State Exams GK Questions 2026

The amendment also fixes ₹500 per page as the charge for copies or extracts of the register, and the regulator says the revised fees are broadly aligned with the TRAI (Access to Information) Regulation, 2005.

TRAI released the amendment regulations on 6 November 2026 and fixed 1 January 2027 as the date from which they take effect.

On that date the Union Cabinet approved the Amended BharatNet Program to upgrade, consolidate and expand the existing BharatNet network so that all Gram Panchayats, and villages on demand, get robust and future-ready broadband.

The fund was established under the Indian Telegraph (Amendment) Act, 2003, with effect from 1 April 2002, and under the Telecommunications Act, 2023 it became Digital Bharat Nidhi (DBN).

This is the total scope of the Amended BharatNet Program in Telangana, made up of three parts: 1,946 Phase I Gram Panchayats that will be upgraded from linear to ring topology for a more resilient network, 10,787 Phase II Gram Panchayats that will be covered, and 36 newly created Gram…

The 12 applications cleared by MeitY in this round included first-time ECMS approvals for three products: copper foil, cathode active material and specialty ceramics.

Semicon 2.0 has six pillars. Pillar 2 covers machines and materials, Pillar 3 covers setting up more fabs and Pillar 4 covers further strengthening of the ATMP/OSAT industry, and these three are the ones for which applications went live when Ashwini Vaishnaw launched the portal.

The Union Cabinet approved Semicon 2.0, the second phase of the Semicon India Programme, with this fiscal outlay under the India Semiconductor Mission.

The correct answer is the Defence Secretary, Rajesh Kumar Singh, whose Valedictory Address brought the three-day conference to a close.

This is the expansion of MAHASAGAR, the maritime vision to which the dialogue was said to have given clearer expression.

The Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue is described as the Navy's annual apex-level international strategic dialogue, and the 2026 edition was organised in association with the National Maritime Foundation.

This was the unifying theme of IPRD-2026, the Indian Navy's annual apex-level international strategic dialogue, which was examined through five professional thematic sessions together with senior-level interactions meant to find practical routes to regional maritime cooperation.

The correct answer is quasi-ballistic missile, the class to which Pralay belongs.

The correct answer is Research Centre Imarat, Hyderabad, which developed Pralay within the country along with other DRDO laboratories.

DRDO fired the missile from that island at about 1110 hrs, and the range instruments that confirmed the result were deployed by the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, which is also in Odisha.

Along with its 114 medals, the Indian squad set five world records at the Asian Para Games 2026, and separately set nine Asian records.

Speaking to the para-athletes, the Prime Minister urged the domestic industry to ensure that the gear, clothing and footwear worn by Indian and foreign players alike are made in India, which would strengthen micro, small and medium enterprises and create work in small towns and rural areas.

The Indian contingent won its 114 medals at Aichi-Nagoya, and the Prime Minister described that podium as a starting point rather than a final destination, pointing the athletes towards the Los Angeles 2028 Games for which Avani and Manish have already secured quotas.

India's contingent at the Asian Para Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya won 114 medals in all, and that total was made up of 30 gold medals, 35 silver medals and 49 bronze medals.

After its stay in harbour, INS Tarkash conducted a PASSEX, which is a passage exercise held when ships meet at sea, with CGS Valiant, and then undertook joint surveillance of the Exclusive Economic Zone together with the Mauritius Coast Guard, with a Dornier aircraft providing support from the air.