State Exams GK Questions 2026

The number of observers is slightly larger than the number of countries because some nations have sent more than one representative, and the Ministry of Defence treats this international presence as a highlight of the drill, since it points to shared rescue protocols and the ability of different navies and…

The exercise is being held off the Paradip coast of Odisha and is inaugurated by the Minister of State for Defence, with the search and rescue demonstration at sea following a day later.

The two armies first climbed together on Mt Aconcagua at 6,962 metres in Mendoza, Argentina, in January 2025, then on Mt Kun at 7,077 metres in the Suru valley of Ladakh in August 2025, and the Uttarakhand outing of this year was therefore the third in the series.

He headed the party of 35 climbers, of whom 25 belonged to the Indian Army and 10 to the Argentine Army, and the group was flagged off from the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi on 21 August 2026.

Mt Kamet stands in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand and is the third-highest mountain within India, which places exactly those two peaks above it.

The vehicle set up to build and run the zone gives the Madhya Pradesh government the controlling share and the Department of Telecommunications the rest, which makes the project an example of a Centre-state partnership where the state leads on the ground while the Centre funds the first phase.

The Government of India is bearing the entire cost of building infrastructure in the first phase of the zone, and that figure is a full grant rather than a loan or a shared contribution.

The zone is coming up at the Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Counter Magnet City, known as SADA, inside Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, and the state government has given about 170 acres of land free of cost for it.

In its section on decisive leadership the resolution names three actions in sequence, and Operation Sindoor is placed in that year.

The resolution marks a quarter century of unbroken leadership as head of government, a stretch that covers his terms in Gujarat and then at the Centre, and it recalls three decisive mandates in the state along with support in three successive general elections to the Lok Sabha.

The Cabinet resolution recalls that through this system the then Chief Minister personally heard the grievances of citizens, and that it won the United Nations Public Service Award in 2010.

These were left out of the first framework and together they make up nearly twenty-one per cent of the gross value added of services, so bringing them in would lift the coverage of the monthly index to about 78.4 per cent of the gross value added of the whole services…

The initial framework of the index follows nineteen broad service sub-sectors, relying on high-frequency administrative data sources together with data on outward supplies filed under the goods and services tax, which between them account for close to sixty per cent of the gross value added of the services sector.

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation began a monthly compilation of the Index of Services Production for the formal sector on a trial basis in July 2026, and that is the base year it adopted for the exercise.

Banks were directed to route every new enrolment under the Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana and the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana through it, because the portal is being linked with all banks and insurers, which should improve the quality of data and the ease of day-to-day operation.

The Secretary of the Department of Financial Services urged banks to take part wholeheartedly in the saturation drive running between those two dates and to give greater thrust to serving the weaker sections of society and meeting their banking needs.

The correct answer is the Secretary, Department of Financial Services, Sanjay Lohiya, who took the review in New Delhi with the heads of all public sector banks and the Executive Directors of major private sector banks, assisted by senior officers of his department.

The correct answer is Param Vishisht Seva Medal, the highest of the four distinguished service decorations he holds and the one conferred on him in 2026 in recognition of exemplary service.

That was the appointment Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit held when the Government named him the next Chief of the Air Staff in the rank of Air Chief Marshal.

The Government has appointed Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, PVSM, AVSM, VM, VSM, as the twenty-ninth officer to head the Indian Air Force, and he takes charge in the rank of Air Chief Marshal from the afternoon of 31 October 2026.