UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

He led the Indian side at the session in Luxembourg on 29 October 2026 and shared the chair with Filip Vanden Bulcke, Director-General for Geo-Economy and Economic Diplomacy in Belgium, and Henri Schumacher, Secretary General of the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Defence, Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade.

The union ties the two neighbouring countries into one economic arrangement, and India engages with them jointly through a Joint Economic Commission whose nineteenth session met in Luxembourg on 29 October 2026.

The nineteenth session of the Joint Economic Commission between India and the Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union met in Luxembourg on 29 October 2026, and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced the outcome the next day.

It notified the guidelines for the drive in an office memorandum dated 13 August 2026 and it is running the fifth edition from 1 to 30 November 2026.

The campaign carries two numbers that are easy to confuse. The overall target is 2.30 crore digital life certificates, and within that total 1.50 crore are to be produced through face authentication technology.

The Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare will open camps in 2000 cities and districts during the fifth nationwide Digital Life Certificate campaign, which runs from 1 to 30 November 2026.

India beat China 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out after a 1-1 draw in the final at Kakamigahara, Japan, in November 2017.

Of the four small states listed, Meghalaya had the largest population in Census 2011, about 29.7 lakh people. The question compares four of India's least populous states.

Phosphorus has five electrons in its outer shell and shows two common valencies, 3 and 5. Phosphorus, atomic number 15, has the electronic configuration 2, 8, 5.

Australia beat India in the final at Benoni, South Africa, in February 2024 to win their fourth Under-19 title. The 2024 tournament was first allotted to Sri Lanka but was moved to South Africa by the ICC.

All four athletes received the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna for 2024, presented by the President in January 2025. The Khel Ratna is India's highest sporting honour.

This statement is false, because yeast is one of the few fungi that are unicellular. In Whittaker's five-kingdom system, fungi form a separate kingdom.

The first census was attempted in 1872 and it has been held regularly every ten years since 1881.

Statements 1, 2 and 4 restate Part IX of the Constitution, while statement 3 is not part of the scheme.

Only a pressure greater than the osmotic pressure of seawater can push pure water backwards through the membrane. In ordinary osmosis, water moves through a semipermeable membrane from the dilute side to the concentrated side.

Its careful restoration earned the Award of Merit in UNESCO's Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation, 2017. The Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple stands on Srirangam, an island in the Kaveri near Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu.

Cartagena is a port city on Colombia's Caribbean coast, where talks on the biosafety protocol were held in 1999. The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety is a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biological Diversity of 1992.

Silver sits near the bottom of the reactivity series and does not combine with oxygen even when heated in air.

INSPIRE-MANAK is the school-level part of INSPIRE. INSPIRE is run by the Department of Science and Technology to draw young talent into science.

All three features match the Dw type of Köppen's scheme, found mainly over north-eastern Asia. In the Dw climate, an intense high-pressure system, the Siberian anticyclone, builds up over the frozen land in winter and sends cold, dry winds outward.