UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

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.

The Ministry of Tribal Affairs began this round of regional reviews there, taking up the southern States, and the Kolkata meeting a month later was the second in the series and covered eight eastern and central States.

The Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs gave the national position as on 31 August 2026, and that is the number of titles handed over to forest dwellers so far.

The full name of the law is the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, and the year that goes with it is 2006.

The Ministry of Tribal Affairs convened the second of its regional review conferences on the Forest Rights Act in the West Bengal capital, and officers of the Tribal Welfare, Revenue and Forest Departments of eight States took part, along with district Collectors from places where claims have piled up.

The lead bank is a coordinator, not a monopolist. It prepares the district credit plan, convenes the district forums through its Lead District Manager, brings banks and government departments to one table, watches for blocks and villages left without banking and reports progress to the state government and the Reserve…

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development prepares a Potential Linked Credit Plan for each district, estimating sector by sector how much credit the district can absorb, taking account of its soil, irrigation, cropping pattern, livestock, infrastructure and non-farm activity.

The Reserve Bank constituted a High Level Committee under its Deputy Governor Usha Thorat to review the Lead Bank Scheme after four decades, and the committee reported in 2009.