UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Besides revising the numerical limits, the draft adopts the World Health Organization position that the detection of any microbial growth in a Grade A area must itself set off an investigation, rather than being measured against a permitted level and passed over.

A Grade A area is described as the critical zone of a sterile medicine plant, the place where a product still lies open, where containers are handled, and where components that have already been sterilised are dealt with before the product is closed and sealed.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said that the revised limits for microbial contamination in Grade A clean areas are being drawn from the World Health Organization Technical Report Series No. 1044, and specifically from its Annexure 2, which carries Good Manufacturing Practices for sterile pharmaceutical products.

Schedule M sits inside the Drugs Rules, 1945, and it is this schedule that the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has proposed to amend.

The minister named these as the channel through which Ayush-based health services are reaching people where they live, and he paired the point with a call for scientific research, quality standards and evidence-based practice in India's traditional systems of medicine.

The Ayush Minister cited this maxim to make the case that prevention deserves as much attention as treatment, noting that discussion of health usually begins only after an illness has already developed.

It was in that capacity that he appealed to citizens to make health and disease prevention part of their Dhanteras observance.

Dhanteras is observed in that form as well, and the day recalls the appearance of Lord Dhanvantari during the Samudra Manthan, the churning of the ocean, when he emerged bearing the Amrit Kalash.

The whole design of the pact rests on it: DAKSHIN works for the countries of the Global South, and CSIR is bringing its ready-to-deploy, affordable and adaptable technologies to that group.

The Director General of RIS, Professor Sachin Kumar Sharma, named five areas as holding particular promise: healthcare, infrastructure, agriculture, the blue economy and the digital economy.

That is what DAKSHIN is, and it sits at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries, working to spread knowledge and mutual learning among developing countries.

DAKSHIN, the Global South Centre of Excellence, is housed at RIS, and it was in that capacity that it signed the Letter of Association with CSIR on 3 November 2026.

The correct answer is 64.72 crore passengers, the number carried during October 2026.

To meet the heavier requirement of thermal power stations, the railways stepped up coal movement to this daily average during October 2026, and the supply of coal to power houses grew 19.5 per cent over the year.

The correct answer is food grains, whose loading rose by 26.3 per cent over October 2025, the steepest gain among all the commodities listed for the month.

This was the quantity of goods moved by the network during October 2026, and it stands as the heaviest loading ever recorded for the month of October.

In the same round, the steepest margin over an individual plot's floor price came to 67.65 per cent.

The first phase, held on 12 October 2026, placed 150 parcels, and the second phase on 3 November 2026 placed another 114, so the two rounds together account for 264 parcels sold for Rs 584.33 crore against a combined reserve price of Rs 497.29 crore.

NLMC is a wholly government-owned company under that department, and its mandate is to spot, assess, ready and place in the market the surplus land and buildings held by central public sector enterprises and other government bodies.

The second phase of the land sale run by the National Land Monetization Corporation closed at Visakhapatnam on 3 November 2026, and the 114 parcels that found buyers brought in bids worth Rs 218 crore in all.