Railway GK Questions 2026

Yearly emerging cases of tuberculosis in India came down by 21% between 2015 and 2024, as recorded in the World Health Organisation's Global Tuberculosis Report 2025, and this is one of the steepest declines in incidence recorded anywhere, faster than in other high burden nations.

The nationwide campaign organised on 13 October 2026 placed JOSH teams in 11 states and 55 districts on a pilot basis, and every team has MY Bharat volunteers, cadets of the National Cadet Corps and a designated Class-I officer.

The PM GatiShakti Public platform was launched through this interface in September 2025 and extends selected data analytics capabilities to private entities and to the general public, which marked the accessibility phase of the master plan.

The government has decided to set it up so that the full potential of PM GatiShakti can be used for integrated long term transport planning, and the Union Cabinet has approved it.

The NPG evaluates infrastructure projects against PM GatiShakti principles and has appraised over 400 projects worth about 20.23 lakh crore rupees, with the count standing at 421 projects in 2026.

As the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan completed five years, the government stated that the platform integrates more than 1,800 data layers covering 58 Central Ministries and Departments and all 36 States and Union Territories, along with more than 65 software modules and tools and over 100 mobile and web…

Amit Shah, who holds the Home and Cooperation portfolio, chaired the first BIMSTEC Home Ministers Meeting in New Delhi and also led the Indian delegation to it.

Delegations of all member countries of BIMSTEC, namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand, attended the first Home Ministers Meeting in New Delhi, so the membership of the grouping stands at seven.

At the first BIMSTEC Home Ministers Meeting the Union Home Minister said the proposed BIMSTEC Disaster Management Centre is planned at Jamnagar, which lies in Gujarat, and he asked member countries to take an active part in making the centre work.

The first meeting of BIMSTEC Home Ministers, hosted by India in New Delhi and chaired by Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah, adopted this declaration, which lays down the principles behind security cooperation in the grouping.

Research and trials carried out across the country by the ICAR-National Soybean Research Institute and under this coordinated project indicate that a yield of 15 to 20 quintals per hectare can be reached by adopting improved varieties together with appropriate production technologies, and that favourable conditions may lift output to…

He holds both posts, Secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education and Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, and it was he who welcomed the early figures from the two varieties.

This is the figure for the country's average soybean productivity at present, and it is the benchmark against which the new reading of roughly 20 quintals per hectare from NRC 268 and NRC 270 is being judged.

Both varieties were bred at this institute, which functions under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, and it was the institute that organised the Soybean Harvest Day on 9 October 2026 at which their yield potential was assessed.

The review reports that the BOD load in the Ganga basin came down from 26 TPD in 2017 to 7.16 TPD in 2025, which works out to a reduction of 72.46%.

The annual inspection mechanism for grossly polluting industries in the Ganga basin began in 2017 with the support of the Central Pollution Control Board, described in the review as the national regulatory authority for this work.

The 2025 inspection cycle covered 3,703 grossly polluting industries in all, spread over 113 districts in six states and one Union Territory, with the potential to discharge into 46 tributaries and sub-tributaries of the Ganga and Yamuna.

The Ministry of Jal Shakti review records that compliance among grossly polluting industries in the Ganga basin climbed from 39% in 2017 to 86% in 2025, a steady gain produced by annual inspection, independent technical assessment and sector charters.

The wooden model is of the Ganga Ji Mandir at Mukhba, and this piece is singled out as the one that connects the Uttarakhand heritage on display with the aim of the auction, because the Ganga is central to the spiritual life of the state and the sale funds the…

The connection examiners look for is the player's home state, since the whole set is built around Uttarakhand.