UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property has its headquarters in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. NRLC was set up in 1976 under the Department of Culture, Government of India, and works under the Ministry of Culture.

No such revision took place; the Ain-i-Akbari remained Abu'l Fazl's own work, completed in Akbar's reign. Abu'l Fazl, a leading noble and close friend of Akbar, wrote the Akbar Nama in three volumes.

Excavations at Kalibangan in Rajasthan found a row of fire altars, the clearest evidence of a fire ritual in the Harappan civilisation.

The word monsoon comes from the Arabic 'mausim', meaning season, and the climate is defined by winds that reverse their direction between summer and winter.

Statement 1 restates Article 76, and statement 2 correctly describes the Solicitor General's place below the Attorney General. Article 76 of the Constitution creates the office of the Attorney General, the highest law officer of the Union.

Ocean currents are set off by solar heating and wind, while gravity and the Coriolis force shape how the water moves.

Vasco da Gama came first in 1498, Magellan's voyage followed in 1519–1522, and the English and Dutch companies were set up in 1600 and 1602.

Madhya Pradesh touches five states, and only these three of them have no coastline. Madhya Pradesh, itself landlocked, sits in the heart of India and borders Rajasthan to the north-west, Uttar Pradesh to the north-east, Chhattisgarh to the south-east, Maharashtra to the south and Gujarat to the west.

The correct answer is Shri C. Rajagopalachari, a recipient of the Bharat Ratna and the first Governor General of independent India, who delivered the very first lecture of the series.

Akashvani has organised the annual Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Lecture from that year onwards, in memory of independent India’s first Deputy Prime Minister, who also held the Information and Broadcasting portfolio and is remembered as the architect of national integration and as the Iron Man of India.

The correct answer is Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and of Rural Development, who is to deliver the sixty seventh lecture in the series at the Rang Bhawan Auditorium of Akashvani in New Delhi.

The correct answer is Shri T. K. Anil Kumar, who spoke at the summit as Secretary of the Department of School Education and Literacy and laid out its four priorities, calling for a seamless transition from school education into higher education, skilling and employment so that learners can make informed…

Of the four priorities set out at the summit by the Secretary of the Department of School Education and Literacy, the third is the recognition of skills across education systems, and the instrument named for it is the National Credit Framework.

The Central Board of Secondary Education, in association with the Sahodaya School Complexes of Delhi and the National Capital Region, is holding the fourth National Summit on Facilitating School-to-Work Transition in New Delhi across two days, the twenty sixth and twenty seventh of October 2026.

SIDM is an industry body for defence manufacturers, which is why it fits an event meant to connect military users with the firms that would actually build or refurbish the platforms.

The correct answer is Chandimandir Military Station, which is the headquarters station of Western Command and the chosen venue for the two-day seminar in December 2026.

The seminar carries exactly this theme, and the phrase itself captures the idea behind the whole exercise, namely that equipment already held by the Army should be reworked into advanced and future-ready combat systems rather than simply replaced.

Within the ADMM-Plus construct India is co-chairing the Experts Working Group on Counter-Terrorism jointly with Malaysia for the cycle that runs from 2024 to 2027.

India entered the ASEAN framework as a dialogue partner in that year, and the relationship has since widened into the defence domain through the ADMM-Plus mechanism.

The thirteenth edition of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus is being held at Cebu in the Philippines, which also holds the chair of the forum for the current year, and the Indian delegation to it is being led by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh.