IBPS GK Questions 2026

Gram Seva evam Parampragat Khel Diwas, meaning village service and traditional sports day, was held as the sixth week of this campaign by MY Bharat NSS under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, and it deliberately took the campaign out of educational institutions and into rural communities.

She addressed the course at the Delhi Lawn Tennis Association tennis stadium and said that becoming a leading sporting nation depends on identifying talent early and giving women and girls qualified coaches, suitable infrastructure, regular competition and sustained support.

The ASMITA leagues are women’s leagues run under the Khelo India framework, and since their launch in that year they have reached more than three lakh women, opening up organised participation and competition across regions and communities.

The initiative is meant to connect coach education with talent identification and the development of elite players, and it is supported by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and the Sports Authority of India.

The India Chem Youth Innovation Challenge was introduced in the 14th edition to connect young innovators with the chemicals and petrochemicals sector, and students worked on problem statements set by the industry while a jury drawn from the industry judged their solutions.

Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers Jagat Prakash Nadda said the sector must grow from its present market size of roughly USD 220 billion to about USD 1 trillion by 2040, and then to around USD 1.6 trillion by 2047.

Japan was the partner country at the 14th India Chem, and the release notes that India shares a strong trade relationship with it in the chemicals and petrochemicals sector in particular.

The 14th edition of India Chem was held under this theme in Mumbai, and the theme framed everything at the event: the business parleys, the CEOs Forum and the roundtables were all pointed at drawing investment and presenting the country as a competitive base for chemicals and petrochemicals manufacturing.

The first fair of the series ended there on 19 October after nine days at the Dasara Exhibition Ground, and thousands of visitors came through it.

They are showing roughly 40 varieties of handloom and handicraft products at Farm Gate, Khanapara, in Guwahati, where the fair is open to the public from 11 in the morning to 9 at night and will continue until 28 October.

BHARAT-TULIP is aimed at marketing the products of artisans belonging to the target groups of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, using both physical outlets and e-commerce platforms so that a maker in a small town can reach a buyer anywhere.

The fair is its marketing-support initiative for artisans and beneficiaries tied to its three national corporations: the National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation, the National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation and the National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation.

The side event, titled ‘From Policy to Practice: Advancing India’s Biodiversity Commitments through Innovation, Finance, and ABS’, is scheduled for 28 October 2026 at the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, and it will set out how India turns its biodiversity promises into action through policy…

Its Target 13 calls for real measures to ensure that the gains from using genetic resources, digital sequence information and the traditional knowledge tied to them are shared fairly and equitably, which is exactly what India’s benefit-sharing payments to State Biodiversity Boards do.

Shares were not handed out equally: the National Biodiversity Authority used an area-based method, so a state’s portion grew with the geographical spread of the crops concerned and the land under them, read off the Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

India’s access and benefit-sharing framework is governed by this Act, as amended in 2023, along with the Biological Diversity Rules, 2024, and the Access and Benefit-Sharing Regulations, 2025.

Explaining what real-time source apportionment means, Dr Jitendra Singh pointed to a screen showing that at that moment transport was contributing roughly 25 per cent of the air pollution in Delhi, while the overall pollution level stood at around 180.

AIRWISE, the Air Quality Warning and Integrated Decision Support System for Emissions, issues air-quality forecasts at a spatial resolution of 400 metres for the following 72 hours.

The laboratory has been established under Mission Mausam, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to deepen the scientific understanding of atmospheric pollution and to supply usable evidence for managing air quality in Delhi NCR.

That is the full form of AATAL, the facility inaugurated for Delhi NCR by Dr Jitendra Singh at the Delhi branch of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology.