UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Swami Chinmayananda launched it so that the Upanishads, Vedanta and the scriptures would reach people in ordinary life rather than remain with a few scholars, and the Prime Minister described this effort as an important chapter in India's cultural and spiritual revival.

He began the Gita Gyana Yagna to carry the Upanishads, Vedanta and the scriptures to ordinary people, and his radio talks on the art of man making reached a wide audience.

The Prime Minister inaugurated the Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav Global Sammelan there on 23 October 2026, the global gathering of the Chinmaya Mission founded by Swami Chinmayananda.

This is the named focus of the partnership, meant to prepare banking systems both for the opportunities that quantum technology brings and for the security problems it creates, which is why the two sides will study quantum-inspired and quantum-safe methods.

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing is an autonomous scientific society under that ministry, and its Secretary, S. Krishnan, was present when the memorandum with Bank of India was exchanged.

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing signed the memorandum with Bank of India on 22 October 2026 to work on quantum financial innovation and the adoption of emerging technologies in banking.

The Centre of Excellence at IIT (BHU), Varanasi has been given a brief in communication technology: wireless communications, quantum technologies, cybersecurity and communication systems driven by artificial intelligence, with advanced research in 5G Advanced and 6G technologies, very large-scale Multiple-Input Multiple-Output systems, sensing merged with communication, AI-native networks and devices…

The Centre for Development of Telematics, or C-DOT, is the research and development centre of the Department of Telecommunications, which is a department of the Ministry of Communications, and it is in that capacity that it signed the agreement for a Centre of Excellence at IIT (BHU), Varanasi.

The Centre for Development of Telematics signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi to establish its sixth Centre of Excellence, and the signing was followed by the formal opening of the centre on the campus.

Khajuraho lies in Bundelkhand and Tirupati in Rayalaseema; the other three are placed in the wrong regions. Khajuraho, famous for its Chandela temples and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh, in the Bundelkhand region the Chandelas ruled, so pair 2 is correct.

PAGE was launched in 2013 as a direct response to the call made at the Rio+20 conference of June 2012, whose outcome document, 'The Future We Want', recognised the green economy as a tool for sustainable development and poverty eradication.

In political theory, and in the spirit of the Indian Constitution, liberty means positive freedom: the conditions and opportunities a person needs to develop their personality fully.

All three statements are incorrect, so all three are 'not correct'. Statement 1 is wrong because in Balaji Raghavan v. Union of India (1995) the Supreme Court held that the Bharat Ratna and Padma awards are not titles within the meaning of Article 18(1), which abolishes titles; they are honours…

Several groups of ants, above all the leafcutter ants of the Americas, grow fungus as their food, a form of farming that began millions of years before human agriculture.

The Cripps Mission of March 1942 offered India Dominion status after the Second World War, not full independence. Sir Stafford Cripps, a member of Churchill's War Cabinet, came as Japan advanced in South-East Asia.

All three are legally bound to report cyber security incidents to CERT-In, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team. CERT-In works under Section 70B of the Information Technology Act, 2000 as the national agency for incident response.

Only statement 3 is correct: long-term irrigation can make farmland saline, while statements 1 and 2 reverse basic facts about soil.

Edible vegetable oils are India's largest agricultural import by value, and they have stayed at the top since well before this question was set.

Halbi, Ho and Kui are languages spoken by tribal communities of central and eastern India. Halbi is an Indo-Aryan language used by the Halba tribe and as a link language among many tribes of the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh and nearby parts of Odisha and Maharashtra.

Under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, wild animals belong to the government and a protected animal is protected everywhere, but mere fear of danger does not justify killing it.