UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

PM-SETU, which stands for Pradhan Mantri Skilling and Employability Transformation through Upgraded ITIs, is a flagship scheme with that total outlay, and it seeks to change vocational education through deep industry participation and institutional reform.

That is the number of data layers on the common Geographic Information System platform as of 12 October 2026, covering infrastructure assets and other information that planners need when they fix an alignment or test a site.

The Union Cabinet has approved setting up the Integrated Transport and Logistics Authority, which will take a long-term view of transport planning.

The master plan brings 58 Central Ministries and Departments into a single planning framework, so that infrastructure proposals can be assessed across sectors rather than ministry by ministry.

The idea was to put data held by different ministries, states and union territories onto one Geographic Information System platform so that road, rail, port, airport, waterway and utility networks could be planned together instead of in isolation.

Procurement in these two bag sizes is meant to make the grain easier to lift, load and carry, which matters most where rations have to be taken to remote and difficult terrain such as Ladakh and the North East.

The correct answer is NAFED, the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited, which will supply the rice during the financial year 2026-27 after it is milled to prescribed defence specifications and cleared by quality-control checks.

The MoU signed alongside the launch of Bharat Rice gives the Army a formal framework to use identified FCI warehouses, labour resources and material-handling equipment when operations require them, and it holds for five years with the option of extension by mutual consent.

He took silver in the men's marathon in a national record time of 2:11:37, and that medal closed the long gap of 44 years since India had last stood on an Asian Games marathon podium.

She finished the Games with two gold and one silver, and her win in the individual women's trap event made her the first Indian woman to take gold in that shooting event at the Asian Games.

Athletes of the three Services returned from the Asian Games in Japan with 27 medals, broken up as 6 gold, 11 silver and 10 bronze, which is the best the defence forces have ever managed at the event.

The nominal interest rate is simply the percentage by which the amount repaid exceeds the amount borrowed, with no adjustment for inflation.

Carbon dioxide makes up about 96.5% of the atmosphere of Venus and about 95% of the atmosphere of Mars. The two neighbours of the Earth have atmospheres dominated by carbon dioxide, with nitrogen and argon making up most of the rest.

A surface inversion makes the lower air stable, not unstable, and it usually breaks up a few hours after sunrise.

The reaction centre of a photosystem is a special chlorophyll a molecule, not a carotenoid. In photosynthesis, pigments are grouped into photosystems.

The NHRC can join court cases on human rights with the court's approval and can promote research, but statement 3 is wrong because it can act on its own.

Frogs, toads and salamanders react quickly to changes in water, air and temperature, which makes them the classic indicator animals.

Going south from the Nepal border, the order is Dudhwa, Panna, Pench and then Indravati.

Damin-i-koh was the tract in the Rajmahal hills that the British marked out in 1832 for settling the Santals. The Santals had moved into the Rajmahal hills area in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, clearing forests and taking up settled farming.

PFMS is run by the office of the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) in the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance.