UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The Basel Convention controls the movement of hazardous wastes across borders and their disposal, to protect human health and the environment.

Under Article 231, Parliament may by law establish a common High Court for two or more States, or for two or more States and a Union Territory.

In 1800 Colin Mackenzie, an engineer and surveyor of the East India Company, prepared the first survey map of the ruins of Hampi.

In the Chola Nataraja it is the raised left leg, in the bhujangatrasita pose, that stands for tirobhava, kicking away the veil of illusion from the devotee's mind.

The Junagadh rock inscription of the Shaka ruler Rudradaman I records how he restored the Sudarshana lake after a storm burst its dam.

Collision-coalescence is the way rain forms in warm clouds, whose tops stay below the level where water freezes. In such clouds all droplets are liquid.

The socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia proposed the Chaukhamba Raj, a Four Pillar State, to spread power away from the centre.

Saubhagya, the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana, was launched in 2017 to give an electricity connection to every household in India.

Article 12 defines the State to include the Government and Parliament of India, the Government and Legislature of each State, and all local or other authorities within India or under the control of the Government of India.

In 1865 the overland line through the Ottoman Empire and Persia was joined to a submarine cable in the Persian Gulf, and messages could pass between Britain and India for the first time.

The Dashavatara temple at Deogarh stands in Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh, on the bank of the Betwa river. Built around the early sixth century, it is one of the earliest Hindu temples in north India and is dedicated to Vishnu.

A pattern that looks like the branches of a tree or the veins of a leaf, formed on uniform rock with a regular slope, is dendritic.

Apabhramsha was a literary language that took recognisable shape by about the sixth century, formed from regional speech mixed with the Prakrits and Sanskrit.

The Swadeshi Movement grew out of the protest against the partition of Bengal, and the Extremists, Aurobindo Ghosh among them, wanted to turn it into a nationwide mass struggle.

When crude supply is disrupted, oil prices rise, and almost every good in India becomes costlier to make and move.

Referring to efforts to widen international institutional partnerships, Dr Jat pointed to the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with CAST, which is expected to open new avenues of cooperation in agricultural research, capacity development and knowledge exchange.

The roundtable that Dr M. L. Jat addressed was held on the sidelines of the Norman E Borlaug International Dialogue during the World Food Prize Foundation programme at Des Moines in the United States, and he joined it virtually.

He is Secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education and Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, and he addressed the roundtable virtually, speaking in his capacity as President of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India.

The programme, launched on 15 August 1995 and now renamed the Pradhan Mantri Samajik Sahayata Yojana, gives effect to Article 41, which directs the State to provide public assistance in cases of unemployment, old age, sickness and disablement.

Section 2(r) of that Act defines a person with benchmark disability as one with not less than 40 per cent of a specified disability, as certified by the certifying authority, and the Cabinet decision of 14 October 2026 brings the pension on to that measure.