State Exams GK Questions 2026

Every crew member aboard the fishing vessel Azini, twenty people in all, was taken off safely when the Indian Navy ended the hijacking off the north-eastern coast of Somalia, and the mission produced no casualties and no injuries.

This is the fishing vessel that an armed pirate group seized off the north-eastern coast of Somalia and that the Indian Navy later took back, with every one of the 20 people on board brought off safely and without a single casualty or injury.

The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan, shortened to PM KUSUM, was launched then to push solar adoption in farming, cut dependence on diesel and let farmers diversify their earnings.

Agrivoltaics is also known as agrisolar or dual-use solar, the names pointing to the same idea of one plot of land serving two purposes, growing a crop and generating electricity.

That was India’s operational agrivoltaic fleet as of August 2025, and alongside it 10 pilot projects were under development. These projects are spread across different agro-climatic regions and use elevated structures, interspace layouts and tracking systems.

Speaking at AIIMS Rajkot, the Union Health Minister said the country had moved from a single AIIMS in New Delhi to 18 operational institutions out of 22, which he described as a significant strengthening of access to specialised tertiary healthcare.

That is the catchment the facility is expected to cover across Saurashtra, taking in Rajkot, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Porbandar, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Morbi, Surendranagar, Gir Somnath, Devbhumi Dwarka and Botad, a region made up largely of rural, semi-urban and economically weaker communities.

The facility at AIIMS Rajkot was established under this scheme at a cost of about Rs 39 crore, and the stated purpose was to reduce regional imbalance in the availability of tertiary healthcare.

The conference featured four thematic technical sessions. The first dealt with health and survival across the life course, the second with girls education, learning and transition, the third with women work, wages, formality and care, and the fourth with women livelihoods, enterprises, skills and financial inclusion.

The conference was called to deliberate on and disseminate the findings of this flagship publication of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, so that the people who design and run programmes could read its results more deeply and use them across sectors.

The one-day national conference on the theme Gender Data and Statistics: From Evidence to Policy Insights was organised by MoSPI in collaboration with UN Women, and it was held in New Delhi on 2 November 2026.

Pumped storage schemes are grouped by how their reservoirs relate to natural watercourses, and the closed-loop variety keeps both reservoirs away from them.

The authority attributes this to the topography of the area and to the steep gradients of rivers that rise in the Western Ghats, since a pumped storage project needs two reservoirs at different heights within a short distance.

The correct answer is 7.43 GW, spread over ten projects, each with an installed capacity above twenty-five megawatts.

Installed geothermal capacity across the world reached a little over fifteen and a half gigawatts by the close of that year, and five countries, namely Indonesia, the United States, the Philippines, Turkiye and New Zealand, together accounted for roughly sixty-seven per cent of it.

The provinces run across very different terrains, from the Himalayan belt and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the West Coast, the Cambay Graben, the Son-Narmada-Tapi zone and the cratonic region of southern India.

The valley sits more than fourteen thousand feet above sea level and has long been known for its hot springs and underground heat reserves, which is why it is counted among the most promising geothermal sites in India.

Winners and runners-up of the hackathon held on this theme were honoured at the same ceremony at Raipur, and their entries applied artificial intelligence to problems of operational efficiency, mine safety and environmental sustainability in the coal sector.

The correct answer is Singareni Collieries Company Limited, which took the First Prize among underground mines.

At the Annual Star Rating Awards Ceremony held at Raipur in Chhattisgarh, fifty coal mines were given Five-Star Ratings for the assessment year.