UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Xerophytes live where water is scarce, so they have few stomata to cut down water loss. Xerophytes are plants of deserts and dry habitats, such as cacti, Opuntia, Calotropis and Acacia.

Gondi, spoken by the Gond tribal community of central India, has not been included in the Eighth Schedule. The Eighth Schedule lists the languages recognised by the Constitution, and Articles 344 and 351 link it to the development of Hindi.

Many white blood cells destroy germs by swallowing them, and that digestion needs a large number of lysosomes. Lysosomes are small membrane-bound sacs packed with hydrolytic enzymes that break down proteins, fats, carbohydrates and nucleic acids.

The Latin phrase habeas corpus literally means 'you may have the body', and the writ protects personal liberty. Under Article 32 the Supreme Court, and under Article 226 the High Courts, can issue five writs.

Speaking to the officers, the minister pointed to initiatives that draw citizens into conservation work, and named this tree-planting drive alongside MISHTI, the Aravalli Green Wall and Nagar Van Yojana while listing India's gains in forest and tree cover, carbon sequestration, woodland and wetland conservation and the restoration of landscapes.

The course has that many participants, and the officers have come from eighteen different State cadres, which is why the ministry described the group as carrying a mix of field and policy experience ranging from wildlife conservation governance to climate-resilient forestry, habitat restoration and the working of environmental policy.

The correct answer is the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, abbreviated as IGNFA, which is conducting the nineteenth Phase-III course from the twelfth of October to the sixth of November in 2026 for sixty-eight officers drawn from eighteen cadres.

The ministry recorded the presence of exactly six elected representatives at the programmes, and gave their break-up as a single Member of Parliament together with five Members of Legislative Assemblies.

The parliaments and the melas were organised as a part of this campaign, and specifically under the leg of it called the 100 Weeks Campaign, with the stated aim of turning young people into active workers against substance abuse in their own localities.

The programmes were spread over that many places in thirty-four States on a single day, and more than three and a half lakh young people and other citizens joined them.

Every one of the four molecules, PEPR111 for neuromuscular disorders and oncology, PEPRX101 for alopecia, PEPR202 for neuropathy and PEPR112 for DMD, stands at Technology Readiness Level four today, and the stated purpose of the money is to carry each of them up to Technology Readiness Level six.

The project titled VIGOR: Advancing AI-Discovered Molecules from Bench to Clinic has been costed at that figure in full, and the Technology Development Board is carrying Rs 86 crore of it from the Research Development and Innovation Fund, which works out to exactly half the outlay.

The Technology Development Board, which works under the Department of Science and Technology, signed its agreement with this Bengaluru company in Karnataka and committed Rs 86 crore from the Research Development and Innovation Fund towards the VIGOR programme, whose full cost is Rs 172 crore.

Stock at power plants fell by about 7.28 MT over the whole of September 2026, which works out to an average draw of roughly 0.24 MT a day and explains why the easing seen in October was treated as a notable change.

Coal actually delivered to the power sector averaged 2.49 MT a day in October 2026 while the plan for the month provided for 2.37 MT a day, so supply ran ahead of the programme and bettered it on nine of the first ten days.

Loading for the power sector averaged 469 rakes a day over the first ten days of October 2026, and it is this heavier movement that lifted daily coal supply and slowed the drawdown of stock.

The Ministry of Coal placed the stock at domestic coal-based power plants at 18.205 MT on 10 October 2026, which is why the ministry could say that the level has not fallen below 18 MT at any time since 29 September 2026, when the reading was 18.932 MT.

Rows 3 and 4 are correct; rows 1 and 2 have the wrong region or type. Fold mountains form when plates converge and layers of rock crumple.

Items I, II and IV were part of the Non-Cooperation programme, but item III was not: Indians were asked to give up their titles, not keep them quietly.

This play by Kalidasa tells the love story of Agnimitra, son of Pushyamitra Sunga, and Malavika, a maid in the queen's household.