Railway GK Questions 2026

A customs union removes duties on trade among its members and, in addition, requires every member to levy the same tariff on goods coming from outside the union, which is the common external tariff.

At the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership summit held in Bangkok in November 2019, India announced that it would not join the agreement.

The India-UAE Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement was signed on 18 February 2022 and came into force on 1 May 2022, a gap of barely ten weeks that makes it one of the fastest agreements India has brought into operation.

The India-Mauritius Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement, or CECPA, took effect in 2021 and is the first trade agreement India concluded with any African country.

The European Free Trade Association has exactly four members today: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Denmark was among the seven countries that set up EFTA in 1960, but it left to join the European Communities and is today a member of the European Union, not of EFTA.

TEPA was signed on 10 March 2024 in New Delhi with the four EFTA states, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, and came into force on 1 October 2025.

India has no bilateral free trade agreement with Brazil. Its only preferential link with Brazil is through the limited India-MERCOSUR Preferential Trade Agreement, which covers a short list of products at reduced duty and is not a free trade agreement.

The distinction worth holding on to is between the largest overall contributor and the largest single payment.

The receipts of the National Biodiversity Authority come in under that Act read with the Access and Benefit Sharing Regulations, which require users of Indian biological resources to share benefits with the country and with the communities that conserve those resources.

The agri-seed sector accounted for the largest share of the receipts at Rs 7.16 crore, well ahead of every other category.

The National Biodiversity Authority received that amount from users of India biological resources in the half year from 1 April 2026 to 30 September 2026, under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, as amended in 2023, read with the Access and Benefit Sharing Regulations.

The joint report released at this year ceremony, titled Progress towards the 6G Principles of the New Delhi Declaration: Actions, Outcomes and Outlook, First Edition, October 2026, marks the completion of one year since the Declaration was endorsed at that symposium, and records the actions and outcomes reported by the…

Before the symposium the Bharat 6G Alliance already held ten global and two domestic collaborations, and at the inaugural ceremony it exchanged five more Memoranda of Understanding, with GSMA, the one6G Association, GTI Alliance Ltd, the 6G Industry Forum and VoICE.

The Bharat 6G Alliance released nine Working Group white papers, reflecting the technical contributions of its industry, academic and research members.

Union Minister for Communications and Development of North Eastern Region Jyotiraditya M. Scindia inaugurated the 3rd International Bharat 6G Symposium 2026, organised by the Bharat 6G Alliance at Yashobhoomi, Dwarka, in New Delhi, with sessions running from 7 to 9 October 2026.

In February 2019, on the direction of the Government, the pricing authority capped trade margins on 42 selected non-scheduled anti-cancer drugs, using Paragraph 19 of the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013.

Two bodies have distinct roles here, and the question turns on telling them apart.

The Department of Pharmaceuticals expects the cap on margins for non-scheduled anti-cancer medicines to save patients about Rs 2,500 crore every year, mainly by reducing what they spend from their own pockets on treatment.

The Government has approved a ceiling on the margins charged while non-scheduled anti-cancer medicines move through the supply chain to the patient, and that ceiling is fixed at 30 per cent of the MRP.

Wood Despatch of 1854 was a scheme of education, and it is often called the Magna Carta of English education in India.