UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

This is the defining characteristic of the gyroplane: the rotor above the aircraft is not driven by the engine but turns freely in the airflow, and that rotation produces the lift, while the forward thrust is supplied separately by a propeller.

It has issued the Civil Aviation Requirement prescribing the ground and flying training syllabus that a candidate must complete before a pilot licence in the gyroplane category is granted.

The five initiatives were face authentication for the electronic Public Distribution System, the SWIK Portal in its second version, the framework allowing smaller entities to use the authentication infrastructure of an existing agency, a token management system for visitors to state and regional offices, and the redesigned website of the…

The redesigned website of the authority supports that many languages at present, English and Hindi among them, using the BHASHINI language platform, and the stated plan is to extend the coverage to twenty three languages in the near future.

The three bodies together launched a consent-based and contactless face authentication option for the electronic Public Distribution System, giving beneficiaries an additional way to authenticate themselves in situations where fingerprint authentication may be difficult, and allowing States and Union Territories to fold the facility into their own ration distribution systems.

The day-long stakeholders conference named Aadhaar Samvaad was held there, it coincided with the seventeenth Aadhaar Day, and more than six hundred policy makers, industry leaders, technocrats and professionals took part in it.

That is the number of forest officers honoured at the fourth edition of the Eco Warrior Awards for exemplary contribution to environmental conservation, in addition to the Lifetime Achievement Award presented separately to a senior officer of the service.

The Special Projects Recognition at the fourth edition of the awards went to these two efforts for their contribution to the conservation of species and of habitat, the bustard project being the one running in Rajasthan.

It organises the Eco Warrior Awards and the Eco Warrior Conclave jointly with Indian Masterminds, and the fourth edition was held in New Delhi under the chairmanship of the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

He is an Indian Forest Service officer of the 1976 batch from the Karnataka cadre, and the Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to him by the Union Environment Minister in recognition of decades of work in forest and wildlife conservation, including efforts against sandalwood smuggling and against the activities of…

That is the exact combination of qualities the Prime Minister singled out in his congratulatory message on the women's Trap team silver, and it suits the event well, because a team score in Trap is the sum of the members' individual efforts and therefore depends on all three shooters holding…

Trap is one of the shotgun events in competitive shooting: the athlete fires at clay targets that are flung away from the firing stand at speed, and the discipline rewards quick reaction, steady aim and concentration held over a long series of shots.

These three shooters made up the Indian side that finished second in the women's Trap team competition at the Asian Games, and the Prime Minister congratulated them by name on the silver, praising their precision, focus and teamwork.

The congratulatory message on the relay gold came from the Prime Minister and was put out through the Prime Minister's Office.

The four Indian runners finished ahead of every other team in the final, and the Prime Minister described the result as taking India to the top of the podium, which is the position held only by the gold medallists.

Kiran Pahal, Poovamma MR, Prachi and Vithya Ramraj ran together in that event at the Asian Games and finished first, and the Prime Minister praised their speed and determination for carrying the country to the top of the podium.

The Government of India Act of 1858, passed after the revolt of 1857, ended the rule of the East India Company and placed India directly under the British Crown.

Vijayalaya founded the line known as the Imperial Cholas around 850 CE by taking Thanjavur from the Muttaraiyar chiefs, who held it as feudatories of the Pallavas.

Chhau was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010.

The Bardoli Satyagraha began in February 1928 in Bardoli taluka of Surat district in Gujarat, after the Bombay government raised the land revenue by about twenty-two per cent in a year when the crop had already been poor.