UPSC GK Questions 2026

Census is entry 69 of the Union List, so placing it in the Concurrent List is the wrong pair. The Seventh Schedule divides legislative subjects among the Union List, the State List and the Concurrent List under Article 246.

The Onge, the Jarawa and the Sentinelese are all native tribes of the Andaman Islands.

A pendentive is the curved triangular piece in the corner of a square room that carries the round base of a dome down onto the arches below.

The Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh received the 52nd Jnanpith Award, for the year 2016. The Jnanpith Award is given by the Bharatiya Jnanpith trust for an outstanding contribution to literature in Indian languages, and is India's highest literary honour.

High-yielding variety seeds came only in the mid-1960s with the Green Revolution, not immediately after Independence. After Partition, India lost much of its irrigated wheat and rice land to Pakistan and faced food shortages.

. The Act set aside the Missouri Compromise and let the settlers of the two territories decide on slavery by vote.

Monpa is spoken in Arunachal Pradesh, not in Jammu and Kashmir. The Monpa people live mainly in the Tawang and West Kameng districts of Arunachal Pradesh, and their language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman group.

Pragyan was a six-wheeled rover carried inside the Vikram lander. Chandrayaan-2 was launched on 22 July 2019 by the GSLV Mk III with an orbiter, the Vikram lander and the Pragyan rover.

The 1598 farman allowed the Jesuit fathers to build a church at Cambay. Cambay was a busy port on the Gulf of Khambhat where Portuguese traders and missionaries were active.

Article 80(3) lists literature, science, art and social service as the fields for the President's nominations, and state service is not among them.

Under the nutrition indicator, a household is deprived if any one eligible member is undernourished, and a woman of 15 to 49 with a BMI below 18.5 counts as undernourished.

Only the Abyssinian plateau (Africa) and the Anatolian plateau (Asia) are matched with the right continent. The Abyssinian or Ethiopian plateau is a high volcanic tableland in the Horn of Africa, where the Blue Nile rises from Lake Tana.

The IUCN publishes the Red List of Threatened Species, the world's main list of species at risk. The IUCN was founded in 1948 and has its headquarters at Gland in Switzerland.

The UN General Assembly fixed 15 September as the International Day of Democracy. The General Assembly adopted the resolution in 2007, and the day was first observed in 2008.

The Act's definition covers any unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct of a sexual nature, so all three count.

Each of these titles praises him as a builder, painter or inventive mind, so together they point to his love of the arts.

The scientist leading the session explained that fertiliser applied indiscriminately pushes up the cost of cultivation and causes nutrient imbalances, whereas application decided by soil-test results, the requirement of the crop and the condition of the orchard improves nutrient-use efficiency and supports production that can be sustained.

The programme was built around balanced fertilisation, soil health, nutrient recycling, crop diversification and the sustainable management of mango and litchi orchards, and the institute described its aim as strengthening climate-resilient livelihoods in the mango and litchi growing areas of East Champaran in Bihar.

The ICAR-Mahatma Gandhi Integrated Farming Research Institute is situated at Motihari and functions under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education; it organised the farmer awareness and field interaction programme at Kothia Hariram village in the Mehsi block of East Champaran district.

The ministry highlighted the contribution of the National Handloom Development Corporation Limited at Noida, whose offices held cleanliness drives, competitions and a tree plantation under Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam between 2 and 23 October 2026.