Static general knowledge is six of the seven lines of the General Studies Paper-I syllabus in the UPSC CSE notice: History of India and the Indian National Movement; Indian and World Geography; Indian Polity and Governance; Economic and Social Development; Environmental Ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change; and General Science. The Commission tests understanding rather than recall, through statements to be judged correct or incorrect, pairs to be matched and assertion-reason items, and it likes the edges of a topic: a lesser-known provision of the Constitution, a river's tributary, a species' conservation status, the mandate of a statutory body. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for UPSC, written as short facts and tables, in English and Hindi, with each note linked to the current affairs and previous-year questions on the same topic. Start with Polity and Modern History, which carry the most questions, then Geography, the Economy, Environment, Ancient and Medieval culture and Science. Read a note, solve its PYQs, take its quiz, and come back to it in your monthly revision. A candidate who knows these notes and reads the daily current affairs has covered the syllabus the notice prescribes for Paper-I.
How many additive manufacturing start-ups have been supported so far under NSAM?
More than four years after the strategy was issued, the government reports that 56 additive manufacturing start-ups have been supported, strengthening the country's innovation and entrepreneurship base.
Read the full explanation →ESTIC-2026, to be held at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi from 27 to 29 October 2026, is being organised by which organisation?
ESTIC is India's Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave, and its second edition is organised by CSIR on the theme 'Creative Minds, Catalyzing Science, Empowering Technologies'.
Read the full explanation →What share of the global additive manufacturing market does NSAM aim to capture for India?
The national strategy sets a time-bound goal of capturing a twentieth of the world additive manufacturing market and of adding close to one billion US dollars to India's gross domestic product.
Read the full explanation →Which ministry released India's National Strategy for Additive Manufacturing (NSAM)?
MeitY brought out the National Strategy for Additive Manufacturing in February 2022 as the guiding policy framework for 3D printing in India, keeping it aligned with Make in India and Atmanirbhar Bharat.
Read the full explanation →Which long-term temperature ambition under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement did the Indian Minister describe as already established?
Speaking in the plenary, the Minister said the long-term objectives and goals, this ambition among them, were settled long ago under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement, and that what the world now lacks is a matching supply of means to achieve them.
Read the full explanation →Who led the Indian delegation at the UNFCCC Pre-COP31 meeting held in Fiji?
Climate negotiations under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement fall to the environment ministry, which is why this portfolio and no other led the delegation.
Read the full explanation →The UNFCCC Pre-COP31 meeting, at which India was represented, was co-hosted by which group of countries?
The Pre-COP31 meeting was co-hosted by these three countries, and India attended it as a participating Party with a delegation of its own.
Read the full explanation →COP31, the annual UN Climate Change Conference, is scheduled to be held in which city?
A Pre-COP is the preparatory round held a few weeks ahead of the annual UN Climate Change Conference, and the release makes clear that this year the conference itself moves to Antalya in Türkiye in the month of November.
Read the full explanation →Before it was renamed in 1972, Arunachal Pradesh was known as:
NEFA, as it was called, was administered by the Governor of Assam on behalf of the Ministry of External Affairs rather than by the Assam government, a reflection of its position on the frontier; it was renamed Arunachal Pradesh and made a Union Territory on 20 January 1972.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following mountain passes lies in Arunachal Pradesh?
The Sela pass, in the high country of the Tawang sector, carries the road from Dirang and Bomdila into Tawang town and is the best known pass of Arunachal Pradesh; Bum La, on the boundary with Tibet, and Pangsau Pass, on the Myanmar border, are the other two worth remembering.
Read the full explanation →Which animal is the state animal of Arunachal Pradesh?
The mithun, Bos frontalis, is a semi-domesticated bovine of the hill forests and is the state animal of Arunachal Pradesh, where it is counted as wealth and used in marriage and ceremonial exchange; it is also the state animal of Nagaland, a point examiners enjoy.
Read the full explanation →Arunachal Pradesh shares an international boundary with all of the following countries EXCEPT:
Arunachal Pradesh touches three countries and Nepal is not one of them; Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh lie along the Nepal border, far to the west.
Read the full explanation →The Dree festival is celebrated by which tribe of Arunachal Pradesh?
Dree is the agricultural festival of the Apatani of the Ziro valley in Lower Subansiri district, kept in the middle of the year as a prayer against crop failure.
Read the full explanation →Which Dalai Lama was born at Urgelling near Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh?
Tsangyang Gyatso, the sixth Dalai Lama and a celebrated poet, was born at Urgelling monastery, a short way from the town of Tawang, which is why the Tawang valley holds so important a place in Tibetan Buddhism.
Read the full explanation →The McMahon Line forms the boundary between India and which country?
The McMahon Line was drawn at the Simla Convention of 1914 between British India and Tibet and is named after Sir Henry McMahon, then foreign secretary of the Government of India.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following national parks is situated in Arunachal Pradesh?
Namdapha lies in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh near the Myanmar border, is the largest national park in north-east India, and is famous as the one protected area said to hold four big cats: the tiger, the leopard, the snow leopard and the clouded leopard.
Read the full explanation →Which article of the Constitution contains the special provision with respect to the State of Arunachal Pradesh?
It makes the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh specially responsible for law and order in the state, a responsibility he discharges on his individual judgment after consulting the Council of Ministers, and it provides that the Legislative Assembly shall consist of not less than thirty members.
Read the full explanation →By what name is the Brahmaputra known where it flows through Arunachal Pradesh?
The Yarlung Tsangpo of Tibet turns round the Namcha Barwa massif and enters India in Arunachal Pradesh as the Siang, also written Dihang; in Assam, after it is joined by the Lohit and the Dibang near Sadiya, it takes the name Brahmaputra, and in Bangladesh it is the Jamuna.
Read the full explanation →Arunachal Pradesh became a full-fledged state of the Indian Union in which year?
Under the State of Arunachal Pradesh Act, 1986 the Union Territory became the twenty-fourth state of India on 20 February 1987, the same day on which Mizoram became the twenty-third state.
Read the full explanation →What is the capital of Arunachal Pradesh?
Itanagar stands in Papum Pare district at the foot of the hills and has been the seat of government since the territory was being readied for statehood.
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