UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The Adhiniyam is the law of evidence and it places electronic and digital records on the same footing as paper documents, so that such a record is admissible as primary evidence and the definition of a document expressly covers e-mails, server logs, computer files, locational evidence and messages stored on…

Section 4 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita lists the punishments to which offenders are liable, and community service appears in that list for the first time in Indian criminal law.

In the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the punishment for murder, which was Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, is now Section 103, and it prescribes death or imprisonment for life, and also a fine.

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam were all brought into force together on 1 July 2024 by notifications of the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 is the substantive criminal law of India and it took the place of the Indian Penal Code drafted on the recommendation of the First Law Commission under Lord Macaulay.

Section 84 of the Indian Penal Code was the general exception for the act of a person of unsound mind: nothing is an offence which is done by a person who, at the time of doing it, by reason of unsoundness of mind is incapable of knowing the nature of…

The government appointed an enquiry committee on the Champaran question with Gandhi as one of its members, and the recommendations of that committee were given effect by the Champaran Agrarian Act of 1918, which abolished the tinkathia obligation and ordered the planters to refund a part of the illegal exactions…

Vallabhbhai Patel, then a successful barrister of Ahmedabad, gave up his practice to work with Gandhi in the villages of Kheda in 1918, and the campaign began the partnership that later produced the Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928, after which he received the title Sardar.

The strike of 1918 arose when the cotton mill owners of Ahmedabad withdrew the plague bonus they had been paying their workers.

Under the tinkathia system a tenant of Champaran had to grow indigo on three kathas out of every twenty kathas of his land for the European planter, and the crop had to be sold at a price the planter fixed.

Raj Kumar Shukla was a cultivator of Champaran who met Gandhi at the Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916 and followed him from place to place until Gandhi agreed to come and see the condition of the indigo tenants for himself.

Gandhi landed at Bombay on 9 January 1915, and the Government of India now observes that date as Pravasi Bharatiya Divas to mark the contribution of the overseas Indian community.

Gandhi read John Ruskin's Unto This Last on a train journey in South Africa in 1904, and the idea that the good of the individual lies in the good of all led him at once to found the Phoenix Settlement near Durban; he later rendered the book into Gujarati under…

Tolstoy Farm was founded in 1910 near Johannesburg on land given by Hermann Kallenbach, a German-born architect and close friend of Gandhi, and it housed the families of satyagrahis who had gone to jail, training them in manual labour and self-discipline.

Gandhi started the weekly Indian Opinion in 1903 in South Africa, and it was printed at the Phoenix Settlement in English and Gujarati, carrying the arguments of the Indian community against discriminatory laws.

The Natal Indian Congress, founded in 1894, was the first political organisation of Indians in South Africa and it was created to oppose a bill that sought to take away the right of Indians to vote in Natal.

Gandhi left for South Africa in 1893 to appear for Dada Abdullah and Company, a Gujarati merchant firm of Durban, in a commercial dispute, and the one year engagement stretched into a stay of twenty-one years.

The L. C. Gupta Committee appointed by SEBI recommended the introduction of exchange traded derivatives, the law was amended to include derivatives in the definition of securities, and trading in index futures began on the Indian stock exchanges in June 2000; index options, stock options and stock futures followed in…

Contango is the normal condition of a commodity market, because anyone holding goods until a future date must pay for storage, insurance and interest on the money locked up, and those carrying costs are added to the spot price to arrive at the futures price.

The Authority was created under the Warehousing (Development and Regulation) Act, 2007 to register warehouses and to regulate negotiable warehouse receipts, which allow a farmer to deposit produce in a registered warehouse, receive a receipt, raise a loan against it from a bank and sell the goods later instead of…