Railway GK Questions 2026

The dialogue is a thought leadership conference put together by the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways together with the Observer Research Foundation, and its third edition is being held in New Delhi.

The collection places this piece alongside a memento marking the silver jubilee, or Rajat Jayanti, of the State legislative assembly and models representing institutions in the new capital area, so that the State’s present sits next to its older traditions.

The auction of the mementos is live, has been extended to the end of October, and whatever it earns goes to that project, with bids placed online through the official memento e-auction portal.

It is a lost-wax casting tradition whose history in the country runs back more than four thousand years, and several works in the collection show its range, among them an Elephant Head Nandi, a Standing Nandi and a bust of a Madia-Madin tribal couple.

Eight such rail movements, together with four hundred and sixty-seven trucks, were used to carry more than two lakh quintals of buffer onion to one hundred and twenty-three cities, and further rail rakes were being planned so that bigger quantities could reach markets with heavy consumption.

These were named as the major producing States from which fresh kharif onion had started reaching markets, while availability from stored stocks continued to meet demand in the meantime, and arrivals were expected to rise further in the following weeks.

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution said more than two lakh quintals of buffer onion had been disposed of so far, moved by eight Kanda Express rail consignments and four hundred and sixty-seven trucks, and that additional rail rakes were being planned so larger quantities could reach…

Notifying entertainment precincts under these rules was taken up as one of the next-generation reforms, along with a single national music licence carrying notified tariffs to replace overlapping demands from multiple rights societies, and relaxation of the caps on foreign remittances for payments to international artists.

The meeting reviewed how the single window clearances facility for the live event industry on this platform is being implemented, and States and Union Territories were asked to designate Nodal Officers, nominate authorised officers from departments, integrate departmental and local licensing systems with it, route the complete licence lifecycle through…

The Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting gave this figure while addressing the fifth meeting of the Live Events Development Cell, adding that around thirty-four thousand events were held across the country and that the sector now supports more than one crore livelihoods.

The revised procedure keeps this slot free at proof ranges for proof firing of developmental projects sponsored by the Government, including those under iDEX, the Technology Development Fund and the Make route along with other ministry projects, and also for developmental projects that the indigenous defence industry has taken up…

The earlier procedure routed disagreements into arbitration, and the revised version replaces that with a simpler, industry-friendly conciliation clause so that problems faced by domestic manufacturers are settled faster, which the Ministry links to ease of doing business.

The waiver of proof and testing charges for this set of projects is the central financial relief in the revised Standard Operating Procedure, and the stated reason is the promotion of self-reliance in defence.

It will be made up of representatives of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and the Crops Research Institute, will review the progress of cooperation and will guide implementation, meeting periodically in New Delhi and in Accra.

The understanding between the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and the Crops Research Institute of Ghana provides a framework of this duration for joint agricultural research, exchange of science and technology, capacity building, and the application and commercialisation of agricultural technologies.

It signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, covering joint agricultural research, scientific and technological exchange, capacity building and the application and commercialisation of farm technologies, and the signing was attended by the external affairs ministers of both countries.

India began with Low Earth Orbit Search and Rescue, moved on to Geostationary Search and Rescue, and is now progressing towards Medium Earth Orbit Search and Rescue.

At its twenty-fourth meeting the National Maritime Search and Rescue Board looked at how prepared the country is to run rescue operations across this whole stretch of ocean, and discussed technology integration, real-time information sharing, management of distress alerts, vessel tracking and coordination between agencies.

The exercise was inaugurated by the Raksha Rajya Mantri on 7 October 2026 and the sea phase was set to be conducted off Paradip, on the Odisha coast, the next day.

Offices taking part in the campaign were told to identify and separate the electronic waste generated during the drive and to dispose of it only through authorised recyclers, following these rules together with the applicable guidelines of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.