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UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Static general knowledge is six of the seven lines of the General Studies Paper-I syllabus in the UPSC CSE notice: History of India and the Indian National Movement; Indian and World Geography; Indian Polity and Governance; Economic and Social Development; Environmental Ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change; and General Science. The Commission tests understanding rather than recall, through statements to be judged correct or incorrect, pairs to be matched and assertion-reason items, and it likes the edges of a topic: a lesser-known provision of the Constitution, a river's tributary, a species' conservation status, the mandate of a statutory body. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for UPSC, written as short facts and tables, in English and Hindi, with each note linked to the current affairs and previous-year questions on the same topic. Start with Polity and Modern History, which carry the most questions, then Geography, the Economy, Environment, Ancient and Medieval culture and Science. Read a note, solve its PYQs, take its quiz, and come back to it in your monthly revision. A candidate who knows these notes and reads the daily current affairs has covered the syllabus the notice prescribes for Paper-I.

UPSC Civil Services GK Questions with Answers

Q4845.BiharMedium

Jharkhand was created under which Act of Parliament?

  1. A.Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000
  2. B.Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000
  3. C.States Reorganisation Act, 1956
  4. D.Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000
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Correct answer: B. Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000

Parliament passed this law under Article 3 of the Constitution, which lets it form a new state by separating territory from an existing one, and Jharkhand came into being on 15 November 2000.

Q4847.BiharEasy

Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar on which date?

  1. A.1 November 2000
  2. B.9 November 2000
  3. C.15 November 2000
  4. D.22 March 2000
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Correct answer: C. 15 November 2000

Jharkhand came into being on that day under the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000, with Ranchi as its capital, Babulal Marandi as first Chief Minister and eighteen districts taken from Bihar.

Q4848.BiharMedium

Orissa was separated from the Province of Bihar and Orissa in which year, and under which law?

  1. A.1919, under the Government of India Act, 1919
  2. B.1936, under the Government of India Act, 1935
  3. C.1947, under the Indian Independence Act
  4. D.1956, under the States Reorganisation Act
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Correct answer: B. 1936, under the Government of India Act, 1935

The Act of 1935 reorganised several provinces, and on 1 April 1936 Orissa was constituted as a separate province, leaving Bihar on its own.

Q4849.BiharMedium

Who is regarded as the architect of the movement for a separate Bihar province?

  1. A.Rajendra Prasad
  2. B.Anugrah Narayan Sinha
  3. C.Sachchidananda Sinha
  4. D.Mazharul Haque
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Correct answer: C. Sachchidananda Sinha

He argued the case for separation in print, most notably in his 1906 pamphlet on the partition of Bengal and the separation of Bihar, used the press and the Bihari Students Conference to build opinion, and pressed the demand before the colonial government.

Q4853.Indian PolityHard

The Delimitation Commission for Jammu and Kashmir, whose final order of 2022 fixed ninety assembly seats, was headed by:

  1. A.Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai
  2. B.Justice Kurian Joseph
  3. C.Justice R. C. Lahoti
  4. D.Justice Deepak Verma
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Correct answer: A. Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai

A retired judge of the Supreme Court, she chaired the Delimitation Commission set up in March 2020 for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, which gave its final order in May 2022.

Q4854.Indian PolityHard

Which provisions of the Constitution of India applied to the State of Jammu and Kashmir directly, without the concurrence of the State government, while Article 370 was in force?

  1. A.Articles 1 and 370
  2. B.Articles 1 and 3
  3. C.Articles 370 and 371
  4. D.Articles 1, 3 and 370
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Correct answer: A. Articles 1 and 370

Article 370(1)(c) said that Article 1, which declares India a Union of States and lists its territory in the First Schedule, and Article 370 itself applied to the State; everything else could reach it only through a presidential order made with the concurrence of the State government.

Q4855.Indian PolityMedium

Under Article 370(3), the President could declare that the article shall cease to be operative only on the recommendation of:

  1. A.Both Houses of Parliament
  2. B.The Governor of the State
  3. C.The Constituent Assembly of the State
  4. D.The Supreme Court of India
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Correct answer: C. The Constituent Assembly of the State

The proviso to Article 370(3) said that the President could issue a public notification ending the article only on the recommendation of the Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir.

Q4857.Indian PolityEasy

Of the two Union Territories created by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, which one was given no legislative assembly?

  1. A.Jammu and Kashmir
  2. B.Ladakh
  3. C.Both of them
  4. D.Neither of them
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Correct answer: B. Ladakh

The Act created the Union Territory of Ladakh without a legislature, administered by a Lieutenant Governor, and carved it out with the two districts of Leh and Kargil; its first Lieutenant Governor was Radha Krishna Mathur.

Q4858.Indian PolityEasy

The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 came into effect on its appointed day, which was:

  1. A.5 August 2019
  2. B.9 August 2019
  3. C.31 October 2019
  4. D.26 January 2020
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Correct answer: C. 31 October 2019

The Act named an appointed day on which the State of Jammu and Kashmir would cease to exist and the two Union Territories would come into being, and the Union notified that day as 31 October 2019, the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, which is observed as National Unity…

Q4860.Indian PolityEasy

The Instrument of Accession of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was signed by Maharaja Hari Singh on:

  1. A.15 August 1947
  2. B.26 October 1947
  3. C.27 October 1948
  4. D.26 January 1950
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Correct answer: B. 26 October 1947

Tribal raiders backed by Pakistan entered the Kashmir valley in the third week of October 1947, and Maharaja Hari Singh of the Dogra dynasty signed the Instrument of Accession on 26 October 1947; Governor-General Lord Mountbatten accepted it the next day, after which Indian troops were airlifted to Srinagar.