UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Statement 1 states the FRBM Review Committee's target correctly and statement 3 is Article 293(3), while statement 2 swaps the figures.

A relief panel from the stupa at Kanganahalli in Karnataka shows a king with his queens and carries the label 'Raya Asoko' (Ranyo Ashoka), making it the only known portrait of Ashoka named in an inscription.

The reserve tranche is the part of a member's IMF quota that it can draw on at any time, without conditions.

Printing new money adds fresh purchasing power to the economy without any matching rise in goods, so it pushes prices up the most.

That is exactly what an indirect transfer means in Indian tax law. In an indirect transfer, no Indian asset changes hands directly.

South-eastern Cameroon lies inside the drainage area of the Congo river, and the country is one of the six nations that share the Congo Basin rainforest.

The araghatta was a water-lifting wheel that carried a chain or ring of pots down into a well and brought them up full.

Standing sixteen feet tall at the fair, the installation is meant to represent the collective strength of the women who keep traditional craftsmanship alive while turning their skills into livelihoods and independence.

The fair is held in line with that mission and with the declared goal of creating six crore Lakhpati Didis, and it works alongside the SARAS Aajeevika Gallery and the eSARAS digital platform to connect self-help group products to wider markets.

Droupadi Murmu, who holds that office, will inaugurate the fair on the fifteenth of October.

The Ministry of Rural Development is holding the fair at Punnami Ghat in that city, working with the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty of Andhra Pradesh, and this is the first time the National SARAS Mela has been staged outside Delhi and the National Capital Region.

Pushkar Singh Dhami, who holds that office, flagged in the seventeen-member team at a ceremony in Dehradun, praising the exceptional grit and endurance of the climbers and describing the achievement as an example of courage and a matter of national pride.

The correct answer is that the Everest attempt is planned during the force's Swarnim Jayanti, the golden jubilee, in the year given in option A. The Mount Mukut climb was the fifth and concluding phase of an eighteen-month preparatory programme built around that goal, and the operational experience and lessons…

The seventeen-member Coast Guard team climbed Mount Mukut under the expert guidance of that institute, and the climb formed the fifth and final phase of a preparatory programme that ran for eighteen months.

A team of seventeen climbers of the Indian Coast Guard reached the summit of Mount Mukut at that height on 7 October 2026, working through extreme weather on the way up.

Cooperation under the Council rests on three instruments: the India-UK Research and Innovation Memorandum of Understanding in option A, the Technology Security Initiative in option B, and India-UK Vision 2035 in option C. These provide the foundation on which research institutions, universities, industry and innovators work together, with attention to…

This collaboration supports joint industrial research and development aimed at creating new intellectual property, technologies, processes and prototypes, and eight projects have been agreed for support in areas including advanced manufacturing, power electronics and net-zero technologies.

The centre is named BRIC-CDFD-ONT India Genomics Centre of Excellence, and the letters ONT stand for that company, whose Chief Financial Officer attended the opening.

The Council met in New Delhi with Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State with Independent Charge for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, on the Indian side and Jonathan Reynolds, the British Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Trade, on the other.

Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, who holds that appointment, presided over the ceremony at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai, which falls within the area of the Western Naval Command.