UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Letters of Intent for two Industrial Training Institute clusters were signed at the Guwahati programme, the Jorhat cluster supported by Numaligarh Refinery Limited and the Tinsukia cluster by Oil India Limited, both under the PM-SETU scheme.

The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship used this expansion while describing the Guwahati programme, where a dedicated session was held on how the scheme can strengthen the skilling ecosystem of the North-Eastern Region through an industry-led remaking of Industrial Training Institutes.

Every service provider must establish this committee to oversee and periodically review how its grievance machinery works.

The amendment replaces the earlier arrangement of sixteen hours with support at every hour of every day, and allows a service provider to man the centre through human representatives, automated systems, artificial intelligence agents or other customer-centric technology, or a mix of these.

The Telecom Consumers Complaint Redressal (Fourth Amendment) Regulations, 2026, cut the time for filing an appeal after a complaint is closed, the regulator reasoning that a consumer normally prefers to appeal at once while a longer window only adds to compliance work.

At the climate summit of 2021 India pledged to reach 500 GW of non-fossil power capacity by 2030, and the Prime Minister said about 300 GW of that has already been built, placing India among the top three countries in solar power.

The Prime Minister said it was a happy coincidence that this assembly was taking place inside the summit, and that delegates of the fourth conference on green hydrogen were also in the hall, which widened the scope of the year's event.

The Prime Minister inaugurated the Bharat Renewable Energy Summit and Expo in Delhi, where Union Ministers Pralhad Joshi and Shripad Naik joined him along with industry leaders, investors and startup founders from India and other countries.

The correct answer is Rs 1,352.26 crore, which represented a growth of 76.3% over the corresponding period of the previous year.

Enhanced coordination with the Railways and focused monitoring of rake placement and loading drove the improvement, and rake loading to the power sector alone grew by 40.8%.

The correct answer is 5.93 MT against 3.60 MT, a growth of 64.87% and the highest among the major subsidiaries of Coal India, with the company also reaching 108.60% of its monthly production target.

Western Coalfields Limited is a subsidiary of Coal India under the Ministry of Coal, and it was the only subsidiary to exceed its targets on coal production, offtake and overburden removal during April to October 2026, achieving 102.47%, 108.82% and 104.56% of those targets respectively.

The four Hydrogen Valley Innovation Clusters awarded under the Mission are Jodhpur, Odisha, Pune and Kerala. These clusters bring production, consumption and infrastructure together in one area, which improves project viability and allows economies of scale, since hydrogen is difficult to transport.

Green hydrogen and green ammonia plants commissioned by the end of December 2030 are exempt from inter-state transmission system charges for a quarter of a century, which lowers the cost of moving renewable power across state boundaries to such plants.

The standard was notified by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in August 2023, is measured on a well-to-gate basis and is assessed as a twelve-month average, and it made India one of the first few countries to define green hydrogen formally.

The Union Cabinet approved the Mission in January 2023 with this outlay, and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is implementing it with the aim of making India a global hub for green hydrogen and its derivatives.

The announcement describes it as India's proposed next-generation timing and spectroscopy mission, which together with other future observatories will bring improved sensitivity and monitoring capability for studying ultraluminous X-ray sources.

The paper was authored by Tarang Vashisht, a student at IISER Mohali, together with Aru Beri of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and researchers from IUCAA and the Raman Research Institute.

It is often used as a benchmark for how bright an accreting object can be, since beyond it the outward push of radiation would overwhelm the inward pull of gravity.

Archival and recent observations of the source were drawn from the Chandra, XMM-Newton and Swift space-based X-ray telescopes covering the years 2000 to 2024, which makes it one of the longest X-ray studies of this object carried out so far.