UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The Government of India is bearing the entire cost of building infrastructure in the first phase of the zone, and that figure is a full grant rather than a loan or a shared contribution.

The zone is coming up at the Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Counter Magnet City, known as SADA, inside Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, and the state government has given about 170 acres of land free of cost for it.

In its section on decisive leadership the resolution names three actions in sequence, and Operation Sindoor is placed in that year.

The resolution marks a quarter century of unbroken leadership as head of government, a stretch that covers his terms in Gujarat and then at the Centre, and it recalls three decisive mandates in the state along with support in three successive general elections to the Lok Sabha.

The Cabinet resolution recalls that through this system the then Chief Minister personally heard the grievances of citizens, and that it won the United Nations Public Service Award in 2010.

These were left out of the first framework and together they make up nearly twenty-one per cent of the gross value added of services, so bringing them in would lift the coverage of the monthly index to about 78.4 per cent of the gross value added of the whole services…

The initial framework of the index follows nineteen broad service sub-sectors, relying on high-frequency administrative data sources together with data on outward supplies filed under the goods and services tax, which between them account for close to sixty per cent of the gross value added of the services sector.

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation began a monthly compilation of the Index of Services Production for the formal sector on a trial basis in July 2026, and that is the base year it adopted for the exercise.

Banks were directed to route every new enrolment under the Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana and the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana through it, because the portal is being linked with all banks and insurers, which should improve the quality of data and the ease of day-to-day operation.

The Secretary of the Department of Financial Services urged banks to take part wholeheartedly in the saturation drive running between those two dates and to give greater thrust to serving the weaker sections of society and meeting their banking needs.

The correct answer is the Secretary, Department of Financial Services, Sanjay Lohiya, who took the review in New Delhi with the heads of all public sector banks and the Executive Directors of major private sector banks, assisted by senior officers of his department.

The correct answer is Param Vishisht Seva Medal, the highest of the four distinguished service decorations he holds and the one conferred on him in 2026 in recognition of exemplary service.

That was the appointment Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit held when the Government named him the next Chief of the Air Staff in the rank of Air Chief Marshal.

The Government has appointed Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, PVSM, AVSM, VM, VSM, as the twenty-ninth officer to head the Indian Air Force, and he takes charge in the rank of Air Chief Marshal from the afternoon of 31 October 2026.

The correct answer is the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), which signed a Letter of Intent with the Department of Science and Technology.

The formal foundation of India-Switzerland cooperation in science and technology was laid by the Inter-Governmental Agreement signed in that year, and President Parmelin recalled it while describing how steadily the partnership has grown since.

Guy Parmelin held bilateral talks with Dr Jitendra Singh, the Union Minister of State for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, on taking the science and technology partnership into a longer-term phase.

President Guy Parmelin announced this further allocation during his bilateral meeting with Dr Jitendra Singh in New Delhi and said Switzerland expects a corresponding commitment from India so that the joint research framework can be consolidated.

The pathway laid out for the Viksit Bharat Challenge runs in a fixed order: the Viksit Bharat Quiz first, then the Viksit Bharat Essay Challenge, then the District PPT Championship, then the State or Union Territory dialogue, and the National VBYLD at the end.

The dialogue is a flagship youth engagement initiative of that ministry and is carried out through Mera Yuva Bharat, whose portal hosts the quiz, the essay submissions and the mapping of states to regional themes.