UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Soket Labs and ZenteiQ are among the teams picked under this pillar to build indigenous foundation capabilities and large language models, and the mission supported them with subsidised national AI compute together with help for allied research costs.

ZenteiQ introduced the open-source Dhir 2B and Dhir 5B models, which can be deployed as secure, on-premise multilingual assistants supporting English and 10 Indian languages.

EKA-1, built by Soket Labs Technology and Research Private Limited, is a foundation model of 26.3 billion parameters trained on roughly 7.5 trillion tokens.

Addressing the symposium on critical minerals and rare earths, the NITI Aayog Member highlighted the scope for recovering critical minerals from secondary resources, naming coal fly ash, red mud, mine tailings and electronic waste.

The collaboration is stated to align with that mission's objectives and with the vision of an Aatmanirbhar and Viksit Bharat, as it seeks to advance indigenous technological capability and build resilient and sustainable value chains for critical minerals.

TEXMiN is the Technology Translation Research Park at that institute and is an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology; the Joint Statement of Intent with NITI Aayog was signed during a visit by a Member of NITI Aayog to the campus.

The Minister said milk production in the State had risen by that proportion over the decade, from 1.37 lakh litres a day to 2.45 lakh litres a day, while the number of dairy cooperative societies had grown by 88 per cent, from 389 in 2014-15 to 733 in 2025-26, and…

Recalling a visit to Mangan, where local cattle give an average of about three litres of milk a day, the Minister announced that central funds would be sanctioned for a Centre of Excellence devoted to the conservation and development of the indigenous Siri breed, using advanced breeding technologies including IVF…

The initiative was launched at a programme of the Sikkim Milk Union in Gangtok, where the Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying also inaugurated the Union's microbiology laboratory and the launch of Fodder Plus products made by farmer producer organisations.

The two-day meeting of quality assurance managers of the World Association of Anti-Doping Scientists was its tenth, was organised by the National Dope Testing Laboratory and brought together international stakeholders from the sporting and scientific communities, with the Union Sports Minister as chief guest.

The correct answer is 114 medals, which the Minister described as a record and the highest Indian tally ever at those Games, saying the para-athletes had scripted history.

The correct answer is the National Dope Testing Laboratory, whose Extramural Research Grant Policy was launched by the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports at the quality assurance managers' meeting in New Delhi, along with the laboratory's newsletter.

The monograph was released at the end of the first professional session of the day, which dealt with academic networks, research and human capital development and heard perspectives from France, Indonesia, Japan and the Maldives.

The conference is examining this theme with particular emphasis on translating scientific advancement and institutional partnerships into practical regional cooperation, and its central question is how the region can turn scientific knowledge and technological innovation into enduring institutional cooperation, stronger maritime capabilities and shared resilience.

The Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue is described as the Navy's annual apex-level international strategic dialogue, and this edition opened in New Delhi for a three-day run, organised in association with the National Maritime Foundation, which serves as the Navy's knowledge partner.

The Minister described this as a rise of 5.5 times in passenger traffic and 2.1 times in vessel calls compared with 2013-14, and said sea cruising was among the fastest growing segments of the maritime economy.

The Union Minister announced that the Puri International Cruise Terminal would be developed by the Paradip Port Authority in partnership with the Government of Odisha, and that the project was likely to cost about fifteen hundred crore rupees.

The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways told the Consultative Committee meeting in Puri that the government is working to double the present share of coastal and inland waterway shipping in freight movement, which stands at 6 per cent, and that the doubling would take it to 12 per…

Going beyond the sheer volume of output, the Scoreboard reports indicators of research quality, impact, collaboration and open access across priority research areas and these three sectors, so that a State can see which part of its research base is strong.

The correct answer is Ashok Kumar Lahiri, the Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog, who unveiled the platform and urged every State and Union Territory to make full use of it, saying that progress in science and technology now needs a more active role by the States under cooperative and competitive…