Railway GK Questions 2026

The five stations named for inauguration in Tamil Nadu, at Palani, Vellore Cantonment, Ambasamudram, Paramakkudi and Namakkal, have been rebuilt under that scheme and are being opened as Amrit Stations, as part of railway works worth more than ₹750 crore that also include the Karaikal-Peralam line and three rail flyovers…

The stretch from Poonamallee to Vadapalani is part of the second phase of the Chennai Metro Rail Project, it was built at a cost of about ₹4,900 crore, and its distinguishing feature is a double-decker structure running 3.7 km, along with advanced signalling meant to support driverless operations.

The announcement states that the projects taken up together at Chennai in Tamil Nadu carry a combined value of more than ₹13,000 crore, and that they cover metro rail, national highways, railways, ports, petroleum and education.

Phase VII of Yuva Sangam enables young participants to experience the cultural heritage, traditions, educational landscape and developmental achievements of different States and Union Territories through twenty pairings of States and higher education institutions.

Yuva Sangam is run by the Department of Higher Education in the Union Ministry of Education under the Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat programme, whose purpose is to strengthen cultural and emotional bonds among the youth of India.

The Indian Institute of Management, Sambalpur, is the nodal institution leading the Odisha delegation on its Yuva Sangam Phase VII visit to Himachal Pradesh.

Under Yuva Sangam Phase VII the Odisha delegation travelled to Himachal Pradesh, reaching the State on 5 October 2026, where NIT Hamirpur is hosting it.

The mission set for this edition was public health emergency response, and it was tied to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal on good health and well-being.

The Challenge is organised by the ITU together with the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, with support from the I-Hub Foundation for Cobotics, the Technology Innovation Hub of IIT Delhi, and it is a flagship initiative under ITU’s AI for Good programme.

The winners of the Junior and Senior categories of the India Nationals will represent the country at the Grand Finale to be held at Geneva during the AI for Good Global Summit in June 2027, where teams from participating countries will compete.

The Junior Category of the Robotics for Good Youth Challenge India 2026 was won by Team Singularity of Gopalan International School, Karnataka.

Both MY Bharat and the National Service Scheme function under this ministry, and the Yuva Sanwad Mela of 9 October 2026 was organised through them across 15 NSS Regional Directorates.

The first month of the 100-Week Sankalp Abhiyan ran under this theme and concluded with the nationwide Yuva Sanwad Mela on 9 October 2026, organised by MY Bharat and the National Service Scheme under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

This was the consolidated outreach of the Yuva Sanwad Mela, conducted across 200 designated institutions and the villages they have adopted.

The Minister asked industry to accelerate innovation and scale up technological capability so that India meets the national objectives set for 2047 and strengthens its strategic sovereignty, a year that marks a century of independence.

The Minister spoke at the 121st Annual Session of PHDCCI in New Delhi, where industry leaders, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders had gathered to discuss growth and innovation priorities.

The bioeconomy has grown from roughly US$10 billion in 2014 to about US$196 billion, crossing the US$195 billion mark, and the ambition stated is to take it to US$300 billion by 2030.

Under the National Quantum Mission the country set an eight-year target of covering 2,000 kilometres of quantum-secure communication, and the 1,000-kilometre milestone was reached in three years, which is well ahead of the pace that target implied.

These three measures were used to pick the districts, after which the share of net cropped area and of operational holdings in each State and Union Territory was also considered so that the spread remained fair, with at least one district per State.

The average score of the 100 districts across the six objectives of the scheme stood at 18.85 in April 2026 and reached 46.89 in August 2026, which is an improvement of 28.04 points over those months.