UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The choice of venue was not incidental: international delegates who had attended the statutory meetings of the UNESCO anti-doping conventions the previous day were present, which placed the classroom initiative squarely within the wider anti-doping effort.

The toolkit's video modules are to be made available in thirteen Indian languages so that the material can reach students in different parts of the country rather than only those comfortable in English or Hindi.

Items such as switchgear and circuit breakers, uninterruptible power supplies and solid-state drives, and end-face connectors for optical fibres pushed the group up, which tells a story about demand from power distribution and data networks.

On this base the general index for the month under review reads above the hundred mark, which simply means output is higher than it was in the base year.

The correct answer is electricity and gas supply, which grew at the fastest rate among the four sectors that make up the index.

The correct answer is 6.7 per cent, the year on year growth recorded by the quick estimates for September 2026.

The Cabinet decision records that the scheme for container manufacturing had been announced in that budget, and the approval of 28 October 2026 is the step that turned the announcement into a sanctioned scheme with components and amounts.

The Interest Subvention Assistance component, for which 859 crore rupees has been provided, lowers the interest cost on eligible term loans by three percentage points a year.

The scheme envisages raising annual domestic container manufacturing capacity by roughly ten times, up to that level.

The correct answer is 10,000 crore rupees, the full outlay sanctioned for the scheme and available up to the financial year 2039-40.

The scheme supports the preparation of about 2.55 lakh holistic Gram Panchayat Development Plans every year on that portal, bringing village priorities, departmental interventions and available resources onto one platform for participatory planning.

PANCHAM is described in the Cabinet decision as an artificial-intelligence enabled, multilingual, two-way communication platform working in seventeen Indian languages, and the scheme will use it to explain central programmes to villagers in language they actually speak.

The scheme has been sanctioned for the years from 2026-27 to 2030-31, and the Cabinet decision states plainly that this term is co-terminus with that commission's period.

The sum is shared between the two tiers of government, and that is exactly why the other options are placed here as traps.

The Cabinet described the increase as being in accordance with the accepted formula, which is based on that commission's recommendations, so the percentage is arrived at mechanically rather than by negotiation.

This is the figure the Cabinet put on the combined effect of the higher Dearness Allowance for employees and the higher Dearness Relief for pensioners, counted for a full year.

The Cabinet approved the release of the additional instalment with effect from that date, which is why the employees and pensioners covered by the order also become entitled to arrears for the months that have already passed between the effective date and the date of the decision.

The Cabinet cleared an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance for serving employees and Dearness Relief for pensioners representing a rise of three percentage points over the rates already being paid.

Income distance had the highest weight, followed by population, area and demographic change. The Fourteenth Finance Commission, chaired by Y.V.

When Harshavardhana died around 647 CE without an heir, his minister Arunashva, also called Arjuna, seized the throne of Kanyakubja (Kannauj).