UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

Each of these titles praises him as a builder, painter or inventive mind, so together they point to his love of the arts.

The commission urged all the authorities concerned to implement the recommendations in the advisory and to furnish an Action Taken Report within two months, so that it stays informed about the progress made.

The commission quoted the Periodic Labour Force Participation Survey to show that women's participation in the labour force stood at this level in September 2026, and set it beside the roughly 4.4 lakh cases of crimes against women in the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau.

The National Human Rights Commission built its advisory around eight areas of action: raising awareness about women's safety and sexual harassment, infrastructure, encouraging bystander intervention, the role of the police, support for survivors, cybercrime against women, long-term reforms, and other measures.

THAAD, properly the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, is a United States system built to shoot down ballistic missiles in the last, or terminal, phase of their flight.

The Truman Doctrine pledged American support to countries resisting communist pressure, so as to stop the spread of Soviet influence.

The Fifth Schedule covers Scheduled Areas in every State except Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram, whose tribal areas come under the Sixth Schedule instead.

The College of Military Engineering stands at Dapodi in Pune, Maharashtra, and is the main training institution of the Indian Army's Corps of Engineers.

Pinaka and Smerch are both multi-barrel rocket launchers used by the Indian Army's artillery. Pinaka was developed by DRDO, with the Armament Research and Development Establishment at Pune as the lead laboratory, and is named after the bow of Lord Shiva.

Project 75 India, or P-75I, is the Indian Navy's plan to build six advanced conventional diesel-electric submarines in India. Its key requirement is Air Independent Propulsion, which lets a conventional submarine stay submerged for much longer without surfacing to charge its batteries.

The 103rd Amendment Act, 2019 allowed reservation of up to 10 percent for the Economically Weaker Sections in educational institutions and in government jobs.

Relative humidity compares the water vapour actually present in the air with the most the air could hold at that temperature, so both figures are needed.

Parts of all three states drain into the Ganga through its tributaries. The Ganga basin is the largest river basin of India, covering about a quarter of the country's area.

In Census 2011, Scheduled Tribes made up about 94.4 percent of Mizoram's population, the highest share among all the states.

The Eight Degree Channel runs roughly along the 8 degree north latitude in the Arabian Sea and separates Minicoy, the southernmost island of Lakshadweep, from the Maldives.

In Keynes's theory the level of employment in an economy is fixed by effective demand, the level of total spending at which aggregate demand equals aggregate supply.

The Portuguese were the first Europeans to reach Africa's coasts as traders, and their trading posts began the long story of European colonisation of the continent.

Citizenship is dealt with in Part II of the Constitution, Articles 5 to 11, and any citizenship law, including the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, falls under it.

Article 21A, the right to education, was inserted by the Constitution (Eighty-sixth) Amendment Act, 2002, not by the Eighty-fifth.

All three features describe alluvial soil, the most widespread soil of India. Alluvial soil is deposited by rivers such as the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra, and also lines the eastern coastal deltas.