State Exams GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, which recognised the Rourkela centre as a Centre of Excellence and also meets its recurring expenses through a grant routed by the National Scheduled Tribes Finance and Development Corporation.

The correct answer is Chandigarh, the common capital of the two states, which is why the Commission could meet both governments separately on the same day.

Compliance with it was reviewed with both Punjab and Haryana, because moving brick kilns to pellets and briquettes made from paddy straw creates steady demand for the residue and takes away the reason to set fields on fire.

He chaired the two separate review meetings the Commission held at Chandigarh with the governments of Punjab and Haryana, going through enforcement on the ground, district preparedness and the use of crop residue machinery.

They co-organised the dedicated ministerial session at which state energy and agriculture ministers presented their approaches to scaling up agrivoltaics, showcased investment opportunities and discussed adapting the PM-KUSUM scheme to local crops.

The whole point of agrivoltaics is that farming continues under and around the solar panels, so the draft policy fixes a high floor for the share of each site that must stay fit for cultivation, and pairs it with safeguards on farmer consent and crop insurance.

Its Deputy Chief Minister told the ministerial track that the state is giving final shape to an Agrivoltaics Policy 2026 built around a target of 1 GW by 2030, under which at least ninety per cent of a project site must remain cultivable, farmer consent and crop insurance are protected…

The conference is run every year by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs under that policy, through the Institute of Urban Transport (India), and the policy itself stresses capacity building at state and city level while promoting equitable and sustainable urban transport systems.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is holding both events at Hotel Mayfair Sanctuary in the Odisha capital, with the state government as partner, and the curtain-raiser press conference was also held there.

The ministry's joint secretary announced this theme for the two-day conference in Bhubaneswar, and said sessions would look at sustainable low-carbon public transport, integration of modes, first and last mile connectivity, Mobility as a Service and real-time technology for passengers.

Speaking as Union Rural Development Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced central approval for that many permanent houses for eligible poor families in Haryana, with Rs 1,343.06 crore sanctioned for the purpose, and handed the formal letter to Haryana Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Minister Shyam Singh Rana on the stage.

The Minister asked vice-chancellors of agricultural universities, the Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, scientists and officials to leave their laboratories and offices and reach villages between 22 October and 30 November 2026, holding meetings with farmers on soil health and balanced nutrient use.

The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare and Rural Development chose this historic town for the launch of the soil health campaign, and farmers at the venue took a collective pledge to apply fertiliser in balance and to stop setting fire to crop residue.

The Prime Minister used the antibiotic precursor Penicillin G as an illustration of how long-term policy can rebuild a lost industry.

The Prime Minister took up this framing directly and said it raises two questions: why the existing order is slipping and why legacy systems cannot answer today's challenges, and what role India plays in a world that is changing.

Addressing the summit in New Delhi, the Prime Minister listed a set of national firsts and said that India had crossed the figure of 300 gigawatts in non-fossil electricity capacity.

The temperate forests called Sholas grow in the higher reaches of all three ranges named, the Nilgiris, the Anaimalai and the Palani hills.

The minister raised it precisely to make the point that regulation on its own cannot build a circular economy, because the demand side depends on how individuals choose to consume, and LiFE asks for deliberate and mindful use of resources instead of destructive consumption.

Under the EPR framework the registered recyclers number that much, while the registered producers are far more numerous.

That is the quantity of waste processed as on date across the waste streams that now carry their own rules, and the minister cited it as evidence that policy intent is being translated into measurable action.