UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Chaired by Y. V. Reddy, it brought the 2011 Census into the devolution formula for the first time, through a criterion called demographic change.

In Koppen's scheme for India, most of the Ganga plain falls in the Cwg type: a monsoon climate with a dry winter.

Heat from the Earth's interior sets up slow convection currents in the mantle, and these drag the rigid plates resting on it.

Public goods are non-rival and non-excludable, but externalities cause market failure, so the market does not supply the optimal amount.

The correct answer is the Bloomberg Economy Forum 2026, on the sidelines of which the Union Minister spoke in an exclusive conversation about the peaceful character of India's nuclear programme and the power needs of an economy turning towards artificial intelligence.

The correct answer is Dr. Homi Bhabha, whom Dr. Jitendra Singh recalled as the architect of India's nuclear programme, saying that his vision continues to guide a journey built around peaceful application and national development.

The correct answer is 2070, the year Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh named for India's Net Zero emissions commitment while explaining why nuclear power matters to the country's energy plans.

Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh said the country's atomic ambitions have to be read against its longer development goals and its clean energy commitments, and named this figure as the nuclear power capacity India is targeting by 2047.

Underlining that connectivity underpins shared prosperity, the Raksha Mantri said India supports initiatives that link markets, make trade easier and open fresh avenues for development, and he named these two as able to contribute significantly to connecting Central Asia with wider markets.

The Raksha Mantri welcomed the decisions taken at the SCO Summit at Bishkek to set up two permanent bodies of the organisation, and the Anti-Drug Centre is the one to be based at Dushanbe.

Speaking at the meeting, the Raksha Mantri reaffirmed India's support for adopting an Action Plan for the Multilateral Trade and Economic Cooperation Programme for exactly that span, and the plan went on to form part of the Joint Communique that the heads of delegation adopted.

The correct answer is Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, where the 25th Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation was held, with the Raksha Mantri speaking for India.

He was Viceroy from 1926 to 1931, which covers the Dandi March of 1930.

He patented the flying shuttle in England in 1733. The flying shuttle let a single weaver send the thread across the loom by pulling a cord, so wider cloth could be woven much faster.

The Equator and the Prime Meridian both lie on circles whose centre is the centre of the Earth.

Gandhiji first used and shaped Satyagraha there while fighting racial laws against Indians. Gandhiji went to South Africa in 1893 as a lawyer and stayed about 21 years.

Indian farming is dominated by food crops, not cash crops. Most of India’s cropped area is under food grains such as rice, wheat, millets and pulses, grown largely to feed the farm family and the country.

Tomb of Sand is the English translation of her Hindi novel Ret Samadhi. Ret Samadhi was translated into English by the American translator Daisy Rockwell.

Bretton Woods set up fixed, not floating, exchange rates. At the Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire, USA, in July 1944, 44 Allied nations agreed on a new post-war money order.

The nationwide drive opened on 20 October 2026 and continues to 8 November 2026, a window chosen so that it covers the days before the festival, when firecrackers are bought, as well as the days after it, when air quality usually stays poor.