UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The Raksha Mantri launched the department’s publications and digital initiatives at this celebration held at DRDO Bhawan in New Delhi, and he congratulated the department on nearly three centuries of service to the nation, which fits an edition in the high two hundreds.

The name of the event itself gives it away: in a 4x400m relay, four runners each cover one lap of 400 metres and pass the baton on to the next.

The relay bronze was won by a team of four: Dharmveer Chaudhary, Manu TS, Jay Kumar and Vishal TK.

The Indian quartet of Dharmveer Chaudhary, Manu TS, Jay Kumar and Vishal TK finished on the podium in third place in the men’s 4x400m relay, and the Prime Minister congratulated them on the bronze, praising the timing they clocked.

The Indian minister referred to the G20 Agricultural Market Information System, set up in that year, as one of the mechanisms already available to handle concerns about food and trade.

The ministers reached consensus on this document and expressed their intent to carry the cooperation forward.

The correct answer is Milwaukee, in the state of Wisconsin, and the meeting is hosted under the United States G20 Presidency.

The fund was created under the Indian Telegraph (Amendment) Act, 2003, and the Telecommunications Act, 2023 renamed it Digital Bharat Nidhi.

The project in Maharashtra will be implemented through MDIL, which is why it is one of the five parties to the agreement.

That is the financial support the Government of India has approved for running the Amended BharatNet Programme in Maharashtra under the state-led model, and the agreement signed at Sanchar Bhawan puts it into effect through MahaNet Digital Infrastructure Limited.

The scheme sets this administered price so that producers can see their revenue in advance, which was one of the sector’s long-standing complaints along with fragmented support and poor access to finance.

One of the main changes GOBARdhan brings is that a single ministry now anchors compressed biogas instead of the fragmented support the sector had before, and that ministry is Petroleum and Natural Gas.

The Union Cabinet cleared GOBARdhan on 6 August 2026 with this outlay, and the scheme gives the compressed biogas sector a ten-year framework running from FY 2026-27 to FY 2035-36.

The SETU NSP App brings scholarship services onto a single platform, and lending has nothing to do with the Pre-Matric and Post-Matric Scholarships it serves.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, through its Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, which launched the app in April 2026.

The app carries this name together with the National Scholarship Portal and belongs to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, serving beneficiaries of the Pre-Matric and Post-Matric Scholarships for Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes.

Phase-II follows the two-year Phase-I pilot and is designed to test the methods in varied conditions so that region-specific Standard Operating Procedures can be established.

For decades these two have been the mainstay of post-harvest pest control in the country’s grain reserves, and their widespread, repeated use is what pushed pest resistance to 72 to 100 per cent in key states while raising fumigation cycles and costs.

The correct answer is ICAR-CIPHET, Ludhiana, the Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology, which will carry out the two-year Phase-I of the project on alternatives to chemical fumigation in wheat and rice.

Trishakti Manthan was the event organised as part of the Silver Jubilee, featuring addresses by the Chief of Defence Staff and by the Chief of Integrated Defence Staff, and it is not described as a standing institutional mechanism of the kind listed in the other options.