UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The Civil Aviation Minister announced while unveiling the curtain raiser that the route development event will take place there from the sixteenth to the eighteenth of March in the year twenty twenty seven, bringing together more than one hundred and fifteen airlines and representatives from over fifty five countries.

The assessment is built in three stages. First comes the baseline or pre-construction survey lasting fourteen months, then a transition period of roughly twelve months, and finally the endline or post-construction survey lasting twenty-two months.

The study will examine that many rural roads, spread across ten States and Union Territories, fifty districts and one hundred and fifty blocks, with a household survey of roughly five thousand families to capture changes in mobility, accessibility and socio-economic conditions.

The National Rural Infrastructure Development Agency, which works under the Ministry of Rural Development, signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Institute of Management Kolkata for a four-year longitudinal study of roads built under PMGSY-IV and PM-JANMAN.

He won his bronze in the men's 5000m, an individual distance race, and was not a member of the relay squad.

Gulveer Singh finished on the podium in this distance race, and the Prime Minister described the result as a remarkable hat-trick of podium finishes for him at these Games, praising his consistency, endurance and determination.

She won the bronze medal in the women's high jump at the Asian Games 2026, and the medal carries extra weight because it is India's first in that event at the Asian Games in more than two decades.

Indian industry at the New Delhi round was represented by L&T and BEML, who joined officials in the discussion on defence production and logistics.

DAPA is the Republic of Korea's government body responsible for defence acquisition and for overseeing the Korean defence industry, and its Vice Minister Kim Il Dong co-chaired the Joint Committee Meeting in New Delhi alongside Additional Secretary (Defence Production) Dinesh Mahur.

The Joint Committee Meeting between India and the Republic of Korea on defence industries and logistics cooperation reached its tenth edition at the New Delhi round, where the two sides reviewed existing defence ties and discussed ways to widen cooperation in defence production and logistics.

Article 226 gives every High Court the power to issue writs for the enforcement of Fundamental Rights. The five writs are habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, certiorari and quo warranto.

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, has four members — India, the United States, Japan and Australia — and Indonesia is not one of them.

A Council of Ministers is a body made up of ministers, so it comes into being only once each of them has been sworn in.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in The Social Contract (1762) that the English people are free only during the election of members of Parliament, and are slaves once the election is over.

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) is the oldest arm of the World Bank Group and the body people mean when they say 'World Bank'.

The workshop highlighted the integration of spatial information with the Gram Panchayat Development Plan process, with the eGramSwaraj platform and with this index as a means of making planning evidence-based and oriented towards convergence between departments and schemes.

He attended the inaugural session as the Guest of Honour and used his remarks to call for a move away from sector-wise planning towards a spatial approach, with greater weight given to human and social capital and to the building of local economic clusters.

Participants at the workshop discussed the constitutional foundation of panchayati raj under this amendment and under Part IX of the Constitution, which together give village level bodies their status, and the deliberations moved on from there to activity mapping, financial resources, staffing, decision-making powers, Gram Sabha participation and institutional accountability.

The workshop on connecting people, places, resources and opportunities through stronger panchayats was an initiative under this mission, and it was conducted in collaboration with the state institute of panchayat and rural development of the Government of Assam.

Gyroplanes are small aircraft whose operational capabilities suit short flights and specialised tasks, and carrying passengers over intercontinental distances is well outside what they are described as being fit for.