle contract with each beat. Each heartbeat starts at the sino-atrial (SA) node, the natural pacemaker in the right atrium.

An echo is sound that bounces back from a hard surface such as a wall, cliff or hill and reaches our ears again.