UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Jal Arpan is described as a key reform under that mission, and it places rural drinking water systems in the hands of the communities that use them by handing completed schemes to gram panchayats and to Village Water and Sanitation Committees.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the wrestler on the bronze won after a fiercely contested bout, said the achievement adds a new chapter to the country's wrestling journey and wished him continued success in the time to come.

The congratulatory message put the achievement precisely in those terms, noting that six decades later India was back among the medallists in the men's 97 kg freestyle wrestling event at the Asian Games.

The bronze medal was won in that weight category after a fiercely contested bout, and the result was described as bringing India back on to the podium in the event after six decades.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the wrestler on winning India's first Asian Games gold in the men's 57 kg freestyle event, called the win a phenomenal triumph and said that the journey from bronze at the last Games to the top of the podium showed great tenacity.

The congratulatory message traced the wrestler's progress from a bronze medal at the last Asian Games to standing at the top of the podium this time, and it was this climb that the Prime Minister described as a display of great tenacity.

The wrestler won the gold medal in that weight category, and it was recorded as the first time India has won an Asian Games gold in this event, which is precisely what makes the category worth memorising along with the name.

The congratulatory message specifically recorded back-to-back Asian Games golds for the first time, which means the team had won the title at the previous edition and has now defended it.

The Prime Minister's message recorded that the men's team had won back-to-back Asian Games golds for the first time and had secured a fifth gold in all at the Games, which fixes the running total at five.

The Prime Minister, in congratulating the men's team on retaining its Asian Games gold, noted that the triumph was made more special because India's men's and women's hockey teams had both won gold at the same Asian Games for the first time.

The Sea Phase consisted of coordinated exercises in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief, Visit-Board-Search-Seizure and Underway Replenishment, with helicopter work covering cross-deck landings, vertical replenishment and casualty evacuation.

Acronyms with a full form of this length are standard objective-paper material, and the safest way to carry them is word by word rather than by sense, because every distractor here is built to sound right.

Themes are among the most heavily tested details in questions on exercises and summits, because they are specific, short and easy to confuse with a plausible alternative.

The ASEAN-India Maritime Exercise was conducted there, with INS Sahyadri and INS Kulish representing the Indian Navy through both the Harbour Phase and the Sea Phase.

The four areas are strengthening academic research and scholarship, preservation and digitisation of linguistic and literary resources, wider dissemination of classical language heritage, and strengthening regional academic ecosystems.

The correct answer is the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute in Pune, a deemed-to-be university, which will host the centre for Classical Marathi in Maharashtra.

This pairing is a favourite with paper setters precisely because it is not the one a candidate would guess, since Pali is not a language a reader would associate with a particular modern State in the way Assamese or Bengali is.

The Department of Higher Education under the Ministry of Education approved the establishment of five Centres of Excellence, one each for Classical Assamese, Classical Bengali, Classical Marathi, Classical Pali and Classical Prakrit.

The correct answer is Vedic Kavach, the post-quantum cryptography platform built by BISAG-N. The keys produced by the quantum link were integrated with it, and test messages were then encrypted and decrypted from end to end.

Both numbers describe the quality of the link: the key rate is how fast fresh secret material can be produced for encryption, and the error rate measures how often a photon is read wrongly, which in quantum key distribution also signals whether anyone has interfered with the channel.