UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

C. Rajagopalachari led the salt march in the Madras Presidency, in the area that is now Tamil Nadu. When the Civil Disobedience Movement began in 1930, Rajagopalachari marched from Tiruchirappalli to Vedaranyam on the Tanjore coast and broke the salt law there in April 1930.

The Imad Shahi dynasty founded the Sultanate of Berar in 1490. As the Bahmani kingdom of the Deccan broke up in the late fifteenth century, five successor sultanates appeared.

The Vernacular Press Act was passed in 1878, when Lord Lytton was Viceroy of India. The Act was aimed at Indian-language newspapers, which had grown sharply critical of British rule after the famine of 1876-78.

El Nino is the warming of surface water in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific. In a normal year the trade winds push warm water westwards towards Australia and Indonesia, and cold water rises along the coast of Peru and Ecuador.

This article vests the superintendence, direction and control of elections in the Election Commission of India. Article 324 falls in Part XV of the Constitution, which covers elections.

The Fundamental Duties were added on the recommendation of this committee, set up in 1976. The Swaran Singh Committee suggested that the Constitution should spell out the duties of citizens alongside their rights.

This statement is incorrect, because the Brahmo Samaj was founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy at Calcutta in 1828. Swami Dayanand Saraswati was born in 1824 as Mool Shankar at Tankara in the Morbi region of present-day Gujarat.

Article 167 lists the duties of the Chief Minister towards the Governor.

Scientific management of municipal solid waste has been a core objective of the mission since that launch, and as the mission grew, organic waste came to be treated as a resource for clean energy rather than as rubbish.

At the Bowenpally Vegetable Market roughly ten tonnes of vegetable and fruit waste is collected each day, and since an on-site biogas plant came up almost all of it is used rather than sent to landfill.

Adarsh Gaushala stands at Laltipara and is the city's largest cowshed, home to more than ten thousand cattle. Its compressed bio-gas plant of 100 tonnes per day opened in October 2024, spread over five acres, cost 31 crore rupees and was developed with Indian Oil Corporation.

The plant in Uttar Pradesh takes in that quantity of organic waste each day and yields about twenty-one tonnes of bio-CNG, along with twenty-eight tonnes of good quality compost that goes to farmers nearby.

Modhera is better known for its Sun Temple, raised by King Bhimdev the First in 1025 and attacked the very next year, when Mahmud of Ghazni also pulled down the Somnath temple; it hosts a dance festival every January after Makar Sankranti.

A household logs in with its mobile number, gives its location, fills in the family details and submits the form; nothing has to be uploaded, the whole process runs to about fifteen to twenty minutes, and a special identity number comes back that is shown to the enumerator when the…

Indian Army soldiers crossed the Line of Control on that night and hit terrorist launch pads, and the action is described as a decisive break in the way India answers cross-border terrorism, followed later by the Balakot air strike and Operation Sindoor.

The September edition of the monthly radio address, broadcast on 27 September 2026, was its 138th episode, and in it the Prime Minister looked back at ten years of the surgical strike carried out on the night of 28-29 September 2016, appealed to households to enter their own census details…

Kabartal Wetland, known locally as Kanwar Jheel, lies in Begusarai district of Bihar and was designated a Ramsar site in 2020, becoming the first Ramsar site in the state.

Pulicat Lake lies across the boundary of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, with the larger share in Andhra Pradesh, and is the second largest brackish-water lagoon in India after Chilika.

Part IX of the Constitution of India is headed 'The Panchayats'. It was inserted by the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992, which came into force on 24 April 1993, now marked as National Panchayati Raj Day, and it runs from Article 243 to Article 243-O. Part IX gives panchayats a…

Satyendra Prasad Sinha, later Lord Sinha of Raipur, was the first Indian appointed to the Viceroy's Executive Council, taking the post of Law Member under Lord Minto in 1909.