UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

It was formed in Calcutta in October 1851 by merging the Landholders' Society and the Bengal British India Society. The British Indian Association was led by zamindars of Bengal such as Radhakanta Deb, its first president, with Debendranath Tagore as secretary.

Tilak founded the Indian Home Rule League at Belgaum in April 1916. Two Home Rule Leagues were set up in 1916 on the model of the Irish Home Rule movement, to demand self-government for India within the British Empire.

Article 324(5) says that an Election Commissioner cannot be removed from office except on the recommendation of the Chief Election Commissioner.

In a short circuit the resistance of the path falls almost to zero, so by Ohm's law the current rises sharply.

He headed the Provisional Government that the Bolsheviks under Lenin overthrew in the October Revolution of 1917. Russia had two revolutions in 1917.

Cattle, buffaloes, goats and sheep are ruminants, and a ruminant's stomach has four chambers. The four chambers are the rumen, the reticulum, the omasum and the abomasum.

Hot deserts have a large daily range of temperature and very little moisture, so rocks break up physically rather than decay chemically.

It is not among the 29 matters of the Eleventh Schedule that Article 243G lets a State entrust to the Panchayats.

Spring tides occur whenever the Sun, the Earth and the Moon lie in a straight line, a position called syzygy, whether the Moon is on the same side as the Sun or the opposite side.

The first three gallantry awards of independent India were instituted on 26 January 1950, but they were the Param Vir Chakra, the Maha Vir Chakra and the Vir Chakra.

Both statements correctly describe how the Ajanta murals were prepared and painted. The Ajanta caves in Maharashtra, carved between about the 2nd century BCE and the 5th century CE, hold the finest surviving Buddhist murals of ancient India.

It reverses the facts: the pulmonary arteries carry deoxygenated blood and the pulmonary veins carry oxygenated blood. Arteries and veins are named by the direction of flow, not by the oxygen they carry.

The CAG is appointed by the President and is barred from further office under the Government, but the CAG's reports go to the President, not the Prime Minister.

All three statements describe functions that political parties perform in a modern representative democracy. Parties contest elections: in most democracies the real contest is between candidates nominated by parties, and in India too most members of the Lok Sabha belong to some party.

During the meeting with the President of the Korea Marine Equipment Research Institute, the minister described the centre as a national platform for exactly these functions, adding that testing and certification carried out within India, with Korean technical expertise, would help Indian-made marine equipment meet international standards and prepare Indian…

The aim set out during the Busan meetings is to make India a globally competitive hub for shipbuilding, shipping and maritime services by that year, which also marks a century of independence.

Its Shipping Deputy Minister, Marina Hadjimanolis, met the Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal, at Busan and repeated her country's backing for India's effort to secure European Union recognition for eligible Indian ship-recycling facilities.

It was launched during the inaugural and technical sessions on the first day of the forum.

The Delhi Declaration on Local Action for Global Climate Goals 2026 is the outcome document of the forum, and it will be adopted on 28 October 2026 before being carried to the climate conference at Antalya.

The two-day forum opened there on 27 October 2026 and is organised by ICLEI South Asia with the National Institute of Urban Affairs, with support from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.