UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, which runs the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan and has opened this quiz under it.

The three corporations named in connection with the mela are the National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation, or NSFDC, the National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation, or NSKFDC, and the National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation, or NBCFDC.

The correct answer is Mysuru, Karnataka, where the first mela of the series for the financial year was held at the Dasara Exhibition Grounds and concluded on 19 October 2026.

BHARAT-TULIP is the programme through which the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment helps artisans of its target groups sell their products, both at physical outlets and on e-commerce platforms, so that a craftsperson is not limited to buyers who walk into a fairground.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, which runs the Shilp Samagam Mela to give marketing support to artisans and beneficiaries attached to its three national corporations.

The correct answer is S. Abdul Nazeer, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, who is the Chancellor of the university and attended the Ruby Jubilee celebrations.

Postgraduate seats have risen by 177 per cent, from about 31,000 earlier to more than 86,000 now.

The Vice-President said the number of medical colleges in the country has more than doubled, rising to 846 at present.

Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan addressed its 40th anniversary, called the Ruby Jubilee, in Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh, released a souvenir on the university's forty-year journey and asked its researchers to aim for global recognition in medical science.

A quarterly declaration of movable and immovable property is not part of the Integrity Pledge; the pledge is a statement of personal commitment, not a disclosure requirement.

The correct answer is J. P. Nadda, the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, who read out the Integrity Pledge to senior officers at Kartavya Bhawan-1 in New Delhi.

The week is deliberately placed around his birthday, which falls on 31 October, and that is why this year's observance runs from 26 October to 1 November 2026 rather than on fixed calendar dates.

The theme set for the week is 'Satyanishtha se Samriddhi', which the government renders in English as Probity for Prosperity, and it treats honesty, integrity and openness as the pillars that hold up good governance and public trust in institutions.

The English economic historian Arnold Toynbee first used the term in English in his lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England.

The Stamp Act Congress met in New York City in October 1765 to protest against the Stamp Act passed by the British Parliament that year.

An antecedent river is older than the uplift it now cuts across. The Indus, the Sutlej and the Brahmaputra rise beyond the main Himalayan range, north of it in Tibet.

A canyon is a deep valley whose sides fall in steep, step-like slopes. Both gorges and canyons are cut by rivers, mostly in the youthful stage.

A field of many drumlins lying side by side looks like eggs packed in a basket, so it is called basket-of-eggs topography.

In March 1927 Dr Ambedkar led the Mahad Satyagraha to assert the right of the depressed classes to draw water from the public Chavdar tank at Mahad.

The two western Union Territories were joined into a single Union Territory from 26 January 2020. Parliament passed the Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Act in December 2019, and the merger took effect on 26 January 2020.