Railway GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is the IIT Madras Research Park in Chennai, where the 9th Workshop on Recent Advancements in Hydrogen Value Chain was held on 13 October 2026.

It organised the workshop at the IIT Madras Research Park in Chennai to commemorate National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day, and about 150 delegates from academia, research institutes and industry attended.

The correct answer is the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, usually written as CSIR, which is organising this year edition of the conclave.

The DST Secretary, Professor Umesh Waghmare, said the department has set up that many Technology Innovation Hubs under the mission, and named TiHAN at IIT Hyderabad, IHFC at IIT Delhi and ARTPARK at IISc Bengaluru as examples.

Professor Abhay Karandikar, Member of NITI Aayog and the Chief Guest at the curtain-raiser, called the theme apt because it speaks of the creative minds that work on scientific innovations and then turn them into technologies that serve society.

The curtain-raiser announced that the second edition of the Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave will be held there, and that this edition is being organised by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

Speaking about the place of traditional medicine in India, the Vice-President recalled the creation of a separate Ministry of AYUSH in that year and the work it has since done to strengthen education, expand healthcare services and promote scientific research.

At the inaugural ceremony the Vice-President inaugurated the AYUSH Start-up Portal, the AIIA-iCAINE website and the Ayurveda Digital Innovation and Venture Acceleration Facility, known by its short name AyuDIVA, and he launched the Vamana App together with the Panchakarma Assessment App.

The theme of the third edition was Shaping the Future of Child Health: Global Perspectives, Research Innovations, and Clinical Frontiers in Kaumarabhritya, and the Vice-President said it reflected a shared duty to let every child grow up healthy and well nurtured.

The correct answer is the Vice-President of India, Shri C. P. Radhakrishnan, who opened the conference in New Delhi and used the address to call for stronger scientific research into Ayurveda so that the efficacy of traditional practices is established and their acceptance abroad grows.

Describing the reforms in defence procurement, the Raksha Mantri said that this share of the modernisation budget has been set aside for buying from Indian industries, and that domestic firms are given priority through the Defence Acquisition Procedure and the Buy Indian-Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured category.

The Raksha Mantri told the conclave that of the ammunition variants in use with the defence forces, that many are now made within the country, which works out to more than 90 per cent self-reliance in ammunition variants.

At the Defence Conclave the Raksha Mantri said defence production had reached a record of more than that figure, measured against Rs 40,000 crore in 2014, and that the sector is aiming at Rs 2 lakh crore this year and Rs 3 lakh crore by 2029.

Speaking at a Defence Conclave in New Delhi, Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh described the security landscape of the digital age as hybrid, high-tech and hyper warfare, and listed a 5D Security Threat made up of disinformation, destabilisation, disruption, deception and destruction.

The government brought 29 existing labour laws together into four codes, namely the Code on Wages, the Industrial Relations Code, the Code on Social Security and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code.

The scheme was framed to strengthen credit delivery to micro and small enterprises and to reach entrepreneurs who are unserved or underserved, and within it women-led units receive guarantee cover at that higher level together with a concession of 10 per cent on the guarantee fee.

The scheme, which began in 2015, seeks to widen access to collateral-free credit up to that amount for micro and small enterprises in non-corporate and non-farm income generating activities.

For women aged 15 years and above the Labour Force Participation Rate reached that level in 2025.

The Department of Defence is wrong: it set up the e-Chhawani Helpdesk for grievance redressal, which is a different initiative from the same campaign.

The campaign has two phases: the preparatory phase, which was completed at the end of September, and the implementation phase, which began on 2 October and runs to the end of that month.