UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2007–2012) carried the title "Towards Faster and More Inclusive Growth". The Eleventh Plan was prepared by the Planning Commission under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, with Montek Singh Ahluwalia as Deputy Chairman.

The extension is deliberately limited to companies approved under Round 4, and the reason given is practical: a manufacturer entering now needs a longer investment and operational horizon to build a plant and then scale up its capacity, which a shorter tenure would not allow.

The Ministry of Textiles has set a two-month window in which the online portal will accept fresh applications under Round 4, and eligible companies have been asked to apply within that period in keeping with the scheme guidelines.

The ministry has halved the entry bar under Part 2 of the scheme so that micro, small and medium enterprises and mid-sized manufacturing units can take part, where earlier the requirement kept them out.

Speaking on Access and Benefit Sharing, the minister said this protocol provides the basis for sharing fairly and equitably the benefits that arise when genetic resources are used, and he pressed for the principle to be converted into procedures that are workable, transparent and equitable.

The four publications brought out at the side event were the guidelines for designating India's Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures, which let conservation outside formal protected areas be recognised; the fifth national report under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which is India's periodic account of biosafety governance; a handbook on…

India held a side event there with its National Biodiversity Authority and the United Nations Development Programme, and the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change released four publications at it.

That is exactly how the Indian Navy describes the ship in the announcement of its arrival at Busan, and each part of the phrase carries meaning.

The exercise is arranged in two parts. During the harbour phase the two navies hold professional interactions, cross-deck visits, cross-training and sporting events while the Indian frigate is alongside at Busan.

The ship that entered Busan Naval Harbour in the Republic of Korea for the India-Republic of Korea Navy bilateral exercise is INS Sahyadri, a guided missile stealth frigate that was designed and built in India.

The scheme treats international quality and performance standards as the gate through which Indian equipment reaches foreign buyers, so it sets aside this amount to help manufacturers secure certification from International Sports Federations and to renew it when it lapses.

The announcement came in that budget and the Cabinet approval that followed gave the scheme its outlay, its components and its life span, which runs from 2026 to the financial year 2033-34.

The scheme avoids building industrial land afresh and instead plugs the proposed Sports Goods Manufacturing Zones into infrastructure that these two already provide, so that makers, suppliers, testing facilities, design and prototyping centres and ancillary enterprises can sit in one place.

The Cabinet decision fixes this amount as the total outlay of the scheme and sets its life from the year 2026 to the financial year 2033-34.

The correct answer is Veer Guardian 26, the India-Japan air force exercise during which Japanese fighter aircraft came to India for the first time; the Chief of Staff of the Air Self-Defense Force travelled to India in conjunction with it.

Their discussion covered the working of the foundational security agreements and ways to accelerate operational readiness, technology sharing and defence industrial integration, as well as military-to-military exchanges, maritime security and the integration of defence supply chains.

The two ministers welcomed the steady progress in bilateral defence cooperation since they last met in August, and reviewed work on mine countermeasures, the prospect of joint development in naval shipbuilding and design, and cooperation between the two air forces.

The Defence Minister used the occasion for two bilateral meetings, one with the American Secretary of War and the other with the Japanese Minister of Defense.

Alongside the testing programme, the agency held more than three hundred and fifty education and awareness sessions during the year, reaching twenty-seven thousand participants, which shows that prevention through awareness is being pursued in parallel with sample collection.

These are the three values that the UNESCO official named at the conclave as the ones the toolkit carries into education and sport, and they are to be taught through classroom activity rather than only on the playing field.