UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The Commission acted on its own motion on a media report that the police had walked three men through a Kolkata locality in a semi-nude state with ropes tied round their waists, and it issued a notice to the Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, seeking a detailed report within two weeks.

DRDO reported clearing all of its targets on three fronts: public grievances awaiting redressal, Parliamentary Assurances, and references that pass between ministries.

The clearing of obsolete equipment, redundant furniture and scrap material from DRDO campuses, the residential complexes attached to them and the research testing ranges was carried out in an environment-friendly manner, and the disposal brought in that amount as revenue.

Under Special Campaign 6.0 the files that DRDO has earmarked for weeding out, about 20,000 of them, are being disposed of in line with record retention schedules, and the paper left after shredding is handed to KVIC so that it can be recycled instead of being dumped.

It coordinates the Special Campaign for Disposal of Pending Matters, and the sixth edition of that campaign has now been taken up by the Defence Research and Development Organisation across its headquarters, laboratories and establishments.

Recalling a conversation with the German Foreign Minister about the migration agreement between India and Germany, Piyush Goyal said the arrangement carries a requirement of 90,000 Indians a year, and that he was told Germany in fact needed substantially more Indian talent than that.

The Minister said that green and renewable sources now make up that share of India's installed electricity capacity, while adding that coal remains necessary for energy security and for keeping power affordable.

Piyush Goyal said India's space economy was valued at USD 8.4 billion at the time of his address and had the potential to reach USD 44 billion by that year, a prospect he linked to the opening of the space sector to private participation.

The Commerce and Industry Minister said the nine free trade and bilateral agreements concluded by the government have opened preferential market opportunities in economies whose combined output comes to that figure.

Air transport was the weakest of the 19 sub-sectors in August 2026 on both measures that the index offers: it contracted 9.6 per cent against August 2025, and its reading was the only one in the whole series below the level of the base year 2024-25.

The correct answer is retail trade, which expanded faster than any other sub-sector over August 2025 and also carried the second highest index reading in the series.

Every reading in the Index of Services Production is measured against output in that base year, so a sub-sector standing above the base-year level has grown since then and one standing below it has not recovered to where it was.

MoSPI compiles and publishes the Index of Services Production, and it released the figures for August 2026 covering 19 broad sub-sectors on the base year 2024-25.

It organised the second edition of the ARISE Cities Forum with the National Institute of Urban Affairs, with support from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, and it also developed the Delhi Biodiversity Map that was launched at the closing ceremony.

The Delhi Declaration 2026 was written to travel from New Delhi to COP31 at Antalya, and the forum's theme, From Bharat to Antalya, was built around that journey.

Implement. Deliver.

Its second edition was held on 27 and 28 October 2026 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, organised by ICLEI South Asia along with the National Institute of Urban Affairs and supported by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

That is the worth of the 23.46 lakh hospital admissions authorised under Ayushman Vay Vandana up to 20 October 2026, two years after the cover began on 29 October 2024.

The NHA runs Ayushman Vay Vandana for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and its Chief Executive, Dr. Sunil Kumar Barnwal, spoke on the second anniversary, saying older citizens should be able to reach healthcare with dignity and security and that money should not decide whether they get a…

By number of treatments it tops the list with 4.71 lakh procedures, close to 20.1 per cent of everything sanctioned under the scheme, and that volume points to how much untreated eye disease older people were living with before the cover arrived.