UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is Piyush Goyal, the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, who completed a two-day official visit to Germany with a series of engagements in Berlin on 23 October 2026.

Its Pink Patrol initiative, with the tagline Eyes in the Sky, SHAKTI on the Ground, is a women-led model that combines drone-assisted surveillance with rapid-response teams working under the SHAKTI framework.

The correct answer is Sonali Mishra, Director General of the Railway Protection Force, who presided over the high-level conference and closed it by stressing the need for intelligence-led policing to strengthen railway security.

The 8th All India Conference of Government Railway Police Chiefs, convened by the Railway Protection Force, concluded in New Delhi on 23 October 2026.

That amount was allotted to the States and Union Territories as the interim allocation for the financial year, and out of it a mother sanction of Rs 25,880 crore was issued as the first instalment.

The Viksit Gram Panchayat Plan framework identifies 318 types of permissible works, spread across the four thematic areas of water security, core rural infrastructure, livelihood-related infrastructure and the mitigation of extreme weather events.

The Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) took its place when the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 came into force on 1 July 2026, and the changeover was described as seamless and free of disruption, with the supporting digital systems live from the start.

The VB-G RAM G Act provides a statutory guarantee of 125 days of wage employment in every financial year to each rural household whose adult members volunteer for unskilled manual work.

The Farmer ID is issued under this mission, which the Union Cabinet approved on 2 September 2024 and which is building a Digital Public Infrastructure, or DPI, for the farm sector.

That was the date fixed for the completion of the Farmer ID registry, and the work was closed by the night of 23 October, which is five months earlier.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare announced that the creation of 11 crore Farmer IDs, each a unique digital identity for a cultivator, had been completed by the night of 23 October, five months before the deadline of 31 March 2027.

Only three female Great Indian Bustards were left in the wild in Kutch and no male survived there to fertilise an egg, so a viable egg from the conservation-breeding centre at Sam in Rajasthan was moved 770 km to Naliya in a portable incubator, a journey lasting more than 19…

National CAMPA cleared this amount in December 2024 for a five-year Conservation Action Plan that covers both the Great Indian Bustard and the Lesser Florican.

Its annual progress report for 2016-17 recorded that the population of the Great Indian Bustard had fallen by three quarters over the thirty years before that report, a decline driven by the loss of its grassland habitat and by pressures created by people, and made harder to reverse by the…

In October 2026 four male Great Indian Bustards were set free inside Desert National Park, close to Sam village in the Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan.

Photosynthetic bacteria have no chloroplasts; their pigments sit on infoldings of the cell membrane that form vesicles or sacs, often called chromatophores.

Venkatachaliah. The National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution was set up by the Union government in February 2000 under Justice M.N.

'Tomb of Sand' won the International Booker Prize in 2022, and that win was a first on both counts. The novel was written in Hindi by Geetanjali Shree as 'Ret Samadhi' (2018) and translated into English by the American translator Daisy Rockwell, who shared the prize money with her.

Both statements repeat the Statute of the International Court of Justice. The Court, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, sits at the Peace Palace in The Hague and has fifteen judges elected for nine-year terms, with one-third of the seats falling vacant every three years.

The antariya was the lower garment of ancient India, a long piece of cotton or fine fabric wrapped around the hips and legs and tucked in, much like the later dhoti.