CTET GK Questions 2026

The pathway laid out for the Viksit Bharat Challenge runs in a fixed order: the Viksit Bharat Quiz first, then the Viksit Bharat Essay Challenge, then the District PPT Championship, then the State or Union Territory dialogue, and the National VBYLD at the end.

The dialogue is a flagship youth engagement initiative of that ministry and is carried out through Mera Yuva Bharat, whose portal hosts the quiz, the essay submissions and the mapping of states to regional themes.

Shortlisted participants have to submit an essay of this length on the MY Bharat portal, on the theme designated for their region, and the window runs till 15 October 2026.

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports reported this many attempts in the Viksit Bharat Quiz, the first stage of selection for the Viksit Bharat Young Leaders Dialogue 2027.

The Union Health Minister said that undergraduate medical seats have risen to that number, while the count of medical colleges has gone up from 384 to more than 800.

Speaking at the convocation, the President said that eligible beneficiaries receive health cover of that amount per family per year under the scheme, which reduces the financial burden of treatment for economically vulnerable families.

President Droupadi Murmu conferred degrees on the first graduating batch of AIIMS Bilaspur at the institute first convocation and also presented gold medals to meritorious students across disciplines.

Using eight optical spectra recorded at Steward Observatory in the United States during low-brightness phases of the object in October and November 2017, the team estimated the central black hole to weigh no less than that, reading the figure from the width of the oxygen emission line.

OJ 287 is a rare object lying about 4 billion light years away in which two supermassive black holes circle each other on a twelve-year orbit, forming a binary system.

The multi-institutional campaign on the blazar OJ 287 was coordinated by scientists of this institute, which is an autonomous body of the Department of Science and Technology, and the study was led by Dr Alok C. Gupta of the same institute.

The world governing body for chess was established on 20 July 1924 in Paris, and the anniversary is kept as International Chess Day, with the United Nations later recognising it as an international day in acknowledgement of the reach of the game and of its Indian ancestor, chaturanga.

World Music Day grew out of the Fete de la Musique begun in France, on which musicians of every kind play free in streets and public places.

UNESCO adopted World Poetry Day in 1999 to support the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry and to give a hearing to small publishers and to poetry in endangered languages.

UNESCO declared this day to promote the use and preservation of mother tongues, and the date commemorates the Bengali language movement of 1952, when students in Dhaka were killed while demanding recognition for Bengali in what was then East Pakistan.

That decision, taken on 14 September 1949, was later written into Article 343 of the Constitution, and the anniversary has been observed within India as Hindi Diwas.

A congress convened by Pierre de Coubertin at the Sorbonne in Paris established the International Olympic Committee on 23 June 1894, and national Olympic committees mark the anniversary with runs and open sporting events.

Dhyan Chand was born on 29 August 1905 and was part of the Indian hockey teams that won the Olympic gold medal in 1928, 1932 and 1936; he is regarded as the finest hockey player the country has produced, and the national sports awards are conferred on his birthday each…

The day was proposed by the International Council on Monuments and Sites and approved by UNESCO in 1983, and it is used to draw public attention to the conservation of historic buildings, archaeological sites and cultural landscapes, including the sites on the World Heritage List.

International Museum Day was declared by the International Council of Museums, and on it museums across the world open to the public around a common annual theme meant to show the part museums play in education and in society.

Noverre was the French dancer and choreographer who argued that ballet should tell a story through expressive movement rather than remain a display of steps, and the International Theatre Institute chose his birthday, 29 April, for International Dance Day.