UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

THAAD, properly the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, is a United States system built to shoot down ballistic missiles in the last, or terminal, phase of their flight.

The Indian part of the Indus basin covers all six, along with Chandigarh. The Indus rises near Lake Mansarovar in Tibet and enters India in Ladakh.

This is Article 20, and since the 44th Amendment of 1978 the enforcement of Articles 20 and 21 cannot be suspended even during a National Emergency.

The financial cycle is the rise and fall of credit and asset prices, and the ratio of credit to GDP shows how far borrowing has run ahead of the economy.

The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act was passed by Parliament in 2006. Popularly called the Forest Rights Act, it recognises the rights of forest-dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers over the land they cultivate and the forest produce they use.

The inscription asks that a member own land and a house, but it sets the age limit at 35 to 70 years, not 30 to 60.

The roundtable that brought together the chief executives of 15 Dutch companies was arranged by India's Embassy in The Hague in collaboration with HSBC Netherlands, and it covered investment plans, commercial partnerships and the business environment on both sides.

Arthur van Dijk holds that provincial office, through which the Dutch crown is represented in North Holland, and he was among the leaders Piyush Goyal met in the Netherlands on 26 October 2026.

The India-Netherlands Business Forum held during the engagements of 26 October 2026 drew roughly that many participants, and the gathering was made up largely of leading representatives of Indian and Dutch companies rather than of officials alone.

He holds the Dutch portfolio of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, and he chaired the India-Netherlands Business Forum jointly with India's Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal during the visit of 26 October 2026.

In 1799 the Nawab of Awadh presented an illustrated manuscript of the Badshah Nama to King George III of Britain, and it is now kept in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.

The Truman Doctrine pledged American support to countries resisting communist pressure, so as to stop the spread of Soviet influence.

Arunachal Pradesh does not share a border with Bangladesh, so the 2015 land boundary settlement did not touch it.

Margaret Cousins was a founder of the Women’s Indian Association, but pairs 2 and 3 have their associates swapped. The Women’s Indian Association was founded at Adyar, Madras, in 1917 by Annie Besant, Margaret Cousins, Dorothy Jinarajadasa and others; it campaigned for women’s franchise and education.

Indian laterite soils are poor in organic matter, nitrogen, phosphate and calcium, while iron oxide and potash are present in excess.

This fifth-century Sanskrit inscription from Mandasor in western Madhya Pradesh tells how a guild of silk weavers migrated from Lata (south Gujarat) to Dashapura and built a temple of the Sun.

Renaissance humanists did not condemn wealth, power and glory; they saw them as worthy human aims, so this statement is the one that is not true.

The Fifth Schedule covers Scheduled Areas in every State except Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram, whose tribal areas come under the Sixth Schedule instead.

The force exerted by light depends on how much light falls on the surface, so with the same intensity, half the area receives half the light and feels half the force.

A batholith is a huge mass of magma that cools and hardens deep inside the crust, usually as granite, and takes the form of large domes.