UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

In uniform circular motion the speed stays the same but the direction keeps turning, and that change needs an acceleration pointing to the centre.

The National Green Tribunal was established in October 2010, and the 11th Plan ran from 2007 to 2012. The tribunal was created by the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010, which drew on Article 21's right to a healthy environment.

This film in the Monpa language won the award for the Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation at the 67th National Film Awards, announced in March 2021 for films of 2019.

A carbon border adjustment exists to stop carbon-intensive activity from moving out of a strict jurisdiction, not to help it move, and its aim is to make climate policy work better.

Inside a long, narrow solenoid the field lines run straight and parallel and are evenly spaced, which is the picture of a uniform field.

Jagnik was the bard of Mahoba who is credited with composing the ballad cycle on Alha and Udal, the two warrior brothers who served the Chandela ruler Parmal and fought Prithviraj Chauhan.

The Iqbal Samman is one of the national awards run by the culture department of Madhya Pradesh, and it honours creative and critical writing in Urdu.

Born at Tigaria in the Narmadapuram country, he wrote Satpura ke Ghane Jungle, a poem whose slow repeated lines imitate the drowsy depth of the Satpura forest, and it is among the best known descriptive poems in modern Hindi.

Born at Babai in the present Narmadapuram district, he was a poet of the freedom movement as well as an editor, and he is widely remembered for Pushp ki Abhilasha, in which a flower asks not to be offered to a deity but to be strewn on the path along…

Isuri composed in Bundeli in the four line form called chaukadiya, sung above all in the fag songs of the Holi season, and his verses on love and separation are still sung across Bundelkhand.

Keshavdas lived at the Bundela court of Orchha on the Betwa, and he is treated as the acharya who opened the riti era of Hindi poetry, in which the rules of poetics mattered as much as the feeling.

Grierson grouped Awadhi, Bagheli and Chhattisgarhi together as Eastern Hindi, because all three descend from the same Ardhamagadhi line and share features that set them apart from the dialects further west.

Gondi is the language of the Gond people, the largest tribal community of central India, spread over the Satpura and Mahakoshal belt of Madhya Pradesh and into the neighbouring states.

Rewa was the capital of the Baghel Rajput house that gave the region its name, and the dialect shades into Awadhi towards Uttar Pradesh and into Chhattisgarhi towards the south east, which is exactly why Grierson classified it as Eastern Hindi.

Nimadi takes its name from Nimar, the country lying south of the Vindhyas in the Narmada valley, and it is spoken in Khargone, Khandwa, Barwani and Burhanpur.

The Chor Gumbad is a square domed tomb on a rise above the town, raised in the time of Firoz Shah Tughlaq by an Afghan noble named Jamal Khan, and its height made it a landmark for travellers.

He also cut canals from the Yamuna and the Sutlej to water the tract, and he founded Fatehabad and Firozpur in the same region, which is why his name runs through the medieval history of Haryana.

Dhosi Hill is an isolated hill of volcanic origin on the border of Haryana and Rajasthan in Mahendragarh district, and tradition places the ashram of the sage Chyavan on it, from whom the tonic chyavanprash takes its name.

Haryana Tourism names its roadside complexes after birds, and Blue Jay is the one at Samalkha. The practice gives examiners a ready supply of matching questions, so the complexes must be learnt with their places rather than by the look of the name.

The tomb of Sheikh Chilli, the Sufi teacher associated with the Mughal prince Dara Shikoh, stands on a high terrace at Thanesar, with a dome of white marble and a madrasa court beside it.