State Exams GK Questions 2026

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 two disputes were resolved amicably through that officer conciliation efforts rather than through adjudication. The Banking Ombudsman handles customer complaints against banks and has no role in a dispute between a bank and its employees, so that option is wrong.

The option of Rs 10.52 crore is the benefit under the second settlement alone, signed on 23 October 2026 with the Bihar Gramin Bank Workers Organisation for around 2,500 employees, so it is a part and not the whole.

Two disputes between its management and its employees organisations were settled on 22 and 23 October 2026 through the conciliation efforts of the Assistant Labour Commissioner (Central), Patna, working under the Office of the Chief Labour Commissioner (Central) in the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

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.

India drew that much foreign direct investment over the twelve financial years from FY 2014-15 to FY 2025-26, which is 169 per cent more than in the twelve years before it.

It also runs the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme, the Fund of Funds for Startups and the Credit Guarantee Scheme for Startups.

India had 10.38 crore people aged 60 and above at the Census of 2011, split into 5.11 crore men and 5.27 crore women, and the elderly population is projected to rise to 23 crore by 2036.