UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, approved this outlay on 14 October 2026 when it cleared the continuation of the National Social Assistance Programme for five years and renamed it the Pradhan Mantri Samajik Sahayata Yojana.

The itinerary for each group covers these three cities with cultural, academic, domain-specific and spiritual engagements spread over four programme days, after four days of travel.

Each of the seven groups will carry roughly 200 participants from Tamil Nadu, and every group follows an eight-day itinerary made up of four days of travel and four days of visits and structured programmes in Varanasi, Prayagraj and Ayodhya.

The fifth edition of the programme, to be held from 28 November to 12 December 2026, is designed around that classical Tamil text and aims to bring its ethical and moral wisdom closer to students and young learners through classroom engagement, multilingual resources and public outreach.

The Commission organised the conference on national and state perspectives on co-operative federalism and law reforms, and it was held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, where the Vice-President opened it.

Speaking at the Law Commission of India conference, the Vice-President pointed to the repeal of over 1,700 obsolete laws in the past twelve years, together with the replacement of three criminal laws inherited from colonial rule, as the major steps taken to modernise the legal framework of the country.

Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan inaugurated the conference at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 22 October 2026, and in his address he asked States to clear outdated laws from their statute books and described legal reform as a condition for Viksit Bharat @2047.

The Abhijit Sen Committee dealt with agricultural economics, not local self-government. Its best-known reports were on a long-term grain policy in 2002 and on whether futures trading pushed up farm prices in 2008.

Operation Olivia is the Indian Coast Guard's annual mission, begun in the early 1980s, to protect Olive Ridley turtles off the Odisha coast.

Southern Argentina is Patagonia, a cold, dry steppe and desert region lying in the rain shadow of the Andes, so it does not have a humid subtropical climate.

PM-DAKSH was an additionality to PMKVY, and every job role used for skill training under it was taken from the Skill India Digital Hub portal, where PMKVY job roles are also listed.

After a course finished, the training institute had to provide wage employment or self-employment to at least that share of the candidates it had trained.

That many candidates were trained under PM-DAKSH in the years from 2020-21 to 2023-24.

PM-DAKSH was a Central Sector Scheme of that ministry, and its Department of Social Justice and Empowerment ran it through three corporations, NSFDC, NBCFDC and NSKFDC, which reimbursed training costs to the institutes.

This is a state policy, and its purpose is to ease investment across the parts of the fisheries value chain: hatcheries, fish seed and feed, reservoir and cage fisheries, aquatic animal health, processing, cold-chain infrastructure, logistics, value addition and market development.

Madhya Pradesh has been notified in that category by the Centre, and the tag fits a state whose fisheries rest on large standing water bodies rather than on the sea.

That is the level India's fish production reached in 2024-25.

The Fisheries Investors and Exporters Conclave 2026 is being organised on 23 October 2026 at Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, by the state's Department of Fisheries together with the Department of Fisheries under the Union Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.

The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was Gandhiji's first satyagraha in India, and its great significance was that it tied the grievances of peasants to the national movement.

Statements 1, 2 and 3 describe the Coal Controller's Organisation, while statement 4 does not. The CCO is a subordinate office of the Ministry of Coal with its headquarters in Kolkata.