UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

She won the gold medal in the women's 10m air rifle standing SH1 event at the Asian Para Games 2026, and the outstanding score she shot also set a new Asian Para Games record in that event.

As many as 5,753 participants answered every question correctly and scored 15 out of 15, which left far more candidates than the ten prizes available, so the winners were decided by lots as permitted by the terms and conditions of the quiz.

The quiz sought to engage participants in learning about human rights, about that Act and about the functions, powers and duties of the National Human Rights Commission in promoting and protecting human rights across the country.

That is the number of entries actually submitted, and they came from every State and Union Territory of the country.

It ran the online quiz with MyGov from 1 September to 10 October 2026 in the run-up to its own Foundation Day, and announced the ten winners on 19 October 2026.

A student selected under the academy's PhD programme carries out the research at a Ministry of Earth Sciences institute under the supervision of Ministry scientists who have been recognised as AcSIR faculty, but the degree itself is awarded by the academy, and the certificate explicitly names the host institute.

The Memorandum of Understanding itself had been executed earlier, on 21 August 2026, so the ceremony was the formal declaration and exchange of documents rather than the signing.

Under the agreement every one of the Ministry's premier research institutes has been recognised as an AcSIR Associated Research Institute, and all of them are already taking part in the academy's current PhD enrolment cycle.

The choice follows from the subject matter: legal metrology governs weights, measures and the instruments used in trade, so correct quantity declarations and fair transactions are a consumer protection concern.

That seminar is set for 26 October 2026 and will bring experts from different countries together to trade experience and good practice on modernising legal metrology systems.

The OIML was founded in that year as an intergovernmental organisation whose purpose is to bring legal metrology procedures in different countries into line with one another.

India will host the 61st CIML Meeting from 26 to 28 October 2026, the first time the country has been given this meeting, and the Department of Consumer Affairs is organising it with the International Organization of Legal Metrology.

The International Renewable Energy Agency put world installed pumped hydro capacity at 159.8 GW at the end of 2025. China held close to 66 GW of that, far ahead of the rest.

As solar and wind capacity grows, electricity has to be stored when generation runs ahead of demand and returned when it falls short, so the Central Electricity Authority projects a storage requirement of that size by 2031-32.

The Central Electricity Authority credits that lead to the landform of the region and the steep gradients of rivers that rise in the Western Ghats, which give engineers the height difference a pumped storage scheme needs.

Surveys have marked 320 pumped storage sites in India whose capacities add up to that figure, spread over all five regions of the country and at every stage of development, including schemes already running.

Phadke raised an armed band in Maharashtra in 1879 to overthrow British rule. Vasudeo Balwant Phadke was a clerk in the Military Finance Department at Pune.

In fact all the Mughal emperors gave grants for building and maintaining places of worship, so saying that not all of them did is incorrect.

Trade and commerce between States is Entry 42 of the Union List, so it is wrong to place it in the State List.

The Second Administrative Reforms Commission asked for the Official Secrets Act to be repealed, and the Right to Information Act was passed in 2005.