UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The Lighthouse Museum of 77 metres forms part of the National Maritime Heritage Complex at Lothal, an archaeological site tied to ancient seaborne trade, and it is estimated at ₹266.11 crore.

India maintains 205 lighthouses along a coastline that stretches beyond 11,000 km, and these towers are looked after by the Directorate General of Lighthouses and Lightships under the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.

The campaign is run by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in collaboration with the Cycling Federation of India, which is the national federation for the sport, the Raahgiri Foundation, which works on reclaiming streets for walking and cycling, and MY Bharat, the ministry's youth platform.

The correct answer is Parul Chaudhary, who won two bronze medals at the Asian Games, one in the women's 3000m steeplechase and the other in the 5000m. Option A, Prachi Chaudhary, is wrong, and the similarity of the two names is exactly what such a question tests: she won a…

The ride went from Namo Ghat to the Diksha Mandap of Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, and both of those landmarks are in Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh; the start was at 6 in the morning.

The 94th edition of the ride, held in Varanasi, was built around this theme, which joins the weekly fitness drive to the effort to keep young people away from substance abuse and sets both in the frame of a developed India.

The Vice-President recalled the legacy of Birsa Munda, Sidho-Kanhu and Tilka Manjhi, all of them figures of tribal resistance closely associated with the region around Deoghar, and used their memory to ask the graduates to carry their knowledge into villages, tribal communities and the remotest parts of the country.

Speaking about the expansion of medical education and health infrastructure, the Vice-President said the country had 387 medical colleges before 2014 and now has 846, and he presented institutions such as AIIMS Deoghar as proof of development that is balanced and inclusive.

The Vice-President pointed to this with satisfaction, saying that it showed the country moving from the empowerment of women towards development led by women, and that it showed how education allows women to realise their potential.

Deoghar lies in the Santhal Pargana region of Jharkhand, and the Vice-President described the convocation as a celebration of that region's aspirations, speaking of what the institute means for tribal and rural communities around it.

The Games have deliberately been designed as a non-competitive platform: the purpose is to demonstrate traditional and indigenous sporting practices, to document them, and to let practitioners from different countries exchange knowledge, with emphasis on the cultural meaning of each game.

Mallakhamb is a gymnastic form performed on a wooden pole or a hanging rope, Yogasana has been shaped into a competitive sport in India in recent years, and Kalaripayattu is a martial art associated with Kerala.

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is organising them together with the Government of Gujarat, which is the clue that fixes the host state and therefore the city.

The text taken up as the emergency item sought urgent parliamentary action to address climate-related disasters and to strengthen resilience in the Himalayan region and other vulnerable regions, a subject of obvious concern to India and its neighbours.

The correct answer is the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, Harivansh, who led the Indian Parliamentary Delegation at Arusha and was one of the three members who cast India's votes for the IPU presidency.

The Assembly was held there from 5 to 9 October 2026, and the outcome document it adopted on its final day is accordingly named the Arusha Communiqué.

The correct answer is Milton Dick, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Australia, who was declared elected after a secret ballot in the IPU Governing Council on the closing day of the Assembly.

Air Force Station Jodhpur, in Rajasthan, was where the Defence Minister spoke to the aircrews and ground teams of the second edition of Tarang Shakti.

The air forces that brought aircraft to the exercise were those of Australia, Bangladesh, France, Germany, Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates and the United States of America — seven friendly foreign countries in all.

Tarang Shakti is an air exercise, and the second edition was hosted by the Indian Air Force from 26 September to 12 October 2026, with the Defence Minister addressing the participants at Air Force Station Jodhpur.