State Exams GK Questions 2026

Swavlamban started that year and has since grown into a national platform that joins the Indian Navy’s operational requirements to what Indian industry and academia can actually build.

Both are to be released at the plenary session, where the Raksha Mantri is the chief guest, and both are intended as working references for industry: they set out the Indian Navy’s technological priorities, its operational requirements and the openings where indigenous developers can contribute.

The wording matters for an examination, because a paper setter will pair the theme with the edition number and the venue.

Swavlamban is the Navy’s own Naval Innovation and Indigenisation Seminar, and the name of the event itself points to naval innovation.

The side event, titled ‘From Policy to Practice: Advancing India’s Biodiversity Commitments through Innovation, Finance, and ABS’, is scheduled for 28 October 2026 at the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, and it will set out how India turns its biodiversity promises into action through policy…

Its Target 13 calls for real measures to ensure that the gains from using genetic resources, digital sequence information and the traditional knowledge tied to them are shared fairly and equitably, which is exactly what India’s benefit-sharing payments to State Biodiversity Boards do.

Shares were not handed out equally: the National Biodiversity Authority used an area-based method, so a state’s portion grew with the geographical spread of the crops concerned and the land under them, read off the Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

India’s access and benefit-sharing framework is governed by this Act, as amended in 2023, along with the Biological Diversity Rules, 2024, and the Access and Benefit-Sharing Regulations, 2025.

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.

For a swinging pendulum, the component of the bob's weight along its path always pulls it back towards the lowest point, so gravity acts as a restoring force.

A shoot grows upward, away from the pull of gravity, so it is negatively geotropic. A tropism is a directional growth movement of a plant part in response to a stimulus: towards the stimulus is positive, away from it is negative.

An object floats when its average density is less than that of the liquid and sinks when it is greater.

Specific heat is a property of the material, not of the size or shape of the particular body. It is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of unit mass (1 kg or 1 g) of a substance by one degree.

X-rays have wavelengths of roughly 0.01 to 10 nanometres, and a typical value is about one ångström (1 Å = 10⁻¹⁰ m = 0.1 nm).

Ice is simply water in its solid state, a single compound with the fixed formula H2O, so it is a pure substance, not a mixture.

Vegetable oils are hardened into margarine and vanaspati ghee by hydrogenation. Liquid vegetable oils are unsaturated: their fatty-acid chains contain carbon-carbon double bonds.

This matches the reactivity series, which lists metals from the most to the least reactive. Sodium is near the top: it reacts violently with cold water and is stored under kerosene.