Delhi GK Questions 2026

Its second edition was held on 27 and 28 October 2026 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, organised by ICLEI South Asia along with the National Institute of Urban Affairs and supported by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

The Krishi Vigyan Kendra at Ujwa in Delhi is conducting the special awareness programmes in villages of rural Delhi as part of Khet Bachao Abhiyan - Rabi 2026, from 22 October to 30 November 2026.

Under the campaign agricultural scientists travel to farmers' fields to share the newest scientific techniques, research-based knowledge and practical information that can improve farming practice and productivity, which is exactly what the expression describes.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare is holding Khet Bachao Abhiyan - Rabi 2026 across the country over these weeks, working through its two departments.

The commission asked the district administrations to strengthen coordination between farmers, Custom Hiring Centres, machinery providers and other stakeholders so that farmers can obtain residue management solutions without waiting.

The commission emphasised this route and further directed that sector-wise nodal officers be made responsible for the actual use of stubble by their sectors and for monitoring and reporting compliance regularly.

Both Amritsar and Tarn Taran are districts of Punjab, and the commission's team held its review meeting with their Deputy Commissioners and other concerned officers.

The meeting took stock of the arrangements for comprehensive paddy stubble management and of the measures needed to end the burning of residue.

Explaining what real-time source apportionment means, Dr Jitendra Singh pointed to a screen showing that at that moment transport was contributing roughly 25 per cent of the air pollution in Delhi, while the overall pollution level stood at around 180.

AIRWISE, the Air Quality Warning and Integrated Decision Support System for Emissions, issues air-quality forecasts at a spatial resolution of 400 metres for the following 72 hours.

The laboratory has been established under Mission Mausam, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to deepen the scientific understanding of atmospheric pollution and to supply usable evidence for managing air quality in Delhi NCR.

That is the full form of AATAL, the facility inaugurated for Delhi NCR by Dr Jitendra Singh at the Delhi branch of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology.

The Home Minister said that 10 projects were inaugurated at the function and 33 projects were started with the laying of foundation stones, and that the schemes begun carry a total cost of Rs 8,941 crore.

The Home Minister said that time-bound roadmaps had been prepared jointly for Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi, with the Centre and these state governments working together, and that the Yamuna would be made clean by that year.

Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah attended the ceremony at which 10 Yamuna rejuvenation projects were inaugurated and foundation stones were laid for 33 more, and the schemes together carry this total cost.

The Sub-Committee met on 21 October 2026, reviewed the air quality of Delhi and the region along with the forecasts placed before it, and decided to bring Stage-I of the plan into force with immediate effect.

The Sub-Committee on GRAP decided to invoke all the action points listed under Stage-I of the plan then in force, and that list runs to twenty-five items, applying across the whole National Capital Region with immediate effect.

Stage-I of the Graded Response Action Plan is the stage meant for poor air, and it was invoked across the National Capital Region after Delhi's daily average index was recorded at 244 at 2 PM and then at 245 by 4 PM, both of which sit inside that band.

NCRTC is developing a captive solar power plant of this size, and it also runs a programme called Solar on Track, so that the corridor costs less to operate and places a lighter burden on the environment.

It built and runs the Namo Bharat service and it organised Namo Bharat Diwas in New Delhi, where its Managing Director Shalabh Goel welcomed the Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs and Power, Manohar Lal.