UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The preparatory phase of the campaign closed on the last day of September, and the working phase was then taken up for the whole of October, which is why the Department of Science and Technology held a review of readiness with its autonomous institutions and field organisations.

The campaign seeks to strengthen cleanliness in government offices, improve efficiency, ensure that pending matters are disposed of in time and promote better management of official resources.

The correct answer is Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Chief Minister of Assam, who will open the workshop in Guwahati, where stakeholders from all eight States of the North Eastern region are gathering along with heads and faculty of government training institutes, subject experts and industry partners.

The Unified New-Age National Training Initiative portal brings that many training institutes on to a single digital platform, with the purpose of closing the gap between the demand for capacity building and what institutions can actually supply.

The Commission is running this nationwide series of four regional workshops to help turn civil service training institutions into capacity building institutions under the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building.

That is the term on which the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment appointed the two Members to the Governing Body of the Board.

The Board's very name is the Development and Welfare Board for De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Communities, and the oath taken by its Members includes a pledge to do right by every person belonging to these groups in line with the Board's Terms of Reference.

The correct answer is Shri Sudhansh Pant, Secretary of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, who holds the post of Chairman of the Board as well and therefore swore in the two new Members at the Ministry's office.

The first two are institutions of the Department of Science and Technology, and the team was led by Dr. Pradip Pachfule, Prof. Ramendra Sundar Dey and Prof. Ranjit Thapa respectively, with the findings published in the journal Science Advances.

Tests showed that even after that long a spell of continuous running, the material kept its performance and did not suffer the degradation or contamination that commonly affects catalysts built around metals.

Many clean-energy technologies, and hydrogen fuel cells in particular, depend on platinum to speed up the oxygen reduction reaction, and because it is one of the rarest and most expensive metals available, its cost and limited supply stand in the way of large-scale use.

This combination is the heart of the design, because it joins administrative leadership with the youth reach of the MY Bharat platform of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and the cadet network of the Ministry of Defence.

The first phase of the squads has been planned on that scale, with the work concentrated at the block, ward and community level so that information about tuberculosis reaches people where they live and work rather than staying inside health facilities.

That is the expansion of the acronym used by the Union Health Ministry for the squads being launched at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, which bring Class-I Officers, MY Bharat Volunteers and NCC Cadets together for community work against tuberculosis.

The article in question asks the EFTA states to aim at increasing foreign direct investment from their investors into India by that amount within ten years of the pact starting, and then by a further fifty billion dollars during the five years that follow.

That is the day the partnership agreement between India and the four EFTA states entered into force, which is why leaders from all the member countries gathered in the Indian capital in early October to mark its completion of one year and to discuss the road ahead.

These are the four member states of the European Free Trade Association, and leaders of all four were in New Delhi to mark the first year of the agreement with India.

The campaign came to an end on 2 October, which the release identifies both as Swachh Bharat Diwas and as the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi; the final plantation activity at NIFT Delhi was held on that occasion.

Environmental sustainability formed an important part of the drive, and tree plantation was carried out under this initiative, with the concluding plantation at NIFT Delhi on Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti.

The release records that the final plantation activity took place at NIFT Delhi on Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti and was led by her, with senior officials of the ministry joining, under the Shramdaan call Ek Din, Ek Ghanta, Ek Saath.