UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Cutting the vegetation on a slope makes landslides more likely, not less, so it can never be a mitigation measure.

The Ryotwari settlement rested on David Ricardo's theory of rent, which held that rent is the surplus left after the cost of cultivation is met, so the state could claim that surplus straight from the tiller.

Thanjavur was the capital of the Chola dynasty, which ruled the Tamil country from the ninth to the thirteenth century.

Goal 15, called Life on Land, is the goal for land ecosystems, and its wording covers forests, desertification, land degradation and the loss of biodiversity.

The Swadeshi Movement began as the answer to Lord Curzon's partition of Bengal, which came into effect on 16 October 1905.

The Advocate General is the highest law officer of a state and advises the state government on legal matters.

Timur invaded India in 1398 and sacked Delhi, the Tughlaq hold on the city collapsed after that blow, and the Sayyid dynasty was the next to rule from Delhi.

The Government of Jammu & Kashmir entrusted the auction of its mineral blocks to the Ministry of Mines, which carried out the process under the Central Government mineral auction route and announced the successful result.

The Wantrag Limestone Block covers 5.36 hectares and carries that estimated limestone resource, and it has been explored up to the G-3 stage, a stage reached with 159 metres of drilling.

Both the Koot-Kapran Limestone Block and the Wantrag Limestone Block lie in Anantnag district of the Union Territory, and the first of them is located more precisely in Koot and Kapran villages of Dooru Tehsil.

Both the blocks auctioned in the Union Territory are limestone blocks, named the Koot-Kapran Limestone Block and the Wantrag Limestone Block, and both lie in Anantnag district.

The Prime Minister used those terms while congratulating the boxer, and he went on to call her success deeply motivating and to say that it highlights her dedication to sporting excellence.

The official account of the result records that the boxer won the gold after a hard-fought final, which tells aspirants that the bout stayed competitive until the end.

Parveen won the gold medal in the women's 65 kg boxing event at the Asian Games after a hard-fought final, and the division is the detail most often tested on a medal story of this kind.

The Prime Minister framed the gold as the outcome of a long career rather than one good day in the ring, and he also wished the boxer well for the endeavours ahead of her.

The boxer closed out the final with a 5-0 scoreline, which the government described as an emphatic victory, and that margin is the reason the win was reported as a dominant one rather than a narrow escape.

Lovlina Borgohain won the gold medal in the women's 75 kg boxing event at the Asian Games, and the weight division is the single detail most likely to be tested, because several Indian boxers compete in neighbouring classes.

The wrestler was appearing at the Asian Games for the first time, and he turned that first appearance into a gold medal, which is what made the achievement notable enough for the Prime Minister to call it a memorable triumph.

Sujeet competed in the freestyle wrestling competition, and his win gave India its first wrestling gold of this edition of the Asian Games.

Sujeet won the gold medal in the men's 65 kg freestyle wrestling event at the Asian Games after a thrilling final, and the weight class is the detail a paper setter is most likely to test.