UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

A jagir was a temporary, transferable revenue assignment given mainly in lieu of salary for military service, while zamindari rights were hereditary.

A dearer substitute pushes buyers towards this good, and a fall in its own price leads them to buy more of it.

Both are IMF windows for quick emergency financing to member countries facing an urgent balance of payments need. The Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI) is open to all IMF members and gives fast, low-access financial help without a full-fledged programme.

The atmosphere is heated mainly from below, by the Earth's own long wave (terrestrial) radiation, not directly by sunlight. Incoming solar radiation is short wave, and the atmosphere is largely transparent to it, so most of it passes through and heats the Earth's surface.

Both ragas use all seven natural (shuddha) notes, the same scale as the Western major scale. In Hindustani music, Bilawal is one of the ten thaats in Pandit V. N. Bhatkhande's system and is taken as the basic scale, with every note in its natural form.

At the Chennai jubilee the Prime Minister said India is preparing to host the Commonwealth Games of 2030, and that alongside it the country is carrying forward the dream of hosting the Olympics in 2036.

The Prime Minister said that in the QS Rankings of 2015 only 14 universities from India found a place, and that the latest edition of those rankings carries 52 Indian names.

Speaking at the jubilee, the Prime Minister said the count of universities in the country stood at about 750 in 2014 and has since crossed 1,300, a near doubling in roughly a decade.

The institution started that year as a single small school in the West Mambalam locality of Chennai, with only seven children on its rolls, no permanent building and very limited resources.

In its campaign work the Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare has made electronic waste a priority area, collecting it, segregating it scientifically and disposing of it responsibly in keeping with the E-Waste (Management) Rules, and it frames that effort through the Waste to Wealth idea of turning discarded material into something…

The Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare, abbreviated DESW, is a department of that ministry and is responsible for the welfare of former service personnel and their families, which is why the faster disposal of grievances and Parliamentary assurances under the campaign matters to veterans and pensioners.

Special Campaign 6.0 is a nationwide drive of the Government of India run through that month, with the twin purposes of making Swachhata a permanent feature of government working and of cutting the backlog of pending matters in government processes.

Around 120 participants from India and other countries joined the workshop, and the gathering deliberately mixed early career researchers with senior scientists, subject experts, journal editors and professionals from a range of scientific and institutional backgrounds.

This is the stated vision guiding the Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave in its 2026 edition.

He gave the pivotal address, setting out the conclave's vision and strategic objectives and arguing that the convergence of science, technology and policy is central to India's future development and to building a strong research ecosystem.

The workshop for early career researchers, titled 'The ECR Nexus: Connecting Voices, Tools, and Science to Society', was held at IITM Pune in Meghdoot Hall, and the same event served as the curtain-raiser for the Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave.

Poppy straw is a narcotic substance covered by this law, so both the Neemuch case and the Mandsaur case were registered under its provisions and all three arrests were made under it.

When the Tata truck with a Rajasthan registration number was stopped on the Gandhisagar-Bhanpura road on 9 October 2026 and taken to the CBN office at Garoth for a detailed search, officers found 3,280.72 kg of poppy straw underneath 100 bags of wheat that were being carried as cover cargo.

The Madhya Pradesh unit of the Central Bureau of Narcotics ran two operations in the week to 11 October 2026, and the quantities recovered in them add up to this figure.

The two occupants of the car admitted in their statements that the gold had entered India over the Indo-Bangladesh border and was being taken to Hyderabad, which matches the Kolkata starting point of the journey.