UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

The four high-level sessions announced for the forum are Resilience, on the role of parliaments in strengthening institutions for a better future; Innovation, on promoting human-centred innovation in artificial intelligence and digital technologies through parliaments; Cooperation, on ensuring a more representative system of global governance through parliamentary cooperation; and Sustainability…

The forum opens there on 26 October 2026 and closes on 27 October.

The correct answer is Strengthening Parliaments for People-Centric Development, the overarching theme announced by the Lok Sabha Speaker for the forum in the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan.

The Gulf of Cambay, or Khambhat, has no coral reefs because its water is muddy and its tides are among the strongest on India's coast.

The Basel Convention controls the movement of hazardous wastes across borders and their disposal, to protect human health and the environment.

Under Article 231, Parliament may by law establish a common High Court for two or more States, or for two or more States and a Union Territory.

Of the four States listed, Bihar has the most seats in the Rajya Sabha, with 16 members. Seats in the Rajya Sabha are allotted to States and Union Territories by the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, broadly in proportion to population.

In 1800 Colin Mackenzie, an engineer and surveyor of the East India Company, prepared the first survey map of the ruins of Hampi.

In the Chola Nataraja it is the raised left leg, in the bhujangatrasita pose, that stands for tirobhava, kicking away the veil of illusion from the devotee's mind.

The Junagadh rock inscription of the Shaka ruler Rudradaman I records how he restored the Sudarshana lake after a storm burst its dam.

Collision-coalescence is the way rain forms in warm clouds, whose tops stay below the level where water freezes. In such clouds all droplets are liquid.

The socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia proposed the Chaukhamba Raj, a Four Pillar State, to spread power away from the centre.

Saubhagya, the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana, was launched in 2017 to give an electricity connection to every household in India.

Article 12 defines the State to include the Government and Parliament of India, the Government and Legislature of each State, and all local or other authorities within India or under the control of the Government of India.

In 1865 the overland line through the Ottoman Empire and Persia was joined to a submarine cable in the Persian Gulf, and messages could pass between Britain and India for the first time.

The Dashavatara temple at Deogarh stands in Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh, on the bank of the Betwa river. Built around the early sixth century, it is one of the earliest Hindu temples in north India and is dedicated to Vishnu.

A pattern that looks like the branches of a tree or the veins of a leaf, formed on uniform rock with a regular slope, is dendritic.

The Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) is the sole research and development wing of the Ministry of Railways. RDSO is headquartered at Lucknow.

Apabhramsha was a literary language that took recognisable shape by about the sixth century, formed from regional speech mixed with the Prakrits and Sanskrit.

The Swadeshi Movement grew out of the protest against the partition of Bengal, and the Extremists, Aurobindo Ghosh among them, wanted to turn it into a nationwide mass struggle.