UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Project Loon used high-altitude balloons to beam internet access to remote areas. Project Loon was developed by X, the research lab of Google's parent company Alphabet, and began trials in New Zealand in 2013.

Zika is spread mainly by the Aedes mosquito that also carries dengue, and it can pass between sexual partners. The Zika virus is a flavivirus first identified in Uganda's Zika forest in 1947.

Both are core ILO conventions aimed at ending child labour. Convention 138, the Minimum Age Convention of 1973, requires countries to set a minimum age for admission to employment, generally not below the age of finishing compulsory schooling.

The blue-finned mahseer occurs in the Cauvery and the rusty-spotted cat in the Eastern Ghats, but the Irrawaddy dolphin does not live in the Chambal.

The vaccine protects against several pneumococcal diseases and so cuts antibiotic use, but no vaccine is free of side effects.

Chandraketugarh is famous for terracotta and Ganeshwar for copper objects, but Burzahom has no rock-cut shrines. Burzahom, near Srinagar in Kashmir, is a Neolithic site known for pit dwellings dug into the ground, bone tools and the custom of burying domestic dogs with their masters.

Foreign investors may hold G-Secs and exchanges run debt platforms, but the LAF window is not open to NBFCs. The Liquidity Adjustment Facility is the RBI's tool for managing day-to-day liquidity through repo and reverse repo operations.

Each of these everyday items is made partly or wholly of synthetic polymers, which is what plastic is. A cigarette filter is made of cellulose acetate, a plastic that takes years to break down, which is why butts are among the most common litter found on beaches.

The correct answer is the Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, who hosted the visiting Polish delegation over dinner in New Delhi and spoke with them about how India approaches youth development and participation.

The Balachadi memorial commemorates the shelter, schooling and medical care that Maharaja Jam Saheb Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja provided to Polish children displaced during the Second World War, and the visiting delegation treated it as the high point of the week.

The programme brings a Polish youth delegation to India every year, and the second edition was held from 7 to 14 October 2026 with 19 members visiting Gujarat, Maharashtra and New Delhi.

The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority is an export promotion body, and it is placed under the commerce ministry rather than under the ministry that handles farming itself.

The consignment was drawn from Gobichettipalayam in Erode district and was manufactured and exported by M/s Wellbeing Foods of Erode in collaboration with M/s Chetty Exports Private Limited of Chennai.

The maiden consignment of 1.755 MT of organic Palmyra jaggery powder was sent to Varna in Bulgaria, where M/s Sow Life Ltd is the importer and distributor.

Cargo movement on inland waterways stood at 29 million metric tonnes in 2014-15 and climbed to 218 MMT in 2025-26, which works out to a compound annual growth rate of 20.13 per cent.

Four riverine lighthouses, the first of their kind on an inland waterway in India, are being built at Pandu, Bogibeel, Silghat and Biswanath Ghat under a ₹74 crore project announced in March 2026.

India has declared 111 National Waterways to promote shipping and navigation, and their combined length comes to 20,187 km spread over 23 States and 4 Union Territories.

The sun rises first in the place farthest east, so the order follows longitude: Imphal, Itanagar, Aizawl and then Agartala.

Viticulture, the growing of grapes, is a hallmark of Adelaide, which is surrounded by Australia's best-known wine regions. Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, has a Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters, the conditions grapevines like best.

The Tattvabodhini Patrika promoted a systematic study of India's past in the Bengali language. The journal was started in 1843 by Debendranath Tagore, father of Rabindranath Tagore, as the organ of the Tattvabodhini Sabha, which he had founded in 1839.