UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

As blood flows through the thin-walled capillaries, part of its plasma, with small proteins and some white blood cells, leaks out into the spaces between cells.

Lanak La is a high pass in the Aksai Chin area of eastern Ladakh, on the line between territory held by India and by China.

The Gujral Doctrine is a set of principles for India's relations with its immediate neighbours, put forward by I.K. Gujral in 1996 as External Affairs Minister and followed by him as Prime Minister in 1997-98.

Under Article 131 of the Constitution, the Supreme Court alone can hear disputes between the Government of India and one or more States, or between two or more States, and such a case starts directly in the Supreme Court.

Algae are the predominantly aquatic members of the Kingdom Plantae. They are simple, chlorophyll-bearing organisms with a thallus body that is not divided into true roots, stems and leaves.

The focus of an earthquake is also called the hypocentre. It is the point inside the Earth where the rocks first break or slip and the energy of the earthquake is released.

A scatter graph is the right diagram when the aim is to show how two sets of data are related to each other.

IBSAMAR is the joint maritime exercise of the navies of the three IBSA countries. The name itself gives the answer: IBSA stands for India, Brazil and South Africa, and MAR comes from "maritime".

Siddheshvara was not one of the poets at the court of Krishnadevaraya. Krishnadevaraya (ruled 1509-1529), the greatest ruler of the Tuluva dynasty of Vijayanagara, was himself a scholar who wrote the Telugu poem Amuktamalyada.

The Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2012-17) had the theme "Faster, More Inclusive and Sustainable Growth". It continued the inclusive-growth idea of the Eleventh Plan (2007-12), whose theme was "Towards Faster and More Inclusive Growth", and added sustainability as a stated goal.

Both statements misread what the 86th Amendment of 2002 did. Education was already a Directive Principle from 1950: the original Article 45 asked the State to provide free and compulsory education to all children up to fourteen years.

The Puranas, the Ramayana and the Kalpa-Sutra are Smriti texts, while the Vedas are Shruti. Ancient Indian literature is divided into two classes.

The Sri Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam was founded in Kerala in 1903 to carry forward the reform ideas of Sri Narayana Guru.

Both were officials, not elected members: Rau was the Constitutional Adviser and Mukherjee the Chief Draftsman of the Constituent Assembly.

No Directive Principle asks the State to protect personal laws; on the contrary, Article 44 asks it to secure a Uniform Civil Code for all citizens.

The Treaty of Yandabo was signed on 24 February 1826 and ended the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826). The war began in 1824 after Burmese expansion into Assam, Manipur and Cachar brought Burma into conflict with the East India Company's Bengal frontier; Lord Amherst was the Governor-General.

Planting trees helps recharge groundwater: roots and leaf litter slow the run-off and let rain soak into the soil and down to the aquifers.

Canada has vast land and a small farming population, so it practises large-scale, mechanised commercial grain farming, not intensive subsistence farming.

Khair, neem, khejri and palas are typical trees of the tropical thorn forests and scrub of dry areas such as Rajasthan and the edges of the Thar.

By the Treaty of Deogaon (December 1803), Raghuji Bhonsle II of Nagpur ceded Cuttack, that is coastal Orissa including Balasore, to the East India Company.