SSC GK Questions 2026

The public sector is owned and run by the government, and its guiding aim is social welfare rather than profit.

The third book of the Rigveda holds a hymn in which the sage Vishvamitra speaks with two rivers, Vipasha and Shutudri, and asks them to run low so that his party may cross with its wagons.

Kelucharan Mohapatra was the guru who brought Odissi, the classical dance of Odisha, back to the stage in the twentieth century.

Sudarshan Sahoo, the stone and wood sculptor from Puri in Odisha, was given the Padma Vibhushan in 2021 in the field of art. He had already received the Padma Shri in 1988, and his work carries the Odishan temple-sculpture tradition of Konark and Puri into modern studios.

A LAN joins computers and devices inside a small area such as one room, one building or a campus.

National income is estimated by three standard methods — the product or value-added method, the income method and the expenditure method — and there is no banking method.

Ceres is the only dwarf planet that orbits inside the main asteroid belt, the ring of rocky bodies between Mars and Jupiter.

Rakhigarhi lies in Hisar district of Haryana, on the dry bed of the Ghaggar river. It is the largest Harappan site found in India, spread over several mounds, and excavations there have given up planned streets, brick drains, a granary area, seals and terracotta toys.

She described the participation of these young women as an encouraging shift in India's skilling landscape and made the point that skills have no gender.

India's competitor contingent at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026 has 70 members.

WorldSkills Shanghai 2026 is the 48th edition of the WorldSkills Competition and is being held in Shanghai from 22 to 27 September 2026.

The correct answer is Brigadier Sanjay Kumar Mishra, Head of Ophthalmology at the Army Hospital (Research and Referral), Delhi Cantonment, whose team carried advanced phacoemulsification, vitreoretinal and glaucoma equipment across mountainous terrain to reach Tangdhar.

Tangdhar lies in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, a shelling-prone area close to the Line of Control, and the camp there had to be run from an underground operation theatre for that reason.

Surgeons of the Armed Forces Medical Services completed 220 sight-restoring surgeries during the two-day mega eye surgical camp at Tangdhar in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, held on 24 and 25 September 2026 under Operation Drishti.

MAHASAGAR is the name given to India's maritime vision, and the QUAD-at-Sea Ship Observer Mission is described as an expression of it, alongside the Indian Coast Guard's own commitment to collective engagement and a secure maritime environment in the Indo-Pacific.

The officers who boarded the ship for the passage are called Sea Riders, and the split is worth memorising because a paper setter can ask about it directly: India and Japan contributed two officers each, while Australia and the United States contributed one officer each, which adds up to six…

Shaunak is the Indian Coast Guard ship that left Chennai on 25 September 2026 for Perth in Australia as India's contribution to the QUAD-at-Sea Ship Observer Mission, carrying six Sea Riders drawn from the four QUAD countries.

Ways and Means Advances is the facility through which the Reserve Bank of India lets the Centre bridge short-lived mismatches between money received and money paid out, and for the second half of FY 2026-27 the ceiling on this facility has been set at Rs 50,000 crore.

The gross borrowing of Rs 7,86,000 crore planned for the second half of FY 2026-27 will be completed through 23 weekly auctions of dated securities, with the paper spread over eight maturity buckets ranging from three years to fifty years.

The Finance Ministry, after consulting the Reserve Bank of India, settled on this gross market borrowing figure for the closing half of FY 2026-27, and the whole sum is to be raised through 23 weekly auctions of dated securities.