IBPS GK Questions 2026

The release states that the Prime Minister addressed the International Space Summit held in Paris, France, and that he joined the gathering through video conference.

This is the strand of his record that connects most directly to the national post he now holds, since the state body does at the level of one state what the national commission does for the country.

Makwana served as a member of the Central Monitoring Committee constituted under that Act before taking charge of the national commission, and this experience sits alongside his tenure in the Uttarakhand commission and his time as an Independent Director on the Board of NHPC.

On assuming office he spoke of protecting the rights and dignity of safai karamcharis and of strengthening the Commission's work for their welfare and empowerment.

The ministers meeting in New Delhi agreed that the next edition of the ministerial, the tenth, will be convened in that year, which keeps the gathering on a two-year cycle.

The correct answer is the India-ASEAN Friendship Spike for Agriculture and Forestry, described as a symbol of the enduring partnership and the shared commitment of the two sides to cooperation in agriculture and forestry.

The working group met a day before the ministerial and was co-chaired by India and the Philippines, with Dr M.L.

It was co-chaired by the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, and the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture of the Philippines, Francisco P. Tiu Laurel, and it reaffirmed the shared commitment of India and the grouping to a food secure and resilient agricultural future.

The endorsement rests on three domestic foundations that are named explicitly, namely the Bharat 6G Vision, the Bharat 6G Alliance and the indigenous fourth and fifth generation technology stack, and the engagement is aligned with Atmanirbhar Bharat and the goal of Viksit Bharat 2047.

That is the target India has set for its contribution to global 6G standards and patents, and it sits behind the larger ambition of moving the country from being an adopter of technology to being a setter of standards, an emphasis credited to the Minister of State for Communications.

The endorsement was marked there by a handshake between Jitin Prasada, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry and for Electronics and Information Technology, and Howard Lutnick, the United States Secretary of Commerce.

Developers and quality assurance teams can run user provisioning and consent, face capture, liveness checks, authentication, error handling and response validation in it, and they can do so without external biometric hardware.

UIDAI engineered the face authentication solution in India and launched it in that year, and it has since been adopted by nearly 200 entities, among them central ministries and departments, state governments, banks, non-banking financial companies, telecom operators, brokerage firms and certifying authorities.

The venue matters because the audience was exactly the one the tools are meant for, the banking, financial services and insurance industry, which had long asked for a way to complete Aadhaar authentication inside its own apps.

More precisely, the ship was built under Vertical-4 of that mission, which deals with deep ocean survey and exploration, and it is an all-weather multidisciplinary platform engineered even for the Southern Ocean, with a projected service life of 30 years.

That vessel is 43 years old and was procured from Germany in 1983, and the new ship will take over its work step by step.

The minister praised the yard for completing the launch within two years of signing the contract.

Both Cabinet decisions state that the projects were planned under this master plan, whose aim is to raise multi-modal connectivity and logistics efficiency through integrated planning and consultation with stakeholders.

The three projects in the eastern and central states are the Kharagpur to Jharsuguda fourth line, the Katni to Pendra Road fourth line and the Bilaspur to Pendra Road third line.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved five projects of the Ministry of Railways at this cost, spread over 17 districts of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana, and adding about 540 km to the network.