State Exams GK Questions 2026

Under the new code an aircraft on the Indian register must display the nationality mark VT, followed by a hyphen and three assigned capital letters, which is why Indian aircraft registrations are read as VT and then a three-letter group.

That is the structure of the new civil aviation code, and its chapters run across aircraft registration, airworthiness and maintenance, personnel licensing, aerodrome operations, air navigation services, aircraft operations, regulatory oversight and safety management, and offences with penalties and appeals.

The new code, notified under the Bharatiya Vayuyan Adhiniyam, 2024, takes over from the Aircraft Rules, 1937, which served as the principal rulebook for Indian civil aviation for close to nine decades, and it also replaces Part IX of the Aircraft Rules, 1920.

Highlighting the Ministry's widening responsibilities in the context of several new trade agreements and the opening up of new markets, the minister said India had emerged as a bold and confident economy on the global stage and stressed the need to prepare the country for the goal of becoming an…

The correct answer is 31 March 2027, the deadline set for completing the necessary digitisation, including the digitisation of past data and records at the Regional Authorities of the Directorate General of Foreign Trade across the country.

The minister informed that the Ministry currently has 46 organisations and runs around 500 offices, and he called for the offices of all of these organisations to be co-located across the country.

Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal virtually inaugurated Vanijya Bhawan and Udyog Bhawan there, and with that Jaipur became the first city and also the first State capital to bring all these offices together under one roof.

Consequential amendments have been proposed to Form 13, the test report of the Government Analyst, so that the report is endorsed to the Drugs Controller General of India, to the State or Union Territory Licensing Authority in whose jurisdiction the manufacturing site is located, and to the manufacturer as well…

The suspension is to continue until the manufacturer carries out an effective Root Cause Analysis to identify why the quality failure occurred and implements appropriate Corrective and Preventive Action, commonly abbreviated as CAPA, to the satisfaction of the Licensing Authority.

The proposal names five parameters: Assay, Dissolution, Related Substances, Impurities and Sterility.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare proposed amendments to these rules so that the manufacturing licence of a drug declared Not of Standard Quality on specified critical parameters can be suspended immediately, without waiting for the full procedure that at present includes a show-cause notice.

The project aims to add three per cent of India's land and marine area to the country's conservation estate, above the twenty-seven per cent already under protection, doing so through OECMs and other conservation initiatives that include community and private conservation areas.

The correct answer is USD 60.79 million, the total financing of the project titled Enhancing the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity to meet India's commitment to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework targets by 2030.

Applications from Central and State government departments, agencies and institutions, local self-governments and Biodiversity Management Committees go to the NBA, which conducts a preliminary examination.

The correct answer is Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, where the seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity was held and where Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav released the guidelines at a side event on 3 November 2026.

The dialogue reaffirmed the shared commitment at the leadership level to expand defence and strategic engagement between the two countries, as reflected in the Joint Statement issued on 2 March 2026 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

The correct answer is defence industrial cooperation, which came through as an important area of engagement, alongside military-technical cooperation and defence research and development, the two subjects identified as priority areas for further collaboration.

The correct answer is Dr. Amit Telang, Joint Secretary (International Cooperation) in the Ministry of Defence, who led the Indian delegation.

The first edition of the India-Canada Defence Dialogue was conducted through video conference on that day, and the Ministry of Defence placed the outcome on record the following day.

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