UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Mount Thullier, about 642 metres high, is the highest point of the Nicobar group and stands on Great Nicobar, the southernmost and largest island of that group.

The Election Commission of India began issuing Electors Photo Identity Cards in 1993 to stop impersonation and bogus voting at polling booths.

Blue growth means using the sea for economic progress without harming the health of the ocean. The idea, part of the wider blue economy, covers fisheries and aquaculture, shipping and ports, coastal tourism, offshore energy, seabed minerals and marine biotechnology.

Foreign currency assets make up the largest part of India's foreign exchange reserves, but holding them is never free, so statement 2 is false.

The Barak rises in the hills of Manipur, not Meghalaya, so statement 1 is false, while the other two statements are true.

When a currency depreciates, a country's goods become cheaper for foreign buyers, while imports become dearer at home, not cheaper.

The Golden Quadrilateral links Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai, and neither Lucknow nor Indore lies on any of its four sides.

Black soil covers most of the Deccan Plateau, and its clay holds water so well that rainfed crops actually do well in it, so statement 3 is false.

The Prime Minister said that this scheme made 13 crore people entrepreneurs for the first time, as part of a wider point that a borrower with nothing to offer as security can now raise a cheap and easy loan to start work.

The Prime Minister named him as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India while greeting the guests on the dais at Bhubaneswar.

The Prime Minister inaugurated exactly these two units of the Reserve Bank of India at Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha, and called the occasion an important one for the state and for the country.

The session on Model Municipal Law recommended exactly that, together with stronger devolution of municipal functions, better coordination with parastatal agencies, more fiscal autonomy and own-source revenues, adequate technical staffing and a revision of the Model Municipal Law, 2003 through state-level consultations.

The memorandum of understanding signed with JICA strengthens technical cooperation in promoting the circular use of treated used water, which is the same theme as the Used Water Marketplace opened under AMRUT 2.0 on that day.

On the second and concluding day of the conclave, the development of the eighteen selected Street Food Hubs under PM SVANidhi was formally commenced, and the release of the first tranche of funds marked the formal start of project implementation.

The Used Water Marketplace opened on the concluding day of the conclave is a digital platform set up under AMRUT 2.0, and it connects urban local bodies with users and investors in the treated used water ecosystem.

Under the rules of 2018 on the use of low power and very low power short range radio frequency devices, personal mobile radios working within this narrow band are exempt from the requirement of a licence, subject to the conditions laid down.

The order against M/s Hogar Technologies and Innovations LLP, which carried a penalty of one lakh rupees, was passed under this Act, as were the earlier orders in the same matter against e-commerce platforms and sellers.

It is the body set up under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 to act against misleading advertisements and unfair trade practices, and it is headed by a Chief Commissioner, at present Nidhi Khare, sitting with Commissioner Anupam Mishra.

The forum will facilitate consensus-based dialogue through four high-level sessions, themed on Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability. Candidates should hold on to all four words, because a question may give three of them and ask for the missing one.

He led the delegation in a bilateral meeting with Speaker Om Birla before the forum, where the two sides discussed cooperation at global fora, joint efforts against terrorism, and closer links between the two legislatures.