UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Rajesh Kumar Singh, Defence Secretary, Secretary of the Department of Defence Research and Development and Chairman of the DRDO, was the chief guest and took part virtually, while Vice Admiral B Sivakumar, Chief of Materiel of the Indian Navy, and Dr R Balamuralikrishnan, Director General for Naval Systems and Materials…

In the stage that follows the Setting to Work Phase-2 activity, the AIP Energy Module will be energised for power production and tested rigorously against the Indian Navy's protocols.

A conventional diesel-electric boat has to come near the surface to run its diesel engines and recharge batteries, because those engines need air, and that is when it is most easily spotted.

The Setting to Work Phase-2 activity of this module was inaugurated on 24 October 2026 at the AM Naik Heavy Engineering Complex of Larsen and Toubro at Hazira in Gujarat, and the system rests on hydrogen and fuel cell technology.

The Panchatantra teaches practical wisdom (niti) through animal fables, each story showing the right and wrong way to act. The Sanskrit collection is credited to Vishnu Sharma, who, according to its frame story, composed it to educate the dull sons of King Amarashakti in statecraft and worldly sense.

Soap is sold by many firms under different brands that buyers see as close but not perfect substitutes, which is the mark of monopolistic competition.

The Latin words habeas corpus mean "you may have the body", and the writ orders a person who has detained someone to produce that person before the court.

Higher interest on deposits encourages people to save rather than spend, which pulls money out of circulation and cools demand.

There is no Sustainable Development Goal by that name; employment comes under Goal 8, Decent Work and Economic Growth, and Goal 10 is Reduced Inequalities.

The Samahartri collected revenue, the Akshapatala kept records and accounts, and the Samnidhatri was the treasurer, but the Dauvarika was the chief of the royal palace and its attendants, not of the army.

Valley glaciers scour away soil, regolith and loose sediment and deepen their valleys into U-shaped glacial troughs, but a fiord forms only when the trough floor lies below sea level, not above it.

Fertile land, nearby iron ore and a supply of forest elephants together made Magadha the strongest of the sixteen Mahajanapadas.

The Mahalanobis Model shaped the Second Five Year Plan (1956-61), the Plan Holiday followed in 1966-69, and the Rolling Plan came in 1978-80.

The American historian William Hardy McNeill wrote Plagues and Peoples, published in 1976. The book was one of the first to treat infectious disease as a force in world history.

Demographic dividend is the growth bonus a country gets when its working age group grows larger than its dependent population.

Satavahana kings prefixed their mother's name to their own, as in Gautamiputra Satakarni, "son of Gautami", and Vasishthiputra Pulumavi, "son of Vasishthi".

The Punchhi Commission recommended that the President should decide on a State bill reserved by the Governor within six months.

In this case the Delhi High Court held in 2009 that Section 377, in so far as it criminalised consensual sex between adults in private, violated Articles 21, 14 and 15.

Banks can create credit only from money deposited with them, so when people keep more cash at home, less is lent and re-lent, and the multiplier falls.

Avantivarman founded the Utpala dynasty around 855 CE and is remembered for peaceful rule focused on the welfare of his people, and his minister Suyya carried out famous drainage and irrigation works.