UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Addressing the business plenary of the 16th India-UK Joint Economic and Trade Committee, the Minister asked businesses in both countries to aim at doubling bilateral trade by the end of this decade, noting that about 1,500 days were left to work with.

Average monthly mobile data use for each wireless data subscriber rose to this level in the quarter ending June 2026 from 26.70 GB in the quarter ending March 2026.

Tele-density measures telephone connections for every hundred people, and the overall figure improved from 93.26 per cent at the end of March 2026 to 94.31 per cent at the end of June 2026.

The report for the quarter ending June 2026 records this as the total of wireless and wireline connections, a rise of 1.31 per cent over the previous quarter and of 10.65 per cent over the same quarter a year earlier.

The Commission paired its foundation day function with this national conference, which was organised around two technical sessions, the first on the protection and restoration of water bodies and the second on protecting sources of drinking water so that access is safe and sustainable for all.

He said the Constitution's promises of dignity, equality, liberty and justice must be honoured in the lock-up, the hospital ward and the remotest village, and described a human rights commission as a lighthouse that cannot stop the waves of injustice but can guide those adrift in the darkness.

The National Human Rights Commission was set up on 12 October of that year, and the Commission therefore observes 12 October as its foundation day; this year it marked the 33rd such occasion at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, where it also held a national conference on the right to…

This is the declared theme of the ninth edition of the India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime Exercise, which aims at collective maritime security and at preparing the three navies to deal with challenges at sea.

IBSAMAR has been held once in two years since that year, under the India-Brazil-South Africa framework, and has become a settled platform for joint training and for sharing operational practices among the three navies.

INS Tarkash, a frontline guided missile stealth frigate of the Indian Navy, has been sent on an overseas deployment to South Africa to join the ninth edition of the India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime Exercise.

Eligible Technology Enterprises working at that level or higher can receive capital channelled by the Second Level Fund Managers, which means the fund steps in once an idea has moved past paper and early concept work and has been validated in a laboratory setting.

The fund is run by an Independent Business Unit housed within that foundation, and the foundation's Executive Council is one of the stages a fund manager's proposal must clear before it reaches the Empowered Group of Secretaries.

The Empowered Group of Secretaries approved the cohort at its meeting on 8 October 2026, and the nineteen are made up of two kinds of institution: 14 Alternative Investment Funds and 5 Focused Research Organisations.

These are practical choices for the Himalayan belt, where settlements can be cut off for months and a short distance on a map can take hours to travel.

AIIMS Bilaspur is the third institution involved, and its role is to study the health impact of high-altitude conditions on patients who come to the region.

The Union Health Minister performed the Bhumi Pujan and laid the foundation stone there, and a former Chief Minister of the state as well as the Member of Parliament from Mandi spoke at the ceremony.

The repository would record each sport's history, cultural significance, rules, equipment and field-of-play requirements, so that the knowledge survives even as sport modernises.

The correct answer is Mallakhamb, which India demonstrated along with Yogasana and Kalaripayattu.

The correct answer is Ahmedabad in Gujarat, where the games were staged at the Veer Savarkar Sports Complex in the Naranpura area on 12 October 2026.

The correct answer is Sudhakar Dalela, Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs, who serves as India's BRICS Sherpa for 2026 and attended the inaugural ceremony.