State Exams GK Questions 2026

The rules, notified by the Department of Telecommunications under the Telecommunications Act, 2023, came into effect on 1 January 2025 and set up a uniform and transparent framework for laying telecom infrastructure, with rationalised charges and time-bound processing.

The correct answer is viaducts, which take about Rs 8,300 crore, the biggest single item in the structural break-up.

He is the Minister for Road Transport and Highways, and the document was released by him at that Chintan Shivir; the Authority then put it out to mark National Wildlife Week, observed from 2 to 8 October 2026.

The document brought out by the National Highways Authority of India records that this amount has gone into wildlife mitigation infrastructure and related environmental protection measures across National Highway projects over the past five years.

He pointed to India’s AI-based monsoon forecasting, built by combining several models including open-access ones and delivered to farmers through text, voice and advisories, which anticipated the unusual monsoon of 2025 and is now being followed by Ethiopia.

The report examines the opportunities and risks AI brings to developing economies and offers this sequence as the framework through which such countries can turn the technology into development gains.

The correct answer is the World Bank Group, which brings out the World Development Report every year; the latest edition carries the subtitle "The Promise of Artificial Intelligence" and was launched in India by Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

The department marked Swachh Bharat Diwas on that day with an e-waste disposal drive led by the Secretary at its headquarters in the CGO Complex in Delhi, where officers were urged to identify and dispose of obsolete items and unserviceable material both at work and at home.

The figure came from the disposal of electronic waste together with non-electronic scrap, and it sits alongside a set of other targets fixed in the preparatory phase: the review of 18,741 electronic files and 7,773 physical files, cleanliness and space-clearing work at 156 sites, the release of 46,486 square feet…

That is the implementation period announced by the government for the sixth edition of the special campaign, under which departments clear pendency, manage records and dispose of electronic waste.

Airtel dropped none of the 279 calls it successfully set up and Jio dropped none of its 278, while BSNL recorded three drops out of 281 calls and Vodafone Idea three out of 248, which rules out options A, C and D. On the related measure of coverage gap, counted…

Along with the city drive, the appointed agency carried out a walk test of 1.9 km and tested six hotspot locations across Fazilka city and the areas adjoining it, all between 5 and 7 August 2026.

The correct answer is Reliance Jio, which averaged 271.44 Mbps on download in the Fazilka drive test.

All three donated prints, of Thiruvarutchelvar, Thillana Mohanambal and Thiruvilayadal, were directed by him and starred Sivaji Ganesan, which is why the set is treated as a single significant addition to the national collection rather than three unconnected titles.

The three donated Tamil prints were handed over to the NFDC-National Film Archive of India in that city, and the Film and Television Institute of India, where the donor works as a Film Research Officer, is based there as well.

The archive did not hold this title in any format before the donation, so the print fills a real gap in the national collection, and the donor gave it priority once she learnt of the gap.

The Minister said the economy, which is around USD 4 trillion at present, has the potential to grow to that size by 2047, the hundredth year of independence and the year set for the goal of a developed India.

The curtain raiser for the summit was held in New Delhi on 8 October 2026, which makes option C a tempting distractor, but the capital hosted only the preview and not the summit itself.

The Commerce and Industry Minister gave both figures at the curtain raiser of the 31st CII Partnership Summit and pointed out that moving from one to the other means growth of close to 16 per cent, in a year when world trade is expected to grow only about 2.5 to…

These were the three countries with dedicated pavilions at the Chennai event, which also brought together about 400 exhibitors representing more than 20 countries and 500 delegates.