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UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

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.

UPSC Civil Services GK Questions with Answers

Q10801.Science & TechnologyAsked in: RRB Group D · 15 Sept 2022, Shift 3Medium

What is the name of the supercomputer designed and installed by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) at IIT Roorkee, under Phase II of National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) in March 2022?

  1. A.PARAM Ganga
  2. B.PARAM Bheem
  3. C.PARAM Yuva
  4. D.PARAM Yamuna
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Correct answer: A. PARAM Ganga

PARAM Ganga was set up at IIT Roorkee in 2022 under the second phase of the National Supercomputing Mission, and it was designed and installed by C-DAC.

Q10810.Indian States & UTsAsked in: Delhi · 22 Dec, 2025, Shift 2Medium

The Bonalu festival in Telangana is dedicated to which deity?

  1. A.Goddess Durga
  2. B.Goddess Mahakali
  3. C.Lord Shiva
  4. D.Lord Vishnu
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Correct answer: B. Goddess Mahakali

Bonalu is celebrated in the month of Ashada, roughly July and August, when women carry cooked rice with milk and jaggery in decorated pots on their heads as an offering to the goddess Mahakali.

Q10811.Indian States & UTsAsked in: RRB Group D · 27 Sept 2022, Shift 1Medium

Which is the second official language of Telangana?

  1. A.Urdu
  2. B.Tulu
  3. C.Hindi
  4. D.English
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Correct answer: A. Urdu

Telugu is the first official language of Telangana and Urdu is the second. The place of Urdu goes back to the Hyderabad state of the Nizams, where it was the language of administration and education, and a large Urdu speaking population still lives in Hyderabad and the surrounding districts.

Q10812.Indian States & UTsAsked in: Uttar Pradesh · 27 June, 2023, Shift 2Medium

What is the State Bird of Telangana ?

  1. A.Son Chiraiya (Great Indian Bustard)
  2. B.Doodhraj (Asian Paradise Flycatcher)
  3. C.Palapitta (Indian Roller)
  4. D.Hill Myna
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Correct answer: C. Palapitta (Indian Roller)

Telangana adopted the Indian roller, known in Telugu as palapitta, as its state bird soon after the state was formed in 2014.

Q10815.Indian States & UTsAsked in: Bihar · 11 May, 2025Easy

The capital of Telangana is

  1. A.Kawarati
  2. B.Amravati
  3. C.Hyderabad
  4. D.Dispur
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Correct answer: C. Hyderabad

When Telangana was created on 2 June 2014 under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, Hyderabad became its capital, and the Act further provided that the city would serve as the common capital of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for a period of not more than ten years.

Q10816.Science & TechnologyAsked in: RRB ALP · 21 Jan 2019, Shift 3Easy

The source of light for optic fibre transmission is _______.

  1. A.ARC lamp
  2. B.LED
  3. C.mercury lamp
  4. D.incandescent lamp
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Correct answer: B. LED

The transmitter of an optical fibre link must be small enough to couple light into a core a few micrometres across, must switch on and off millions or billions of times a second, and must emit in a narrow band of wavelengths; a light-emitting diode meets these conditions, and for…

Q10817.Science & TechnologyAsked in: RRB ALP · 21 Jan 2019, Shift 3Medium

Which of the following is used as a receiver for fibre optic communication?

  1. A.LED
  2. B.IR diode
  3. C.Photo diode
  4. D.LDR
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Correct answer: C. Photo diode

At the receiving end of an optical fibre link the light pulses must be turned back into an electrical signal, and that is the work of a photodiode, a reverse-biased junction in which incident photons generate charge carriers and so a current proportional to the light falling on it; PIN…

Q10818.Science & TechnologyAsked in: RRB ALP · 21 Jan 2019, Shift 3Medium

Fibre cables used for "Fibre to Home" installations are _______.

  1. A.multimode graded
  2. B.multimode step
  3. C.multiaxis
  4. D.single mode
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Correct answer: D. single mode

A fibre-to-the-home connection runs from the operator's equipment to the subscriber's premises over a distance of kilometres, and for such runs single-mode fibre is used: its core is only a few micrometres wide, so light travels along one path, there is no spreading of the pulse from different paths arriving…

Q10819.Science & TechnologyAsked in: Delhi · 2 Dec 2020, Shift 3Easy

Name the scientific principle behind the working of optical fibres.

  1. A.Total external refraction of light
  2. B.Total internal refraction of light
  3. C.Total internal reflection of light
  4. D.Total external reflection of light
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Correct answer: C. Total internal reflection of light

In an optical fibre the glass core has a higher refractive index than the cladding around it, so light that meets the core-cladding boundary at an angle greater than the critical angle is reflected entirely back into the core instead of passing out, and it travels along the fibre in…

Q10820.Science & TechnologyHard

The ITU framework for 6G, and India's own 6G policy document, are known respectively as:

  1. A.IMT-2030 and the Bharat 6G Vision
  2. B.IMT-2020 and the National Broadband Mission
  3. C.IMT-Advanced and BharatNet
  4. D.IMT-2040 and Digital India
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Correct answer: A. IMT-2030 and the Bharat 6G Vision

The International Telecommunication Union has adopted the framework recommendation for IMT-2030, which describes what 6G should achieve: terahertz and other very high frequency bands, latency below a millisecond, artificial intelligence built into the network, communication combined with sensing, satellite-extended coverage and better energy efficiency.