UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

KONKAN is the bilateral maritime exercise held between the Indian Navy and the Royal Navy, and the edition named KONKAN-26 concluded off Plymouth in the United Kingdom.

In national income accounting the steps run from private income to personal income to personal disposable income. Private income is the factor income of the private sector plus transfers.

. The American federation is called "an indestructible union of indestructible states", a phrase from the US Supreme Court's judgment in Texas v. White (1869).

The INA drew its soldiers largely from Indian prisoners of war held by Japan, and Bose created the Rani of Jhansi Regiment for women.

Both statements are true, but the direction in which the Earth spins does not explain why tides occur. Tides are caused mainly by the Moon's pull, with the Sun adding a smaller pull; the Moon's tide-raising force is roughly twice the Sun's because it is so much closer.

cVIGIL is the Election Commission of India's app for citizens to report poll-code violations. The name stands for vigilant citizen.

Quo Warranto lies only when the appointment breaks the law; an appointment in tune with a statutory provision gives the court nothing to correct.

For Quo Warranto the office must be a substantive one, so saying it must not be substantive is not a condition at all.

The French doctor François Bernier served as physician to Dara Shikoh, Shah Jahan's eldest son. Bernier reached India in 1658, in the middle of the war of succession among Shah Jahan's sons.

The revolutionary Sachindranath Sanyal wrote Bandi Jivan, an account of his life as a prisoner. Sanyal was closely linked with Rash Behari Bose in the Banaras conspiracy and was sent to the Cellular Jail in the Andamans.

The programme at the CM Rise Government School in Jawad was organised in association with the Brahma Kumaris of Neemuch, and the office of the District Opium Officer at Garoth also worked with the same organisation for the session at the Sanskar Valley Higher Secondary School.

The Bureau is usually associated in the public mind with enforcement against narcotics, so option A looks tempting, but the home ministry is not the parent of this particular organisation.

The sessions promoted prevention of drug use, a healthy way of living and the wider goal of a drug free country.

The correct answer is 975 artisans, who have taken part across the thirteen fairs organised since the Ministry began the series.

The correct answer is the Mysuru Dasara Exhibition Grounds in Karnataka, where the nine day fair began on the eleventh of October and will close on the nineteenth.

The fair at the Mysuru Dasara Exhibition Grounds has eighty three stalls in all, and of these eighty have been allotted to artisans, with thirty seven women among those artisans.

The review covered their deployment for technology based monitoring and for analysing trends in farm fires, in addition to field level surveillance by officials and a close watch over the hotspot areas.

These are the machines that handle paddy straw left in the field after the harvest, and the Commission reviewed both their availability and their actual deployment in the two districts.

He headed the high level team that went to the two districts of Punjab to examine how the measures against paddy stubble burning are being carried out during the harvesting season.

The Authority has stated that the funds given to the State Biodiversity Boards and to the Union Territory Biodiversity Council are to be used only for the activities listed in that provision.