UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The bureau deliberately took its programmes into the licensed poppy-growing tracts of Rajasthan, holding meetings for cultivators in Kota, Jhalawar, Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Pratapgarh and Udaipur districts, including villages such as Mangrol and one near Babrikhda in Jhalrapatan tehsil.

The student session at the University of Kota was organised by CBN Kota under this campaign, with Deputy Narcotics Commissioner Naresh Bundel as chief guest and the university Registrar Murlidhar Pratihar present; participants ended the session by taking the Nasha Mukti Pledge.

The release on the Rajasthan Unit’s anti-addiction programmes was issued under the Ministry of Finance, which is the parent ministry of the Central Bureau of Narcotics; the bureau licenses and supervises legal opium poppy cultivation.

National Anti-Drug Addiction Day falls on 2 October, the birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and the Central Bureau of Narcotics tied its Rajasthan programmes to Gandhi’s message of self-discipline and social responsibility.

Earthquake waves fall into body waves, which travel through the interior of the Earth, and surface waves, which move along the surface, and the surface waves are called L waves, or long waves.

The Bureau of Indian Standards code IS 1893 divides the country into four seismic zones, numbered II, III, IV and V, where Zone V carries the highest risk and Zone II the least.

The Lucknow Pact of December 1916 was an agreement between the Indian National Congress and the All India Muslim League, by which the Congress accepted separate electorates for Muslims and the two bodies placed a joint demand for self government before the British.

The law of demand says that, other things remaining the same, a consumer buys more of a good when its price falls and less when the price rises, so price and quantity demanded move in opposite directions.

Section 62(5) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 says that no person shall vote at any election while he is confined in a prison, whether under a sentence of imprisonment or transportation or otherwise, or is in the lawful custody of the police.

A monopolist is the only seller of a good that has no close substitute, so buyers cannot shift away easily when the price rises and the demand curve the firm faces is steeper, that is less elastic.

Manipur was the first part of India to hold an election on universal adult franchise, when its state assembly was elected in 1948 under the Manipur State Constitution Act of 1947.

Magadha was the first power of ancient India to use elephants in war on a large scale, taking them from the forests of its east Indian heartland.

The same drive was followed at the sabhas in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Jharkhand and Haryana, where plantation accompanied the honouring of sanitation workers and the Swachhata pledge.

The framework lets a panchayat judge its own sanitation work each year, and it was taken up in the Special Gram Sabhas, above all in ODF Plus (Model) Gram Panchayats; the Joint Secretary and Mission Director of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) made a presentation on it at Majigam.

Union Minister of Jal Shakti Shri C. R. Patil attended the Special Gram Sabha there, in Chikhli Block, on Swachh Bharat Diwas.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union is the global body of national parliaments and runs its own affairs, so an election at the United Nations is not on its programme.

He is to sit in the Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, speak in the General Debate and in the debate on the emergency item, and attend the hearing of those who are candidates for the post of IPU President.

The Assembly and the meetings held around it are taking place at Arusha, a city in that country, from 5 to 9 October 2026, and the Indian Parliamentary Delegation left for Arusha for this purpose.

The bond that NABKISAN listed on the National Stock Exchange in Mumbai runs for five years and pays this rate to its holders until it is redeemed in September 2031.

NABKISAN Finance Limited is a NABARD subsidiary, and the listing of the WASH bond was described as a step that strengthens the commitment of both NABARD and NABKISAN to new financing routes for rural development.