UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

When the Union Cabinet approved carrying the programme forward for five years, it renamed the umbrella scheme itself to Pradhan Mantri Samajik Sahayata Yojana, so option B is the one to mark.

Article 348(1)(a) says that, until Parliament by law provides otherwise, all proceedings in the Supreme Court and in every High Court shall be in the English language.

Certiorari, meaning 'to be certified' or 'to be informed', is issued by a higher court to a lower court or tribunal to transfer a case or to quash an order it has already passed.

Article 371A gives Nagaland special protection for Naga religious and social practices, customary law and the ownership of land and its resources.

Singapore lies at about 1.3° North, which makes it the closest of these cities to the Equator, only about 140 km north of it.

In the soil classification of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, based on the USDA Soil Taxonomy, Inceptisols cover the largest share of India, close to 40 per cent of its area.

Mission Indradhanush was launched in December 2014 to bring every child under two years and every pregnant woman under full immunisation against vaccine-preventable diseases.

Saubhagya, the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana, was launched to give an electricity connection to every household in the country.

The monks who went south were the followers of Bhadrabahu, who later became the Digambaras, not the Shvetambaras.

Amuktamalyada was written in Telugu by Krishnadevaraya, the greatest ruler of the Tuluva dynasty of Vijayanagara. Krishnadevaraya ruled from 1509 to 1529.

Both statements reverse the two approaches: empirical knowledge aims to be value-free, while normative knowledge is value-loaded. The empirical approach studies politics as it is.

Jordan grew out of the British Mandate after the First World War, but it is not landlocked because it touches the Gulf of Aqaba.

The Committee on Welfare of Other Backward Classes is a joint committee whose Chairperson is appointed by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha from among its members.

For the Northeast the population needed to justify a bank branch has been brought down to 2,000 on a cluster basis, which is lower than the norm of 3,000 that applies across the country, and the relaxation exists because habitations in the region are smaller and more scattered.

That is the national credit-deposit ratio quoted at the conclave, and among the Northeastern states Manipur and Assam stand at or above it while Mizoram and several others fall short.

The minister said that out of the 9,479 villages identified for coverage in the Northeast, 6,905 now have either a bank branch or an India Post Payments Bank point, which comes to roughly 73 per cent.

The third edition of the conclave was held there, and Dr Sukanta Majumdar, Union Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region and for Education, addressed it on 13 October 2026, asking banks to widen their reach and lend more readily in the region.

The TDB works under the Department of Science and Technology and it is the body that signed the agreement with ideaForge Technology Limited of Mumbai for support under the Research Development and Innovation Fund.

YETI is designed for an operating altitude of up to 6,500 metres above mean sea level, which is what allows it to be considered for high-altitude work in the mountains, and its weather-resistant build is also meant for deserts and marine conditions.

YETI is designed to lift payloads of up to 200 kg, and by a neat coincidence the same figure is its targeted range in kilometres, which makes the pair easy to remember together.