UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Citizens have been asked to celebrate a clean and green Diwali in line with this mission, whose approach is to change everyday habits rather than wait for large interventions, and the pledge items follow from it directly: no firecrackers, earthen diyas and energy-efficient lights, no single-use plastic, waste segregated at…

The campaign is nationwide, but the cities covered under the National Clean Air Programme, numbering 130, have been singled out for special attention, because that is where the burden on air quality is heaviest and where a cracker-free festival makes the greatest difference.

The campaign was launched by this centre of WWF-India, working with the support of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and it runs from 20 October to 8 November 2026.

Opened in 2025, it gave air access to more than ten districts of Bihar, cut the journey to Kolkata to about two hours and to Patna to roughly one, and it carries the state's longest runway at close to 2.8 km, long enough for A320 and B737 aircraft.

The correct answer is Rs 28,840 crore, the total provision for the next phase of the scheme launched on 4 July 2026 and running from FY 2026-27 to FY 2035-36.

That is the number of regional routes put into service across the country in the ten years since the scheme began, and it sits alongside the other headline totals of the decade: more than 3.68 lakh flights and 1.72 crore passengers.

The Regional Connectivity Scheme, named UDAN for Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik, was launched on that day, and its promise of affordable yet commercially viable regional flying came out of the National Civil Aviation Policy adopted the same year.

South India has an equable, maritime climate, not an extreme one, because it lies close to the equator and is surrounded by the sea on three sides.

Gandhi's first major public appearance in India was his speech at the opening of the Banaras Hindu University in February 1916.

Geyserite is a chemically formed sedimentary rock: it is silica that comes out of solution from hot spring and geyser water and is deposited around the vent.

Cetane is the common name of n-hexadecane, C16H34, a straight-chain alkane with sixteen carbon atoms. Cetane ignites very readily when compressed, which is exactly what a diesel engine needs, because diesel fuel is not lit by a spark but catches fire from the heat of compressed air.

A kunta is a spear or lance, a thrusting weapon, while the other three are Sanskrit names for the bow.

In Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's Bengali novel Anandamath (1882), the monk-rebels are shown three images of the Mother Goddess standing for the motherland: as she was, as she is and as she will be.

Nereis, the sandworm, moves with parapodia, paired fleshy flaps on the sides of its body segments, not with pseudopodia. Nereis is a marine annelid.

Census 2011 put their densities at about 17, 52, 86 and 123 persons per square kilometre, in that order. Arunachal Pradesh, with steep, forested mountains and a small population spread over a large area, has the lowest population density of any Indian state at 17 persons per sq km.

Physiological density divides the total population by the area of arable or net cultivated land, showing how many people each unit of farmland must support.

The International Labour Organisation put it forward in the 1970s, asking that every person first have the essentials of a decent life.

Khema was a Buddhist nun, not a Jain teacher; the other three are well-known Jain acharyas. Khema was a queen of King Bimbisara of Magadha who became a disciple of the Buddha and joined the order of nuns.

The pull of the Sun and Moon raises the tides, the regular rise and fall of the sea, but it is not counted among the forces that drive ocean currents.

Global dimming is the drop in sunlight reaching the ground, and the cooling that follows, caused by particles in the air.