UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The judgment was delivered on 24 April 1973 by a bench of thirteen judges, the largest ever assembled in the Supreme Court, and the majority of seven to six held that Parliament may amend any provision of the Constitution but cannot damage or destroy its basic structure.

A microlith is a very small blade, usually one to five centimetres long, that was fixed into a handle of wood or bone to make a composite tool such as an arrow, a harpoon or a sickle, and it is the defining tool of the Middle Stone Age at sites…

This Jorwe culture site on the Pravara river in Maharashtra yielded a hoard of solid cast bronze figures, among them a chariot drawn by two oxen with a driver, and figures of a buffalo, an elephant and a rhinoceros, the finest metal work of Chalcolithic India.

This site in the Kashmir valley is the type site of the northern Neolithic, where people dug pits into the ground, roofed them and lived inside, made tools of bone and antler, and buried dogs with their human dead, a custom found nowhere else in the Indian Neolithic.

Bagor lies on the Kothari river in the Bhilwara region of Rajasthan and is the largest Mesolithic settlement known in India, with thousands of microliths, stone floors, human burials and bones of sheep, goat and cattle that give the earliest Indian evidence of animal keeping.

A geologist with the Geological Survey of India, he picked up a stone hand axe at Pallavaram near Madras in 1863, the first recorded Palaeolithic tool from the subcontinent, and his later surveys in the south earned him the name of the father of Indian prehistory.

The correct answer is D, because Jorwe is a Chalcolithic site in Maharashtra that gives its name to the Jorwe culture, not to the Malwa culture, which is named after its own region in Madhya Pradesh and is represented by Navdatoli, Eran and Nagda.

The north-western hill belt of the Sulaiman and Kirthar ranges holds Mehrgarh in the Bolan valley, the earliest village of the subcontinent, where wheat and barley were grown and cattle, sheep and goat were kept about eight thousand years ago.

At this Chalcolithic settlement on the Ghod river in Maharashtra the dead were buried within the habitation area, laid out straight with the head pointing north, and pots with food and water were placed beside them.

The rock shelters of Bhimbetka in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh were occupied from the Lower Palaeolithic onwards, and their lower layers have yielded hand axes and cleavers along with the earliest of their paintings.

The Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age is the first and by far the longest phase of prehistory, the time of hunting and food gathering, of hand axes, cleavers, flakes and burins, and of people who had neither agriculture nor pottery.

NITI Aayog is a policy think tank that designs strategies and long-term policy and programme frameworks; it neither imposes policies on states nor allocates funds.

Sugarcane needs plenty of water through a long growing season, so it is grown under irrigation or in high-rainfall areas, not as a dryland crop.

Dolomite is a carbonate of calcium and magnesium, a base that neutralises soil acidity and so raises the pH. Dolomite, CaMg(CO₃)₂, is a common liming material.

Article 15(2) says no citizen can be denied access to, or the use of, wells, tanks, bathing ghats, roads and places of public resort maintained wholly or partly out of State funds, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth.

The best-known Chandimangala, Chandimangal or Abhayamangal, was composed in Bengali by Mukundarama Chakravarti, honoured as Kavikankan, in the late 16th century.

Formed in April 1918 by B. P. Wadia among the textile workers of Madras, it is regarded as India's first trade union in the modern, organised sense.

All three features, richness in lime, iron, magnesia and alumina, a deep clayey and impermeable texture, and a spread over Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, describe the black or regur soil.

The Census defines a literate as a person aged seven or above who can both read and write with understanding in any language, so someone who can only read does not qualify.

A zeugen is a tabular ridge carved by wind abrasion in deserts, while a cirque is glacial and a stack is made by sea waves.