UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, which organised the meeting on its own campus under the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

The project conforms to the norms of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and to the standards of the Indian Green Building Council, and on completion it is to be rated IGBC Gold.

The correct answer is Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Western Naval Command, who opened the residential accommodation for defence civilians, the Station Health Organisation, and the trunk utility and access works.

The Station Health Organisation complex inaugurated under Phase IIA augments the existing naval hospital INHS Patanjali to that capacity, so that the growing population of the base can be treated on site.

Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Western Naval Command, inaugurated residential, medical and utility works there under Phase IIA.

Describing how space technology serves development on earth, the Minister said India provides space-based information and support for disaster management to neighbouring countries, naming these three.

The discussion examined how a country can convert sovereign space capability into commercially competitive industry, attract private capital and build stronger supply chains while protecting national interests.

The Minister said the space sector was thrown open to private participation in 2019-2020 and that the five to six years since have already produced significant results, which is why the focus has shifted to building globally competitive commercial companies.

Dr Jitendra Singh told the roundtable that the Indian space economy, valued at roughly USD 9 billion at present, is expected to climb to USD 40-45 billion over the next seven to eight years as private capital, assured demand and quicker regulatory clearances take hold.

The Umaria coalfield lies in the Umaria district of Madhya Pradesh, not in Jharkhand. Most of India's coal is Gondwana coal, found in the valleys of the Damodar, Son, Mahanadi, Godavari and Wardha rivers.

Kudremukh in Karnataka is known for iron ore, not bauxite, so this pair is wrong. The Kudremukh hills in the Western Ghats of Chikkamagaluru district hold large deposits of magnetite iron ore.

The islands get most of their rain from the south-west monsoon, from about May to September, with more from the north-east monsoon later; March and April are among the driest months.

The Scottish historian and philosopher James Mill published 'The History of British India' in three volumes in 1817. Mill wrote the work without ever visiting India or knowing an Indian language, and he judged Indian society as backward and in need of reform by British law and government.

The words come from the Quit India Resolution passed by the All India Congress Committee in Bombay on 8 August 1942.

Fronts bring abrupt, not slow, changes in weather, so statement 1 is wrong while 2 and 3 are right. A front is the boundary zone where two air masses of different temperature and density meet, mostly in the middle latitudes.

In India's land-use classification, land left uncultivated for more than five years is recorded as culturable waste land. India's land records divide area into nine categories.

Pressing for enforcement that leans on technology, Shri Bhupender Yadav said that joining the readings of Online Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems to data on how a plant is actually being operated is essential if malpractices are to be identified, and that artificial intelligence can play an important part in achieving…

Shri Bhupender Yadav presented a set of specific problem statements covering nine key areas of air pollution management and discussed with the innovators how their technologies could be adapted, scaled and deployed on the ground against each of them.

The interaction of 17 October 2026 between the Union Environment Minister and start-ups was one of a series of stakeholder engagements carried out under that campaign theme, which places a share of the responsibility for clean air on every citizen.

The correct answer is Shri Bhupender Yadav, the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, who met start-ups and innovation companies working on air pollution mitigation and himself put a set of problem statements covering nine key areas before them.