UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the ministry that handles wildlife and biodiversity matters and under which the National Zoological Park works.

The correct answer is 47 species, with sightings of more than seven hundred and fifty individual birds during the walk.

The zoo has planned a week of walks and competitions in that window, among them a tree walk, a birds walk, a butterfly and dragonfly walk, a spider and insect walk, a reptile, amphibian and molluscs walk, a keeper's talk with enclosure enrichment, and contests in clay modelling, poster making…

The Lalit Kala Akademi is the National Academy of Art and works under the Ministry of Culture, and it is this body that organises the National Exhibition of Art every year along with the Lalit Kala Akademi Awards.

Selection for this exhibition happens in two stages. The first-tier jury went through the entries and shortlisted two hundred and seventy artworks for presentation at the show.

These came from two thousand four hundred and ninety-five artists spread across twenty-seven States and Union Territories, which is why option A is a trap: that number counts the artists, not the works.

A second-tier jury, set up only to judge the prize entries, selected twenty artworks by twenty artists for the Lalit Kala Akademi Awards at the sixty-fifth National Exhibition of Art. Options A, B and D do not match the number announced by the Akademi.

The ministry exchanged agreements with Airbnb India for homestay development and host skilling, with FlixBus India for destination promotion and responsible travel through intercity mobility, with Glance Digital Experience of the InMobi Group for digital tourism content and responsible visitor messaging, with Eicher Group Foundation for community-led heritage tourism in…

Its purpose is to redistribute demand away from destinations carrying heavy footfall towards places that are travel-ready but less visited.

The stack is meant to make India's tourism offerings easier to find, reach and trust: providers will be able to list themselves across participating platforms, backed by verified identities and supplier credentials, search and discovery, payments, ratings and a grievance redressal route.

India marked the day at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, and the keynote on this theme was given by Dr Vivek Raghavan, Co-Founder of Sarvam AI, who described how technology can reshape every stage of travel, from discovering a destination to booking and sharing the experience.

He described the showing in Shanghai as a significant leap in India's global skills journey and credited competitors, experts, trainers and industry partners.

The correct answer is 70 competitors in 63 skills, which was the largest Indian contingent ever sent to the event.

She took a Silver Medal in the Bakery skill and was additionally recognised as Best of Nation for India, the honour given to the country's standout performer.

Team India ended the 48th WorldSkills Competition in Shanghai in tenth position, with six Silver Medals and twenty Medal for Excellence to its name.

Tropical dry deciduous forest covers the largest share of India's forest area.

Estimates of poverty and unemployment in India rest on the large sample surveys of the National Sample Survey Office, which since 2019 works as part of the National Statistical Office under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.

The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 defines a deaf person in its schedule as one having 70 dB hearing loss in speech frequencies in both ears.

The makers of the Constitution took the scheme of a federation with a strong centre from Canada, and with it the rule that subjects not listed in any of the three lists stay with the Union; Article 248 and entry 97 of the Union List carry that rule.

When a bill passed by a state legislature is presented to the Governor, Article 200 gives four courses: give assent, withhold assent, return the bill for reconsideration if it is not a money bill, or reserve it for the consideration of the President.