UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The terminal triples the number of flights the airport can handle and raises yearly passenger handling from 10 lakh to 35 lakh.

The set includes the new airport terminal at Leh, the Nimmu-Padum-Darcha road, the Hanu hydroelectric project with its transmission network, reservoirs raised under Project Amrit Him Sarovar and the country's first Petroglyph Conservation Park.

The Rs 2,563 crore contract with New Space India Limited, Bengaluru, gives the Air Force a communication satellite of its own, designed, developed and manufactured in India, so that its aircraft and ground assets keep a protected, continuous link.

The torpedo carries advanced manoeuvring features and can engage enemy submarines at long ranges.

Varunastra is launched from a warship and is meant to destroy submarines, and it was developed in India by the Naval Science and Technological Laboratory.

The Bengaluru-based company signed a contract worth Rs 2,563 crore with the Ministry of Defence on 15 October 2026 for GSAT-7C, a dedicated communication satellite for the Indian Air Force.

Narayan Malhar Joshi was the main organiser behind the founding of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) in Bombay in October 1920.

All three statements are correct descriptions of fog and its two main types. Fog forms when air near the ground cools to its dew point and its water vapour condenses on tiny dust and smoke particles, so it is in effect a cloud at or near ground level.

All three statements correctly describe how particles move in the two kinds of mechanical waves. In a longitudinal wave, such as sound in air, the particles vibrate back and forth along the direction in which the wave travels.

Both statements repeat paragraph 3 of the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution, which deals with the administration of Scheduled Areas.

In paper making the raw plant material is cooked with caustic soda, which dissolves the gums, resins and lignin that bind the cellulose fibres together.

Aluminium has three valence electrons, one fewer than silicon, so each aluminium atom leaves a hole that acts as a positive charge carrier.

Since the 44th Amendment, the President cannot suspend the right to move a court for enforcing Articles 20 and 21, even during a national emergency.

Khuntkatti was the traditional land system of the Munda tribe of the Chota Nagpur plateau, in present-day Jharkhand. Under khuntkatti, land belonged jointly to the lineage (khunt) of the families who first cleared the forest and settled the village.

In 1940 Subhas Chandra Bose joined hands with the Muslim League in Bengal and led the campaign to remove the Holwell Monument from Calcutta.

India's territorial waters, where it has full sovereignty, extend 12 nautical miles (about 22.2 km) from the baseline of its coast.

The resolution that created NITI Aayog names the Prime Minister as Chairperson, a Governing Council of Chief Ministers and Lieutenant Governors, and a Chief Executive Officer appointed by the Prime Minister.

This is the false statement: glass cools into an amorphous solid without any regular crystal structure. When molten glass cools, its viscosity rises so quickly that the atoms have no time to arrange themselves in an ordered crystal lattice.

For an object launched horizontally, the time of fall depends only on the height, because its starting vertical speed is zero.

The 2023 delimitation in Assam used the 2001 Census figures, but it raised the number of Assembly seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes.