UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Speaking at the send-off of the Asian Games contingent, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya said the target is that year, by which India hopes to host the Olympic Games and to be firmly established on the world stage, and he described a ten-year plan with more than thirty six thousand crore rupees…

At the send-off he unveiled the official jersey of the contingent along with three other office bearers, and the release identifies him as the Chef de Mission, the person who leads the contingent at the Games themselves.

At the send-off ceremony in New Delhi on 8 September 2026, the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports said that a contingent of this size, made up of athletes together with support staff, is going to the Asian Games in Japan.

Both sides noted at the meeting that bilateral cooperation between India and Morocco is moving towards its seventieth anniversary in that year, and they agreed to expand defence ties ahead of the milestone.

A Memorandum of Understanding on defence cooperation was signed when Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh visited Morocco in September 2025, and the Joint Defence Committee is the institutional mechanism established through that MoU.

The first meeting of the Joint Defence Committee between India and Morocco took place in the Indian capital on 8 September 2026, and the Moroccan delegation was in India from 7 to 10 September 2026 for the purpose.

The announcement states that Japan is taking part with its F-2A fighter aircraft, while the Indian side has fielded a mix of front-line fighters, namely the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, the Su-30 MKI and the Rafale.

The Ministry of Defence has said that the Indian Air Force and the Japan Air Self Defence Force are flying the Veer Guardian-2026 exercise at this station in Rajasthan, and the programme runs from 9 September 2026 to 22 September 2026.

Veer Guardian-2026 is a bilateral air exercise of the Indian Air Force and the Japan Air Self Defence Force, and it is being held at Air Force Station Jodhpur from 9 September 2026 to 22 September 2026.

Nanha Sa Dil is run by Coal India Limited with the Sri Sathya Sai Health and Education Trust, began in four districts of Jharkhand in March 2024, and has completed more than 1,500 corrective surgeries that are free for the family, including the cost of travel and hospital stay.

The launch described the coal sector document as the first sector-specific corporate social responsibility framework since statutory CSR came in under that Act, which is the legal anchor of the entire CSR system for Indian companies.

The framework launched by the Union Minister of Coal and Mines in New Delhi on 8 September 2026 was drafted by this institute and is meant to guide outcome-oriented corporate social responsibility spending for people living around coal mines.

That is why the agriculture ministry publishes a weekly progressive sowing report through the monsoon months and why the position as on 4 September 2026, when the sown area stood at 1086.31 lakh hectares, is treated as an important signal for the year's foodgrain supply.

Pulses were sown on 117.13 lakh hectares against 115.30 lakh hectares a year earlier, and jute and mesta on 6.34 lakh hectares against 6.24 lakh hectares, so these are the only two groups of the report standing above last season.

The weekly progressive sowing report of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, issued on 8 September 2026, gives this as the total area under kharif crops for the position as on 4 September 2026.

That is the cumulative amount of suspected fraud stopped through the indicator up to August 2026, which is why the announcement speaks of more than five thousand crore rupees saved in fifteen months.

The FRI is developed under this platform, which classifies mobile numbers as medium, high or very high risk and securely shares the result with banks, payment service providers, insurers, securities intermediaries and pension entities.

The FRI is a telecom intelligence framework built by that department and offered to financial institutions through its Digital Intelligence Platform, and on 8 September 2026 it was reported to have prevented suspected cyber fraud of more than five thousand crore rupees since its launch on 22 May 2025.

The campaign will be launched on 9 September 2026 at the Rudraksh International Cooperation and Convention Centre in that city of Uttar Pradesh, and the venue itself is a useful detail to remember because paper setters like naming convention centres.

Mission Poshan 2.0 is the unified national nutrition mission of the country, brought together in the Union Budget of 2021-22 under that ministry, and it merges POSHAN Abhiyaan, Anganwadi Services or the Integrated Child Development Services, and the Scheme for Adolescent Girls into one framework.