UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The notification of the Ministry of Law and Justice names Justice Sunita Agarwal as the Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court at the time she was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of India, and records Allahabad as her parent High Court.

A resident of Junardev in Chhindwara district, Madhya Pradesh, was selected under it and received financial assistance of Rs 1,85,000, which let him acquire an auto-rickshaw and earn a living where he had no steady income before.

These are the three components named in the beneficiary account of a scholar from Faridabad in Haryana whose assistance began in September 2019 and came to about Rs 18 lakh, funding her doctorate.

The case released by the ministry shows how it works: a two-member group project under the scheme financed a tractor-mounted Open Nallah Cleaner at a total cost of Rs 16,99,952, with a loan of Rs 10,24,964 and a capital subsidy of Rs 6,74,988.

The minister said the recycling of electronic waste and other scrap contributes to this wider government idea and to the principles of a circular economy, in which resources are recovered and put back to productive use instead of accumulating as waste.

In the previous round of the campaign the Department of Sports, working with the Sports Authority of India, the Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education, the National Sports University, the National Anti-Doping Agency and the National Dope Testing Laboratory, ran cleanliness drives at 50 identified sites covering field offices and…

Dr Jitendra Singh reviewed the progress of Special Campaign 6 at the DARPG office in Sardar Patel Bhawan, New Delhi, on 5 October 2026, along with the Secretary and senior officers of the department.

With that year's addition counted in, cumulative wind capacity stood at 58.52 GW by August 2026, and 28 GW more is under implementation towards the goal of reaching 100 GW of wind capacity by 2030.

Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi will inaugurate it on 8 October 2026, joined by the Minister of State for New and Renewable Energy and Power and by Tamil Nadu's Minister for Energy Resources and Law.

That is the cumulative installed wind capacity India had reached by August 2026, according to the figures the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy issued ahead of Windergy India.

The second line at Koraput, set up with an investment of Rs 218 crore, exists to meet their rising requirement.

That is the investment behind the second Shakti engine production line being highlighted at the Koraput event, and the added capacity is intended for indigenous helicopter platforms, named in the announcement as the Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter and the Prachand Light Combat Helicopter.

The two-thousandth engine from this plant is being handed over on 6 October 2026, with the Raksha Mantri inaugurating the event and the Chief Minister of Odisha among those attending.

At the Visakhapatnam ceremony the Raksha Mantri will launch the first ship of the class and, on the same day, lay the keel of the fifth and last ship, which marks the programme's move towards series production rather than one-off construction.

Each of the five Fleet Support Ships is a vessel of this size, built to replenish warships while they remain at sea by passing across fuel, stores and provisions, so that a task force can keep operating without returning to harbour.

The yard is building all five Fleet Support Ships ordered by the Indian Navy, and FSS-1 will be launched there on 6 October 2026 into the waters of the Bay of Bengal, eighteen months after its steel was first cut.

This e-booklet was released at the sitting along with a set of flyers carrying success stories from the 16th Pension Adalat, and both publications were meant to show what direct hearings have achieved for pensioners and their families.

The Adalat is part of the standing machinery this department has built so that a pensioner's complaint can be heard directly, with the ministry or department concerned present in the room.

The 17th All India Pension Adalat listed 897 long-pending grievances of family pensioners and super-senior pensioners for consideration, and of these 756 were settled on the day of the sitting, giving a redressal rate of 84.2 per cent.

The 540 metric tonnes of methanol loaded at Bogibeel were made by this state-owned company at its Namrup works, and the consignment is bound for Pangaon Port in Dhaka.