UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

This is the central theme of the nutrition month that begins on 9 September 2026 at the Rudraksh centre in Varanasi, and it calls upon every citizen to take shared ownership of the Anganwadi centre, described as part of the largest childcare network in the world.

The fest is organised principally by the Payments Council of India, the National Payments Corporation of India and the Fintech Convergence Council, and it receives support from several ministries and regulators, among them the Reserve Bank of India, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, NITI Aayog, the International Financial…

The theme of this edition is Potential to Impact, and these three technologies are described as the foundations that are moving global finance towards autonomous, programmable and secure systems for inclusive finance.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the seventh edition of the Global Fintech Fest there on 8 September 2026, and the festival continues in the same city until 11 September 2026.

The correct answer is the National Quantum Mission, described in the release as the flagship mission of the Department of Science and Technology, which funded part of this study.

The release explains that each of two entangled particles tends to slip from the excited state to the ground state the way an atom loses energy to its surroundings, and that the entanglement weakens as this happens.

The team worked with the University of Calgary and Louisiana State University, and the study was funded in part by the National Quantum Mission, the flagship mission of the same department.

The Home Minister said the Ministry of Home Affairs has decided to run a strengthened campaign against narcotics and has prepared a roadmap for this period, under which every village and every city in the country is to be freed of narcotics with the participation of all concerned departments and…

Every option keeps the same gap of 30 points, which is deliberate, because a candidate who has remembered only the size of the improvement and not the two end points will have no way to choose.

The Home Minister said this number will become a strong shield against every kind of cyber fraud, and that the Goa Police has moved ahead of other States by putting an AI-based call agent on it.

The Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation presented the President's Colour to this force at Panaji, the capital of Goa, saying that after eight decades of distinguished service it now stands alongside the other police forces of the country that carry this honour.

The release describes e-FAST India, which expands to Electric Freight Accelerator for Sustainable Transport - India, as a platform led by NITI Aayog that brings government and industry together, including original equipment manufacturers, logistics service providers, financiers, shippers and charge point operators, with a focus on medium and heavy-duty vehicles.

The NITI Aayog Member used this share to argue that the main freight corridors must be electrified in a planned way rather than left to scattered pilot projects.

The correct answer is from 201 vehicles to 826 vehicles, a rise of more than four times in a single year, which is the figure NITI Aayog used to show that the electric freight market has begun to move.

The word that carries the meaning is aggregating, because the whole purpose of the platform is to pool the freight demand of shippers and logistics service providers so that it becomes large enough and visible enough to justify electric trucks on a corridor.

In the meeting with Prof. Gaspard Banyankimbona, Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology and Innovation of the African Union, India underlined its commitment to a deeper partnership with Africa by offering these digital public infrastructure solutions to African countries.

That double charge explains why he led a delegation on innovation, since the agenda ran across technology policy and trade in technology alike.

The hosts were the United States Department of Commerce and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the consensus text agreed there takes its name from the State, being called the Carolina Principles for Emerging Technologies.

The Secretary of the ministry explained that the National Clean Air Programme gives every city a framework within which it works out its own strategy for clean air, while this portal follows the various parameters of air quality management for the cities under the programme.

The ministry set out the record on PM10 for the year 2025-26 against the base of the financial year 2017-18 in four steps, and every one of those steps appears among the options here, which is what makes the question worth practising.