Railway GK Questions 2026

Ministries run Special Campaign 6 under its guidance, and it has set up the web portal on which each ministry uploads progress so that the drive can be monitored centrally.

The commission urged all the authorities concerned to implement the recommendations in the advisory and to furnish an Action Taken Report within two months, so that it stays informed about the progress made.

The commission quoted the Periodic Labour Force Participation Survey to show that women's participation in the labour force stood at this level in September 2026, and set it beside the roughly 4.4 lakh cases of crimes against women in the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau.

The National Human Rights Commission built its advisory around eight areas of action: raising awareness about women's safety and sexual harassment, infrastructure, encouraging bystander intervention, the role of the police, support for survivors, cybercrime against women, long-term reforms, and other measures.

In its National Statement India listed its conservation network as 1,134 Protected Areas, 103 Ramsar sites, 57 Biodiversity Heritage Sites and 18 Biosphere Reserves, of which 13 belong to the Man and the Biosphere network of UNESCO.

India's minister told the High-Level Segment that the country's updated National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan converts the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework into 23 National Biodiversity Targets, and that progress against them is measured through 142 indicators.

The 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity met at Yerevan, and the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change thanked the Government of Armenia for hosting the seventeenth meeting of the Convention.

The Buildathon was organised by the Department of School Education and Literacy in collaboration with the Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog and AICTE, whose chairman Prof. T. G. Sitharam is among those attending the felicitation ceremony.

This is the count of project submissions the Buildathon received from schools across India, taking the Idea Track and the Prototype Track together, and it is the figure on which the Guinness World Records certification as the Largest Innovation Solution Competition rests.

The Ministry of Education announced that the Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025 had been certified by Guinness World Records under exactly this category, on the strength of 2,87,967 project entries sent in by school pupils from across the country through the Idea Track and the Prototype Track.

The review took up the implementation status of 35 pilot clusters under the programme for Modernisation of Command Area Development and Water Management, which is abbreviated as M-CADWM.

Shri Raj Bhushan Choudhary is wrong as the answer to this question because he is the Minister of State for Jal Shakti and was present at the meeting rather than in the chair, and the distinction between a Cabinet Minister and a Minister of State is exactly what such questions…

In the review chaired by Union Jal Shakti Minister Shri C. R. Patil, the status of the Ken-Betwa Link Project was taken up, and the discussion covered the link canal and the Daudhan Dam.

The Central Vigilance Commission has advised all ministries, departments and organisations of the Central Government to run a preventive vigilance campaign of three months, from 17 August to 16 November 2026, and it named five focus areas: disposal of pending complaints, disposal of pending cases, capacity building programmes, digital initiatives…

The Central Vigilance Commission is observing the week across those seven days, and the integrity pledge was administered to the Commission officers and staff on 27 October 2026 at Satarkata Bhawan in New Delhi.

That is the theme chosen by the Central Vigilance Commission for the week observed from 26 October to 1 November 2026, and it connects honesty in public office with national prosperity.

It is organising the second edition of the Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave, ESTIC-2026, from 27 to 29 October 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, on the theme Creative Minds, Catalyzing Science, Empowering Technologies.

The first integrated CCUS Field Laboratory was inaugurated there in May 2026 and brings capture, utilisation and permanent geological storage together on one pilot scale platform.

The scheme for carbon capture, utilisation and storage was announced in February 2026 and the Ministry of Finance set aside that sum over five years for five industrial sectors, namely power, steel, cement, refineries and chemicals.

Twenty-nine central labour laws have been merged into four Labour Codes, and the exercise came with a set of threshold changes that are easy to ask about.