UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The five Zonal Councils were set up by this Act, which also reorganised the States on a linguistic basis, and they are therefore statutory bodies rather than constitutional ones.

Article 263 empowers the President to establish by order an Inter-State Council if it appears to him that the public interest would be served by it, and it lists the Council duties: inquiring into and advising upon disputes between States, investigating and discussing subjects of common interest to the Union…

The League of Nations, proposed in the Fourteen Points of President Woodrow Wilson and created under the Treaty of Versailles, began work in 1920 with its headquarters at Geneva in Switzerland; it failed to stop aggression in Manchuria, Abyssinia and Europe and was replaced by the United Nations in 1945.

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on that day, and the date is observed worldwide as Hiroshima Day.

Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, and Britain and France, which had guaranteed Polish independence, declared war on Germany two days later, turning the attack into a world war.

The treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles on 28 June 1919, five years to the day after the Sarajevo assassination.

The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was shot at Sarajevo in Bosnia on 28 June 1914 by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist, and Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia a month later, after which the alliance system drew in the other powers.

In the October Revolution, which took place on 7 November 1917 by the Western calendar, the Bolshevik party led by Lenin overthrew the provisional government and took power in Petrograd, with Leon Trotsky organising the Red Guards.

Watt added a separate condenser to the earlier Newcomen engine, patenting it in 1769, which made the steam engine efficient enough to drive factories, mines, railways and ships, and the unit of power is named after him.

He was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence adopted by the Continental Congress on 4 July 1776, and he later became the third President of the United States.

His book The Social Contract, published in 1762, argued that legitimate political authority comes from the general will of the people and not from the divine right of a king, and it became the intellectual charter of the French Revolution.

On that day a Paris crowd attacked the Bastille, a royal fortress used as a prison, which stood for the arbitrary authority of the monarchy; the date is celebrated in France as the national day.

Mission Shakti is one of the three umbrella schemes of that ministry from 2021, along with Mission Vatsalya for child protection and Mission Poshan 2.0 for nutrition, and it has two parts, Sambal for safety and security and Samarthya for empowerment.

It is the round the clock emergency number for a child in need of care and protection, and it connects the caller to the child protection machinery under Mission Vatsalya and the Juvenile Justice Act.

The amendment of 2017 raised paid maternity leave for women in establishments covered by the Maternity Benefit Act from twelve weeks to twenty-six weeks for the first two children, and it also provided for a creche facility in establishments above a prescribed size and for work from home where the…

One Stop Centres, launched in 2015 and financed from the Nirbhaya Fund, are called Sakhi centres and bring medical aid, police assistance, legal aid, psychological counselling and temporary shelter for a woman affected by violence under one roof.

POSHAN Abhiyaan was launched there on 8 March 2018, International Women Day, with the aim of reducing stunting, undernutrition, anaemia among women and children and low birth weight through convergence of departments, use of technology and community mobilisation.

The project was launched in March 2022 by the Minister of Women and Child Development, who then held that office, in collaboration with the national mental health institute at Bengaluru, to train the staff of One Stop Centres in handling the mental health needs of women affected by violence.

The scheme, which began on 1 January 2017 and is run by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, pays this amount in instalments on conditions such as early registration of pregnancy and immunisation of the child, as partial compensation for the wages a woman loses during pregnancy and after…

The scheme was launched on 2 October 1975 and is the oldest and largest programme for children in India, delivering supplementary nutrition, pre-school education, immunisation, health check-ups, referral services and health education for mothers through anganwadi centres.