UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

In the same scheme the Grid Controller of India keeps the registry and the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission regulates trading.

The Energy Conservation (Amendment) Act, 2022 inserted the power for the Central Government to specify a Carbon Credit Trading Scheme, which is why the market sits with the Ministry of Power and its Bureau of Energy Efficiency rather than with the environment ministry.

The correct answer is C, COP26 in Glasgow, held in 2021, where India placed a five-part pledge known as the Panchamrit before the conference: 500 GW of non-fossil energy capacity by 2030, half its energy requirement from renewables by 2030, a cut of one billion tonnes in projected emissions by…

It holds all the market machinery of the Paris Agreement: Article 6.2 lets two countries cooperate bilaterally and transfer Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes with a corresponding adjustment so the same tonne is not counted twice, Article 6.4 establishes a centralised crediting mechanism supervised by a United Nations body as the…

India hosted a very large number of such projects and was among the world's biggest sellers of CERs.

Adopted in 1997 at COP3 in Japan and in force from 2005, it set binding emission targets for developed countries and gave them three flexible mechanisms to meet them; the Clean Development Mechanism, under Article 12, let a developed country fund an emission-reduction project in a developing country and claim…

The tonne is the standard trading unit in every carbon market, compliance or voluntary, and it is written as 1 tCO2e. The word equivalent matters: gases other than carbon dioxide are converted into carbon dioxide terms using their global warming potential, so a much smaller quantity of methane or nitrous…

Ashadh ka Ek Din imagines the poet Kalidasa torn between his village love and the glory offered by the court at Ujjayini, and it is counted the first fully modern Hindi play; Aadhe Adhure and Lahron ke Rajhans are his other major works.

Tughlaq uses the reign of Muhammad bin Tughlaq to speak about idealism turning into failure, and Hayavadana draws on a tale from the Kathasaritsagara about exchanged heads; Nagamandala and Yayati are also his, and he received the Jnanpith Award.

A Doll's House ends with Nora leaving her husband and her children, a conclusion that scandalised audiences and made the play a landmark of realistic social theatre; Ghosts and An Enemy of the People belong to the same phase of his work.

Pygmalion, in which a professor of phonetics trains a flower girl to speak like a duchess, is his most widely known play, and his others include Arms and the Man, Man and Superman and Saint Joan.

In Waiting for Godot two tramps pass the time by a bare tree waiting for a man who never arrives, and the play became the defining work of the Theatre of the Absurd, the movement that refused ordinary plot and meaning in order to show life as it felt after…

The Natyashastra lays down the rules of the stage, of acting, gesture, music and stagecraft, and gives the theory of rasa, the set of aesthetic moods a performance is meant to create in its audience; it is the foundation of all later Indian dramatic and dance theory.

Swapnavasavadattam, the dream of Vasavadatta, turns on King Udayana and his queen and is regarded as his finest work; Urubhanga and Pratima Nataka are also his.

It tells the story of King Pururavas and the celestial nymph Urvashi.

Mudrarakshasa is a political drama whose plot turns on the statecraft of Chanakya as he brings down the Nandas and places Chandragupta Maurya on the throne, and historians use it as a literary source for that change of dynasty.

Mrichchhakatika is a ten-act play about the love of a poor Brahmin merchant for a courtesan, set against a palace revolution, and its English title The Little Clay Cart comes from a toy cart that appears in the story.

Article 262 lets Parliament provide by law for the adjudication of any dispute or complaint about the use, distribution or control of the waters of an inter-State river or river valley, and it also permits Parliament to provide that neither the Supreme Court nor any other court shall exercise jurisdiction…

The 42nd Amendment Act of 1976 moved exactly five subjects from the State List to the Concurrent List: education, forests, weights and measures, protection of wild animals and birds, and administration of justice with the constitution and organisation of all courts except the Supreme Court and the High Courts.

The Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016 inserted Article 279A, under which the President constitutes the GST Council, chaired by the Union Finance Minister, with the Union Minister of State for Finance and a minister nominated by each State as members.