State Exams GK Questions 2026

The curated BRICS package at the 57th International Film Festival of India carries twenty-one films from the member countries of the grouping, chosen around questions of democracy, freedom, identity, history and contemporary global concerns.

The correct answer is Madhur Bhandarkar, the National Film Award-winning director and producer, who headed the 12-member feature film jury that chose the 25 feature films for Indian Panorama 2026.

The correct answer is ‘Dhurandhar’, the Hindi film directed by Aditya Dhar, which has been chosen as the opening feature film of Indian Panorama 2026.

The Indian Panorama package announced for 2026 carries 25 feature films in all: twenty of them belong to the Indian Panorama feature film section itself, and the remaining five make up the separate Mainstream Cinema section that is screened alongside it.

The correct answer is Shri P. C. Mody, who is the Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha and was among those who placed flowers at the portrait of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan.

Shri Om Birla, who holds that office, offered floral tributes at the portrait of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan on the birth anniversary of the former Prime Minister.

The unveiling of the Nehru portrait in the Central Hall took place on 5 May 1966, and it was done by the then President of India, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, in the building that was called Parliament House then and is called Samvidhan Sadan now.

The portrait of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru that stands in the Central Hall was unveiled on 5 May 1966 by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, who held the office of President of India at that time.

The Secretary of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation began his field visit at the historic Grand Anicut, known locally as Kallanai, which stands on the Cauvery, and then went on to the riverbed collector wells and headworks at Vadugakudi before reaching Palamaneri village for Jal Arpan Diwas.

At the conference the Secretary of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation made a point of saying that Jal Arpan should not be treated as a ceremonial event but as the start of a sustained partnership between the state government, the implementing department and the Panchayat that will run…

The conference was the first of five Regional Conferences planned under the structured review process of Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0, and it was hosted by the Government of Tamil Nadu, which the Secretary of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation thanked at the concluding session.

It organises the India International Trade Fair, whose forty-fifth edition is being held at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi from 14 to 27 November 2026, and within which the Union Health Ministry has set up its Health Pavilion.

The theme was chosen to put the stress on preventive healthcare, on healthy lifestyle habits and on drawing young people into the work of building a healthier and more resilient country.

He opened the Health Pavilion at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi and spoke about the growing burden of Non-Communicable Diseases and the need for preventive healthcare and healthier lifestyle choices.

That is the amount the Union Minister said Odisha would receive this year under the Viksit Bharat-G Ram Ji scheme, from which every panchayat in the state is to get between Rs 25 lakh and Rs 50 lakh a year.

The Union Minister said Odisha had made 29 lakh women Lakhpati Didi, crossing its target a full year before the deadline.

At the state-level programme of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin held at Balangir in Odisha, the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Rural Development announced that poor families in the state would immediately be given 5 lakh pucca houses, and assured that every eligible family would receive one…

Under the Elettra 2.0 programme the two India-centric beamlines in service will be decommissioned and replaced by two with enhanced capabilities, and of the pair it is Xpress Superbend that is meant for high-pressure diffraction.

Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste is an Italian facility, so Italy is naturally its largest user, and India stands immediately behind it.

India announced this commitment for the redevelopment of research beamlines at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste under the Elettra 2.0 programme, spread over five years beginning 2026-27, and covering both research infrastructure and human resource capacity.