UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The Technology Development Board, which functions under the Department of Science and Technology, signed the agreement with this Karnataka-based company for financial support from the Research Development and Innovation Fund.

While speaking about the strategic value of Karwar, the Vice-President pointed to the ongoing development of modern naval infrastructure under Project Seabird, which is raising the Navy's capacity to base and maintain its ships and submarines and is also generating wider economic opportunities in the region.

The commissioning ceremony was held at Karwar, and the Vice-President used the occasion to explain why the location matters: Karwar has a deep natural harbour and lies close to the Arabian Sea, which makes it an important element of India's maritime security architecture.

The vessel was commissioned by Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan at Karwar in Karnataka and is described as the Indian Navy's first indigenous Multi-Purpose Vessel, with more than 75 per cent of its content made in India.

Agriculture uses natural resources directly, and services are the tertiary sector. Economic activities are grouped into three main sectors.

Quartz is silicon dioxide (SiO 2 ), so it contains silicon and oxygen. Quartz is one of the most common minerals in the Earth's crust and the main part of sand.

At full employment the measured unemployment rate is not negative; it stays at a small positive level called the natural rate of unemployment.

Craft centres are recognised by raw material and by the leftovers of making things. Archaeologists studying Harappan sites look for raw materials such as stone nodules, whole shells and copper ore, for tools, and for unfinished objects, rejects and waste.

CEDAW grew out of the Commission on the Status of Women and addresses reproductive rights, but it has its own monitoring committee.

The Periyar rises in the Western Ghats of Kerala and flows west into the Arabian Sea. The Periyar is the longest river of Kerala.

Root hairs are thin outgrowths of the root's epidermal cells that greatly increase the area for absorbing water and minerals.

'Indian Unrest' (1910) was written by the British journalist Valentine Chirol, not by Annie Besant. Chirol, a writer for The Times, collected his articles on the rise of Indian nationalism into this book and called Bal Gangadhar Tilak the 'father of Indian unrest'.

The Supreme Court has counted all three among the basic features that Parliament cannot destroy. The basic structure doctrine was laid down in Kesavananda Bharati (1973): Parliament can amend any part of the Constitution under Article 368 but cannot alter its basic structure.

Marco Polo did describe the pearl fishery of the Tuticorin coast, so the statement that he did not is wrong.

Gneiss is a metamorphic rock, formed when existing rocks are changed by great heat and pressure. Igneous rocks form when molten magma or lava cools and hardens.

A shoot growing towards the light is moving in the direction of the stimulus, which makes it a positive tropism.

The Governor acts in discretion only where the Constitution allows it, which includes running an adjoining Union Territory. Article 163 says the Council of Ministers headed by the Chief Minister aids and advises the Governor, except where the Constitution requires the Governor to act in discretion.

He wrote under the pen name 'Lokhitwadi', meaning one who speaks for the welfare of the people. Gopal Hari Deshmukh (1823–1892) was a Maharashtrian social reformer and writer.

All three come from the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. Katapayadi is a way of writing numbers with letters, each consonant standing for a digit, so long astronomical tables could be memorised as verses.

The tomb in Mehrauli, Delhi, built in the late 13th century, has the earliest surviving true arch in India. A true arch is built from wedge-shaped stones (voussoirs) held in place by a keystone at the top, so it spreads weight sideways.