State Exams GK Questions 2026

The erstwhile Tourist Visa is now called the Visitor Visa, a change made because the category permits a far wider set of purposes than conventional tourism.

On 27 August 2026 the Ministry of Home Affairs reduced the main visa categories from 13 to nine, and the sub-categories from 49 to 23.

This edition of the survey introduced awards for river front towns, coastal towns and Himalayan cities for the first time, and in the Swachh River Front Town category the order was Rewa of Madhya Pradesh, Bilaspur of Chhattisgarh and Varanasi of Uttar Pradesh.

The survey has widened sharply over a decade: it assessed 73 cities when it began in 2016 and covers 4,751 cities in this round, which is its tenth edition.

In the Super Swachh League the top three Clean Cities were Navi Mumbai of Maharashtra, Surat of Gujarat and Vijayawada of Andhra Pradesh, in that order, so Navi Mumbai heads the list.

President Droupadi Murmu honoured the cleanest cities of the country at the Swachh Survekshan Awards 2025-26, held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.

The Theme Pavilion, described as a major attraction of the festival, features participation from that many States and Union Territories along with Incredible India and Central Cottage Industries, and it showcases more than 100 One District One Product items besides handicrafts, textiles, paintings and agricultural produce.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Tourism, which organises Bharat Parv 2026 in partnership with Gujarat Tourism and with the support of the States and Union Territories.

The Ministry of Tourism is holding Bharat Parv 2026 at Ekta Nagar in Gujarat under this unifying theme, in partnership with Gujarat Tourism and with the support of the States and Union Territories, and the festival is designed to foster cultural exchange and national integration.

During 2026 the Central Bureau of Narcotics has busted six clandestine laboratories, and the mephedrone seized across those cases adds up to this figure, along with 1,465.4 kg or litres of precursor chemicals and the arrest of 20 suspects.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Finance, under which the Central Bureau of Narcotics functions and in whose name this announcement was issued.

The Central Bureau of Narcotics carried out the action against an interstate synthetic drug network under this operation and busted a clandestine laboratory manufacturing mephedrone in the Tajopur Industrial Area of Mau district in Uttar Pradesh.

This network figure was cited by the Vice President at Thoothukudi as a measure of how far the bank has travelled from its beginning in 1921 as Nadar Bank Limited.

The correct answer is the Vice President of India, C. P. Radhakrishnan, who graced the 105th Foundation Day celebrations of Tamilnad Mercantile Bank at Thoothukudi and called upon the bank to aspire to rank among India’s leading private sector banks.

The Vice President recalled at the 105th Foundation Day celebrations that the institution now known as Tamilnad Mercantile Bank came into being in 1921 under that name, and praised its growth from a modest beginning into a major banking institution.

The Department of Telecommunications, which runs the 4G Saturation Project, sits in this ministry, and the announcement on rural connectivity was issued in its name.

That was the design target of the 4G Saturation Project, which aims to bring reliable mobile communication to remote and underserved habitations that had no fourth generation signal at all.

The Department of Telecommunications reported that the number of villages without 4G connectivity has come down to this figure in 2026.

Sea Vigil is treated as a build-up to it, and the two exercises read together address the entire spectrum of maritime security challenges, from the defence of the coast to operations far out on the high seas.

The exercise was conceived in that year to validate the measures that had been instituted to strengthen maritime security in the aftermath of the attacks on Mumbai, which came by sea.