UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The Prime Minister took up this framing directly and said it raises two questions: why the existing order is slipping and why legacy systems cannot answer today's challenges, and what role India plays in a world that is changing.

Addressing the summit in New Delhi, the Prime Minister listed a set of national firsts and said that India had crossed the figure of 300 gigawatts in non-fossil electricity capacity.

The Indian Civil Service was a modern, merit-based bureaucracy filled through open competitive examinations from 1853, but Indians were kept out of it in practice for decades.

The Belt and Road Initiative is China's plan, announced by President Xi Jinping in 2013, to build roads, railways, ports, pipelines and power links connecting China with Asia, Europe and Africa.

The Bengali poet Mukundaram Chakrabarti, honoured with the title Kavikankan, composed the Chandimangala in the sixteenth century. Mangalkavyas are long Bengali narrative poems in praise of a deity, and the Chandimangala celebrates the goddess Chandi.

In April 1930, C. Rajagopalachari led a band of volunteers from Tiruchirappalli, then called Trichinopoly, to Vedaranyam on the Tanjore coast, where they broke the salt law.

Nimbostratus is a thick, dark grey layer cloud that covers the whole sky and gives steady, continuous rain or snow, often for many hours.

Both statements match the record of the Great Stupa at Sanchi, in Madhya Pradesh, as NCERT's Class 12 history text describes it.

The temperate forests called Sholas grow in the higher reaches of all three ranges named, the Nilgiris, the Anaimalai and the Palani hills.

The minister raised it precisely to make the point that regulation on its own cannot build a circular economy, because the demand side depends on how individuals choose to consume, and LiFE asks for deliberate and mindful use of resources instead of destructive consumption.

Under the EPR framework the registered recyclers number that much, while the registered producers are far more numerous.

That is the quantity of waste processed as on date across the waste streams that now carry their own rules, and the minister cited it as evidence that policy intent is being translated into measurable action.

That is the projection for the Indian chemical industry by 2030, and the growth outlook is attributed to rising domestic demand, expanding export opportunities, the demographic dividend, relatively low per capita consumption and supportive government measures.

It came in as the partner country for this edition, a step described as strengthening economic cooperation with India and opening fresh avenues for collaboration in chemicals and petrochemicals.

The theme frames the event as a platform for domestic and international stakeholders to share knowledge, build alliances and look for investment, and the minister repeated it when describing what the gathering was meant to achieve.

The railways works with it on moving coal out of the mines efficiently, while its coordination with the Ministry of Power is about sustaining transport and supply so that thermal plants hold enough stock to generate reliably.

This was the average daily dispatch of coal rakes to thermal power plants over the first six months of the financial year, and it was 7.1 per cent higher than the dispatch rate in the corresponding half of the year before.

That is the growth the railways registered in coal loading during the month up to the eighteenth day, measured against the corresponding stretch of the previous year, and it amounts to an all-time high for coal loading.

This is the National De-Addiction Helpline, and it gives individuals and families a way to seek information and assistance on substance-use concerns, which fits the campaign's emphasis on making help easier to reach and on reducing the stigma that keeps people from asking for it.

The Union Home Minister stated this deadline while addressing the third National Conference of Anti-Narcotics Task Force Heads of States and Union Territories in New Delhi in September, and he coupled it with a call for coordinated action, clear targets, accountability and the dismantling of drug networks.