Teaching GK Questions 2026

Children who took the Ayurvedic formulation and also practised the four selected asanas showed roughly 70 per cent improvement in the frequency of bedwetting over the eight weeks of the study.

The clinical study was carried out by the Department of Kaumarbhritya, the paediatrics wing of this institute, which is an Institution of National Importance under the Ministry of Ayush, and the findings were published in the AYU Journal.

The Secretary also administered the Swachhata Pledge, led the Gandhi Jayanti shramdaan around Technology Bhawan and felicitated the Safai Mitras at the samman shivir, so the office appears repeatedly through the campaign.

Under the Safai Mitra Suraksha initiative, the department arranged a financial awareness session through the securities regulator on 23 September 2026, and it was open to housekeeping staff as well as to the scientists, officers and officials of the department, the aim being to improve financial awareness and the general…

The campaign started on that date across the department, its autonomous institutions and the offices of the Survey of India located throughout the country, and officials took the Swachhata Pledge the very next day, administered by the Secretary.

At the Safai Mitra Suraksha Evam Samman Shivir held on 29 September 2026, the Secretary of the department felicitated 110 Safai Mitras in recognition of their contribution to cleanliness and hygiene at the department, an exercise meant to underline the dignity of sanitation work.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at its session in Paris on 10 December 1948, and the anniversary is observed every year as Human Rights Day.

National Women's Day in India is kept on 13 February, the birth anniversary of Sarojini Naidu, the poet called the Nightingale of India, who presided over the Kanpur session of the Congress in 1925 as its first Indian woman president and later became Governor of the United Provinces.

The United Nations observes 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and the day opens the sixteen days of activism against gender-based violence that close on Human Rights Day, 10 December.

International Women's Day grew out of the women's labour movements of the early twentieth century, was observed by the United Nations during International Women's Year in 1975 and became a regular United Nations observance soon afterwards.

The International Labour Organization launched the World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 and fixed it on 12 June to focus attention on the extent of child labour and on the action needed to end it.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in December 2011 declaring 11 October as the International Day of the Girl Child, and the first observance was held in 2012.

National Girl Child Day was instituted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and is observed on 24 January to draw attention to the sex ratio, to girls' education and to schemes such as Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, which was launched at Panipat on 22 January 2015.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child on 20 November 1959 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the same date in 1989, so World Children's Day, earlier called Universal Children's Day, is observed on 20 November.

Children's Day in India falls on 14 November, the birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, who was fond of children and was called Chacha Nehru.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris on 10 December 1948, and the day has been observed on that anniversary ever since.

The fossil of Archaeopteryx carries feathers and wings like a bird together with teeth in the jaws, claws on the wings and a long tail with bones, all reptilian features, so it stands as the standard example of a connecting link in the fossil record.

The same arrangement of bones, humerus, radius and ulna, carpals, metacarpals and phalanges, is used for walking in a man, for swimming in a whale, for flight in a bat and for running in a cheetah, which indicates descent from a common ancestor and is called divergent evolution.

He held that an organ used often becomes stronger and one left unused withers, and that characters so acquired in a lifetime are passed to the offspring, the giraffe's lengthening neck being his best known illustration.

Darwin set out in that book the theory of evolution by natural selection, drawing on observations made during his voyage on HMS Beagle, among them the finches of the Galapagos islands whose beaks differ with their diet.