UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency created by computer software, but the Reserve Bank of India has never made it legal tender.

Article 15(5) lets the State make special provisions for the admission of SCs and STs to educational institutions, including private ones whether aided or not, but it expressly leaves out minority institutions under Article 30(1).

Saadat Khan, titled Burhan-ul-Mulk, was appointed governor of Awadh by the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah in 1722 and founded the line of the Nawabs of Awadh.

Article 20(3) only bars compelling an accused to be a witness against himself; a confession made freely and lawfully can still be used as evidence.

Under Article 54, the President is elected by the elected members of both Houses of Parliament, the elected members of the State Legislative Assemblies and, since the 70th Amendment, the elected members of the Assemblies of Delhi and Puducherry.

Muqarrab Khan was a close companion of Jahangir from his days as Prince Salim and rose high in the nobility once Jahangir became emperor in 1605.

Under the Citizenship Act, 1955, an Indian loses citizenship by renouncing it or by voluntarily taking the citizenship of another country; marriage and criticism of the government have no such effect.

Statements 1 and 2 describe the Indian Constitution correctly, but statement 3 wrongly claims that every country's constitution is secular.

Haji Muhammad Arif Qandahari, a noble who served under Bairam Khan and later Akbar, wrote the Persian chronicle Tarikh-i-Akbari. Akbar's reign is one of the best recorded in Indian history because many writers of his court left Persian accounts.

A gully plug is a small check structure built across a natural gully or stream channel in hilly and rural land, so it has no place in a city.

The projection quoted at the consultation shows demand rising from about 1.25 billion tonnes in 2025 to more than 2.6 billion tonnes by 2050 if present policies continue, and staying above 1.8 billion tonnes even along a net zero path, because steel, cement and power, the three largest consumers, are…

This was the output quoted at the consultation, where officials also pointed out that coal still generates more than 70 per cent of the country's electricity, which is why idle blocks matter so much.

The ministry said at its consultation in Goa that of the commercial mines allotted since the reform framework came in, only a small fraction has reached production, and the Coal Secretary described an allotted but idle block as capacity the country has set aside yet cannot use.

Total expenditure in the first six months of the financial year was Rs 25,49,835 crore, and that is 47.7 per cent of the corresponding budget estimate.

The monthly accounts record that this sum was transferred to the state governments as devolution of their share of central taxes during the first half of the financial year, and that it was Rs 67,658 crore higher than the amount devolved in the corresponding period of the previous year.

This amount is made up of tax revenue net to the Centre, non-tax revenue and non-debt capital receipts.

The minister explained that the centre works on this principle, bringing data from many agencies onto a common platform for real-time and historical study of pollution levels, identification of sources, assessment of trends and tracking of compliance in the field against prescribed standards.

The platform integrates readings from 111 continuous ambient air quality monitoring stations that are operational across Delhi and the national capital region, installed by the Central Pollution Control Board, the India Meteorological Department and the state pollution control boards.

The Commission for Air Quality Management built this Integrated Command and Control Centre in New Delhi as a single-window digital nerve centre for the capital region, and the Union Environment Minister reviewed its technological framework and operational readiness.

Infrared Focal Plane Arrays were described as the eyes of tactical missiles: working through an imaging infrared seeker, they allow the missile to find and follow its target during the terminal phase of flight, and the exhibits covered the short-wave, mid-wave and long-wave infrared bands.