UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

India had never taken the gold in this archery event at the Asian Games before, and Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Anil Mohod and Kirti ended that wait, which is why the Prime Minister described the win as historic and as a landmark for the sport.

The three of them shot together in the women's recurve team event at the Asian Games and brought India the gold medal, the country's first ever in that event, and the Prime Minister congratulated all three by name.

The municipal council there collects 300 to 350 kg of sanitary waste a day from hospitals, clinics, households and other premises, placed red bins inside public toilets, and worked with women residents to form awareness groups that carried the message through residential areas.

The structure built by the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation at Sector 14, Koparkhairane, uses 426 square metres of recycled plastic sheeting, which includes 5.3 metric tonnes of single-use plastic, and the builders also reused 85 repurposed computer keyboards and 284 kg of scrap metal.

It holds three Indian-style and two Western-style commodes, a sanitary napkin vending machine and an incinerator for menstrual hygiene, and a dedicated space where mothers can feed babies and change nappies, while its sensor lights run on solar power the facility itself generates.

The correct answer is 2 October 2014, the date from which the mission counts the twelve years it now completes.

The host state added a specific claim worth remembering: its Additional Chief Secretary for Finance said West Bengal has for the first time mapped its budget to the goal level of the Goals and has built the exercise into its Integrated Financial Management System.

The guide was taken up at the workshop as a working framework for aligning state budgets with the Goals, and the presence of the national auditor among its authors is the detail that gives the question its edge: tagging expenditure is not only a planning exercise but also one that…

Alongside these participants, the workshop drew senior officials from NITI Aayog, the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, the Controller General of Accounts, the Department of Public Enterprises and the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, as well as the United…

The correct answer is the State Support Mission, the initiative under which NITI Aayog works with states on planning and budgeting, and under which this workshop was held with the Government of West Bengal and technical support from the United Nations Development Programme.

The correct answer is more than 7000 MT worth about USD 22 million, shipped to more than twenty international destinations during that financial year.

The correct answer is Mundra Port, from which the shipment moves to the Piraeus Port in Greece.

Cultivation in the state is spread across more than thirty-five thousand hectares in ten districts.

The consignment of popped phool makhana left Purnea in Bihar for Greece, sailing from Mundra Port in India to the Piraeus Port at the Greek end.

Speaking on updating the Most-Favoured-Nation principle, the minister said India trade with G20 members rests on a transparent, non-discriminatory and rules-based system, that this treatment guarantees the same terms to the smallest and the largest trader, and that consensus remains central to the organisation.

The three wrong options are not random: the Indian minister held bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the Milwaukee meeting with the Minister for Trade and Tourism of Australia, the Minister of Commerce of Saudi Arabia, the Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness of France, the Minister for…

Speaking on ending forced labour in global supply chains, the minister said India commitment to eliminating forced labour is absolute and unconditional, and that the Constitution forbids forced labour as a fundamental right enforceable by the Supreme Court.

The correct answer is Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry joined the concluding day of the G20 Trade Ministers Meeting under the United States Presidency.

The cargo that does attract the benefit is of three kinds: a Full Container Load, where one consignor fills a whole container, a Less than Container Load, where a shipment shares container space with others, and a Reefer container, the refrigerated box in which perishables such as fruit, fish and…

Component II nudges an exporter into taking Export Credit Guarantee Corporation cover for upcoming shipments to the specified regions, and that cover carries ninety-five per cent risk coverage, available on a Stand Alone Policy or a Whole Turnover Policy obtained on or after 16 March 2026.