UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The school level work under Special Campaign 6 is carried out under their aegis. Schools across the country have taken up cleaning drives on their campuses so that classrooms and grounds stay hygienic, and have run e-waste awareness and collection drives aimed at both pupils and teachers.

The Department of School Education and Literacy has fixed that day for a drive in schools across the country to raise awareness about electronic waste and to collect it, as part of Special Campaign 6.

BHARAT TULIP is the brand the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has built to widen the market for goods made by target-group artisans, taking them to digital platforms in India and abroad.

The Mysuru fair carries 83 stalls, of which 80 have gone to artisans, and 37 of those artisans are women.

The nine-day Shilp Samagam Mela 2026 is laid out at the Mysuru Dasara Exhibition Grounds, and the Union Secretary of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Sudhansh Pant, went round its stalls during a two-day official visit to the city.

The Roaring Forties are strong westerly winds of the Southern Hemisphere, but statement 2 is wrong on two counts: they blow from west to east, and they are strong because there is very little land to slow them down.

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, adopted in January 2000, is named after Cartagena in Colombia, where the negotiations were held in 1999.

Gandhi set up the All India Harijan Sevak Sangh in 1932 to fight untouchability, and he argued that untouchability had no sanction in the Hindu shastras.

Under the Mughal mansabdari system, every officer held a numerical rank called zat, which fixed his position in the hierarchy and his personal salary.

Almost all water vapour and dust of the atmosphere lie in the troposphere, so clouds, rain, storms and other weather events happen there.

A playa is the flat, shallow lake bed at the bottom of a desert basin, so it belongs to the landforms of arid regions.

E. V. Ramasamy, known as Periyar, started the Self-Respect Movement in Tamil Nadu in 1925. Periyar left the Congress in 1925, unhappy with its attitude to caste, and began the movement to give non-Brahmins and the depressed castes a sense of dignity.

The Scottish painter Joseph Noel Paton painted "In Memoriam" in 1858 in response to the revolt of 1857. The painting shows British women and children huddled together, clutching the Bible and waiting helplessly for an attack, an image meant to recall the killings at Kanpur (Cawnpore).

Deendayal Port is the new name of Kandla Port, which lies on the Gulf of Kachchh in the Kachchh district of Gujarat.

The Indian Factories Act of 1881, passed under Viceroy Lord Ripon, was mainly about child labour and capped the working day of children aged 7 to 12 at nine hours.

Kanaklata Barua was shot dead by the police on 20 September 1942 while leading a procession to hoist the tricolour at the Gohpur police station in Assam.

The geographical grid is the network of parallels of latitude, running east to west, and meridians of longitude, running from the North Pole to the South Pole.

The Benguela current flows along the west coast of southern Africa, off Namibia and South Africa, not North Africa, so this statement is the incorrect one.

Swami Sahajanand Saraswati was elected president of the All India Kisan Sabha when it was founded at Lucknow in April 1936.

DigiPost is a phygital mail service of the Department of Posts under which traffic e-challans issued by the Gujarat Police are transmitted digitally and then delivered in physical form to the citizen concerned.