UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

QNu Labs supplied the hardware QKD device Armos, BISAG-N contributed the post-quantum cryptography platform Vedic Kavach along with one end of the link, and IIT Gandhinagar hosted the other end and provided the field setting.

That is the span over which the country's first free-space Quantum Key Distribution link was established, between the BISAG-N campus and IIT Gandhinagar, in a field trial run on the night of 27 and 28 September.

That is the phrase used in the congratulatory message, which also carried best wishes to the team members for their future endeavours, while the Prime Minister's Office noted on X that the gold had come to India yet again.

The message spoke of the team retaining its title and of the gold coming to India yet again, which together make clear that the side was defending a medal it already owned rather than claiming one for the first time.

The Prime Minister congratulated the Indian men's cricket side on retaining its gold medal at the Asian Games, called the result a joyous occasion for the nation and wished the players well for their future endeavours.

That is the precise shape of the record, and precision matters because questions on firsts are usually set to catch a candidate who remembers the sport but not the exact claim.

The medal was won in the Women's Individual Golf event, and it is India's first gold in that event at the Asian Games.

She won the country's first gold medal in the Women's Individual Golf event at the Asian Games, and the Prime Minister congratulated her the same day, describing the achievement as one for the history books and praising the superb finish that produced it.

The final went to the single-arrow decider that archery uses when two competitors cannot be separated on set points, and the Prime Minister's message praised the composure the archer kept at precisely that moment.

The medal was won in the individual event shot with the recurve bow, and it is this event in which no Indian woman had previously finished on the top step at the Asian Games.

She became the first Indian woman to win the Recurve Individual gold medal at the Asian Games, doing so at the 2026 edition, and the Prime Minister congratulated her on the achievement the same day.

Speaking at the Swachh Bharat Diwas programme of ICAR-IARI in New Delhi, he appreciated the institute's cleanliness drive and asked that Swachhata be treated as a year-round, team-based activity rather than a one-day event, linking a clean workplace with the well-being of employees, the advance of science and the health…

The programme was called Shramik Samman and formed the highlight of the day at the Goa institute.

The Department of Agricultural Research and Education and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research started the campaign on that day, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, which is also observed as Swachh Bharat Diwas.

PM-SETU puts industry in charge of cluster governance: the anchor industry partner takes a majority holding of fifty-one per cent in the special purpose vehicle, while the Union government and the State government hold the rest in equal parts.

Component I covers a thousand government Industrial Training Institutes, split into 200 Hub ITIs and 800 Spoke ITIs, so option D names the number of spokes rather than hubs.

The scheme is funded three ways: the Centre contributes ₹30,000 crore, the State governments ₹20,000 crore and industry ₹10,000 crore, which together make up the full outlay.

The recovery programme is a joint effort of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the Rajasthan Forest Department and the Wildlife Institute of India, with technical collaboration from the International Fund for Houbara Conservation and funding support from National CAMPA.

The bird is the State bird of Rajasthan, and the Chief Minister called the day of its rewilding a day of pride for the whole State, noting that the species is part of the cultural heritage of the Thar and has been brought back from the brink of extinction.

The two captive-bred birds were moved from a soft-release facility at this park in the Thar desert, with the Union Environment Minister present at the site and the Chief Minister of Rajasthan joining by video conference during Wildlife Week 2026.