State Exams GK Questions 2026

For the class of taxpayers who must get their accounts audited, the statutory last date to file the return of income for Assessment Year 2026-27 was 31 October 2026, and the Central Board of Direct Taxes has now pushed it forward by three weeks.

It has been designated the nodal agency and is coordinating the drive with the Material Recycling Association of India, holding virtual meetings with nodal officers of the ministry's offices; more than 44 office locations have been finalised nationwide, more than 28 of them in Maharashtra.

Reporting on the round it ran from November 2025 to August 2026, NITI Aayog said it had settled 4,105 public grievances, along with 127 PMO references, 34 grievance appeals and 5 Parliamentary Assurances, while freeing about 90 square feet of space.

DARPG began this special campaign in 2021, framing a clean India as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, and decided to continue it in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and again in 2026; ministries implement each edition to its guidelines and report progress on the SCDPM Portal that DARPG maintains.

Ministries and departments have said that the implementation phase of Special Campaign 6.0 covers exactly that month, beginning on Gandhi Jayanti and closing at the end of October, in line with the guidelines issued by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances.

The Lancet is wrong because the study was not carried in it, although it is among the best known medical journals and therefore a tempting distractor.

Participants were randomly assigned to receive either this standardised aqueous extract or a matching placebo, and the assignment was double-blind, meaning neither the participants nor the assessors knew which arm a person belonged to.

The randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial enrolled that many apparently healthy adults between eighteen and seventy years of age, each of whom had already received a first, second or booster dose of the COVISHIELD vaccine, across seven study sites in India.

Delhi's bus fleet has grown to six thousand eight hundred and forty vehicles in all, and of these five thousand and eighty-eight run on electricity, which makes electric buses the larger part of the fleet.

The rule denies fuel to a vehicle that has no valid pollution under control certificate, and it is to be applied in mission mode through a city-wide awareness and enforcement campaign at every fuel station equipped with automatic number plate recognition, of which there are five hundred.

The Union Environment Minister asked that Jan Bhagidari events be organised at all thirty-seven identified hotspots in the capital by October 10, with relevant stakeholders taking part, and that a set of action points be drawn up for each one and its implementation watched closely.

Gujarat is wrong, although the state does figure in the meeting in two other ways: a Food Park project was reviewed there, and an aviation and logistics hub at Dholera was explored, while Mashreq Bank, First Abu Dhabi Bank and the Abu Dhabi National Insurance Company have opened offices in…

The option of a hundred billion dollars is wrong because trade has already crossed that mark: it reached US$ 101.25 billion in the financial year 2025-26, so a target at that level would be meaningless.

New Delhi is wrong because although it hosts many bilateral meetings, this particular round was held in India's financial capital, a natural choice for a forum devoted to investment.

Capital goods cover machinery and equipment used to produce other goods, so the rate is read as a sign of investment demand.

It was the only one of the four sectors to shrink during the month, falling 5.6 per cent, and its index stood at 85.7, the lowest of the four.

Factory output measured by the Index of Industrial Production rose at that rate in August 2026 over the same month a year earlier, helped by manufacturing and by a strong showing from electricity and gas supply.

Dr Jitendra Singh said that reforms in the space sector and the growth of the private ecosystem have brought more than 400 Indian space start-ups into areas such as rocket building, satellite building and space applications.

It is named, along with SARAL, as a satellite jointly built by ISRO and CNES, and both were cited as milestones of a partnership that goes back to sounding rocket experiments of the 1960s. Oceansat-3 is wrong because it is an Indian ocean observation satellite of the Oceansat series and…

TRISHNA is described as the third joint satellite of India and France, and its realisation is progressing well. The two earlier joint satellites built by the Indian Space Research Organisation and the French space agency CNES are Megha-Tropiques and SARAL.