UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The Ministry places that state in a different band, saying it has achieved more than 85 per cent coverage of its identified target population rather than complete coverage.

The figure covers the whole campaign since its launch in February 2026 and was announced as a milestone in the prevention of cervical cancer.

The release says the Act brings greater clarity on the summoning of bank officials in proceedings where the bank is not itself a party, and that a special cause has to be recorded in writing by the court before such a summons is issued.

The release states that the new Act replaces the Bankers' Books Evidence Act of that year and provides a modern framework for the use of banking records as evidence in keeping with the way banks work now.

The Ministry of Finance says a notification appointed that day as the date on which the provisions of the Act take effect.

The Ministry of Education says the exposition is being held as a lead-up to, and alongside, the summit that falls on those two days under India's BRICS Chairship.

The release records that the first Bharat Innovates was held there from the fourteenth to the sixteenth of June 2026, under the India-France Year of Innovation, and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Emmanuel Macron inaugurated it together.

The Ministry of Education says the exposition at Bharat Mandapam is showing that many Indian deep-tech start-ups and ventures, and that they were drawn from the larger group which had taken part in the first Bharat Innovates at Nice.

Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal told the opening session that trade among the BRICS countries had risen from USD 84 billion in 2003 to nearly that level by 2024, and he used the figure to argue that the grouping is a significant and fast growing market.

The Prime Minister said the group was launched in that year with only four countries, and that the Forum was being held in the year the grouping completes twenty years.

The Prime Minister named this theme while addressing the BRICS Business Forum in New Delhi, and said India had made the same mantra the base of its economic and trade policy over the past twelve years.

This question is hard precisely because every option names a person who was actually present, so each must be tied to the right role.

The release states that the award was presented during the sixteenth edition of the Sansad Ratna Awards, held at the Dr Ambedkar International Centre in the national capital, and it adds that the jury of the Sansad Ratna Awards Committee recognised the service of the Commission to the nation and…

The release identifies Kishor Makwana as the Chairman of the NCSC and says the award recognises his dedicated service to that Commission and his contribution to advancing social justice, adding that the Commission has strengthened its role in safeguarding the constitutional rights of the Scheduled Castes under his leadership.

The release says that to strengthen the authenticity of documents and prevent fraudulent claims, a system for verifying income and caste certificates on the spot, directly with the authorities that issued them, was introduced under this scheme from the academic year 2024-25, and that the measure helps ensure the benefit…

Under the Scheme for Residential Education for Students in High Schools in Targeted Areas, the annual examination schedule of the National Entrance Test for SHRESHTA has been advanced from May to December.

The release states that more than 1.44 crore Scheduled Caste students have benefited under the Pre-Matric and Post-Matric Scholarship Schemes and that scholarships amounting to Rs 12,773 crore have been disbursed to support their education.

The release states in its headline and again in the opening paragraph that the operations resulted in the arrest of 24 persons, including three foreign nationals.

The release records that the DRI, acting in coordination with the BSF, seized 89 pieces of foreign-origin gold bars weighing around 11.3 kg from a person near the Indo-Bangladesh border at BOP Halderpara, and that the man, unable to produce documents of lawful possession, admitted his involvement and was arrested.

The release names this statute twice in the same episode near the Indo-Bangladesh border, saying that because the person could not produce documents for lawful possession the gold was seized under the Customs Act, and that he was arrested under the relevant provisions of the same Act.