UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The campaign is built on five words beginning with the letter C, namely Connect, Converse, Co-create, Contribute and Continue, so options A, B and D are all genuine parts of it and cannot be the answer.

The campaign for intergenerational bonding was launched under this umbrella scheme of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, and the Union Minister described it as a meeting of the experience of elders and the energy of the young.

The Minister offered this as the principle that should steer cooperation across the Indo-Pacific, arguing that oceans ignore political boundaries and that marine pollution or a change in ocean temperature has effects far beyond the country where it begins.

The submersible of the Samudrayaan Mission is built to take three aquanauts down to depths between five and six thousand metres, and it is the vehicle behind the plan for a crewed Indian dive later this decade.

The Minister said India is progressing towards sending its first crewed deep-sea mission to a depth of as much as six thousand metres by that year, which he called an important milestone in an exploration programme built on indigenous capability.

The Raksha Mantri described the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in that year, as a workable framework that advances cooperation at sea across seven interconnected areas, and he urged participants to turn the ideas raised at the dialogue into partnerships, projects and results that can be…

The Raksha Mantri invoked this vision while reaffirming that India wants a maritime order that is open, inclusive and based on rules, and while stressing that the maritime future of the Indo-Pacific cannot be settled by any one country acting alone.

Rajnath Singh, as Defence Minister, gave the commemorative address at the dialogue in New Delhi and used it to argue that dependence among nations at sea should be made safer rather than abandoned, through diversified supply chains, dependable maritime infrastructure, better awareness of activity at sea and wider regional cooperation.

Under it, NITI Aayog and GIZ signed an Implementation Agreement on 3 November 2026 to accelerate the decarbonisation of road freight in India.

The agreement formalises collaboration among the project partners so that cutting emissions from the movement of goods by road moves faster, which is treated as an important part of India's transition to a transport system that is sustainable, energy-efficient and low in carbon.

The agreement was signed on 3 November 2026 under the Nationally Determined Contribution-Transport Initiative for Asia, Phase II, to speed up the decarbonisation of road freight in India, and the initiative itself is supported by the International Climate Initiative of the German Government.

Acting on them, the Speaker urged the committees of Parliament and of the state legislatures to jointly evolve a comprehensive system of audit and evaluation to deal with shared problems of continuous scrutiny and the timely disposal of audit reports.

The resolution calls for a digital oversight system of this kind in every state and union territory Public Accounts Committee, so that audit paragraphs and committee recommendations can be tracked until they are settled.

The two-day conference of the chairpersons of the Public Accounts Committees of Parliament and of the state and union territory legislatures was held in the capital of Keralam and ended on 4 November 2026 with the adoption of the Keralam Resolution.

Measurements across this band agreed closely with the simulations the team had run, and in the power splitter the two output signals were nearly identical, showing that the engineered barrier had little effect on transmission.

The team designed a silicon photonic crystal whose structure mimics the honeycomb lattice of graphene, arranging triangular holes in a silicon slab so that terahertz waves travel along the boundary between two regions of the crystal.

Its team, led by Dr Abhishek Kumar of the Meta Optics Laboratory, used topological photonics to show terahertz waves crossing a deliberately engineered barrier while carrying data at 100 Gbit/s, with the work published in the journal Advanced Materials.

The mission works on skill development, financial assistance, market access and entrepreneurship for women in Self-Help Groups, and the Lakhpati Didi effort sits within it, with a target of six crore Lakhpati Didis by 2029.

That was the cumulative sales figure for the fair, achieved even though Cyclone Arnab forced a temporary closure on 28 and 29 October during the final days.

This was the first National SARAS Mela ever held outside Delhi-NCR, organised by the Ministry of Rural Development along with the Government of Andhra Pradesh and supported by NIRDPR and Kudumbashree.