UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

That is the support the Technology Development Board has agreed to extend to ideaForge Technology Limited under the Research Development and Innovation Fund, and it comes in the form of debt financing.

Across the Indian Navy's tenure, the activities of CTF 154 added up to more than 7,800 hours of training, with personnel from 39 countries taking part.

India's association with the Combined Maritime Forces came in two steps: it first joined as an Associate Partner in 2022 and then took up full membership in 2023.

The Combined Maritime Forces is a partnership of 47 nations, and CTF 154 is the one task force within it that is given over wholly to training, running professional courses and capacity building so that member navies can work with one another at sea.

The ceremony at which the Indian Navy gave up command of Combined Task Force 154 was held at Manama in Bahrain on 14 October 2026, and it closed the first spell in which India headed a task force of the Combined Maritime Forces.

In this last stage both the birth rate and the death rate are low, so the population grows very slowly or stays almost steady.

It is the deepest landlocked and well-protected port on India's east coast. Visakhapatnam port in Andhra Pradesh lies in a natural harbour cut into the land, sheltered by the Dolphin's Nose headland, which protects ships from the waves of the Bay of Bengal.

A geostrophic wind blows high above the surface, where the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force balance and the air flows parallel to the isobars.

Only the Supreme Court and the High Courts are courts of record under the Constitution; subordinate courts are not. Article 129 declares the Supreme Court a court of record, and Article 215 does the same for every High Court.

The American historian described the Indian Constitution as a "seamless web" of three closely linked strands.

The nature of the good, its substitutes and its share in the budget decide how strongly demand reacts to price; the growth of income in the economy does not.

Water passes through limestone along its joints and bedding planes, and slowly dissolves the rock as it goes. Limestone is a sedimentary rock made mainly of calcium carbonate.

He founded the Sikkim Praja Mandal in 1945 to oppose the feudal landlord system and the absolute rule of the Chogyal.

The territories of the amara-nayakas were not hereditary; the Vijayanagara kings transferred them from one place to another from time to time.

Of the four, the Sabarmati is both the shortest river and the one with the smallest basin. The Sabarmati rises in the Aravalli hills of Rajasthan and flows about 370 km south-west through Gujarat, past Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, into the Gulf of Khambhat.

On the frontier all resources are already fully used, so more of one good can be produced only by giving up some of the other.

Only statement 2 is wrong, because it reverses the date-line rule. The Earth turns 360° in 24 hours, or 15° every hour, so neighbouring standard time zones are usually one hour apart (statement 1).

By the 2011 Census, Bihar was the most densely populated State, followed by West Bengal, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh. The 2011 Census gave these densities in persons per square kilometre: Bihar 1,106, West Bengal 1,028, Kerala 860 and Uttar Pradesh 829, against a national average of 382.

ASEAN came first in 1967, then SAARC in 1985, APEC in 1989 and the SCO last, in 2001. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations was set up on 8 August 1967 by the Bangkok Declaration, signed by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

The scheme period stretches from FY2026-27 to FY2031-32, and the per-acre assistance supports internal roads, power supply, water networks, drainage, common effluent treatment, value-added infrastructure and technology-enabled administration, with up to a quarter of approved funding available for external road, rail and last-mile logistics connectivity.