UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited accorded in-principle approval for financial support of this amount, to be used over the financial years 2026-27 to 2028-29, and the spending forms part of the company's corporate social responsibility effort.

The agreement signed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, the National Culture Fund and the Archaeological Survey of India covers conservation and development work at Hampi in Karnataka, the Taj Mahal at Agra in Uttar Pradesh and Bekal Fort in Kerala.

This framework is meant to keep the allotment of sea bed mineral resources transparent and to push systematic exploration of the country's offshore potential.

The correct answer is SBI Capital Markets Limited, which acts as the transaction adviser and explained the policy framework, the auction process and the bidding requirements at the outreach programme.

Sewell Rise-01 accounts for 632 square kilometres of that area and West Sewell Ridge-01 for the remaining 1,000 square kilometres, so the two blocks together make up the figure asked for.

The two blocks put up for auction, Sewell Rise-01 and West Sewell Ridge-01, both lie in the Andaman Sea, and both hold polymetallic nodules and crusts.

The Council resolved that the One Nation One Port Process reforms, which include One Nation One Documentation, port process re-engineering and inter-ministerial process reforms, must be in place at every port by March 2027.

Two credit risk insurance products for shipyards were announced at the meeting under the National Shipbuilding Mission, both framed under the Shipbuilding Development Scheme.

The Council was recognised as a statutory consultative body under this Act, which was notified on 15 May 2026, and the Mumbai session was the first one it held in that new character.

The twenty-first meeting of the Maritime State Development Council was held in Mumbai, where delegates were also taken on study visits to the cruise terminal of the Mumbai Port Authority and to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority before the session began.

The All Parties Conference of 1928 set up a committee under Motilal Nehru, and its draft constitution is known as the Nehru Report.

Severability is a doctrine used by courts to interpret laws, not a writ. Under Article 32 the Supreme Court, and under Article 226 the High Courts, can issue five writs: habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, certiorari and quo warranto.

The rocky planets are dense, the gas giants are light, and Saturn is the least dense planet of all. Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System at about 5.5 g/cm³, with Venus close behind at about 5.2 g/cm³; both are made of rock and metal.

Article 191(1)(a) disqualifies a person who holds an office of profit under the Government of India or the Government of any State.

Dadabhai Naoroji founded it in London in 1866 to put the Indian point of view before the British public and Parliament.

Article 231 lets Parliament, by law, set up a common High Court for two or more States, or for two or more States and a Union Territory.

The exosphere, the outermost layer of the atmosphere, is made up mostly of the two lightest gases, hydrogen and helium.

It comes from the Directive Principles of State Policy, which no court can enforce. Article 39(a) asks the State to direct its policy towards securing that citizens, men and women equally, have the right to an adequate means of livelihood.

The Quaternary, the latest period of the Cenozoic era, is divided into the Pleistocene and the Holocene epochs. The Quaternary began about 2.58 million years ago.

Of all the sunlight that falls on their leaves, green plants fix only about one per cent as chemical energy in food.