UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Recalling a conversation with the German Foreign Minister about the migration agreement between India and Germany, Piyush Goyal said the arrangement carries a requirement of 90,000 Indians a year, and that he was told Germany in fact needed substantially more Indian talent than that.

The Minister said that green and renewable sources now make up that share of India's installed electricity capacity, while adding that coal remains necessary for energy security and for keeping power affordable.

Piyush Goyal said India's space economy was valued at USD 8.4 billion at the time of his address and had the potential to reach USD 44 billion by that year, a prospect he linked to the opening of the space sector to private participation.

The Commerce and Industry Minister said the nine free trade and bilateral agreements concluded by the government have opened preferential market opportunities in economies whose combined output comes to that figure.

Air transport was the weakest of the 19 sub-sectors in August 2026 on both measures that the index offers: it contracted 9.6 per cent against August 2025, and its reading was the only one in the whole series below the level of the base year 2024-25.

The correct answer is retail trade, which expanded faster than any other sub-sector over August 2025 and also carried the second highest index reading in the series.

Every reading in the Index of Services Production is measured against output in that base year, so a sub-sector standing above the base-year level has grown since then and one standing below it has not recovered to where it was.

MoSPI compiles and publishes the Index of Services Production, and it released the figures for August 2026 covering 19 broad sub-sectors on the base year 2024-25.

It organised the second edition of the ARISE Cities Forum with the National Institute of Urban Affairs, with support from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, and it also developed the Delhi Biodiversity Map that was launched at the closing ceremony.

The Delhi Declaration 2026 was written to travel from New Delhi to COP31 at Antalya, and the forum's theme, From Bharat to Antalya, was built around that journey.

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Its second edition was held on 27 and 28 October 2026 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, organised by ICLEI South Asia along with the National Institute of Urban Affairs and supported by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

That is the worth of the 23.46 lakh hospital admissions authorised under Ayushman Vay Vandana up to 20 October 2026, two years after the cover began on 29 October 2024.

The NHA runs Ayushman Vay Vandana for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and its Chief Executive, Dr. Sunil Kumar Barnwal, spoke on the second anniversary, saying older citizens should be able to reach healthcare with dignity and security and that money should not decide whether they get a…

By number of treatments it tops the list with 4.71 lakh procedures, close to 20.1 per cent of everything sanctioned under the scheme, and that volume points to how much untreated eye disease older people were living with before the cover arrived.

Ayushman Vay Vandana covers every Indian citizen who has completed 70 years of age, and it does so irrespective of income or social standing.

These four are the classical Lokapalas, each guarding one of the four main directions of the world. In Hindu tradition, as described in texts such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and in later iconography, Indra guards the east, Yama the south, Varuna the west and Kubera the north.

The Bill proposed only a limited criminal jurisdiction for Indian officials over Europeans, and it met fierce European opposition that forced a diluted version.

Under the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968, a party recognised as a state party in four or more states qualifies as a national party.

The Eleventh Schedule lists 29 subjects on which the state legislature may give powers and responsibilities to the Panchayats. The Eleventh Schedule was added by the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992, along with Part IX on Panchayats.