UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is Port Blair to Havelock, the coastal stretch covered in the island drive test alongside a city drive in South Andaman district, ten hotspot locations and a walk test.

During an Independent Drive Test the regulator captures coverage gap, which is the share of samples with signal strength below the prescribed minimum for the technology in use, and for voice it records Call Setup Success Rate, Drop Call Rate, call setup time, call silence rate and speech quality on…

The correct answer is RJIL, which averaged 297.95 Mbps on its 5G and 4G networks in parts of Kolkata city and the Howrah and Hooghly districts.

For telecom licensing the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are grouped with West Bengal, and the drive test across South Andaman district and the coastal route from Port Blair to Havelock was conducted under that service area during August 2026, supervised by the regulator regional office at Kolkata.

Professor R. R. Sonde of IIT Delhi-Abu Dhabi, the Guest of Honour, outlined five sovereign commitments covering energy independence, economic development, net-zero emissions and industrial decarbonisation, universal energy access, and a clean environment.

The correct answer is the IIT Madras Research Park in Chennai, where the 9th Workshop on Recent Advancements in Hydrogen Value Chain was held on 13 October 2026.

It organised the workshop at the IIT Madras Research Park in Chennai to commemorate National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day, and about 150 delegates from academia, research institutes and industry attended.

The correct answer is the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, usually written as CSIR, which is organising this year edition of the conclave.

The DST Secretary, Professor Umesh Waghmare, said the department has set up that many Technology Innovation Hubs under the mission, and named TiHAN at IIT Hyderabad, IHFC at IIT Delhi and ARTPARK at IISc Bengaluru as examples.

Professor Abhay Karandikar, Member of NITI Aayog and the Chief Guest at the curtain-raiser, called the theme apt because it speaks of the creative minds that work on scientific innovations and then turn them into technologies that serve society.

The curtain-raiser announced that the second edition of the Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave will be held there, and that this edition is being organised by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

Speaking about the place of traditional medicine in India, the Vice-President recalled the creation of a separate Ministry of AYUSH in that year and the work it has since done to strengthen education, expand healthcare services and promote scientific research.

At the inaugural ceremony the Vice-President inaugurated the AYUSH Start-up Portal, the AIIA-iCAINE website and the Ayurveda Digital Innovation and Venture Acceleration Facility, known by its short name AyuDIVA, and he launched the Vamana App together with the Panchakarma Assessment App.

The theme of the third edition was Shaping the Future of Child Health: Global Perspectives, Research Innovations, and Clinical Frontiers in Kaumarabhritya, and the Vice-President said it reflected a shared duty to let every child grow up healthy and well nurtured.

The correct answer is the Vice-President of India, Shri C. P. Radhakrishnan, who opened the conference in New Delhi and used the address to call for stronger scientific research into Ayurveda so that the efficacy of traditional practices is established and their acceptance abroad grows.

Describing the reforms in defence procurement, the Raksha Mantri said that this share of the modernisation budget has been set aside for buying from Indian industries, and that domestic firms are given priority through the Defence Acquisition Procedure and the Buy Indian-Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured category.

The Raksha Mantri told the conclave that of the ammunition variants in use with the defence forces, that many are now made within the country, which works out to more than 90 per cent self-reliance in ammunition variants.

At the Defence Conclave the Raksha Mantri said defence production had reached a record of more than that figure, measured against Rs 40,000 crore in 2014, and that the sector is aiming at Rs 2 lakh crore this year and Rs 3 lakh crore by 2029.

Speaking at a Defence Conclave in New Delhi, Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh described the security landscape of the digital age as hybrid, high-tech and hyper warfare, and listed a 5D Security Threat made up of disinformation, destabilisation, disruption, deception and destruction.

India is the second-largest emitter of fuel-combustion CO2 in the Asia-Pacific after China, and power and heat generation is its biggest source, but its per capita emissions are well above 0.5 tonne.