UPSC GK Questions 2026

The Polar Front Theory explains how temperate or extra-tropical cyclones are born and grow. The theory was put forward by the Norwegian meteorologists Vilhelm and Jacob Bjerknes around the end of the First World War.

Stalactites, stalagmites and pillars form inside limestone caves from minerals left behind by water seeping underground. Rainwater with dissolved carbon dioxide dissolves limestone and hollows out caves; this is called karst topography.

This statement is false: biogas is an excellent fuel with a high heating capacity. Biogas is mostly methane, about 50 to 75 percent, with carbon dioxide and small amounts of other gases.

Sayyid Ahmad Khan founded the college at Aligarh, and he drew support for it from people of every faith. Sayyid Ahmad Khan started the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh in 1875 to give Indian Muslims a modern, Western-style education alongside Islamic learning; it became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920.

He founded the Khudai Khidmatgar movement among the Pathans of the North-West Frontier Province in 1929. The Khudai Khidmatgars, meaning Servants of God, were a non-violent volunteer body pledged to social reform and to the freedom struggle.

The crust is brittle, but the mean thickness of the oceanic crust is about 5 km, not 15 km. The crust is the outermost solid shell of the Earth.

Raniganj in West Bengal is known for coal mining, not for making iron and steel. The Raniganj coalfield in the Damodar valley is the oldest coalfield of India, where commercial coal mining began in 1774.

The six freedoms of Article 19(1) are not absolute, because clauses (2) to (6) let the State place reasonable restrictions on them.

Assam touches Bhutan and Bangladesh abroad and all the other six north-eastern states plus West Bengal at home. Assam's international borders are with Bhutan in the north and Bangladesh in the south-west, along the Barak valley and Dhubri side.

All three statements describe the Rowlatt Act and the protest against it correctly. The Act, based on the Sedition Committee chaired by Justice Sidney Rowlatt, was rushed through the Imperial Legislative Council in March 1919 although every elected Indian member opposed it; Jinnah resigned in protest.

Agricultural density measures how many farm people depend on each unit of land that can actually be farmed. Geographers use three densities.

Smt. Nidhi Khare, Secretary in the Department of Consumer Affairs, described 'One Nation, One Time' as this project, whose aim is to make accurate, reliable and traceable Indian Standard Time available throughout the country.

The programme in New Delhi began with an international seminar on that theme, and the first session of the committee followed it.

CIML is the committee of the OIML, and the meeting in New Delhi brings together delegates, officials and technical experts from member countries to take forward cooperation on measurement standards, protection of consumers and fair trade.

India is hosting the 61st Meeting of the International Committee of Legal Metrology at New Delhi, and the sittings run from 26 to 28 October 2026.

The ship's visit to the Italian port of Civitavecchia came during its continuing operational deployment to that sea, and the Passage Exercise with the Italian Naval Ship Carlo Margottini was held in the same waters shortly before the ship entered harbour.

The Indian Naval Ship Trishul conducted a Passage Exercise with this Italian Naval Ship just before it entered harbour at Civitavecchia.

Civitavecchia is an Italian port, and the Indian Naval Ship Trishul arrived there in the course of its ongoing operational deployment to the Mediterranean Sea.

The statistics ministry stated that these two questions were added at that Ministry's request, so that establishments engaged in handloom, power-loom and handicraft work can be identified within the survey frame.

The revised schedule introduces, for the first time, questions on the constraints women face in operating and managing their establishments, to build an evidence base on the factors affecting female-led enterprises in the unincorporated sector.