UPSC GK Questions 2026

The platform has grown to that size since it began, and thirteen of the member companies are Indian, which is why the environment ministry could convene a sizeable domestic gathering of steel, cement and transport firms in New Delhi.

The Union Environment Minister and the Swedish Ministry of Climate and Enterprise will launch the third phase at the LeadIT Industry Leaders Roundtable held during that climate conference, on 17 November 2026.

India and Sweden set up the group in 2019 at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York, with backing from the World Economic Forum, to help heavy industry cut its carbon emissions.

That many meritorious students and alumni of the Eklavya Model Residential Schools, drawn from across the country, joined the interaction, and the group included toppers of Class X and Class XII along with students who had won admission to the IITs, the NITs, National Law Universities, the fashion technology institute…

The fortnight is observed every year around his birth anniversary, and this year marks the 151st such anniversary of the tribal icon from the Chhotanagpur region.

This society, which functions under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, runs the Eklavya Model Residential Schools and organised the programme at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre.

Koraput was cited as a case of conservation driven by the community itself, and it carries the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System tag conferred by the Food and Agriculture Organization in that year.

The authority observed its twenty-second Foundation Day together with the award ceremony that honours farmers and communities who have conserved plant genetic resources.

Speaking at the Foundation Day of the plant varieties authority, the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister noted that the National Genebank housed at the national bureau of plant genetic resources under the agricultural research council is the second largest in the world, and he linked that holding to the…

Distribution of that quantity of quality planting material is one of the main interventions planned, meant to support conservation, propagation and sustainable cultivation of medicinal plants by tribal communities.

The ministry launched the project in collaboration with that institute, and its Chief Scientist is the principal investigator of the work.

The project picks sixteen tribal pockets spread over thirteen States and Union Territories, running from Kargil in Ladakh and Dharchula in Uttarakhand in the north to Wayanad in Kerala and Kodagu in Karnataka in the south, with three of the sites, Kandhamal, Balangir and Koraput, lying in Odisha itself.

The ministry set this block of 10 GWh aside for large stationary battery installations that store electricity for the grid, a need that grows as renewable generation expands, because solar and wind output varies with the weather while consumption does not.

The Union Cabinet cleared the production-linked incentive scheme for the National Programme on Advanced Chemistry Cell Battery Storage in May 2021 with that outlay, the stated purpose being to build 50 GWh of cell manufacturing capacity in India and to pull in large domestic and international manufacturers.

The ministry received twenty-two bids from prospective bidders for the 10 GWh of capacity offered through the global tender on the Central Public Procurement Portal, and it treated that turnout as a sign of strong industry appetite for making cells domestically.

Veer Gatha drew 28,005 students from 91 CBSE-affiliated schools located in 18 countries, which is how the programme stretched beyond India’s borders.

The fifth edition of Veer Gatha reached more than 1.92 crore students across over 1.9 lakh schools, a very large jump from where the programme began.

The Minister of State for Defence launched the rebuilt Gallantry Awards portal in New Delhi, calling the website a digital tribute to the courage and the supreme sacrifice of the gallantry awardees.

India and ASEAN are celebrating 2026 as the ASEAN-India Year of Maritime Cooperation, and the Prime Minister visit to Manila falls in that year.

On 17 November 2026 the Prime Minister will take part in two meetings in Manila: the 23rd ASEAN-India Summit and the 21st East Asia Summit.