UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 is an Indian law, so it can only set up and govern Indian bodies.

The Human Development Index, published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990 and designed with the economist Mahbub ul Haq, measures three dimensions.

Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer who had never been to India before, chaired the two Boundary Commissions, one for Punjab and one for Bengal, set up under the Indian Independence Act of 1947.

A wind gap has nothing to do with wind, despite its name. It is a notch or gap in a ridge through which a river once flowed; when that river's headwaters were captured by another stream, the gap was left dry.

The rand is the official currency of South Africa, and ZAR is its international code, taken from the Dutch name Zuid-Afrikaanse Rand.

. An Exchange-Traded Fund holds a basket of assets, such as the shares of an index, gold or bonds, and its units are listed and traded on a stock exchange like a share.

Milton Friedman put forward the natural rate of unemployment in his presidential address to the American Economic Association in 1967, published in 1968; Edmund Phelps reached a similar idea independently.

Panchmuli Lake lies in the Sardar Sarovar reservoir area on the Narmada at Ekta Nagar (Kevadia) in the Narmada district of Gujarat, close to the Statue of Unity, and is known for its boat rides and crocodiles.

Kashmir Shaivism, a non-dual (Advaita) school of Shaiva philosophy, is traced to the sage Vasugupta, who lived in Kashmir around the late 8th or early 9th century CE.

Under Article 270 of the Constitution, the taxes levied and collected by the Union, such as income tax, corporation tax, Union excise duties and the central GST, form a divisible pool that is shared with the States on the recommendation of the Finance Commission.

The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in December 1997 at Kyoto in Japan under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and came into force in February 2005.

The Technology Development Fund was set up by the Ministry of Defence in 2016 and is run by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) as part of the Make in India drive.

The Vice-President said he was satisfied that negotiations on India's association with it had been concluded, and he mentioned this while speaking of cooperation in technology, research and innovation.

The Vice-President used this phrase for the proposed Free Trade Agreement between India and the European Union, expressed the hope that it would be signed within this year, and asked the visiting members for the support of the European Parliament in bringing it to completion.

Its delegation, led by Mr David McAllister, was received by the Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman at Parliament House in New Delhi, and the talk ranged over trade, technology, research and the broader partnership between India and the European Union.

Punatsangchhu-I is the project of that size, and the two ministers noted that dam work there has moved steadily since concreting resumed in April 2026.

Four bilateral meetings were held on the margins of the week, and Japan was not among them.

This was the installed electricity capacity of the country as on 30 September 2026, and of it about 308 GW, or roughly 55 per cent, came from non-fossil sources.

The projection of about 23 crore senior citizens by that year is the reason given for strengthening institutional machinery and community participation under Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana.

Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana was launched in 2021 and it took in that earlier plan, widened its scope and brought a number of separate measures for older persons under a single umbrella scheme of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.