UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The ceiling had last been revised in September 2014, when it was moved from Rs 6,500 to Rs 15,000 a month, and the approval granted in September 2026 took it to Rs 25,000.

Social protection coverage in India has moved up from 19% in 2015 to 68.4% in 2026, and this widening has brought more than one billion people inside the social protection framework.

The medal is given on five specified grounds: excellence in operations, outstanding service in investigation, exceptional performance, intelligence service marked by daring and determination, and meritorious work by serving government scientists in the field of forensic science.

The medal was brought into existence by a notification of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, dated 1 February 2024, and the same ministry announces the recipients and publishes the list on its website.

The Ministry of Home Affairs conferred the Kendriya Grihmantri Dakshata Padak for the year 2026 on 490 personnel drawn from the police forces of various states and Union Territories, from the Central Armed Police Forces and from the Central Police Organisations.

The Ministry of Home Affairs announces this medal on 31 October every year, and that date is observed as the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

"Brexit" joins "Britain" and "exit" and means the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union. In a referendum on 23 June 2016, about 52% of voters chose to leave the EU.

Till July 2018 Tendulkar was not yet in the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame; he was inducted a year later, in July 2019.

The weightlifter from Mizoram won India's first ever gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games, in the boys' 62 kg event at Buenos Aires in October 2018.

Hambantota Port lies on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, close to the main shipping lanes of the Indian Ocean.

Under Article 312, Parliament may by law create new All India Services common to the Union and the States.

Every member of the UN Human Rights Council is elected for a three-year term, and India's 2018 win gave it a seat for 2019 to 2021.

Raja Ram Mohan Roy founded the Atmiya Sabha in 1815 and the Brahmo Sabha, later the Brahmo Samaj, in 1828.

Neeraj Chopra is India's leading javelin thrower and the country's first Olympic gold medallist in track and field.

Amartya Sen received the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his contributions to welfare economics". Sen worked on social choice theory, on how to measure poverty and inequality, and on the causes of famine.

The Uniform Civil Code is not a Fundamental Right. Article 44 sits in Part IV of the Constitution, among the Directive Principles of State Policy.

VVPAT is a printer attached to the EVM that lets the voter see, on paper, that the vote went to the chosen candidate.

The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body of the UN, but it is not made up of all UN members: it has only 47 member states.

As Premier of Punjab, he told the Punjab Legislative Assembly in March 1941 that he did not want freedom so that there could be "Muslim Raj here and Hindu Raj elsewhere", and that if this was what Pakistan meant he would have nothing to do with it.

The Andaman and Nicobar Command was set up by India in 2001, long after the Second World War. The Command was raised in October 2001, following the recommendations of the Group of Ministers set up after the Kargil War to reform national security.