Static general knowledge is six of the seven lines of the General Studies Paper-I syllabus in the UPSC CSE notice: History of India and the Indian National Movement; Indian and World Geography; Indian Polity and Governance; Economic and Social Development; Environmental Ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change; and General Science. The Commission tests understanding rather than recall, through statements to be judged correct or incorrect, pairs to be matched and assertion-reason items, and it likes the edges of a topic: a lesser-known provision of the Constitution, a river's tributary, a species' conservation status, the mandate of a statutory body. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for UPSC, written as short facts and tables, in English and Hindi, with each note linked to the current affairs and previous-year questions on the same topic. Start with Polity and Modern History, which carry the most questions, then Geography, the Economy, Environment, Ancient and Medieval culture and Science. Read a note, solve its PYQs, take its quiz, and come back to it in your monthly revision. A candidate who knows these notes and reads the daily current affairs has covered the syllabus the notice prescribes for Paper-I.
How many Indian languages does BHASHINI support for text, as stated in October 2026?
The platform supports 36 Indian languages for text, and that figure should be kept apart from the other language counts given for it.
Read the full explanation →The Digital India BHASHINI Division functions under which ministry of the Government of India?
The Digital India BHASHINI Division works under the Digital India Corporation, which comes under that ministry, and it is advancing what the government calls a Language-First Digital Public Infrastructure for the country.
Read the full explanation →At the BHASHINI Rajyam Workshop held in October 2026, the Digital India BHASHINI Division signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the government of which state?
The Digital India BHASHINI Division signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Manipur at the Manipur Chapter of the BHASHINI Rajyam Workshop, held in Imphal on 14 October 2026.
Read the full explanation →In how many instalments, and in what ratio, is a Project Implementing Agency paid under DDU-GKY 2.0?
Payment to a Project Implementing Agency, which may itself be an eligible captive employer, is structured this way under DDU-GKY 2.0, and each instalment is linked to a milestone settled in advance.
Read the full explanation →What share of the targets of DDU-GKY 2.0 has been earmarked for Captive Employers?
The Ministry of Rural Development has reserved that share of the targets of DDU-GKY 2.0 for Captive Employers, under whom a company trains rural candidates and absorbs them into its own workforce.
Read the full explanation →How many rural youth have been trained so far under DDU-GKY, as stated at the Jaipur meet?
That is the number of rural young people trained under the scheme to date, as disclosed at the Captive Employer CXO Meet held in Jaipur on 15 October 2026.
Read the full explanation →The Captive Employer CXO Meet held at Jaipur on 15 October 2026 was organised under which scheme?
The Captive Employer CXO Meet at the Rajasthan International Centre in Jaipur was held by the Ministry of Rural Development along with the Rajasthan Skill and Livelihoods Development Corporation, and its subject was the Captive Employment window of DDU-GKY 2.0.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is not a soil forming factor?
Soil scientists list parent material, topography (relief), climate, biological activity and time as the factors that form soil; where people live is not one of them.
Read the full explanation →Which among the following Acts provided for the establishment of a Supreme Court of Justice at Calcutta for Europeans, their employees and the citizens of India?
This first act of the British Parliament to control the East India Company provided for a Supreme Court of Judicature at Calcutta.
Read the full explanation →Rudraprayag is situated at the confluence of rivers Alaknanda and
At Rudraprayag in Uttarakhand the Mandakini, which flows down from near Kedarnath, joins the Alaknanda. Rudraprayag is one of the Panch Prayag, the five holy confluences of the Alaknanda on its way to forming the Ganga.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is the correct sequence of layers as we move from the Earth's surface upwards?
This is the order of the layers of the atmosphere from the ground upwards, with the exosphere above them all.
Read the full explanation →At which one among the following places did the British East India Company found its factory in the year 1611?
In 1611 the English East India Company opened its first factory on the east coast at Masulipatam, the chief port of the Golconda kingdom.
Read the full explanation →The reservoir of the Rihand dam in Sonbhadra district is known by which name?
The Rihand dam was built on the Rihand, a tributary of the Son, in Sonbhadra district, and its reservoir is the largest artificial lake of India.
Read the full explanation →Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh is best known for the manufacture of which product?
Aligarh has made locks since the colonial period and the trade grew into a cluster of small workshops making locks, hinges, builders hardware and brass fittings, which is also the One District One Product of the district.
Read the full explanation →Which district of Uttar Pradesh is the main centre of hand knotted carpet weaving?
The town and the villages around it, together with neighbouring Mirzapur, form the largest hand knotted carpet belt of India and export most of what they weave.
Read the full explanation →The only oil refinery of Uttar Pradesh is located at:
The Mathura refinery of the Indian Oil Corporation is the only refinery in the state and was set up to serve the demand of the north western plains, with crude reaching it by pipeline.
Read the full explanation →Which district of Uttar Pradesh is famous for the traditional perfume called ittar?
The town has distilled flower oils in copper stills for centuries and is called the perfume capital of India, its ittar being carried in leather bottles and matured through the seasons.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the One District One Product scheme launched by the Uttar Pradesh government?
The scheme was announced on Uttar Pradesh Day, 24 January 2018, and chose one traditional product for each district so that help with design, credit, common facility centres, packaging and marketing could be concentrated instead of scattered.
Read the full explanation →Which city of Uttar Pradesh is known as the Manchester of North India?
The city grew in the nineteenth century as the cotton and woollen mill town of the Ganga plain, with army supply orders behind it, and the tanneries of Jajmau grew beside the mills.
Read the full explanation →Which is the only coal producing district of Uttar Pradesh?
The Singrauli coalfield spreads across the border of Madhya Pradesh into Sonbhadra, and no other district of Uttar Pradesh has workable coal.
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