UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is the Defence Secretary, Rajesh Kumar Singh, whose Valedictory Address brought the three-day conference to a close.

This is the expansion of MAHASAGAR, the maritime vision to which the dialogue was said to have given clearer expression.

The Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue is described as the Navy's annual apex-level international strategic dialogue, and the 2026 edition was organised in association with the National Maritime Foundation.

This was the unifying theme of IPRD-2026, the Indian Navy's annual apex-level international strategic dialogue, which was examined through five professional thematic sessions together with senior-level interactions meant to find practical routes to regional maritime cooperation.

The correct answer is quasi-ballistic missile, the class to which Pralay belongs.

The correct answer is Research Centre Imarat, Hyderabad, which developed Pralay within the country along with other DRDO laboratories.

DRDO fired the missile from that island at about 1110 hrs, and the range instruments that confirmed the result were deployed by the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, which is also in Odisha.

Along with its 114 medals, the Indian squad set five world records at the Asian Para Games 2026, and separately set nine Asian records.

Speaking to the para-athletes, the Prime Minister urged the domestic industry to ensure that the gear, clothing and footwear worn by Indian and foreign players alike are made in India, which would strengthen micro, small and medium enterprises and create work in small towns and rural areas.

The Indian contingent won its 114 medals at Aichi-Nagoya, and the Prime Minister described that podium as a starting point rather than a final destination, pointing the athletes towards the Los Angeles 2028 Games for which Avani and Manish have already secured quotas.

India's contingent at the Asian Para Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya won 114 medals in all, and that total was made up of 30 gold medals, 35 silver medals and 49 bronze medals.

After its stay in harbour, INS Tarkash conducted a PASSEX, which is a passage exercise held when ships meet at sea, with CGS Valiant, and then undertook joint surveillance of the Exclusive Economic Zone together with the Mauritius Coast Guard, with a Dornier aircraft providing support from the air.

The ship took part in the events held for it on 2 November 2026, and separately hosted a cultural exchange on board to mark Aapravasi Diwas 2026, at which the Minister of Education and Human Resource of Mauritius, Mahend Gungapersad, was the Guest of Honour and India's High Commissioner Anurag…

INS Tarkash completed its call at that port on 3 November 2026.

In the state-wise break-up published with the release, Uttar Pradesh was allotted the largest amount of the Rs 1,09,019 crore shared among twenty-eight states, which follows from its being the biggest claimant on the states' share of central taxes.

The Ministry of Finance said the early transfer would also let states finance expenditure related to development and welfare.

This was the regular instalment of tax devolution that the Union Government transferred to the state governments, and it was released on 5 November 2026.

The researchers used Gaia measurements, which give exceptionally precise positions and motions for stars right across the Milky Way, and it was these data that revealed two populations of starkly different ages inside what had been taken for one cluster.

UBC 63A is the young cluster of the pair at roughly twenty-one million years, while UBC 63B is much older at about five hundred sixty-two million years.

The group, which lies about 4892 light years away and had been treated in the limited earlier literature as a single cluster, was found to hold two separate stellar populations, now named UBC 63A and UBC 63B. Their brightness and colours formed two sequences in the colour magnitude diagram, and…