UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

While describing what the Commanders' Conference will underline, the Ministry of Defence pointed to the Navy's role in safeguarding India's maritime interests, the security of energy included, against the background of continuing conflicts in West Asia.

The Navy's apex leadership is assessing its overall preparedness against these three foundational pillars, whose initials form the acronym JAI, with the object of optimising force levels and raising combat readiness.

The second edition of the Indian Navy's Commanders' Conference for the year is being held there over three days, from 29 September to 1 October 2026.

The Home Minister said the Shahzad Bhatti network, which smuggled weapons, explosives and narcotics across the border, has been designated a terrorist organisation under this law.

Speaking at the counter-terrorism conference in New Delhi, the Union Home Minister said that over the years from 2019 to 2026 the government succeeded in bringing 288 fugitive criminals back to India, and that these returns came from 36 different countries.

At the PRAHAAR conference in New Delhi the Union Home Minister launched this portal, whose purpose is to bring together and quicken the effort of returning fugitives who have fled abroad.

Article 316 of the Constitution fixes this term for the chairman and members of a State Public Service Commission. The same article gives members of the Union Public Service Commission six years or the age of 65, so the six years is common and only the retiring age differs.

Loess is a deposit of fine silt and dust carried by the wind and dropped far from where it was picked up, so it is the classic wind made or aeolian soil.

Raja Nand Kumar, a Brahmin revenue officer of Bengal, accused Warren Hastings of taking bribes. Soon afterwards Nand Kumar himself was charged with forgery, tried by the Supreme Court at Calcutta under Chief Justice Elijah Impey and hanged in 1775.

Article 32 gives every person the right to move the Supreme Court directly when a fundamental right is violated, and it is itself a fundamental right.

Article 151 deals with the audit reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

Ethiopia is counted among India's important defence partners and the association between the two militaries dates from that year, which makes it one of India's older defence links on the African continent.

The correct answer is February 2025, when the defence ministers of the two countries signed the Defence Cooperation Memorandum of Understanding that set up the standing mechanism for these consultations.

The correct answer is Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, where the two sides met to discuss military training, exercises, medical cooperation, peacekeeping and defence industries.

Mobile Number Portability allows a subscriber to shift to another operator while keeping the same telephone number, and that many requests were filed during the month under review.

Tele-density expresses the number of telephone connections for every hundred people, and for the country as a whole, with machine-to-machine cellular connections counted in, it stood at that level.

The correct answer is 1101.21 million, the broadband base at the close of that month.

India attaches particular importance to this population and has placed it among the species chosen for focused conservation effort, a list of twenty-five in all.

India joined the International Whaling Commission in that year and has played a prominent part in whale conservation within the body ever since.

India used its Opening Statement there to argue for conservation grounded in science.