UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Article 22(2) requires an arrested person to be produced before the nearest magistrate within 24 hours, not one week.

Bhaskaravarman was the king of Kamarupa, ancient Assam, and a close ally of Harsha. Harshacharita was written by Banabhatta, the court poet of Harshavardhana of Kannauj in the seventh century.

Its Legislative Assembly has 294 elected seats, more than any other State in the list. Among the four, Bihar has 243 seats, Madhya Pradesh 230 and Tamil Nadu 234, so West Bengal clearly leads.

Regional Commissioners are appointed by the President, not by the Election Commission. Article 324(1) vests in the Election Commission the superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of electoral rolls and the conduct of elections to Parliament, to every State Legislature and to the offices of President and Vice-President.

It orders the authority holding a person to produce that person before the court, which frees anyone detained unlawfully. Habeas Corpus is Latin for 'you may have the body'.

Article 26 gives the right to manage religious affairs to every religious denomination, with no exception for minor communities.

The Harappans were a Bronze Age people and did not know iron at all. The Harappan or Indus Valley Civilisation flourished from about 2600 to 1900 BCE.

Stupas grew up near towns and along trade routes, where traders and townspeople could visit and fund them. A stupa is a hemispherical mound built over relics of the Buddha or of revered monks.

The fund is administered from the PMO, with the Prime Minister as its chairman. The Prime Minister's National Relief Fund was set up in January 1948 by Jawaharlal Nehru to help people displaced from Pakistan after Partition.

All three statements describe the Right to Education as framed by Article 21A and the RTE Act, 2009.

The Silappadikaram sings the praise of the Kaveri, the life-giving river of the Chola country, in whose delta its story begins.

The Mahavamsa, the great Pali chronicle of Sri Lanka, gives a detailed account of Ashoka, his conversion to Buddhism and his missions abroad.

Unlike the President, the Governor of a state has no diplomatic or military powers. The Governor's powers are broadly similar to the President's in the executive, legislative and judicial fields, but defence and foreign affairs belong to the Union.

India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, made solidarity with the newly free nations of Asia and Africa a central pillar of India's foreign policy.

Capital deepening means the stock of capital grows faster than the labour force, so each worker has more machines and tools to work with.

Article 53 vests the executive power of the Union and the supreme command of the defence forces in the President, but it does not say the power is used only through subordinate officers.

The idea of farr-i izadi, a light emanating from God, was first developed by the twelfth-century Iranian Sufi thinker Shihabuddin Suhrawardi.

Article 151(1) says the CAG's reports relating to the accounts of the Union are submitted to the President, who causes them to be laid before each House of Parliament.

Classical economists held that the economy always tends back to full employment, so any unemployment is short-lived. The classical theory rests on Say's Law, that supply creates its own demand, so there can be no general overproduction.

Lakshmidhara, a minister of the Gahadavala king Govindachandra of Kanauj, compiled the Kritya-kalpataru, the first great nibandha or digest of Dharmashastra, epic and Puranic texts.