UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is Retail Sales, in which Saniya Joshi of NIFT Panchkula won a silver medal.

India entered the competition with its largest-ever contingent, 70 competitors across 63 skills, and came away in tenth position with 6 silver medals and 20 Medals for Excellence.

The contest drew more than 1,400 young competitors from about 68 countries and regions who competed across 64 skills, and India took part with its largest contingent so far.

He described the certificate as a tool that helps Indian producers, exporters and forest-based enterprises meet the due-diligence and deforestation-free timber sourcing rules now applied by major overseas markets, and also called it a livelihood mission for tribal and rural communities, smallholder farmers, women's self-help groups and gatherers of non-timber…

Forest management under PRAMAAN is assessed against the Indian Forest Management Standard, and that standard is part of this Code, so certification is anchored in audited forest management rather than in a voluntary self-declaration by the producer.

The correct answer is the Andhra Pradesh Forest Development Corporation, which was certified for its plantations spread over 33,000 hectares after a field and management audit.

The Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change handed over the first certificates under this scheme in New Delhi, and the certificate itself carries the name PRAMAAN.

The National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy, shortened to NIPUN Bharat, was begun in July 2021 under the aegis of Samagra Shiksha and works on the foundational stage covering children of 3 to 8 years, with the goal of universal foundational literacy and numeracy by 2026-27…

ULLAS, also known as the Nav Bharat Saaksharta Karyakram or the New India Literacy Programme, aims to cover 5 crore learners over 2022-27, and that outlay is the sum sanctioned for the period.

The States and Union Territories that declared full literacy in that period are Ladakh, Mizoram, Goa, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir, which comes to ten in all.

The Periodic Labour Force Survey of 2025 puts the country's overall literacy rate at that level, and this is the headline figure quoted for India's literacy today.

Shifting agriculture is called jhoom or jhum cultivation in India, especially in the north eastern hills. In this method a patch of forest is cleared and burnt, and the ash left behind manures the soil.

Sindhi was added to the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution by the 21st Constitutional Amendment Act of 1967. The Eighth Schedule is the list of languages the Constitution recognises, and a candidate may take the civil services examination in any of them.

A line of trees or tall shrubs works as a windbreak: it slows the wind close to the ground so the moving air can no longer lift loose soil.

India allows foreign direct investment of up to 100 per cent through the automatic route in railway infrastructure.

The Irula, also written Irular, are one of the main tribal communities of Tamil Nadu and live mostly in the Nilgiri hills and in the districts along the border with Kerala.

In this case of 1973 a bench of thirteen judges, the largest the Supreme Court has ever assembled, held by seven votes to six that Parliament may amend any part of the Constitution but may not damage or destroy its basic structure.

The Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Act, 2020 gives the union territory five official languages: Kashmiri, Dogri, Urdu, Hindi and English.

Jhumpa Lahiri, born in London to Bengali parents and brought up in the United States, moved to Rome and began writing in Italian rather than in English.

In early Buddhist art the Buddha was never shown in human form, so the events of his life were carved as symbols, and the stupa stands for his mahaparinirvana, that is his death at Kushinagar.