Teaching GK Questions 2026

Golden Rice carries genes that let the grain make beta carotene, the orange pigment that the human body converts into vitamin A, and the colour of the grain gives the variety its name; the aim is to reduce night blindness and childhood blindness in populations whose diet is mainly rice.

The genes called cry genes are taken from Bacillus thuringiensis, a bacterium of the soil that forms protein crystals during its spore stage.

This soil bacterium naturally transfers a part of its tumour inducing plasmid, called the Ti plasmid, into the cells of a dicotyledonous plant and causes crown gall disease; genetic engineers disarm the plasmid, insert the gene they want and use the bacterium as a vector, which is why it is…

A restriction endonuclease recognises a short palindromic sequence in DNA and cuts both strands there, leaving sticky ends that can pair with another piece cut by the same enzyme; Hind II was the first such enzyme to be discovered and EcoRI from Escherichia coli is the most widely used.

Local self-government transfers power and functions to elected bodies of the people at the village, block, district and town levels.

Its capacity building framework, which until now focused on civil servants, has been extended through this agreement to Adi Karmayogi Volunteers and to other functionaries who implement tribal development schemes on the ground.

Going by what the states have reported on the portal, that many Adi Sewa Kendras stand registered, along with 1,22,072 Adi Karmayogi Volunteers.

These four states were placed first in the queue for the three day in-person training of volunteers, which State Administrative Training Institutes are to design and deliver along with state tribal welfare departments, and they are expected to finish it by the end of October.

Karmayogi Bharat will host, run and maintain the platform, bring learners on board and provide technical support, analytics and progress reports, while the ministry owns the subject matter and will fix the target groups, the competencies and the content.

In that year the Government of India renamed the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme as the National TB Elimination Programme, a change that reflects the aim of ending the disease in India ahead of the global target year of 2030.

Under the intensified TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan, that many Gram Panchayats have been awarded TB free certification, and the same drive has taken cumulative screenings past 28.1 crore, provided TB Preventive Treatment to over 20 lakh people and added 5.7 lakh new Nikshay Mitras.

Yearly emerging cases of tuberculosis in India came down by 21% between 2015 and 2024, as recorded in the World Health Organisation's Global Tuberculosis Report 2025, and this is one of the steepest declines in incidence recorded anywhere, faster than in other high burden nations.

The nationwide campaign organised on 13 October 2026 placed JOSH teams in 11 states and 55 districts on a pilot basis, and every team has MY Bharat volunteers, cadets of the National Cadet Corps and a designated Class-I officer.

Field-level validation was a notable feature of the exercise: the protocols were tried out with Medical Officers working in primary and secondary healthcare under this directorate, and the feedback they gave on how usable the protocols were in day-to-day practice was built into the final documents.

He said the guidelines would deepen the integration of the Ayush systems with the national healthcare framework and would support safe, effective and holistic care for common skin conditions.

The Ministry of Ayush chose this occasion to put the guidelines in the public domain, which ties the release to the ministry's own calendar of observances.

The Ministry of Ayush has published a separate Standard Treatment Guidelines document for each of these four systems, and Yoga has been brought into the guidelines as an inclusion rather than as a fifth system with its own document.

The three language formula, recommended by the Kothari Commission and adopted in the National Policy on Education, places the mother tongue or the regional language first, Hindi second and English third in Hindi-speaking states, while non-Hindi states teach the regional language, Hindi and English; in practice some states substitute another…

The movement forced the government to appoint the States Reorganisation Commission under Fazl Ali, whose report of 1955 led to the States Reorganisation Act of 1956 and to a map drawn largely along language lines.

Inserted by the Seventh Amendment Act of 1956, it provides for a Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities appointed by the President to investigate all matters relating to the safeguards given to linguistic minorities and to report to the President, who causes the report to be laid before Parliament; the officer…