UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The park, which comes under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, observed its sixty-seventh Foundation Day with a doodle activity for visitors that about one thousand five hundred people joined or admired, aimed in particular at children and families.

The President said that Swami Shraddhanand made tireless efforts to revive the ancient Aryan system of education that Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati had championed, and that by reviving and strengthening the Gurukul system he breathed new life into the stream of Indian education and culture.

The President described his life as a journey from Munshiram to Mahatma Munshiram and finally to Swami Shraddhanand, and called that progression deeply inspiring.

The President attended the observance of the hundredth year of his martyrdom at Gurukul in Kurukshetra, Haryana, and paid tribute to him.

Speaking at the ceremony, the Union Home Minister recalled that on this very day in 1966 the city of Chandigarh was established, the state of Haryana was formed and the Chandigarh Police came into being, and he added that the force received the President's Colour on the same date this…

Gulab Chand Kataria, who is the Governor of Punjab, was described as the Administrator of Chandigarh and was present when the projects were inaugurated and their foundation stones laid.

The Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation inaugurated some projects of the Chandigarh Administration and laid the foundation stones of others, and the combined value of the works was given as two hundred and fifty eight crore rupees.

That was the post he held just before moving to the Eastern Air Command as its Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief.

He joined the flying branch of the Indian Air Force as a fighter pilot on the fourteenth of June that year, which means a career of more than three and a half decades before taking over a command.

He took over the Eastern Air Command of the Indian Air Force as its Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, moving from the appointment of Senior Air Staff Officer at the headquarters of South Western Air Command.

While speaking at the flag-off, the Union Minister said that spending on railway infrastructure had produced both expansion and better safety, and that the number of accidents had dropped from one hundred and thirty-five to sixteen after the Kavach train protection system was introduced, with the stated institutional goal of…

The Bengaluru-Mumbai train belongs to the same family and was described as a further expansion of overnight travel on modern trains.

The Union Railway Minister flagged off the service between SMVT Bengaluru and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in Mumbai, joining the country's hub of information technology and startups with its financial and commercial capital.

While setting out the fourth pillar of his vision, the Chief of the Air Staff said that stronger jointness with the Army, the Navy and national agencies would be pursued in keeping with the national vision of JAI, whose three words are Jointness, Aatmanirbharta and Innovation.

The guiding theme has four pillars, one for each letter. V is for Vigilance, Victory and Readiness, which asks every formation to hold the highest state of operational preparedness and seeks to restore combat strength to sanctioned levels.

He took over as the 29th Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force on 1 November 2026, marking the start of his tenure with a wreath-laying at the National War Memorial and a ceremonial Guard of Honour at Air Force Station New Delhi.

The correct answer is 4 November 2026, a Wednesday, when the two-day conference concludes with the valedictory session.

The correct answer is K. C. Venugopal, Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, who will deliver the welcome address at the inaugural session.

The wording matters because each of the other options touches the same subject without being the announced theme, and a theme question is marked on the exact phrase.

The correct answer is Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Keralam, where the Lok Sabha Speaker will inaugurate the conference on Tuesday, 3 November 2026.