UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Collagen is the main structural protein of cartilage, and it is a fibrous protein, not a globin. Globins are compact, folded proteins that hold a haem group and carry or store oxygen.

Article 395 repeals the Indian Independence Act, 1947 and the Government of India Act, 1935, together with the laws that amended or supplemented the 1935 Act.

The Second Plan put heavy and basic industries in the public sector, and its planners found it hard to balance industry with agriculture; but it was drafted under P. C. Mahalanobis, not K. N. Raj.

Strontium-90, iodine-131 and caesium-137 are all fission products that settle on soil, water and plants and reach people through food.

Antrix is the commercial arm of ISRO, and ISRO works under the Department of Space. Antrix Corporation Limited was set up in Bengaluru in September 1992 as a government company wholly owned by the Government of India.

All three statements are correct: the Objectives Resolution guided every later stage of constitution-making and set out the philosophy the Constitution rests on.

Proteins are made on ribosomes, and the smooth endoplasmic reticulum has no ribosomes on its surface. The endoplasmic reticulum is a network of membrane tubes and sacs in the cytoplasm.

The Volga flows into the Caspian Sea, not the Black Sea. The Volga, about 3,530 km long, is the longest river in Europe.

An angle of incidence of 0° means the ray falls along the normal, and a ray along the normal passes into the next medium without bending.

On 3 March 2021 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution, proposed by India, declaring 2023 the International Year of Millets.

The Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov won the International Booker Prize 2023 for Time Shelter, translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel.

Four Stars of Destiny is the autobiography of General M. M. Naravane, who served as India's Chief of the Army Staff.

A Trojan is a program that looks useful or harmless but secretly carries harmful code, so it is a piece of malicious software, or malware.

On the pH scale every value below 7 means the solution has more hydrogen ions than hydroxide ions, which is what makes it acidic.

Mitosis keeps the chromosome number unchanged, so it never makes cells haploid; that is the work of meiosis. In mitosis one parent cell divides once and gives two daughter cells that are genetically identical to it.

At the Narmadapuram sitting in Madhya Pradesh, the Asian Games bronze medallist interacted with young people alongside Member of Parliament Darshan Singh Choudhary, and the discussion turned on voting rights and informed electoral participation.

The campaign features this pledge along with a 'Know Your Vote' online quiz to build awareness of electoral processes and democratic values, and the pledge was administered at sittings such as the one in West Kameng in Arunachal Pradesh, where a question-and-answer session preceded it.

The nationwide campaign is being conducted across 500 universities, colleges and institutions and runs from 26 October to 5 November 2026.

The campaign is run by MY Bharat, which functions under the Department of Youth Affairs in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, and its purpose is to spread electoral awareness among young people, especially first-time voters, so that they take part in the democratic process with understanding.

The Guwahati fair was described as the second event in the Shilp Samagam series for the financial year 2026-27, following the opening edition at Mysuru in Karnataka, which concluded on 19 October.