UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The initiative sets out seven interconnected maritime lines of thrust, and successive editions of the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue have taken up selected dimensions of those lines of thrust.

The Indian Navy will hold the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue in New Delhi from 3 to 5 November 2026 on this theme, with the National Maritime Foundation as the principal organiser, and experts from 18 countries of the region taking part.

The National Academy of Agricultural Sciences signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CAST at the 2026 Norman E Borlaug International Dialogue, and the agreement is meant to open new avenues of cooperation in agricultural research, in capacity development and in the exchange of knowledge, strengthening institutional links and creating room…

This was the theme of the 2026 Norman E Borlaug International Dialogue, the World Food Prize Foundation event held from 20 to 22 October 2026 in Des Moines, Iowa, in the United States.

She won the Global Youth Institute Award, which carries a cash prize of US$500, at the World Food Prize Foundation event held in Des Moines, Iowa, in the United States.

The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan, shortened to PM KUSUM, was launched in that month to encourage the use of solar energy on farms.

That was the count of operational agrivoltaics projects in India as of August 2025, and alongside them another 10 pilot projects were under development.

The 7th AgriVoltaics World Conference was held in New Delhi from 21 to 23 October 2026 and this was the theme chosen for it.

Maize is a crop of the Americas, and it reached India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries via Africa and Spain; by the seventeenth century it had become one of the major crops of western India.

In India's land-use classification, land that is left uncultivated for more than five agricultural years is recorded as culturable waste land, even though it could be brought back under cultivation with reclamation.

Rainfed Area Development is meant for farms that depend on rain, not on canals, so improving canal irrigation is not one of its strategies.

Hajipur in Bihar is the headquarters of the East Central Railway zone, which began working in 2002. Indian Railways is divided into zones, each with its own headquarters and divisions.

Decomposition breaks rocks down at the surface and is a process of weathering, whereas metamorphism changes rocks deep inside the crust through heat, pressure and chemically active solutions.

The Sun's surface is about 6,000 °C, so most of its energy reaches the Earth as short-wave radiation: visible light and near (short wavelength) infrared, with a small share of ultraviolet.

All three statements describe the royal centre of Vijayanagara (Hampi) as the archaeological study of the site records it. The royal centre lay in the south-western part of the settlement, away from the sacred centre on the bank of the Tungabhadra.

On 18 April 1951, at Pochampally village in Nalgonda district of the then Hyderabad State (now in Telangana), landowner V. Ramachandra Reddy offered about 100 acres to landless Dalit families, and this became the first gift of the Bhoodan Movement.

Moran is an oil field in the Upper Assam valley, in Dibrugarh district of Assam, so it is not in Gujarat.

Madhya Pradesh elects twenty-nine members to the Lok Sabha and has eleven seats in the Rajya Sabha.

The Vidhan Bhavan at Bhopal, which houses the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly, was designed by Charles Correa, among the best known Indian architects of the twentieth century, whose work drew on courtyards, open-to-sky spaces and traditional Indian planning.

She was sworn in as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in December 2003 after the Assembly election of that year and is the first woman to have held the office in the state.