UPSC GK Questions 2026

The Authority imposed that penalty on the company for asking riders to make an additional payment before their journey was complete, and it also ordered the platform to discontinue every prompt, message, pre-set amount and interface design that seeks money over and above the upfront fare.

The correct answer is Anna Maria Bernini, who holds the portfolio of University and Research in the Italian government and took part both in the bilateral meeting and in the concluding session of the Dialogue.

That agreement laid the foundation of scientific cooperation between the two countries and provides for sharing experience in research, development and innovation policy, the exchange of scientists and researchers, industrial research, joint research and development projects and joint workshops.

The concluding session of the second edition was addressed there by the Indian Minister of State for Science and Technology along with Italy's Minister of University and Research.

The Indian Panorama is the section devoted to Indian cinema, and this edition opens it with two very different titles, the Hindi feature Dhurandhar and the Ladakhi non-feature Becoming, a pairing meant to reflect the range of storytelling across the country.

The correct answer is Spain, which brings four films to the festival, among them The Bad Son directed by Jaime Lorente and Bitter Christmas directed by Pedro Almodovar.

The theme was explained at the curtain raiser by the festival director, who said it is not a slogan for a poster but a question put to every section and every screening, namely whether a selected film connects with audiences in a way they have not experienced before.

Village-level ownership has become a defining feature of the national response to tuberculosis, and that many Panchayats earned the TB-free label during the year in question.

Among patients whose tuberculosis responds to standard medicines, that share now completes treatment successfully, and the health ministry traces the result to faster diagnosis, prompt start of medication, regular follow-up of patients and the wider support offered under the National TB Elimination Programme.

The report records that India has achieved its highest-ever reduction in tuberculosis mortality, a fall of 38% measured from the year 2015.

The campaign was run in two stages, and this second stage, the implementation phase, was when the department actually disposed of the matters it had listed.

The scrapping of electronic waste was completed through MSTC Limited and realised that amount, and it is the single figure from this campaign most likely to be asked in an examination.

It is this department of the Ministry of Finance that took part in Special Campaign 6, the drive for institutionalising Swachhata and minimising pendency in government offices, and whose results were made public.

The investigation found that the group arranged an export consignment through such an exporter, took the container to a private godown, removed the declared paper laminate rolls and packed red sanders logs in their place before sending it on for export.

The detailed examination put the exact weight at 12.87 metric tonnes of high-grade logs, which rounds to roughly 13,000 kg, and the value at approximately Rs 7.72 crore.

Red sanders, whose botanical name is Pterocarpus santalinus, is a protected species listed in Schedule IV of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, and also in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, better known as CITES.

The volume was about 10% higher than the previous year, and the port has kept up continuous growth for four consecutive years since FY 2021-22.

Sarbananda Sonowal cited a coastline of roughly that length along the Bay of Bengal as one of Andhra Pradesh's strategic advantages, together with access to key international shipping routes and proximity to major Asian manufacturing and trading economies.

The shipbuilding cluster proposed there has in-principle approval under the National Shipbuilding Mission, envisages investment of about Rs 30,000 crore and targets an annual capacity of 1.2 million gross tonnes.

The framework says that a driver supplied by the operator would require police verification, and that the welfare of such drivers falls under this Code.