UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The government has adopted a cluster-based approach for integrated development of the fisheries value chain, and this many production and processing clusters have been notified across the country, among them organic fisheries clusters in Sikkim and Meghalaya.

Sikkim has taken what the ministry called a pioneering step on market linkages by agreeing with the ITBP on institutional purchase of locally produced Rainbow Trout.

The projects inaugurated under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana include critical fisheries infrastructure such as hatcheries, feed mills and cold storage facilities, along with production technologies like Biofloc and the Recirculatory Aquaculture System, and are meant to strengthen links across the fisheries value chain.

The cluster rests on ecologically healthy fish farming that avoids harmful chemicals, antibiotics and pesticides, with special emphasis on Amur carp, Indian Major Carps and trout.

The minister said forecasts are now disseminated at the panchayat level across all panchayats in the five districts, and that the weather forecast and agromet advisory services have reached this many people, giving farmers and residents wider access to weather information.

Nine stations were added to the three that existed at Udhampur, Kathua and Ramban, taking the total to twelve; of the new ones, four are in Kishtwar, two each in Doda and Ramban, and one in Kathua.

The correct answer is the National Centre for Seismology, whose Earthquake Monitoring Centre in New Delhi works round the clock and will receive the Kishtwar readings as they are recorded.

The observatory was set up through the Ministry of Earth Sciences, carries digital seismic equipment and transmits readings in real time to the round-the-clock Earthquake Monitoring Centre of the National Centre for Seismology in New Delhi.

The Ministry of Home Affairs said that thirty-five online services are offered through the e-FRRO platform, covering registration, visa extension, visa conversion and other eligible immigration-related services, so that foreigners can complete routine formalities without going to an office.

It brought four earlier laws relating to immigration and foreigners into a single statutory framework covering the entry, stay, movement and exit of foreign nationals.

Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram, was previously served by the FRRO at Kolkata, and Amravati in Andhra Pradesh was served by the FRRO at Hyderabad; both received offices of their own this year.

The Ministry of Home Affairs stated that the total number of Foreigners Regional Registration Offices in the country has now gone up to twenty.

The article written by Union Minister Pralhad Joshi with Mike Bloomberg, which the Prime Minister shared, records the growth of renewable energy as a whole, the expansion of rooftop solar and the money going into storage and into transmission.

In the article shared by the Prime Minister, the growth of solar power in India is credited to initiatives such as these two, which carry the household and the farm side of solar generation respectively.

The article by Union Minister Pralhad Joshi, which the Prime Minister shared, looks at what lies ahead for solar power in the country as India works towards a renewable energy target of 500 GW, with solar powered farming, energy storage, manufacturing and green jobs named among the areas of growth.

It is the body through which the Indian Air Force Educational and Cultural Society delivers ScrollControl to the schools, and it also arranges the training and certification of teachers, their entry on the National Security Database and help for victims at any hour through cyber lawyers, cyber psychologists and forensic…

CBSE has told the schools affiliated to it to take up cyber safety practices by keeping Cyber Jagrookta Diwas once every month, and the ScrollControl rollout lets Air Force Schools meet that direction with teachers trained in house.

The teachers who finished the certification course under ScrollControl carry that designation, and it allows them to work as first responders when a cyber incident touches a pupil.

The Indian Air Force Educational and Cultural Society, working under Air Headquarters, placed 42 Air Force Schools on ScrollControl, a child digital safety programme run through the Information Sharing and Analysis Center Foundation.

The campaign had two clear stages, and this was the implementation stage, during which offices actually identified and disposed of pending references and closed electronic files.